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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
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Karma313th: 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.
Either that, or those pesky time travellers are trying to make contact by going back in time and hitting +1 second, over and over. Time travellers or 4chan users - they are pretty much one and the same, really...
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.
There will be:
http://www.gog.com/news/drmfree_time_machine_sale
"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)."
Posted January 28, 2014
So, I took a break, re-watched a film, doze off for about 10-15 minutes, and now that I'm back, SimCity 2000 still has about 45 minutes to go - must be selling really well :-)

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tokisto: But TET said (forgot where) that won´t be there a second run.
He kind of said it on reddit - see here.

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Morten79: questionable link
Links like this are not appreciated on/ by GOG.com, so editing it out would be a good idea.


EDIT: Thanks to pi4t for pointing out my mistake.
Post edited January 28, 2014 by HypersomniacLive
Posted January 28, 2014
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OdanUrr: Well, that must have been embarrassing.
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Shendue: 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.
This made my day. I'm sure to check those reviews now! Thanks!
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.
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tammerwhisk: You haven't been online much have you? Or at least don't have much experience with the more trollish internet communities do you?
I do, and i do enough to know that coordinated efforts of that scale for lulz effects are usually pointed specifically at notoriously obnoxious and disrespectful to users services (or services that are perceived that way, at least), which GOG obviously isn't. I can figure a massive anon attack on Steam or Origin. Certainly not on GOG, which is a beloved and praised service that is usually very careful and in touch with its user base. Even if a few dozens of people coordinate to abuse the system, it will have minimal effect. Also, the rest of the users can simply react doing the exact opposite. And, for the reasons above, i don't really see much more people attempting something like that.
Posted January 28, 2014
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Karma313th: 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.
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Davane: Either that, or those pesky time travellers are trying to make contact by going back in time and hitting +1 second, over and over. Time travellers or 4chan users - they are pretty much one and the same, really...
GOG's 2014 DRM-Free 4Chan Makes You Cry Too Sale.
Posted January 28, 2014
So wait, at the Insomnia Sale we had to sit around and wait for games that didn't sell well and on this Time Machine Sale we need to sit around and wait for games that sell well?What gives?:D
Post edited January 28, 2014 by ALH
Posted January 28, 2014
We're only at 1988 right now....You've got another twelve selections of games that we didn't even bother to pull free back when they were still available on Abandonia and Underdogs. XD
Posted January 28, 2014
Sooo I missed 87 and 88. Anything good?
Posted January 28, 2014
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Morten79: snip
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HypersomniacLive: Links like this are not appreciated on/ by GOG.com, so editing it out would be a good idea.
You should probably edit the link out of your quote, too. Otherwise it'll still be available through there even if he edits his post.
Posted January 28, 2014
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stufff: 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.
I absolutely agree with you. A limited time sale, during the work day, and no listing of what will be on sale and when!

Who exactly are they trying to attract with this type of promotion?
Posted January 28, 2014
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ALH: So wait, at the Insomnia Sale we had to sit around and wait for games that didn't sell well and on this Time Machine Sale we need to sit around and wait for games that sell well?What gives?:D
Its better this way if they do 2 or 3 rounds like the insomnia sale because they wont drag on forever, The less they sell the quicker they will go. round 3 in insomnia was torture.
Posted January 28, 2014
Interesting idea, though voting to extend is clearly the worst option here. In fact by extending time the only thing you do is hurting yourself or others who want new deals by having a specific sale drag on forever.

Yes there is a set of persons who may make a last-ditch purchase based on some seconds granted but my guess is for such a niche platform like GoG there are way more people hovering over the next deal that this imaginary benefit is easily canceled out by the annoyance of not being able to even approximately guess when the next item is going to show up.

TL;DR: This system sucks if you want a single person to buy more than one game.
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.
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W3irdN3rd: There will be:
http://www.gog.com/news/drmfree_time_machine_sale
"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)."
I think you may have misunderstood slightly.

What they mean in the sale post is that by the time the sale ends, you'll have had the opportunity to have your own "gaming history" library built from the titles offered in the sale. If you were to buy every single game, your total cost would be below $65.

Not that they'll offer an opportunity to buy every title as a bulk purchase as or after the sale.

As mentioned, TET did say explicitly on Reddit that they WON'T have a Steam encore sort of thing after the sale where all the deals come back to let you pick and choose what you want.

That said, he may have been careful to leave the ambiguity that, while they won't offer the deals after the sale ends, they may cycle through another time before ending the sale as they did with the Insomnia sale.
Posted January 28, 2014
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ALH: So wait, at the Insomnia Sale we had to sit around and wait for games that didn't sell well and on this Time Machine Sale we need to sit around and wait for games that sell well?What gives?:D
There is an up/down arrow below each game presented.
Every account has the option to either add or remove a second.

Now imagine multiple accounts, bots and lots and lots of people who love making fun of bad ideas.
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