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General discussion (archive)Anyone else finding the winter sale a touch lacking?(135 posts)(135 posts)
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Posted December 16, 2013
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Indru: The only real interest I had in this sale was the Heroes of Might and Magic Pack, but it got voted out in the first day of the sale and I don't know if there are chances I could get my hands on Heroes 2 , Heroes 3 and Chronicles in this sale. The Timeless Classics giftbox doesn't seem to feature them, as seen on Reddit. I cannot post the link unfortunately, IDK why. Google "GOG.com reddit timeless classics" and you'll reach it.
Last year, GOG repeated all the offers in the Winter sale during the end, so you might still get a chance.
Posted December 16, 2013
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Indru: The only real interest I had in this sale was the Heroes of Might and Magic Pack, but it got voted out in the first day of the sale and I don't know if there are chances I could get my hands on Heroes 2 , Heroes 3 and Chronicles in this sale. The Timeless Classics giftbox doesn't seem to feature them, as seen on Reddit. I cannot post the link unfortunately, IDK why. Google "GOG.com reddit timeless classics" and you'll reach it.
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Licurg: Last year, GOG repeated all the offers in the Winter sale during the end, so you might still get a chance.
Good to know! Thank you for giving me hope! :P
Posted December 16, 2013
Well, one addition I like is the boxes you get to pick. Although, a friend of mine has received a discount to a game he already owns... twice! They should have fixed that.
Posted December 16, 2013
Discounts are discounts, I'm quite pleased; got some stuff I wanted for less than the usual price, I'm not about to argue with that.
Posted December 16, 2013
Yeah, this sale - not so good.
Posted December 16, 2013
Well, I've got all the D&D games (had none of them thru gog) at a massive discount, and The Swapper, Omikron, & Tales of Monkey Island in my random daily sales at deep discounts.

So...no, I do not find the winter sale a touch lacking. Now if I only considered the 50% off across most of the games on the site, then yeah, that would suck. But that's not the *real* sale now is it? The real sale is the daily bundles and the random daily sales (which is hit or miss, but lucky for me mostly hit).
Posted December 16, 2013
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SSolomon: The 50% across the board discount seems pretty pointless. I could get a lot of games cheaper on steam just using the coupons they fill my inventory with. Then there are the bundles that try and sucker you into buying games you have zero interest in if you want a decent discount. Then the gift box that always seems to give me games I already own. Other than the Fallout give away, this GOG sale has seemed rather underwhelming. In a market of dirt cheap bundles and much deeper discounts on competing services, I am really finding it hard to find anything to buy this year. Anyone else feeling a real lack of interest this year, or am I just getting real unlucky with how everything has played out so far?
Bought a crap load of good games for what adds up to about the price of one or two new triple A retail game(s). Also, I appreciate all the different types of deals and special discounts they have going, to keep things interesting. So, no, I have no idea what you are talking about.

Also, what's a Steam sale?
Posted December 16, 2013
Dungeons and dragons pack deal ( one with baldur1,2 , torment, icewind dale series $1.99 each ) was cool.
Posted December 16, 2013
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CharlesGrey: Also, what's a Steam sale?
It's when you pay less money than you normally would pay to own a game, to not own a game.
Posted December 16, 2013
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SSolomon: I could get a lot of games cheaper on steam just using the coupons they fill my inventory with.
I could get a lot of games free on Big Fish Games just using the coupons they filled my email inbox with . :p

Don't expect a " we blown your mind away with a 75 - 85 % off discount on everything " sale on Steam in this holiday either .
Posted December 16, 2013
Lacking?? You are kidding right?

Bard's tale.. collection, 2 dollars..

gabriel Knight, 1.50

Fallout, fallout 2, fallout tactics,, Free...

so for the Barely the price of a bottle of beer, I picked up 6 games.. Not to mention the other great sales, like the D&D bundle, or a bunch of others i have seen..

Has it come to the point that unless you get 100's of games for 50 cents, you are unhappy? Funny i made a post saying thanks for the great sale... not one person responded... Make a post that you don't like the sale, and it floods with people complaining, that it is not good enough.
Post edited December 16, 2013 by JeCy
Posted December 16, 2013
I agree that the Daily Gift has been somewhat lean, but do you all remember the Insomnia Sale or even the first day of this sale?

I don't know about most folks, but I had a difficult time doing anything on the site.

Maybe they're running this sale the way they are (slower) due to the fact that their Servers couldn't handle it otherwise.

Just a thought.
Posted December 16, 2013
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SSolomon: I could get a lot of games cheaper on steam just using the coupons they fill my inventory with.
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ne_zavarj: I could get a lot of games free on Big Fish Games just using the coupons they filled my email inbox with . :p

Don't expect a " we blown your mind away with a 75 - 85 % off discount on everything " sale on Steam in this holiday either .
I don't expect one, but I also don't expect valve to try and force games into bundles as the only method to get a decent discount. I really dislike the bundles, if the games were sold individually, and not lumped into bundles to maximize profit I would likely find the sale a lot more enjoyable. As is, I would lose money to get a better discount because of all the unwanted games jammed into the bundle. In the end I really don't care. I just started this thread to see if anyone else was feeling a bit luke-warm towards this sale. Some are, and some are not. So, I guess their marketing is working on a certain demographic at least.

Also, I have no idea who bigfish is. Sounds like a bad record label name.(Will google it now and see what I've been missing) haha
Posted December 16, 2013
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ne_zavarj: I could get a lot of games free on Big Fish Games just using the coupons they filled my email inbox with . :p

Don't expect a " we blown your mind away with a 75 - 85 % off discount on everything " sale on Steam in this holiday either .
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SSolomon: I don't expect one, but I also don't expect valve to try and force games into bundles as the only method to get a decent discount. I really dislike the bundles, if the games were sold individually, and not lumped into bundles to maximize profit I would likely find the sale a lot more enjoyable. As is, I would lose money to get a better discount because of all the unwanted games jammed into the bundle. In the end I really don't care. I just started this thread to see if anyone else was feeling a bit luke-warm towards this sale. Some are, and some are not. So, I guess their marketing is working on a certain demographic at least.

Also, I have no idea who bigfish is. Sounds like a bad record label name.(Will google it now and see what I've been missing) haha
Big Fish was a brilliant Swedish metal sorta band. You can't go wrong with a drummer that sometimes drums on a dead cod. :D
Posted December 16, 2013
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Tarm: Big Fish was a brilliant Swedish metal sorta band. You can't go wrong with a drummer that sometimes drums on a dead cod. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdAhUapYEtE :)
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