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Posted June 28, 2014
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!
Posted June 19, 2014
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skeletonbow: When that is happening, for bundles it still shows you what games you own when you add it to your cart, but for flash sales I just open up my actual game shelf in another window sorted alphabetically and scroll through it to seek out each game of potential interest if I'm unsure if I already own it. I need to do that anyway with Steam and some other sites so I don't rebuy games I own elsewhere on GOG too (unless I intentionally want to do so). :)
I sometimes gift stuff but normally (since I have multiple computers handy) I find it easier to open a browser on a couple of systems. But even when tyring to shop for my main account, it's hard trying to find the games not currently owned. I might spend 1/2 on my slow ass internet trying to open game links.

Your ideas good, but I find the wishlist a slow and laborious method of expressing a troublesome account quirk they're already aware of. Plus, no-one would vote as they wouldn't understand what I was on about :)
Posted June 19, 2014
does anyone know whether GOG's version of Gemini Rue includes a developer's commentary?
Posted June 19, 2014
I am usually not a bug-user, but I want to test the system here on GOG. So I added two titles during the promotion to my basket and now wait for the promotion to expire :P

Then check if I still get the discount.
Posted June 19, 2014
Just got up and already bought a game. I have no restraint! :)
Posted June 19, 2014
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disi: I am usually not a bug-user, but I want to test the system here on GOG. So I added two titles during the promotion to my basket and now wait for the promotion to expire :P

Then check if I still get the discount.
I once managed to add an item to my basket just before its expiration. However, I was pretty curious whether its price would rise again, so I didn't buy it immediately.... and it got its initial price back. :) Of course, this could also have been caused by a bug. :D
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Posted June 19, 2014
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Ml33tninja: Quick question : will expansion/dlc be a part of the big sale (such as Dragonfall for Shadowrun Returns)? Wondering if I should wait or just buy now.
All of the bundles that will appear in the sale promo all the way to the end of June are all listed today. Any bundle not there wont be in the sale as far as we are able to know from the information available and past history. For the flash sales, all of the games that will be in the flash sales were figured out and tracked already and are now repeating randomly from a pool of 228 games roughly. Both of these are tracked in community provided lists and any game or DLC that does not show up, to the best of any of our knowledge will not appear at all in the sale bundles or flash promos. You'd have to look at the bundle and flash promo lists to see if the items you're interested on are available but from the two you mentioned, I don't think they're in any of the bundles, and I don't know either way about the flash promos but you can check the list if you like.

The only other things on sale are anything that is 50% off right now which should remain so until the end of June. There are about 7 games including Omerta and its DLC and Banished which were reverse engineered graphics for the flash sales which have not showed up. We don't know if they are yet to come or if they were left over graphics that are not going to actually be used, or if they're some future yet unknown special promo GOG will surprise us with or something else. They're listed on the flash sale promo tracker list also but no idea what if anything will become of them.

What we do believe to be true is that there will be no other bundles or flash sale items show up before the end of the sale which are not available right now on the homepage (for bundles) or are not on the flash sale list already. These are just predictions based on the forensics analysis of the website source code, statements GOG has made publicly, experience with past GOG promotions and seasonal sales, and other inputs. So far all predictions have been right on the money though, but there is always the opportunity for GOG to surprise us or purposefully change something just to throw off our analysis and predictions. :)

Flash sale list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-VD-iAhDf-nBcCS2unQF96Q0wYxUgVaqQWEVXvkJ-X8/edit?pli=1#gid=0

Check that out and best of luck nailing the best price on your items! :)
Posted June 19, 2014
No Battle Realms and Theme Hospital :(
Posted June 19, 2014
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disi: I am usually not a bug-user, but I want to test the system here on GOG. So I added two titles during the promotion to my basket and now wait for the promotion to expire :P

Then check if I still get the discount.
If the timer runs out before you complete your purchase, you'll lose the discount. The lower price is not kept by holding the shopping cart open, although there were times a year ago or more where it did act that way but I believe they fixed it. I remember for sure some sale a while back where I would add everything I was even possibly interested in into the cart, then open the game cards for them all, watch trailers etc. and then remove the items I didn't want and purchase the ones I did even though during that time many of the offers expired, but the price stayed in my cart anyway. Doesn't work like that in this sale though. I actually had an item in my cart earlier today (Ceville) which was $1.99 and I was a tad slow at completing my checkout and it expired and went up to $3.99 in-cart so I removed it. :)

Fortunately though, any flash sale items that happens to will eventually rotate around to that price again many times until the end of June. :)
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WillOfD: No Battle Realms and Theme Hospital :(
http://www.gog.com/promo/summer_bullfrog_bundle_240614 has Theme Hospital for $0.89 if you buy the games in the bundle that you don't already own. I got Theme Park that way today (I owned every other game in the bundle already). The non-bundle price for Theme Hospital is 50% off regular price which is $2.39 and not a bad deal either.

No luck on Battle Realms though... I don't think I've ever seen it on any decent sale yet or I probably would have it on my game shelf already hehehe.

