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Posted December 12, 2013
600+ games discounted by at least 50%, bundle deals up to 80% off, daily personal deals!

It is here: 2013 DRM-Free Winter Sale on GOG.com! The biggest, the loudest, the most varied, and the most exciting sale we've ever done begins now. How big is it? There are way over 600 games from our catalog steadily discounted by at least 50%. How loud is it? Let's just mention the fact, that we're opening with a triple nuclear blast, giving away Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics for FREE the next 48 hours. How varied is it? On top of regular discounts you'll have daily deals including games presented by YouTube personalities, hot thematic bundles chosen each day by our dear users, offered with up to 80% discounts, and--finally--daily personal deals where you pick one of the special offers available to you, and you only. How exciting is it? Well, you probably get the idea by now. So, there you have it: time to save BIG on the best games in history, available DRM-free for Windows and Mac.

This holiday season, your GOG.com Winter Sale experience include the company of Jesse Cox, Force Strategy Gaming, Dodger from Press Heart to Continue, and the YogsCast team. Each day we mash-up a classic game (or games) with it's modern successors and offer them with high discounts, while our tube-casting friends explain why they consider such a blend interesting and worth playing.

2013 DRM-Free Winter Sale Video Recommendations playlist

Section updated: Don't forget about your gamer friends that may not know GOG.com yet! Sadly, for the sake of unburdening what servers we have, we had to turn off the option for gifting free games. But you can always just let them know they can sign up with GOG.com and claim a free gift of Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. On top of that, when they register to our service, they'll receive all the 12 free games we add to all the newly-created accounts. That way your friends will start their adventure with GOG.com with a collection of 15 great games total already on their virtual shelves! Be kind, share the good news! :-)

We'd also like to remind you, that all purchases on GOG.com are now covered with our new 30-day Worldwide Money Back Guarantee, so your holiday gaming shopping spree is safer than it ever was before.

Worldwide Money Back Guarantee announcement video

Our 2013 DRM-Free Winter Sale will last until Sunday, December 29, at 1:59PM GMT. Happy holidays from GOG.com team, everyone! And again, sorry for the server issues in the initial hours of our sale.
Post edited December 14, 2013 by G-Doc
Posted December 19, 2013
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johnnygoging: I appreciate the change to the personal deals ticker. It's good to be able to see the games beforehand so you know what it is you're going to get. That's smart and it's also more likely to make everybody happy. Good job, GOG.
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lefty: Well, not for me. I'd rather have one (random) game of the entire catalog than one game of three titles.
I'm not sure what you mean. The way things are now, you get to choose one of three games that are randomly selected among their respective pools (Timeless Classics, Brave New Worlds and Random Magic). Basically, instead of one random choice (as was before), you have three, so triple the chance of getting something you might like (or, at least, something you can trade away).

It's a 100% improvement over the previous system, is it not?
Posted December 19, 2013
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skeletonbow: Last year all of the deals that ran throughout the entire sale for December were repeated on a single day twice. ..

it's reasonable to speculate that there will be a last day encore sale again this year for people who missed out or held back until they got to see all of the deals. There's no guarantee of it of course, but it would follow what they've done in the past.
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undeadcow: Normally I would agree with this, but GOG explicitly stated (in the original post of the Festimas announcement ) that the repeats yesterday would be last chance offers not to repeat again.

