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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 29, 2014
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OdanUrr: It will be difficult to top that.
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CarrionCrow: Not many left, so probably not. If the Escapist is right, three of the remaining slots will be taken up by Witcher, Legend of Grimrock and Spelunky. Nine mystery slots, and one of them has to be a lower cost game for the whole .59 cent/90 percent off sale thing.
Unepic is also in the E-mail promo so that's 4 slots known.
Posted January 29, 2014
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CarrionCrow: Not many left, so probably not. If the Escapist is right, three of the remaining slots will be taken up by Witcher, Legend of Grimrock and Spelunky. Nine mystery slots, and one of them has to be a lower cost game for the whole .59 cent/90 percent off sale thing.
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RWarehall: Unepic is also in the E-mail promo so that's 4 slots known.
Hmm. Okay, thank you for the info. Probably need to check my email more often. Guess that covers 2007, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Post edited January 29, 2014 by CarrionCrow
Posted January 29, 2014
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GamesMaster16: paypal was very slow for me as well so maybe you didn't wait long enough for it to go through
I don't use it that often so I'm not entirely sure what the problem really was, but at the end of the day it still made me miss the sale, which annoyed me. =/
Posted January 29, 2014
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DeRaMmed: So, anyone wants "DX?" (And maybe even past this sale, if I buy a dozen digital copies at a time, and meant not for myself but as gifts for others, the gods of GOG might be gracious and generous enough in such a case to offer it at the this time-travelling sale price -- after all, they did state that "time is not linear!" ;) Sign up somehow, if you do -- let me know.
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shrekfan246: Well, I was going to purchase Deus Ex while it was on sale but PayPal decided it wasn't going to be having any of that. I'd be quite pleased to receive a copy if you've got spares, as an old hard copy my family had was lost when my mother moved away.

I was too young to appreciate the game at the time but I'd love to give it a good go now.
Okay, sure. Let's see if there are others, and what's GOG's verdict on the offer.

As for the game's age, its release was before my DX-playig age as well. I picked it up first as a hard copy I noticed inadvertently in a shop, boxed, used; I had heard and read about everywhere, and I'm wary of too much hype, but I thought "what the heck..." I was curious, and it was so cheap -- like HR is now, already (and for good reason). When I started playing the original, I realised that not all hype is undeserved, or wrong. (Graphics, textures are very dated, obviously, but there's a decent re-tex mod out there, or two, if you find that aged graphics aspect too off-putting.)
Post edited January 29, 2014 by DeRaMmed
Posted January 29, 2014
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Niggles: i wish they had a cap on how long a game could stay up....its one thing to have a timer......
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OdanUrr: Why not go for a regular, old-fashioned, sale then?
Good number of people loved the insomnia sale...... aside from the lack of timer to get rid of slow burners ie the infamous one. This sale they add a timer... but they put no cap on how long the game can be up for - dont get me wrong DX is a very good game, but for people looking for the next game up, 6 hours is a tad long dont u think?
Posted January 29, 2014
If Neverwinter Nights is 2002, guess I get sleep tonight...
Posted January 29, 2014
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OdanUrr: Why not go for a regular, old-fashioned, sale then?
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Niggles: Good number of people loved the insomnia sale...... aside from the lack of timer to get rid of slow burners ie the infamous one. This sale they add a timer... but they put no cap on how long the game can be up for - dont get me wrong DX is a very good game, but for people looking for the next game up, 6 hours is a tad long dont u think?
Oh, it's long, no doubt about that. A part of me understands and agrees with you. Then there's the other part that wishes it had gone on for 24 hours!