[url=http://isthereanydeal.com/#/page:game/price?plain=battlerealmspluswinterofwolf]http://isthereanydeal.com/#/page:game/price?plain=battlerealmspluswinterofwolf[/url] $3.99 best price to date.
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Posted June 19, 2014
Aaw, Arklash is coming back to haunt me... I'm afraid this won't end well.
Posted June 19, 2014
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skeletonbow: The only other things on sale are anything that is 50% off right now which should remain so until the end of June. There are about 7 games including Omerta and its DLC and Banished which were reverse engineered graphics for the flash sales which have not showed up. We don't know if they are yet to come or if they were left over graphics that are not going to actually be used, or if they're some future yet unknown special promo GOG will surprise us with or something else. They're listed on the flash sale promo tracker list also but no idea what if anything will become of them.
Any Omerta promo needs to come with a patch to make the game playable again. Unlike the rest of the world, I actually enjoyed the game and I want to be able to finish it. =/
Posted June 19, 2014
A suggestion for next sale: add some way to purchase several bundles simultaneously. I just bought 3 of them and had to do 3 separate transactions. You could have saved 2 per-transaction fees if I'd have bought all 3 at once ;)
Posted June 19, 2014
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torp: A suggestion for next sale: add some way to purchase several bundles simultaneously. I just bought 3 of them and had to do 3 separate transactions. You could have saved 2 per-transaction fees if I'd have bought all 3 at once ;)
Use Paypal!
But yeah they should definitly implement that.
Posted June 19, 2014
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torp: A suggestion for next sale: add some way to purchase several bundles simultaneously. I just bought 3 of them and had to do 3 separate transactions. You could have saved 2 per-transaction fees if I'd have bought all 3 at once ;)
Add the individual games to your cart, then proceed to make one transaction. Click the bundle image, not the "Buy Now" button.
You can also choose to gift the entire bundle, which adds them to your cart, then you can remove those you don't want.
Posted June 19, 2014
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torp: A suggestion for next sale: add some way to purchase several bundles simultaneously. I just bought 3 of them and had to do 3 separate transactions. You could have saved 2 per-transaction fees if I'd have bought all 3 at once ;)
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JMich: Add the individual games to your cart, then proceed to make one transaction. Click the bundle image, not the "Buy Now" button.
You can also choose to gift the entire bundle, which adds them to your cart, then you can remove those you don't want.
I just tried it with the Legacy of Kain and Gothic Bundle together and I confirm this. Once you go into the Edit/Checkout the Bundle discounts are getting applied atutomatily.
Posted June 19, 2014
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skeletonbow: The only other things on sale are anything that is 50% off right now which should remain so until the end of June. There are about 7 games including Omerta and its DLC and Banished which were reverse engineered graphics for the flash sales which have not showed up. We don't know if they are yet to come or if they were left over graphics that are not going to actually be used, or if they're some future yet unknown special promo GOG will surprise us with or something else. They're listed on the flash sale promo tracker list also but no idea what if anything will become of them.
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JaqFrost: Any Omerta promo needs to come with a patch to make the game playable again. Unlike the rest of the world, I actually enjoyed the game and I want to be able to finish it. =/
That's something that probably should be directed to the ones who have the power to do something about it, the company that developed the game. GOG is just a store. :)

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torp: A suggestion for next sale: add some way to purchase several bundles simultaneously. I just bought 3 of them and had to do 3 separate transactions. You could have saved 2 per-transaction fees if I'd have bought all 3 at once ;)
Not sure exactly why it works the way it works right now but you can bypass that by loading up the bundle deal screen and opening up each game in the bundle up in it's own browser tab, then adding each game individually to your cart one at a time, then doing that with the next bundle etc. As soon as every game in a bundle is added to the cart one at a time the prices will magically drop to the bundle pricing once all the games are present in the cart for that bundle. When you check out, your invoice will show you recieved the bundle discounts for all bundles you added this way.

I bought 6 bundles last night with one purchase:

Broken Sword 2: Remastered + The Original Game $5.99
Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon $5.99
Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death (Secrets of the Ark) $9.99
Theme Park $5.99
Guild Gold Edition, The $9.99
Guild 2, The $9.99
Guild 2: Pirates of the European Seas, The $9.99
Spellforce Platinum $9.99
Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars $9.99
Spellforce 2: Dragon Storm $9.99
Settlers® 2: Gold Edition, The $9.99
Settlers 2®: 10th Anniversary, The $9.99
Settlers 3®: Ultimate Collection, The $9.99
Settlers® 4: Gold Edition, The $9.99
Heritage of Kings: The Settlers™ $9.99
Age of Wonders $5.99
Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard's Throne $9.99
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic $9.99
Discount (Broken Sword Classics 80% OFF): - $17.60
Discount (Bullfrog Classics 85% OFF): - $5.10
Discount (The Guild Compilation 80% OFF): - $24.00
Discount (Spellforce Saga 80% OFF): - $24.00
Discount (Settlers Saga 75% OFF): - $37.50
Discount (Age of Wonders Classics 75% OFF): - $19.50
Order total: $36.12


It would be nice to be able to do it with one click per bundle mind you, but this workaround does work for people who want to avoid multiple transaction fees in the meantime. It's not clear why GOG forces the bundles to be bought one transaction at a time by default, perhaps a blue can clarify that for us. I'm guessing there is some reason why they do that, as the pages contain extra code to handle it so it's not the default.

Anyhow, hope this helps.
Post edited June 19, 2014 by skeletonbow
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