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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 26, 2013
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HypersomniacLive: Are we talking about the same thing?
I'm just trying to think of of some logic, besides "they fit together", for bundling games with all kinds of castle and empire building.
Posted December 26, 2013
Im actually wondering if the sale will go out with a bang? it feels like it just...kinda slowing along.....
Posted December 26, 2013
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nijuu: Im actually wondering if the sale will go out with a bang? it feels like it just...kinda slowing along.....
Pretty sure they'll pull something big out for the finale. Only three days left. Might be the bundles that lost in voting being available for one day only, might be something else. But yes, I do agree with you that the pace is certainly slower than the insomnia sale. Even the parts of it that dragged were filled with people talking, commiserating, playfully begging people to take one for the team and buy things that they might otherwise have no interest in at all so the speed could pick back up. This thread is under 1,500 posts in 2 weeks where the thread for the insomnia sale is at roughly 30,000 and the vast majority of those came in roughly 5 days.
Posted December 26, 2013
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nijuu: Im actually wondering if the sale will go out with a bang? it feels like it just...kinda slowing along.....
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CarrionCrow: Pretty sure they'll pull something big out for the finale. Only three days left. Might be the bundles that lost in voting being available for one day only, might be something else.
This! I would love to see this! The only bundle I was literally interested in (Heroes of Might and Magic, aka Mighty Heroes Magic Pack) lost in the first day of community vote versus Bullfrog Classics. :(
Posted December 26, 2013
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TurnipSlayerr: Ah bugger, that's definitely not supposed to happen. :(

We'll try to get this sorted as soon as possible but of course everyone is out on holiday so it won't be instant.

As a user posted earlier the deals for today are the following:

http://www.gog.com/promo/globetrotters_gear_80_off_winter_promo_2013

http://www.gog.com/promo/a_study_in_red_winter_promo_2013

Sorry about this and have a Merry Christmas everyone!
Are you counting the days of the sale right?
If I ot it right, it should be Day 13 today, not Day 14!
This would make sence as the "48 Hour-Sale" had been called Day 13, but was aborted ON the second of it´s two days...
Posted December 26, 2013
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RadonGOG: Are you counting the days of the sale right?
If I ot it right, it should be Day 13 today, not Day 14!
This would make sence as the "48 Hour-Sale" had been called Day 13, but was aborted ON the second of it´s two days...
The sale began on the 12th December. This makes today Day 15.
Posted December 26, 2013
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RadonGOG: Are you counting the days of the sale right?
If I ot it right, it should be Day 13 today, not Day 14!
This would make sence as the "48 Hour-Sale" had been called Day 13, but was aborted ON the second of it´s two days...
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Gaunathor: The sale began on the 12th December. This makes today Day 15.
Hmmm, this seems to be right, but I´ve always just copied dates for my GOG-Fanclub-News and it seems like I missed one day...
http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1119&pk=1746
Posted December 26, 2013
The daily deals are good for the most part, the only thing is I keep getting The Adventures of Shuggy! Three times in a row...
Posted December 26, 2013
So, it's a vote of indie platformers vs. some other indie platformers. Gog, you're spoiling us with variety.
Posted December 26, 2013
Nothing for me again, already have the two games from the Against all Odds bundle and the other one I'm not interested in all games (remembered playing one of the Lords of the Realms games and not liking i much). Tried my luck in the surprise sale with Shadow Warrior (2013) but appeared with only 50%...
Posted December 26, 2013
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CarrionCrow: Pretty sure they'll pull something big out for the finale. Only three days left. Might be the bundles that lost in voting being available for one day only, might be something else.
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Indru: This! I would love to see this! The only bundle I was literally interested in (Heroes of Might and Magic, aka Mighty Heroes Magic Pack) lost in the first day of community vote versus Bullfrog Classics. :(
Count me in as another proponent of this.

C'mon, GOG! You wouldn't want to miss out on a perfectly good opportunity to find a taker for Jack Keane, would you?
Posted December 26, 2013
If mondo's very useful thread is to be trusted, there's only one more wishlist item for me at the dailies tomorrow. Then I can finally take a break.
Posted December 26, 2013
ahh, nothing in for me today, even the daily surprise was owned after re-roll :(
Posted December 26, 2013
Now that it's been mentioned, there really have been an awful lot of strategy bundles. Pretty much all TBS or otherwise slow paced ones at that. Not my thing typically, and I think it contributes a lot to the "same old, same old" day-to-day feeling of this sale. Most days I'm just waiting on the timer to tick down so I can see what's coming up on the day after.

I didn't really pay any attention to the Insomnia sale, but the Summer sale was pretty much this same format. The big difference being that there was a lot more variety in the types of games on offer.

Winter hasn't been a complete loss, I've picked up a couple bundles and a few other games too. But there is very little sense of excitement or feeling of looking forward to the next day.

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Good grief. I'm starting to sound like some of those people I look down on. The ones that act like a 50% sale on almost everything isn't good enough, or that a game you really want to play isn't worth paying at least $5 for.
Posted December 26, 2013
I'd like to see some bundles that emphasise the lesser-known titles in GOG's catalogue. Not because I necessarily want a better deal (I'm going to buy these whether they end up in a bundle or not), but because it might expose more people to them. Here are some of the titles that I came across in a recent perusal of GOG's games that I had forgotten they carry:

The Runaway series (Runaway: A Road Adventure, Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle, & Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate)
Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor
The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition
The Shadowgrounds series (Shadowgrounds & Shadowgrounds Survivor)
Original War

I could easily see the first three bundled in a kind of adventure set, and the last two in a combat set. This would boost the visibility of these games that otherwise might languish unknown to many users. Many of the bundles have focused on titles that people already know, which I'm sure makes sense from a mercantile standpoint, but which underplays the truly rich diversity of GOG's offerings.

EDIT: Just saw this post. So it sounds like there was a bundle with the Runaway games, and possibly some of the others. I must've missed that during my holiday celebrations. Perhaps it didn't win the votes, in which case I hope GOG will make it available in the grand finale.
Post edited December 26, 2013 by IAmSinistar
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