I do think GOG will do something grand for the final day, but suspect that is when they will offer voted down deals.
Ah, I never noticed that I guess. I'm not sure how the announcements went last year but I don't think the encore sale was pre-announced or any hints of it given. They might have even added it as a last second surprise that wasn't planned in advance perhaps. I haven't missed anything myself as I've been paying attention every day and when I see something I want, I just get it right away rather than delaying and hoping it comes on sale again in a week. I do hope that from now until the end of the sale that they put all games not previously on sale in the last month or so though as the only game that's come up for me so far was Wing Commander Prophecy and the Fallout freebies. All other games in the sale surprisingly were games I own already or wasn't interested in which is kind of unusual hehe. Hoping to be able to pick up some titles from my wishlist. If only I had games on my wishlist that ever go on sale. :)
Posted December 19, 2013
I hope that Sci-Fi bundle wins for tomorrow, I want Descent 3. Actually that's all I want from the bundle as I already have Descent 1+2.
Posted December 19, 2013
Slowly paring away at my wishlist, and tomorrow's projected bundle will help. Course, it's still large enough that if I wrote it down I could bludgeon cattle with it. Still hoping for something in an Evil Genius/Etherlords/Broken Sword/we picked the games by throwing darts at a board while drunk so deal with it bundle.
Post edited December 19, 2013 by CarrionCrow
Posted December 19, 2013
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TimeCrash2: I hope that Sci-Fi bundle wins for tomorrow, I want Descent 3. Actually that's all I want from the bundle as I already have Descent 1+2.
Hey, Terminal Velocity is a cool game too. They should, however, also add Freespace1&2..

Anyway, I'm not sure how these pack promo work, if not full.
If I now buy AlphaCentauri + MasterofOrion + FragileAllegiance only, I pay $2.99 x3, but is this just the base 50% "Winter" discount?
If I buy them after "Turn-based 4X Classics" promo, will those prices increase?
Post edited December 19, 2013 by phaolo
Posted December 19, 2013
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Schnuff: GOG does follow the forum.
Nice a re-roll option....from 6 games the only one i don't own
is Fist Puncher....dunno if that is good.
I had a lot of fun with it. You'll enjoy it if you're not a graphics whore and used to play old side-scrolling beat-'em-ups.
Posted December 19, 2013
if only there were more games to purchase...the fee for the transaction kills most of the save.
Posted December 19, 2013
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phaolo: Hey, Terminal Velocity is a cool game too. They should, however, also add Freespace1&2..

Anyway, I'm not sure how these pack promo work, if not full.
If I now buy AlphaCentauri + MasterofOrion + FragileAllegiance only, I pay $2.99 x3, but is this just the base 50% "Winter" discount?
If I buy them after "Turn-based 4X Classics" promo, will those prices increase?
The "Turn-based 4X Classics" promo requires you to complete the bundle in order to get the higher discount - it even says so on the top

If you buy only selected games you'll get the regular 50% discount.

As far as I can tell, the games you've selected part-take in the general 50% sale, so they should cost the same ($2.99 x3) even after the "Turn-based 4X Classics" promo ends.
Posted December 19, 2013
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HypersomniacLive: [..] As far as I can tell, the games you've selected part-take in the general 50% sale, so they should cost the same ($2.99 x3) even after the "Turn-based 4X Classics" promo ends.
This is what I needed to know, thanks!

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Schnuff: if only there were more games to purchase...the fee for the transaction kills most of the save.
True. Daily Surprises, for example, don't seem stackable with other cart items.
Post edited December 19, 2013 by phaolo
Posted December 19, 2013
Maybe they should have added an insomnia feel to the sale. Things feel a bit flat right now :/
Posted December 19, 2013
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nijuu: Maybe they should have added an insomnia feel to the sale. Things feel a bit flat right now :/
That's probably because you're ahead of the rest of the world :-P
Posted December 19, 2013
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nijuu: Maybe they should have added an insomnia feel to the sale. Things feel a bit flat right now :/
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HypersomniacLive: That's probably because you're ahead of the rest of the world :-P
Many have described here as a backwater at times ;)
Posted December 19, 2013
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nijuu: Many have described here as a backwater at times ;)
I meant in terms of actual time and time zones ;-P
Posted December 19, 2013
Finally got Deadly Premonition for 60% off - life is beautiful!
Posted December 19, 2013
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nijuu: Maybe they should have added an insomnia feel to the sale. Things feel a bit flat right now :/
Well, if one day could be turned into a super-duper midpoint sale inside a large overall sale, maybe it's possible to see a two or three day insomnia sub-sale?
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