I've got a buddy who lives about 250 metres outside city limits just beyond the range of cable modem service who has been forever stuck on DSL 6Mbps service with no better alternatives, and it flakes out and only gives him 3-4Mbps so I've seen the pain second hand at least. What's funny about it is that about 12 years ago when he first got the service by stroke of luck, where I lived at the time in-town was stuck on dialup for a good year or two before we got broadband availability to my neighbourhood in the form of cable. My cable at the time was a cheaper price but slightly slower service than his and it remained that way for about 5 years with both of us getting small free upgrades from our ISPs but the DSL service giving a slightly higher max rate. Problem for him is that he lives in a rural area and is lucky to even have the service as he's close to an industrial park that is serviced and the service has sat stagnant for over 10 years without evolving at all in performance or reliability, however during the same timeframe our cablemodem service went 3Mbps -> 5Mbps -> 7.5Mbps -> 10Mbps for the basic tier, and they started offering higher end tiers for very small additional prices going to 25Mbps, 50Mbps, 100Mbps now also. I'm on 25Mbps and actually get 30Mbps out of it and find it works very well but man.... being stuck on 6Mbps in today's day and age would be rather painful! You develop certain habits when you have bandwidth available and your expectations evolve over time. Nowadays if I were to be moving somewhere one of the first things on my list would be finding out what the broadband availability was like and anything that wasn't serviced at a rate of what I'm used to or better would be stroked off the list fast. :)

What's sad is that North American broadband is fairly slow in price:speed compared to a lot of other places in the world such as the UK, and many areas either have no broadband or terrible broadband. Hopefully our governments will do something about that in the next few years! :)

I understood your point, but it extends beyond platformers to any games that use checkpointing IMHO. I have 4 working C64s here that get dragged out of the basement every few years for some nostalgic fun, but I do like emulators as an easy way to experience nostalgia as well, and some of the good ones can give a simulated feel of the old CRT displays also with analog filtering simulation, scan line simulation, and other effects that look pretty convincing. Both have their merits. :)

I'll never understand people who like to put down others who might not be so fortunate instead of simply being content with what they have. I have no problems with my internet download speeds but I sure don't go around laughing at others who might have issues with it.

And no, one does not have to live in a small island to have low download speeds, mostly it's a question of economics. In many countries around the world, especially developing countries, the cost of high internet speed is prohibitive in comparison to the purchasing power of most people. Why make fun of them? Because they are poorer than you? Because they live in worse of situations than you?

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I still don't understand . All deals are revealed ?

It's just some good natured humour about it, you're taking it too seriously, lighten up a bit. :) Up until this past February I ran a 2.8GHz P4 Northwood with 1GB of RAM, a Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB on a 20GB hard disk (my last working spare after several larger drives died over time). I got no end of jokes and razzing from friends, acquaintences and even total strangers online when talking about it. It was all in good nature as well of course, and we had some good laughs about it over time. Sadly I corrected that problem in February so I don't get it all the time anymore, but the camaraderie is all good both coming and going. Sense of humour is what makes us human. ;oP

Heck, I used 10base2 up until about 4 years ago and never heard the end of that either... I'd have friends giving me coaxial terminators they found in the basement etc. for my birthday, or old ISA sound cards and whatnot. A friend of mine even made a Christmas wreath out of old motherboards, RAM, sound card and CDs hanging off it for a good laugh as an "upgrade" to my computer for me.

Seriously, lighten up. :)

We've seen all the Recommended deals, yes. They were all unveiled on the Solstice sale, so we're not expecting anything new on that front. The Community deals are new, though.
If you mean the personal daily deals, then the system is still random (and you can actually reroll indefinitely until you get what you want, though it's a bit of an exploit and we're not actually supposed to do that, I believe). Instead of choosing blindly among three possible pools, you see which games you can get.

I'm expecting for the deals I want to show up on the days I'm busiest this week.

It's probably a little bit telling that I just thought of steps 1-11 being "buy more games".

Let's see if we can make it a bit clearer for you :-)

The sale consists of three types of deals:

1. The daily Recommended Deal - that's the upper left box on GOG's home page. All the Recommended Deals that are part of this year's Winter Sale were revealed on 2013 Solstice Festivmas! day. A number of them had run the previous days (and are not going to be repeated, as per the 2013 Solstice Festivmas! thread), while the rest are running one each day till we reach the end of the Sale. Basically, though we've seen all of the Recommended Deals, we don't know the order they appear each day.

2. The daily Community Deals - that's the upper right box on GOG's home page. Not counting tomorrow (as we know which one it'll be based on the on-going voting), there are still three more, yet unknown, deals to come (Wednesday through Friday, as we suspect an encore on the last day of the Sale). You can check which ones have passed in this thread here.

3. The Daily Surprise Deals - that's the three "personalised" boxes right under the Recommended & Community Deals. These ones are supposed to be a different surprise choice each day, but there's a finite pool of games in each category (Timeless Classics, Brave New Worlds and Random Magic), which causes a lot of the repetition. I'm pretty confident that the Daily Personal Deals tracker lists all the games that could come up.

To sum it up - the only truly unknown deals still to come are the three Community Bundles.

Thanks , I completely understand now :D Maybe I see some different community deals , because I already have many of them or many of them , out of my interests :)

They should also have pins that we can get and put on ourselves that say: "I survived Jack Keane" :-) I know that if I were to wear one and someone who knows nothing read it aloud, the looks I would get would be priceless....

I think what I would want most is an Atlas bear t-shirt. It's cute enough that it could function just fine as a regular shirt, and then if I ever met somebody who recognized it, we would connect instantly. I could ferret out the unknown GOGites in my midst, without weirding out everybody else.

Ya know....even as diametrically opposed to the idea of anything cute and/or cuddly as I am, I would totally buy one of those. While some might wonder why the weird-looking guy was wearing a cartoon bear shirt, I would know the truth - that the Atlas bear is an avatar of anxiety, frustration and denied desire. Think about it - if you sat through the Insomnia Sale and you tried to get ahold of something popular, you cursed that bear by the fifth time in a row you saw them.

I like your idea even better Elinnea, for the reason you listed.

Yeah CarrionCrow, I am like you in that regard - you would not catch me dead with anything cute and cuddly on my person, but I think I could make an exception for Mr. Atlas, given his special significance (for me it was denial of viewing / refreshing the sale thread more than anything, which was at least as good as the sale itself; this tended to happen when someone would summon THE LIST).

My thoughts exactly. I joined relatively recently, so I never actually knew what anybody was talking about with this bear until the infamous Insomnia sale. Now they will be forever linked in my mind. ;)