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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 30, 2014
Edit: nevermind this is not the place for discussion about the pros and cons of steam
Post edited January 30, 2014 by Mr.Spatula
Posted January 30, 2014
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Mr.Spatula: Edit: nevermind this is not the place for discussion about the pros and cons of steam
Too bad I would have been curious to hear your opinion.
Posted January 30, 2014
I have to go to bed soon (have to get up at 4:50 AM this week). Could somebody please buy me a copy of Spelunky if it goes to sale during the next eight hours?

I could repay the person with one of the gift keys I bought during this sale (Might and Magic 6-pack, Jagged Allience, Carmageddon) or with something from tomorrow's weekend promo (or another future promo).

Thank you!
Post edited January 30, 2014 by PaterAlf
Posted January 30, 2014
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Mr.Spatula: Edit: nevermind this is not the place for discussion about the pros and cons of steam
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MisterLovejoy: Too bad I would have been curious to hear your opinion.
based on my current 'issue' with steam and the games for windows live fiasco, I can tell ya what I think of steam if ya want
Posted January 30, 2014
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Mr.Spatula: Edit: nevermind this is not the place for discussion about the pros and cons of steam
why not?

pro - cheaper prices
excellent community features (as it relates to gaming. matchmaking and patches and such. not really even talking about steamworks or greenlight early access. I have mixed feelings on steamworks my stance to the others ranges from less than neutral with gl to despise of early access.)
fairly good track record good behaviour despite a large market advantage
large amount of players

con - drm
potential for valve to hold your games hostage and use them as leverage in implementing bad shit at some point
shitty return policies on games with drm in them
too much support of dlc and other nonsense of that ilk
Posted January 30, 2014
Holy crap. Amnesia had an hour left when i left around noon...It must be popular.
Posted January 30, 2014
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MisterLovejoy: Too bad I would have been curious to hear your opinion.
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GamesMaster16: based on my current 'issue' with steam and the games for windows live fiasco, I can tell ya what I think of steam if ya want
Lol! I think its abundantly clear. I'm with you btw.
Posted January 30, 2014
Since there have been quite a few posts praising this sale over the Insomnia sale, allow me to chime in with my thoughts.

Pro:
- The way this sale is run is a brilliant inversion of the insomnia sale's greatest problem: Instead of having the most popular games sell out within minutes, sometimes seconds, while the unpopular games stay up for hours on end, it's the polar opposite now: The popular games stay on the longest time.

Cons:
- Complete lack of variety: This is the most important point of all: I LOVED the selection during the insomnia sale! It struck a perfect balance between well-established franchises and the more obscure, newer indie titles. It encouraged you to try new stuff. The time machine sale, however, has none of that variety. Worse yet, all the games offered are merely a part of a franchise. It feels more like an attempt to get people to buy one game at a good discount while hoping that the buyer might feel inclined to complete their collection as soon as possible (preferably without a discount).
- No freebies: Let's face it, one of the main factors that kept the community glued to their screens was the ever so slim chance of snagging a freebie.
- Pace: It's weird, but there was something jolly (yet also somewhat stressful) about the frenetic pace that games sold at during the insomnia sale. Slow-selling games felt like welcome chances to get some rest. I don't get any of those vibes in this sale. On top of that, not having any repeats is frustrating as it almost ensure that you'll miss out on stuff. Having to go to bed at 1997, knowing full well that your fondest years of gaming are just up ahead, while realizing that you might wake up in 2004 when gaming started to go downhill isn't exactly the best thing to have on your mind when going to sleep. Especially when you know that there are no second chances.
Posted January 30, 2014
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GamesMaster16: based on my current 'issue' with steam and the games for windows live fiasco, I can tell ya what I think of steam if ya want
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MisterLovejoy: Lol! I think its abundantly clear. I'm with you btw.
I will somewhat agree on the cheaper prices as a pro BUT you are RENTING the games not buying them

all his cons I will testify to to a tee, cause I got the dawn of war franchise bundle from them and the dawn of 2 and the 1st addon have the GFWL crap on them which is busted right now and without it working you can't even play the campaign let alone multiplayer, I am in the process of getting a credit from them ONLY cause I threatened them with legal action if they didn't cause relic doesn't care sega can't do anything and steam didn't want to, but since I paid for it using paypal if I took it to them as a dispute steam would lose, cause I would send paypal all the emails showing the truth that relic doesn't give a hoot and sega is clueless and steam, well they want to keep your money, plus the client ITSELF is DRM
Posted January 30, 2014
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Mr.Spatula: Edit: nevermind this is not the place for discussion about the pros and cons of steam
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johnnygoging: why not?
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MisterLovejoy: Too bad I would have been curious to hear your opinion.
Well, we've had like dozens of such threads (this one comes to mind as one of the more recent ones) so why repeat the same points all over again? Not in topics specially created for such disputes, that is.
Posted January 30, 2014
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johnnygoging: pro
fairly good track record good behaviour despite a large market advantage
Please elaborate! I can't think of a single instance of Valve ever making any major concessions to the players.

