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Let's do the time warp again*!

Welcome to our [url=http://www.gog.com]DRM-Free Time Machine Sale! Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a fascinating ride to the early days of PC gaming and back again, with 30 excellent titles selected from the years 1983-2013, available up to 90% off (that is for as little as $0.59!). You'll find amazing games in amazing prices featured one by one on GOG.com main page, and before the sale is done you'll be able to complete your very own display of gaming history on a budget below $65 (because this would be the cost to get every single game in the sale). Are you ready?

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There's more than just buying games incredibly cheap to our DRM-Free Time Machine Sale! We're ready to pass its steering wheel (or rather the control console) to YOU. Each game in the sale is offered for a limited time only, and how long we stay in its year is up to you! Each time you see a new game on sale you can vote to either add or subtract 1 second from the timer. Each time you buy a game, you add 3 seconds to the time of it being on sale. We begin with 1983's Zork, bundled with the rest of the Zork Anthology of 6 games in total, for only $1.79. How long will it last on the front page? You'll be the judge. What comes next, as the game of 1984? Let's find out!

Let's take a trip in GOG.com's DRM-Free Time Machine Sale! 30 great games from 1983-2013 will be available up to 90% off, and you get to decide how long each game is on sale. Ready? The technomagical gateway to 1983 opens NOW!

* "Again?", you might ask, "when did they ever do the time warp?". Well, once you embark on a journey through time, all becomes relevant and there's absolutely no guarantee that what you are doing, you are doing for the first time. In fact, that's highly improbable. After all, time isn't linear. It's more like a giant wobbly-bobbly goggy-boggy ball of gaming awesome!
Post edited January 28, 2014 by G-Doc
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randomengine: So far in terms of sales it has been:

1. Might and Magic 6-pack
2. SimCity 2000
3. Zork Anthology
4. Ultima 1+2+3 OR Police Quest 1+2+3+4
5. Space Quest 1+2+3
6. King's Quest 1+2+3
And KeaneCity 2000 :)
Overall i can already say the Insomnia Sale, despite the Keaning(which mostly only got out of hand in rounds 2&3...round 1 was awesome with the uncertainty of which games were to come and the possible free games...and not knowing that there were actually going to be 3 identical rounds), was more fun for me.
LOL, SC2K has been at the 12 minute mark for an eternity!!!!

Let it die.
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gscotti: LOL, SC2K has been at the 12 minute mark for an eternity!!!!

Let it die.
And looks determined to do the same for the 10 minutes mark :-P
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gscotti: LOL, SC2K has been at the 12 minute mark for an eternity!!!!

Let it die.
Please!!
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gscotti: LOL, SC2K has been at the 12 minute mark for an eternity!!!!

Let it die.
Seriously. Please.
I need to sleep :@
Post edited January 28, 2014 by lmc2002
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flambeau: Yeah, I just had dinner, now I'm back for the next game :)

BTW, why all the hate about Jack Keane?
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Davane: Who wants to take this one? Please... somebody...

Basically, in the last sale like this, there were a limited number of games, but deals wouldn't change until every last copy was sold. There was a certain game called Jack Keane that nobody really wanted (the offer wasn't good enough) and it was stuck on site for about six hours or so. Thus, timed deals that are very slow are known as Keanes, and the act of prolonging a very slow sale is known as Keaning.
Thanks! I wasn't aware about it thus I couldn't understand the jokes (specially the "keaning" thing) and the "hate" for the game.
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gscotti: LOL, SC2K has been at the 12 minute mark for an eternity!!!!

Let it die.
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mkell_226: Please!!
Please press -1
Accidentally bought another copy. My apologies. :p
I think I know how GOG.com could improve their next timed sale. They should combine the Insomnia and Time Machine sales into one super-sale!

Okay, this could go either really good or really bad:

The bad version - there is a number of copies that need to be sold, and a time to sell them in. Both have to expire for the next deal to arrive. Buying a copy adds time to the timer. More copies get added if there aren't any sales in a given period, or if the timer is decreased.

Okay, seriously, the good version - give each title a number of "lives." Instead of making a sale, a visitor can remove one of the lives from the title. It's like voting "Next!" on a sale. If you buy a copy, you automatically add +1 life to the tile. When a title is out of lives, the next deal arrives. This is similar to having the option to vote down a title by 1 second, but that is the only option. You either by, or you don't, and as long as there are more buyers than non-buyers, the deal stays active with no decay. If a timer is needed, then simply have the lives decay at a set rate, so only by making sales can popular deals stay active, and there is a real-time record of popularity for a title.
That's what you get for putting a game that doesn't have an endstate in a time machine.
I wasn't here for the insomnia sale, but I can say that I really enjoy this 1 title at a time sale process. It gives each title some love instead of drowning in a sea of sales. The only problem is that I won't get much sleep tonight. I need to know what all the games are gonna be and get a chance to buy them.
At least now we know where Jack Keane lives.
When this baby hits 88 Miles per hour you're gonna see some serious shit.

Gooo 1990!!!
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IAmSinistar: Welcome to New Jack City.
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BillyMaysFan59: Or KeaneCity 2000: The Maxis Within xD

(okay okay I already made that joke)
OMG - that joke is keaning now!