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With 700+ games discounted up to 90% off, daily special Bundle Deals, a constant stream of exciting Flash Sales, and some fantastic surprise giveaways, we launch into the season of gaming joy!

The biggest celebration of DRM-Free gaming this season is right now, right here on GOG.com! It's warm and nice outside, the summer draws ever closer, so let's make sure it's full of fantastic games. There's no one good way to spend your summer, but we know well that gaming can make every single one of them better. So, whether you plan to stay inside, hike into the wilderness, or take a boat into the calm sea, we'll make sure your laptop is filled with great DRM-Free games you can enjoy anytime, anywhere. To that end, we're holding our [url=http://www.gog.com]2014 DRM-Free Summer Sale!

Each day we'll present you with at least two special Bundle Deals with a selection of of great classics and indies available up to 90% off! As usual, you'll be able to buy just selected titles out of the bundle with a slightly lower discount, or complete your collection with just the ones you're missing, retaining the higher discount rate. Let's take a look at our offers for today, shall we?

Today, we seriously mix things up to bring you both lighthearted comedy as well as dark and morbid horror. The Legacy of Kain Saga is the Full House of gaming with its family themes and colorful presentation. Across four episodes ironically titled Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2, Blood Omen 2, and Defiance the series explores the relation between Kain, a authoritative father with obvious god complex, and Raziel, his rebellious son with questionable fashion sense. The story also includes many of their relatives from extended family, that cannot help but to make a mess in their imaginary homeland called Nosgoth. Hilarity ensues! All this cheerful moments for only $5.96 (that's 75% off!). The other of our offers today, is bound to chill the blood in your veins with its terrifying setting alone. The Deponia Complete Trilogy takes place on a distant planet. A planet, that long ago must have been not so different from our own Earth. Yet now, it is a grim and dark place that suffered a tragic environmental disaster. The surface of the planet is now completely covered with waste. Toxic rain flushes the pollution deep into the ground, poisoning it and making the land barren. Way above, there's the remaining enclave of civilization, housing the remnant of the human race. Now imagine one of them, a defenseless girl, falls down to the toxic junkyard below. Even though she doesn't die instantly poisoned with every imaginable toxin, her future looks grim. The wasteland is filled with danger, and soon she'll find out that she is not alone among the towering piles of garbage. What strange mutated monsters could have survived in such conditions? And what do they eat? The horror! All the thrills for just $11.97 (that's 80% off!). There you have it, a mix of laughter and cries of despair to fill your weekend with gripping gaming. Or did we overdo the mixing?

On top of that, almost all of our catalog has been discounted by up to 50%. On top of that, our front page is overflowing with excellent Flash Sales on single games. You can grab them up to 90% as well, but don't take to long, as they come and go pretty fast! Why don't you head out to GOG.com front page, and see what's happening right NOW!
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ZPavelZ: Just curious .... did many people happen to see Chronicles of Riddick on sale several times? I'm really waiting for it to pop up, but haven't been able to see it _a single time_ yet (although all trackers list it).
Yes, I've seen it show up. Also, you can check this page to know exactly what has come up and when so far:
http://birdiesoft.dk/summersale.php
list

how do they know future bundles?
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ZPavelZ: Just curious .... did many people happen to see Chronicles of Riddick on sale several times? I'm really waiting for it to pop up, but haven't been able to see it _a single time_ yet (although all trackers list it).
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skeletonbow: Yes, I've seen it show up. Also, you can check this page to know exactly what has come up and when so far:
http://birdiesoft.dk/summersale.php
Lucky you! The tracker, by the way, has only one record for it, so I'm wondering whether I should just give up on waiting for it to return...
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Ungunbu: how do they know future bundles?
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/2014_drmfree_summer_sale_tracker/post1026
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Ungunbu: list

how do they know future bundles?
Here is the list of upcoming bundles determined so far (presuming they're correct and presuming GOG doesn't change things around to surprise us): https://secure.gog.com/forum/general/2014_drmfree_summer_sale_tracker/post1045

If you scroll back through the posts you'll find where JMich started figuring it out and the process that unfurled afterward that led to decoding the rest of the daily promos.
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Ungunbu: how do they know future bundles?
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Lemon_Curry: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/2014_drmfree_summer_sale_tracker/post1026
cool -- so they guessed all the bundle names?
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Pica-Ludica: I encourage you to watch this video. It will give you a good overview of what to expect! :)
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johnnygoging: did you watch the guns of icarus matchup?
Yes, though I was rooting for Sky Captain Maximilian Valentine, Captain of the Sky. :) Speaking of which, this is an awesome tribute to the team of Steel Butterfly. :D
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ZPavelZ: Lucky you! The tracker, by the way, has only one record for it, so I'm wondering whether I should just give up on waiting for it to return...
Up to you of course but if you look at what we know GOG has done from a lot of past sales, what we've been able to figure out about how the current sale is likely to unfold (unless they go ahead and change it on us), then:

1) The Summer sale promo continues until June 30th every day.

2) All games currently on sale at 50% off will most likely continue to be 50% off until the final day of the promo, so if someone chooses to or ends up having to buy them for that price to avoid missing out, they can leave this decision until the last day of the sale and still get the 50% off bonus deal presumably. This would mirror past sale promos, and the GOG summer sale news announcement.

3) Flash sales are all deeper discounts on games than the 50% deals offered on most of the catalogue, but are in a rotation between now and June 30 where they will show up randomly and it might be a few hours or a few days until they repeat. There may or may not be other restrictions or limitations to the randomness that we are not aware of and can not determine. If a game has showed up in the flash sale there is a high degree of likelihood that it will show up many more times between now and June 30th with the same high discount rate it had in previous showings in the flash sale.