However, why don't we continue this in one of the various Steam-discussion threads. This one is fairly popular at the moment: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/sick_of_justifications_for_releasing_1player_games_exclusively_on_steam
Post edited January 30, 2014 by fronzelneekburm
Posted January 30, 2014
I already have a DRM free copy of Amnesia The Dark Descent from a Humble bundle, is there any difference in the GOG version? I couldn't see any.
Posted January 30, 2014
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MisterLovejoy: Lol! I think its abundantly clear. I'm with you btw.
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GamesMaster16: I will somewhat agree on the cheaper prices as a pro BUT you are RENTING the games not buying them

all his cons I will testify to to a tee, cause I got the dawn of war franchise bundle from them and the dawn of 2 and the 1st addon have the GFWL crap on them which is busted right now and without it working you can't even play the campaign let alone multiplayer, I am in the process of getting a credit from them ONLY cause I threatened them with legal action if they didn't cause relic doesn't care sega can't do anything and steam didn't want to, but since I paid for it using paypal if I took it to them as a dispute steam would lose, cause I would send paypal all the emails showing the truth that relic doesn't give a hoot and sega is clueless and steam, well they want to keep your money, plus the client ITSELF is DRM
Yes Paypal is key. They offer enormous protection and I buy as much as I possibly can using them. Green Man Gaming tried to pull a number on me and I filed Paypal. They refunded so fast when they saw the claim that it wasn't even funny. People do not want to piss off PP. That's an expensive mistake.
Posted January 30, 2014
I had just built a brand new PC gaming rig for myself (put it together myself actually), but I was cheap and didn't get built-in wifi on my motherboard. At the time I was fine with it because I would hardline the ethernet. Well, I rearrange a lot, and had to get a wifi adapter...

I bought a wifi adapter and it worked with everything BUT Steam. Steam refused to download in order to install. Meaning every single one of my Steam games were unplayable. I checked the official site for the wifi adapter and it had one, and only one, driver for it from 2012, so no chance in hell it was getting a new patch and I couldn't rollback to another driver. It was at this point I realized the fragility of Steam and I can no longer support it by one penny more in the future.

I did find a solution to my problem, from some random googlesite.com page that had an older driver that worked with my adapter, but by that time the damage was done. I am never going back there again. I am 100% gog now all the way.
Posted January 30, 2014
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fronzelneekburm: Since there have been quite a few posts praising this sale over the Insomnia sale, allow me to chime in with my thoughts.

Pro:
- The way this sale is run is a brilliant inversion of the insomnia sale's greatest problem: Instead of having the most popular games sell out within minutes, sometimes seconds, while the unpopular games stay up for hours on end, it's the polar opposite now: The popular games stay on the longest time.

Cons:
- Complete lack of variety: This is the most important point of all: I LOVED the selection during the insomnia sale! It struck a perfect balance between well-established franchises and the more obscure, newer indie titles. It encouraged you to try new stuff. The time machine sale, however, has none of that variety. Worse yet, all the games offered are merely a part of a franchise. It feels more like an attempt to get people to buy one game at a good discount while hoping that the buyer might feel inclined to complete their collection as soon as possible (preferably without a discount).
- No freebies: Let's face it, one of the main factors that kept the community glued to their screens was the ever so slim chance of snagging a freebie.
- Pace: It's weird, but there was something jolly (yet also somewhat stressful) about the frenetic pace that games sold at during the insomnia sale. Slow-selling games felt like welcome chances to get some rest. I don't get any of those vibes in this sale. On top of that, not having any repeats is frustrating as it almost ensure that you'll miss out on stuff. Having to go to bed at 1997, knowing full well that your fondest years of gaming are just up ahead, while realizing that you might wake up in 2004 when gaming started to go downhill isn't exactly the best thing to have on your mind when going to sleep. Especially when you know that there are no second chances.
I agree with everything in your post except the bit about freebies, which I think left 99% of people feeling annoyed/disheartened and contributed greatly to the endless Bearing of the website... I'm definitely not sad to see that missing this time around.
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