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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 14, 2013
Hmmm, nothing much for me today. For the first time, the surprise gift gave me something I'd be interested in, if I didn't already have it. Not at all interested in the Ultraviolence pack. I already have Giana Sisters, and I'm only vaguely interested in Pandemonium. I might pick that up anyway, for $2 can't really go wrong.

For tomorrow, either bundle is fine with me. I'd like Stonekeep, Legend of Grimrock looks potentially interesting, and I already have the Ultima games to make completing the bundle cheaper. Then there's the D&D bundle, an amazing deal no matter how you look at it. They tend to frustrate the hell out of me, but I really WANT to like them. I'll buy it just so I can stop feeling torn about passing it up every time til now.
Posted December 14, 2013
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blotunga: And here I've thought that everyone has the D&D games
I guess owners will vote for them because they think everybody that doesn't have them already should get an opportunity to buy them cheap. It's probably not worth pitting the D&D games against anything in a vote, the D&D games are so likely to win it would probably take something incredibly special like 80%-90% off some other extremely popular title to sway the vote.
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jackster79: I can confirm that the surprise choice (at least the classic one) *can* give you a game that is on your wishlist
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Zkuq: I can confirm this, wishlisted games can come up in the surprise box.
and now I got a wishlisted game from Brave New Worlds :)
Post edited December 14, 2013 by IanM
Posted December 14, 2013
I got Thief 3 from the Personal Offer, Gabriel Knight: Sins of Our Fathers from the Recommended Offer and Trine because it was $0.99 ( and I heard it is a good game too).
Posted December 14, 2013
When trying to buy a game, the page appears as I'm not logged, when I login, I got just a page with a 403 error - forbidden.

Any clues?


EDIT:
If someone got this error, it happened only if clicking the games from the wishlist. Searching for it and adding to the cart worked.
But it's a strange error.
Post edited December 14, 2013 by sephiroth0
Posted December 14, 2013
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xy2345: Well, since they are talking to video gamers about video games: Yes, youtube is a very good medium to do that.
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IAmSinistar: It's not really the topic I'm calling into question, it's the issue of quality control. Or lack thereof. But then I don't eat at fast food joints either, so clearly my standards are different than a lot of other folks.
You are the quality control. If you don't like it, close the tab and don't come back. If you do like it, keep watching.
Posted December 14, 2013
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sephiroth0: When trying to buy a game, the page appears as I'm not logged, when I login, I got just a page with a 403 error - forbidden.

Any clues?
Maybe this? http://www.gog.com/forum/general/login_problems/post2
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ZPavelZ: 66% daily deal.... I can't help mentioning that the discount "Winter sale" so far are overshadowed by those that were available during Insomnia promo.
Well, those had limited numbers available, so the publishers may have been willing to endorse steeper discounts. This time around you get lesser discounts but unlimited availability within a given period of time.
Post edited December 14, 2013 by VanishedOne
Posted December 14, 2013
another game I own on the daily present, what an annoying design decision by gog. What's the point of offering when I already own what it's throwing at me? Only a small percentage will buy them to gift to others.

Plus the bundle deals suck if you don't want all the games (only interested in Carmageddon 1 & 2 and don't want my shelf cluttered with games I don't like or own elsewhere.)
Posted December 14, 2013
second day in a row with games i already own from the special present deals, its kinda lame, especially sins then you have two grayed out boxes that might have contained something you didn't own.
Posted December 14, 2013
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IAmSinistar: It's not really the topic I'm calling into question, it's the issue of quality control. Or lack thereof. But then I don't eat at fast food joints either, so clearly my standards are different than a lot of other folks.
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jorlin: Until I can comment again using my YouTube account which is different from my main Google(forced +) account, I have lost the right to comment on YT. I absolutely refuse to do it under my standard Google account which is linked to my GMail, because I don't want my comments influence my search results on Google and have those comments pop up if someone searches the net for my personal name.
Can anyone recommend me a service that does not push people into linking their phone number and linking to some other asocial network like Google+?
Well, you don't have to link your youtube account to your main google+ account. You could create another one and link that to your youtube account.

But I agree, that the whole forced google+ integration is bs. I didn't have a google+ account before that. Now I have one, but of course it does not contain real information about me and I'm not using it. It only exists to allow me to comment on youtube.
Posted December 14, 2013
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VanishedOne: Well, those had limited numbers available, so the publishers may have been willing to endorse steeper discounts. This time around you get lesser discounts but unlimited availability within a given period of time.
Might be the case, even though steep discounts are rare on GOG anyway.
Posted December 14, 2013
I really dont like buy the whole pack for better discount system. Just wanted Carmageddon 2. Dont want to buy anyhting else in that pack :P
Posted December 14, 2013
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skeletonbow: I've got 220 or so titles in the GOG catalogue so the likelihood of a completely random game offer to me colliding with one I already own is quite high
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JMich: I do have quite a bit more games than 220, and so far I'm 2 out of 3 owned. I hadn't bought Brutal Legend yet, and it was the offer on day 2.
Then again, I thin I'm missing 1 from the classics and 3 from the newer ones, but the games offered in both are very good, thus most people already have them.

Edit: took a look at the list thread, missing 2 from classics and ~12 from brave new world, plus shadow warrior from the random.
Can you link to the list thread? I tried finding it in the forums but for whatever reason I am not finding it...
Posted December 14, 2013
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jackster79: Can you link to the list thread? I tried finding it in the forums but for whatever reason I am not finding it...
Here. Adding it to the quoted post as well, thank you for reminding me.
Posted December 14, 2013
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jackster79: Can you link to the list thread? I tried finding it in the forums but for whatever reason I am not finding it...
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JMich: Here. Adding it to the quoted post as well, thank you for reminding me.
Awesome - thanks! Makes it much easier to locate and peruse! Now to strategize over which ones to pick the rest of the sale... :-D
Posted December 14, 2013
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blotunga: And here I've thought that everyone has the D&D games
I always have to laugh when people say this either after a game had a one day freebie giveaway or a really good sale, like somehow every person on the entire planet both who was already a customer and everyone who wasn't a customer all found out about the good giveaway/sale and everyone had a chance to gobble it up with not even a single person on the entire planet missing out on the deal or being unaware or it. LOL

So for all the "Who doesn't have that already?" people, I have to point out... :)

1) everyone who wasn't a customer and never heard of GOG.com before is one group of people
2) people who joined GOG.com after the given sale or freebie was offered and was not aware of it before that
3) people who missed out due to poor Internet connectivity or being otherwise unable to access the site due to work or other life events, screaming children with poopy diapers etc.

Take the Fallout games for example, that was a massive blowout giveaway of epic proportions. I bet you in less than 5 minutes I can find one person at least on the GOG forums who missed out on the giveaway and would love a copy of the Fallout games.

Ultimately, if "everyone has it now" after a sale or giveaway occurs, there would not be any purpose for GOG to keep a given game in their catalogue because they'd never sell another copy of it ever, and nobody would want it in a freebie promotion because they'd already have it. ;oP

Yes... yes... I'm being geekily over-logical here just to illustrate a point, but it's all in good humour as it always makes me chuckle when people say such things.

Incidentally, I have a spare copy of the Fallout freebie promo if anyone missed out on it. Bah, who am I fooling, everyone has it now and it's not possible anyone could have not known about the freebie promo... I'm such a doofus. LOL
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