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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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Davane: I definitely feel that some of these games are so great, that there must have been more copies sold in this promo by GOG.com than there are people on the planet! :O
Actually...

I suspect some of this is more a combination of people who think it's hilarious to manipulate the sale (*cough*cough**4chan*cough*cough), key traders/brokers stocking up and finally, people who actually want the game and don't have it yet.
Posted January 28, 2014
Aww man, I'm probably going to sleep through the '90s. I hope you do an encore GOG. =(
Posted January 28, 2014
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Davane: Any idea how long 21 billion seconds actually is?
almost exactly 666 years :p

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Posted January 28, 2014
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OdanUrr: What's this "Keane incident" everyone's referencing?
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tammerwhisk: During a recent promo they had sales with limited number of copies on sale. Once x number was sold it would switch to the next promo item. Jack Keane 2 was up for hours on end, because no one wanted it (especially at the price point it was at).
Well, that must have been embarrassing.
Posted January 28, 2014
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tammerwhisk: Except this one can be abused, thanks to the vote functionality.
Uhm...by whom an for what reason, exactly? The functionality only allows you to add or remove ONE second per game. Therefore, unless a coordinated effort by thousands of people, which is very unlikely and i fail to see the advantage of, it won't be abused at all.
Posted January 28, 2014
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mina86: I must say, I find this promotion extremely annoying… And the fact that it's after midnight at my place does not help, so I will just ignore it completely. I hope there will be a “get all of it” at the end of some kind, otherwise, this is useless.
So is GOG supposed to wait and have sales when it suits you? Time Zones playa.
Posted January 28, 2014
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tammerwhisk: During a recent promo they had sales with limited number of copies on sale. Once x number was sold it would switch to the next promo item. Jack Keane 2 was up for hours on end, because no one wanted it (especially at the price point it was at).
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OdanUrr: Well, that must have been embarrassing.
Yea it was hilarious but very annoying :P
Posted January 28, 2014
Kick SIM CITY 2000 SE to the year 1995 where it belongs!
Posted January 28, 2014
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Shendue: Uhm...by whom an for what reason, exactly? The functionality only allows you to add or remove ONE second per game. Therefore, unless a coordinated effort by thousands of people, which is very unlikely and i fail to see the advantage of, it won't be abused at all.
You haven't been online much have you? Or at least don't have much experience with the more trollish internet communities do you?
Posted January 28, 2014
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SirPrimalform: Aww man, I'm probably going to sleep through the '90s. I hope you do an encore GOG. =(
Same here, unless I want to stay up till midnight and wake up late (again) I have to sleep through the 90's, or most of them, at least.
Posted January 28, 2014
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ClockwerkDE: Kick SIM CITY 2000 SE to the year 1995 where it belongs!
100% correct! Come on GOG you can do better deals for 1989 IMO.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by Morten79
Posted January 28, 2014
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ClockwerkDE: Kick SIM CITY 2000 SE to the year 1995 where it belongs!
hmm yeah I guess this is sort of the logic...
The first Sim City came out 1989, let's honour it by putting SC2k on-sale at 1989...
Almost makes sense ;)
Posted January 28, 2014
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ClockwerkDE: Kick SIM CITY 2000 SE to the year 1995 where it belongs!
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Morten79: 100% correct!
I don't know about you, but I personally ignored the incorrect year, since the game is supposed to be good anyway, and at one and a half bucks, I couldn't refuse that great offer.
Posted January 28, 2014
So by the time I even found out about this I'd already missed a bunch of games I would have bought on sale.

For what it's worth, these kind of extremely time-limited sales (on weekdays no less) aren't ideal for those of us with jobs. You know, the people most likely to have disposable income and buy games.

I'd prefer a 24 hour window on any sale because as it happens I don't check GoG for sales every hour of the day. Just my two cents.
Posted January 28, 2014
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tammerwhisk: During a recent promo they had sales with limited number of copies on sale. Once x number was sold it would switch to the next promo item. Jack Keane 2 was up for hours on end, because no one wanted it (especially at the price point it was at).
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OdanUrr: Well, that must have been embarrassing.
Actually it turned into an interesting series of consequences.
-The term "keaning" became a running joke/meme on all the games in the promo that were slow sellers and it's still used even now
-The team that produced the game was very cool about it and someone from the team even posted an official comment on the matter ironically thanking the community and saying they were happy to help us have some hours of sleep
-In the hope of accelerating sales, a lot of people posted reviews on the game saying it's the best thing since bacon and that the game cured ill people, took back to life comatose dudes and enlightened everyone's life. Some of them are pretty funny, check them yourself.
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