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Posted January 28, 2014
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
Posted January 28, 2014
This sale is a scam. No bear -> no sale.
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mrking58: Why is there a plus second? If you don't want you will -1 second but if you want it you would buy it
Because Deus Ex will last forever.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by P1na
Posted January 28, 2014
/me is waiting to see Jack Keane show up.
Posted January 28, 2014
not another work time waster.....nooooooooooooooo :)
Posted January 28, 2014
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mrking58: Why is there a plus second? If you don't want you will -1 second but if you want it you would buy it
Some people already own the game, and are therefore not likely to rebuy it - but they still want other people to have a chance, because they like the game.

Those are the people who the +1 button are targeted at (as well as the people who want to give a little extra push after buying).
Posted January 28, 2014
It's a very fun waiting game! Kudos to you, GOG, as always!
Posted January 28, 2014
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JoseWisemang: as it turns out... if you vote, click a link then hit back in you browser an infinite amount of votes can be cast.
Does voting beyound the first time actually register? Too bad they can't lock it down to only 1 vote per account if you can make multiple times.
Posted January 28, 2014
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JustSayin: SO 90 minutes here or 13 hours like last time...hard choice.
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yyahoo: Well, to be fair, many games in the Insomnia sale lasted only minutes their first time around. The problem was with a few unpopular games and the fact that each game came around umpteen times in total.

The first run through of the Insomnia sale was *very* exciting. This is a *lot* slower and initially the new mechanic makes the counter last *longer* than the actual countdown time.
I guess we'll have to wait on a "popular" game. If Deus Ex pops up, maybe I'll have to change the stuff under my name into Deus Ex Survivor.
Posted January 28, 2014
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mrking58: Why is there a plus second? If you don't want you will -1 second but if you want it you would buy it
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Pidgeot: Some people already own the game, and are therefore not likely to rebuy it - but they still want other people to have a chance, because they like the game.

Those are the people who the +1 button are targeted at (as well as the people who want to give a little extra push after buying).
Also, people that just like pressing random buttons.
Posted January 28, 2014
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mrking58: Why is there a plus second? If you don't want you will -1 second but if you want it you would buy it
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Pidgeot: Some people already own the game, and are therefore not likely to rebuy it - but they still want other people to have a chance, because they like the game.

Those are the people who the +1 button are targeted at (as well as the people who want to give a little extra push after buying).
You can't vote up or down after buying.
Posted January 28, 2014
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Thruggsen: Not bad at all, just not for everybody and has been on sale many times previously so most that want it would have it.

The speed at which it is dropping is that now more people are online (ie America is awake) and they have worked out what the +/- buttons are for. I expect the next few games to go even faster.
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marcusghost: I think that is that the people want to know what game is next, Ultima is a good game.
Thank you for your answers. I thought this isn't a bad game, just that if this game is very unpopular (like the games that took a lot of time to be sold in the insomnia sale), so people subtracts seconds to make it faster.
Also, this game was really on sale many times.
Posted January 28, 2014
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Pidgeot: Some people already own the game, and are therefore not likely to rebuy it - but they still want other people to have a chance, because they like the game.

Those are the people who the +1 button are targeted at (as well as the people who want to give a little extra push after buying).
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yyahoo: You can't vote up or down after buying.
Didn't know that, since I've owned both titles so far.

Nevertheless, this just changes it to "a little extra push before buying".
Posted January 28, 2014
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JoseWisemang: as it turns out... if you vote, click a link then hit back in you browser an infinite amount of votes can be cast.
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gbaz69: Does voting beyound the first time actually register? Too bad they can't lock it down to only 1 vote per account if you can make multiple times.
I believe so.
I tried it a few times and it appeared to, though it was kind of counter productive because it took my browser like 10-15seconds to catch up to the current count each time it had to reload.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by JoseWisemang
Posted January 28, 2014
Ugh. I hate these "babysit the computer" sales. This sort of thing is why I prefer normal GOG sales, Humble Bundles, and Desura-available games on ShinyLoot over the Humble Store and Desura itself.

They present everything at the time they send me the e-mail notification (or a predictable one week later, as with the Humble Bundle extras) and give me at least 10 hours to take advantage of each deal so I can catch some sleep if I need to.

I've got things to do and, even if I had the energy, I can't afford to stay up all night to make sure I get every game I care about.
Posted January 28, 2014
Come on here to say: please guys, let the Ultima sale die now.
Posted January 28, 2014
I think we're gonna see games dropping very fast from now on, regardless of how good they are. People just wanna see the next deal.
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