My puckish-rogue side. XD
Posted January 29, 2014
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OdanUrr: Why not go for a regular, old-fashioned, sale then?
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Niggles: Good number of people loved the insomnia sale...... aside from the lack of timer to get rid of slow burners ie the infamous one. This sale they add a timer... but they put no cap on how long the game can be up for - dont get me wrong DX is a very good game, but for people looking for the next game up, 6 hours is a tad long dont u think?
They'll probably look at it as demand driving duration. That one went 292 minutes over the initial 90 minute starting point. Removing the up/downvote factor, that means they sold 5,840 in almost 6 and a half hours. Pretty good numbers, I'm sure.
Posted January 29, 2014
nice! went to sleep when Deus Ex was on and now it's still just the next one :)
Posted January 29, 2014
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DeRaMmed: Okay, sure. Let's see if there are others, and what's GOG's verdict on the offer.
Sounds good.
As for the game's age, its release was before my DX-playig age as well. I picked it up first as a hard copy I noticed inadvertently in a shop, boxed, used; I had heard and read about everywhere, and I'm wary of too much hype, but I thought "what the heck..." I was curious, and it was so cheap -- like HR is now, already (and for good reason). When I started playing the original, I realised that not all hype is undeserved, or wrong. (Graphics, textures are very dated, obviously, but there's a decent re-tex mod out there, or two, if you find that aged graphics aspect too off-putting).
Oh yeah, I've read up a lot on the game in the past. It's the level design and potential for completing objectives that really intrigues me, because so few games really offer that kind of freedom these days, which strikes me as very odd. You'd think it would've become some sort of standard, and yet it's now more of a novelty.
Posted January 29, 2014
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superstande: nice! went to sleep when Deus Ex was on and now it's still just the next one :)
LOL, same for me.

Didn't miss anything sleeping overnight this time, and now sitting down with my breakfast cup of tea and happily looking forward to the next game reveal :)
Posted January 29, 2014
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Niggles: i wish they had a cap on how long a game could stay up....its one thing to have a timer......
So, they should put a "stop giving us money for this game" limit? No way.
'Sides, I left when DX was up, had a full night's sleep and still was in time to get Gothic, so I'm not gonna complain.
Agent Denton is hence to be known as Sleeper Agent.
Posted January 29, 2014
2 Things about Gothic.
1.) This is the new rerelease with the newest Patch already applied. So far I had no big issues with it. If you have some use this: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2650432 (I know it's not the steam version)
I also like my old Version better because...

2.)...this version doesn't include the stage appearance of the band In Extremo. So I stick with my old version with graphic patches apllied. But if you can look over that. It's a good version of the game! :)
Posted January 29, 2014
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Niggles: i wish they had a cap on how long a game could stay up....its one thing to have a timer......
Well, the point of the sale is to generate revenue at the same time they draw customers to the website, and they make money by selling games. ;o) With this sale the only reason a game stays up for sale for a long time is because it is selling like there's no tomorrow and each sale is extending it by 3 seconds (excluding the +1 second votes people choose to make which are probably very negligible in the overall count of things). I'd say that if they get a game in this sale stuck for several hours they're going to be quite pleased by that as it will generate a lot of revenue-per-hour so to speak versus a game that goes on sale for exactly 90 minutes (which would sell nothing (excluding downvotes)).

I doubt they're going to remotely consider putting a cap on something that is showing very positive revenue for the day as that would be a bad business decision ultimately. What's good for GOG's business in the end translates to being good for every single GOG customer because they will have more money to spend in hiring developers and creating improvements on the website, and bringing more games to the catalogue in the future and at a faster rate.

If you think Deus Ex was slow to move on, just wait until they put Neverwinter Nights on sale in a few hours... That'll sell like 10000000000 copies and be on sale for a month or so. Hehehe. ;)
Posted January 29, 2014
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Niggles: Good number of people loved the insomnia sale...... aside from the lack of timer to get rid of slow burners ie the infamous one. This sale they add a timer... but they put no cap on how long the game can be up for - dont get me wrong DX is a very good game, but for people looking for the next game up, 6 hours is a tad long dont u think?
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OdanUrr: Oh, it's long, no doubt about that. A part of me understands and agrees with you. Then there's the other part that wishes it had gone on for 24 hours!

My puckish-rogue side. XD
Yup, that's the hitch I thought of first, while checking out this event: good to have good games up for sale, but between a limited-time event versus uncapped-time sale of individual titles (where market demand and votes decide just how long any given game remains available), the longer any one game is up, the fewer games will get a turn, and fewer members will get a chance at something they really want.

Oh, well, 'GOG giveth, and GOG taketh away..." XD
Post edited January 29, 2014 by DeRaMmed
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