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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
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ChiefOblivious: Could someone tell me what exactly is happening here? I dont see any time stamp anywhere on the front page, and it's stuck at Might and Magic. Is that normal?
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ng: For M&M it should be normal.
Just don't forget to minus 1every time this option is available to you, and we'll make it to the end of this sale someday... :-)
I've only had the ability to -1 once for M&M. Do I need to logout/login, delete cookies, etc?
Posted January 28, 2014
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CrowTRobo: Sorry if this was addressed already but I am at work and cannot read the whole thread, kind of busy today. Will the sale repeat like the Insomnia sale (for those of us who cannot frequently check the site during work hours)?
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HypersomniacLive: Nth concrete yet, though that "time warp again" note could be a hint.
Thanks! Its probably a good thing if I don't see most of the sale. I have so many games in my backlog that I have been very conservative since the winter sale on what I buy. I need to start playing the games I already own before buying more. But if I see some great deals on games I'm even slightly intersted in, I might be tempted.
Posted January 28, 2014
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QuintSakugarne: GOG should hire a psychologist and an economist and try to produce the perfect impossible-to-predict-yet-human-behavior-based marketing scenario.
Something tells me they already did.
Posted January 28, 2014
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foxworks: Just to prolong the agony of this title's sale

Might and Magic® 6-pack: Limited Edition

RKAK-ZC45-U4RU-?B2C

? = ?EEEEEAAAAANNNNNEEE!!!
I got it, thanks! :D
Posted January 28, 2014
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foxworks: Just to prolong the agony of this title's sale

Might and Magic® 6-pack: Limited Edition

RKAK-ZC45-U4RU-?B2C

? = ?EEEEEAAAAANNNNNEEE!!!
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cmdr_flashheart: I got it, thanks! :D
You're welcome, enjoy!
Posted January 28, 2014
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cmdr_flashheart: I disagree, I think community feedback on such a sale would have been invaluable, and perhaps made the sale less gimmicky.
What you're wishing for doesn't seem to take into account that planning and rolling out a promo like this can't happen over night or worse during a working morning. Or do you think it is possible to re-introduce the content of the promo on a daily basis? How would you go about making it happen?
Posted January 28, 2014
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ng: For M&M it should be normal.
Just don't forget to minus 1every time this option is available to you, and we'll make it to the end of this sale someday... :-)
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greggk124: I've only had the ability to -1 once for M&M. Do I need to logout/login, delete cookies, etc?
Oh so this voting option appears only from time to time?
Posted January 28, 2014
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ng: For M&M it should be normal.
Just don't forget to minus 1every time this option is available to you, and we'll make it to the end of this sale someday... :-)
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greggk124: I've only had the ability to -1 once for M&M. Do I need to logout/login, delete cookies, etc?
I think he just meant "everybody vote".

If I were GOG I would have put some kind of IP restriction in place or else it would be too easy to just drain this counter to 0 in no time with some scripting.
Posted January 28, 2014
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greggk124: I've only had the ability to -1 once for M&M. Do I need to logout/login, delete cookies, etc?
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ChiefOblivious: Oh so this voting option appears only from time to time?
It appears only once per sale.
Posted January 28, 2014
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cmdr_flashheart: I disagree, I think community feedback on such a sale would have been invaluable, and perhaps made the sale less gimmicky.
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HypersomniacLive: What you're wishing for doesn't seem to take into account that planning and rolling out a promo like this can't happen over night or worse during a working morning. Or do you think it is possible to re-introduce the content of the promo on a daily basis? How would you go about making it happen?
Steam manages do it with community voting :\
Posted January 28, 2014
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mudd1: You mean to say that it glues us more to the screen and steals more of our time than the sale itself ;)
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IAmSinistar: It does that too, aye. :)

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Davane: It's a well know trope - Electric Boogaloo. Troperiffic! :D
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IAmSinistar: Yes, and I was explaining where the trope came from. They don't occur in a vacuum, after all. It's a social, word-of-mouth phenomenon, just as urban legends are.
Exactly - just backing you up, there my friend. Just call me "Captain. Obvious." Although the mutations of the trope are an interesting read too!

The "word of mouth" aspect comes from the fact that we experience life as stories, and use these stories to identify patterns. It enables us to predict the future easier. Whether those stories are urban legends, entertainment media, or our own personal anecdotes.

Of course, the reason it was named after "Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo", isn't just because it's it's a terrible sequel (and it IS terrible), but because it was released in the SAME YEAR as Breakin. The first one didn't even have time to die a horrible death before the sequal came out, so it was either incredibly rushed, or planned alongside the first as a sequel, regardless of outcome.

I mean, five and a half months to make and release a sequel!? That's slightly longer than the time it takes EA Maxis to release another Sims Expansion Pack! :o
Posted January 28, 2014
What are the odds of pluses, minuses, sales and actual time flow balancing to keep this between 16 and 18 minutes for over an hour?
Wow.
Posted January 28, 2014
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sirchaox1224: This is getting ridiculous, I might have to do some actual magic today
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stg83: There, fixed that for you. :P
Lol

Well naturally, I mean web development is synonymous to magic
Posted January 28, 2014
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greggk124: I've only had the ability to -1 once for M&M. Do I need to logout/login, delete cookies, etc?
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ChiefOblivious: Oh so this voting option appears only from time to time?
Nope, every user gets one vote, to add or subtract a second, and every purchase automatically adds 3 seconds. Read the announcement people. (What's not in it is that after a purchase the voting options vanish even if not used.)

1 purchase per 3 seconds with no minus votes (or balanced plus and minus votes) means a frozen timer. So 1200 purchases in one hour with no change from votes add an hour to the starting time of 1.5 hours. And remember how quickly a few titles went during the insomnia sale.
Posted January 28, 2014
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ng: For M&M it should be normal.
Just don't forget to minus 1every time this option is available to you, and we'll make it to the end of this sale someday... :-)
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greggk124: I've only had the ability to -1 once for M&M. Do I need to logout/login, delete cookies, etc?
We shouldn't cheat the system, although I like the way you think :-)
(Unfortunately, I guess re-logging will not grant you another wish)
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