4) There are bundle deals with high discounts every day and the community has figured out how they are going to likely show up each day but not what specific games are in each bundle or what the prices are. Most of the bundles are either game series based (so we can guess what titles are likely to be included in the bundle) or publisher based (with some ability to estimate titles also), and the bundle deals start at 50% off for individual titles and up to 90% off depending on the particular offering.

Taking all of these options into account, any game on sale for 50% off will to the best of our knowledge remain available at that price all the way to the end of the sale, however the bundles and flash sales that come up will all be at much higher discounts, so it makes total sense to wait for the bundle containing a given game or group of games to come up and get the best price, or if a game is a known part of the flash sale, to wait all the way up to June 30th for it to show up on sale again and get the best price.

On June 30th or whenever one is able to do so before that, if a game they wanted did not show up on a bundle or flash sale for a bigger discount already, or if it did and they were taking the kids to soccer practice or something and missed out on it, come June 30th they can have a last opportunity to go grab it at 50% off if it was one of the 700 games marked down to 50% off.

Some people are buying the games at 50% off right now and are happy enough with that too of course, but there are also likely going to be people who go for the 50% off to find out that in an hour/day/week the same game is in a flash promo or bundle for 75/80/90% off and they may feel bad about having not waited it out. The thing is, everyone can wait it out if they choose to and get the best possible deal if they follow my suggestions above.

It's using science instead of emotion to fuel purchases. ;o) Well, the price side anyway... the decision to buy well... that very well may be emotional. :)

Anyhow, hope this helps someone maximize their game take in, and minimize their wallet dent.
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Ungunbu: cool -- so they guessed all the bundle names?
Exactly, although with one possible exception:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/2014_drmfree_summer_sale_tracker/post1106
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AnimalMother117: Anyone play Bard's Tale? The screenshots are giving me mixed signals as to what kind of a game it is. The genre description called it an Action RPG, so is that like Diablo or something else. Thanks.
Only the older games in that package are good as far as i know. And they play like old Wizardry games(wizardry1-5). But they are more polished. Wasteland game is a spin off of Bards Tale series if you know that game. Those games are still playable today.


Does anyone have an idea of Inquisitor? Is it really as bad as told or is it worth a try?
Post edited June 16, 2014 by cemtufekci
This sale is going to take me over the 200 games benchmark. Just 2 games shy of it at the moment, but that won't last, I'm sure.

I honestly think that my current GOG shelf alone could provide me enough gaming entertainment for the rest of my life. I try not to think about the amount of money that went into that. xD
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AnimalMother117: Anyone play Bard's Tale? The screenshots are giving me mixed signals as to what kind of a game it is. The genre description called it an Action RPG, so is that like Diablo or something else. Thanks.
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cemtufekci: Only the older games in that package are good as far as i know. And they play like old Wizardry games(wizardry1-5). But they are more polished. Wasteland game is a spin off of Bards Tale series if you know that game. Those games are still playable today.

Does anyone have an idea of Inquisitor? Is it really as bad as told or is it worth a try?
If you can look past the horrible walking animation and speed, its pretty fun. The story is awesome for sure. After some time though the walking animation and slow speed to get anywhere just got too much for me to bear.
Also everytime you open a store/talk to shopkeeper, their inventory changes :p So if there was something you wanted, but closed the shop, its gone.

Those two things just made me shelf it. I wish the Dev would address some of the issues and release an update. I'd buy again even if it wasn't a free update.
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skeletonbow: Anyhow, hope this helps someone maximize their game take in, and minimize their wallet dent.
Well said! I think what you have just written is an excellent guide to any game sale in general. :) I, on the other hand, was not going to buy Riddick 50% off (that's simply more than I am willing to pay) and was thinking of may be just may be spending the remaining "GOG Sale budget" onto other flash deal(s) (this sale is THE best sale discount and variety-wise that GOG has ever done afaik - so too many tempting discounts that make almost any budget look too little).
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CrashNBrn: If you can look past the horrible walking animation and speed, its pretty fun. The story is awesome for sure. After some time though the walking animation and slow speed to get anywhere just got too much for me to bear.
Also everytime you open a store/talk to shopkeeper, their inventory changes :p So if there was something you wanted, but closed the shop, its gone.

Those two things just made me shelf it. I wish the Dev would address some of the issues and release an update. I'd buy again even if it wasn't a free update.
Hmm. I think it is worth a try. But I have a huge list of rpgs to be played. I think i will delay the purchase for a while. It was the same price at insomnia sale. It will be sold off again. I am pretty sure. Also in the meantime someone may gift it to me. Ha ha :)))
Post edited June 16, 2014 by cemtufekci
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ZPavelZ: Well said! I think what you have just written is an excellent guide to any game sale in general. :) I, on the other hand, was not going to buy Riddick 50% off (that's simply more than I am willing to pay) and was thinking of may be just may be spending the remaining "GOG Sale budget" onto other flash deal(s) (this sale is THE best sale discount and variety-wise that GOG has ever done afaik - so too many tempting discounts that make almost any budget look too little).
Yep. Keep in mind the Riddick game is actually 2 full fledged games too (the original Riddick game is bundled kind with it and one can miss that easily if not reading the whole page carefully :)

As for the dealing... people have suggested I might be related to William Shatner. I can neither confirm nor deny that. :)