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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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RandomJC: Hence the trolling was here.

Bored office workers who can keep half an eye on what's going on while not doing real work?
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carnival73: .
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I don't think there are that many people in existence who use GOG and either do not have or want Sim City 2000 for the duration it's been posted.
Well, either every person here has upvoted the game, or people have been buying it, since it is still up.
And I actually do want Sim City. I am just not in a position to buy anything. I'm just here for the joviality.
Posted January 28, 2014
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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?
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Shendue: 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.
Whoa! Who mentioned Anon!?

Seriously though, studies have shown that the anonymity of the internet tends to bring the jerk out in us all more often. For many, acts of petty, light-hearted trolling such as "Keaning" (I totally just made that up right now, yeay!) this sale is an act of empowerment with little retribution, particularly for those who are otherwise disempowered.

Of course, there is another alternative. +1 is associated with liking something on google, so for many people seeing a +1 next to something you like often prompts an automatic response. I think there might be a lot of site traffic tonight, and newcomers or the otherwise careless may just be clicking +1 because they like what is on offer, not because they are actually buying it.

Either way, most of these acts are individual, but when you have enough individuals doing the same thing because they use the same logic and reasoning, you get pretty much close to a co-ordinated effort. Ultimately, 1 million people clicking +1 for their own reasons is exactly the same as 1 million people organised to click +1 for some lulzy action. For most people, 1 second isn't much, but 1 million seconds is slightly more significant than that...
Posted January 28, 2014
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serpantino: Great... Most of my favourite era will go past whilst I sleep. I really hate these stupid time sales. Just stick to the daily deals gog, that way you're not screwing over all of us who don't live in certain parts of the USA.
Just imagine that the one sale you're able to access is the daily deal.
And today it's a bonus as the deals are usually on Monday, Wednesday and the weekend.
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.
Well... There was a huge deal from December 12 to 29. I don't know where you live, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't "after midnight" all the time back then. It's just another sale... You missed one deal? Get off that roof, it's not worth it! You just "lost" 3 Dollar, if you really can't wait for the next sale (or regular promo which features your game).
Posted January 28, 2014
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carnival73: 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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Shendue: Pretty unlikely. As i already pointed on a previous comment, those kind of coordinated efforts usually are directed to services that are perceived as very bad and disrespectful of the users, like Steam or Origin, maybe. Certainly not GOG. I can't see that happening if not for a few dozens of idiots, who wouldn't affect the promo that much and can be anyway easily counterbalanced by the other people adding seconds.
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So far not many but there does appear to be a two minute tug-o-war going on with Sim City.
Posted January 28, 2014
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Davane: <snip>
Whoa! Who mentioned Anon!?

Seriously though, studies have shown that the anonymity of the internet tends to bring the jerk out in us all more often. For many, acts of petty, light-hearted trolling such as "Keaning" (I totally just made that up right now, yeay!) this sale is an act of empowerment with little retribution, particularly for those who are otherwise disempowered.

Of course, there is another alternative. +1 is associated with liking something on google, so for many people seeing a +1 next to something you like often prompts an automatic response. I think there might be a lot of site traffic tonight, and newcomers or the otherwise careless may just be clicking +1 because they like what is on offer, not because they are actually buying it.

Either way, most of these acts are individual, but when you have enough individuals doing the same thing because they use the same logic and reasoning, you get pretty much close to a co-ordinated effort. Ultimately, 1 million people clicking +1 for their own reasons is exactly the same as 1 million people organised to click +1 for some lulzy action. For most people, 1 second isn't much, but 1 million seconds is slightly more significant than that...
I was thinking the same thing, I saw +1 the first time and thought of Facebook.
I'll bet your right n the money.
Posted January 28, 2014
This Keannot be! Sim City is still up!
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
You got it! Thats that thing called irony... Gog you're diabolic! :D
Post edited January 28, 2014 by gamefood
Posted January 28, 2014
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Shendue: Pretty unlikely. As i already pointed on a previous comment, those kind of coordinated efforts usually are directed to services that are perceived as very bad and disrespectful of the users, like Steam or Origin, maybe. Certainly not GOG. I can't see that happening if not for a few dozens of idiots, who wouldn't affect the promo that much and can be anyway easily counterbalanced by the other people adding seconds.
It's not at all unlikely.

People like 4chans /b/tards aren't some great force for social justice. It's a group of trolls that like to troll for the lulz of trolling.

So yeah, if they figure out they can screw with people waiting on new sale items by turning a clock back and forward, they'd be in heaven and amused for days.

Good reason why, if you're going to do this sort of sale, you should have a hard limit on how long you allow a sale to be extended.

Unless you really think there's such a large influx of GoG buyers who haven't picked up SC2K yet that it's sticking around for almost 3 hours now.
Posted January 28, 2014
Guess a good chunk of the 90's will ocurr during my sleep time...
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.
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Tomkel: 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?
Those people with disposable income may have enough to afford the game even at full price, or at least at a longer-running 50% or 60% discount. Those who put in the effort to track these sales to save another buck or two on top of that may actually need to save that buck or two more. Which should answer the who are they trying to attract part too, people who generally think they can't quite afford (legally) purchasing games and who'll find they were wrong after all, so entirely new customers.
Posted January 28, 2014
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gandalf.nho: Guess a good chunk of the 90's will ocurr during my sleep time...
Oh no, that's one of the best chunks; you must stay awake! I know, imagine that Freddy Krueger is going to get you if you fall asleep, that always works in the movies... right?
Posted January 28, 2014
Well, i applaud gog for trying new things.
Unfortunately, as the last expirment made things exciting when games sold well, and boring when they didnt... this sale makes things boring when games sell well... and kind of neutral when they dont.
Posted January 28, 2014
KeaneCity is still up.
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.
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Tomkel: 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?
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Cavalary: Those people with disposable income may have enough to afford the game even at full price, or at least at a longer-running 50% or 60% discount. Those who put in the effort to track these sales to save another buck or two on top of that may actually need to save that buck or two more. Which should answer the who are they trying to attract part too, people who generally think they can't quite afford (legally) purchasing games and who'll find they were wrong after all, so entirely new customers.
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