I Keanot wait for the next offer :D

Good way of putting it. +1

It means gog gets less of my money though because they think this time limited system they've devised is clever. I wasted a lot of time on the first insomnia sale and that turned out to be a false economy system because the games rolled over often enough that almost everyone could get what they wanted anyway (when the frigging site worked).

I'll never understand why gog insists on these idiotic gimmicks instead of just doing a good traditional sale. The one over xmas is how a gog sale should be, sans poorly implemented presents.

Hehe yup!

One additional stick around motivator that the Insomina Sale had and the Time Machine doesn't was the possibility of free games.

I went to watch a two and a half hour long movie and simcity's still up?

No city was built in 150mins!:D

GOG's next sale - The Auction Of The Damned. Each new game will be listed immediately for 1 cent, but every purchase increases the price. A new game is only revealed when (a) the auction price matches the actual retail price of the game, or (b) no-one has bought a copy for five minutes.

That would be as vicious, as bloody, and as annoying as Insomnia was.

everyone on the planet has about ten copies of this game since it's on sale for like three hours

well I personally wanted it because I had, er... ZERO copies of it :P

During the insomnia sale we knew how many copies of each game were being sold because we had a count down.
If this sale had a count UP display we could see the number of copies being sold.
This would make it -much- more interesting to watch, and it would sort out actual sales from +1's.
Cut down on a lot of speculation in the forum though. ;-)

That's why the psychology of the Insomnia Sale made more sense.People would buy gifts just to progress the sale.Here you are adding to the waiting problem if you buy additional copies.

Karma is such a bitch! This is the Revenge of Keane - people moaned about waiting for "bad" games, and thus GOG.com responds by making you wait for "good" games.

The thing is, most people know that the "good" games are "good", because they already own them. So, you won't get that many buyers once demand is saturated.

Reminds me of a business anecdote from Games Workshop. They got a new CEO in, and listening to fan comments, realised that a game called Blood Bowl was a fan favourite. It was long out of print, so they decided to re-release the game. It made a loss, because everyone that said it was a good game already owned it, and therefore didn't feel the need to buy it again. What they actually wanted was new material for the game, but this never happened because the re-release didn't make a profit.

For those of us that have been here since the dawn of GOG.com, there have been numerous possibilities to pick up a "good" game like SimCity2K already, so don't have the need to buy them. I think it is safe to say that this promotion is aimed for newcomers, but I don't think the format will appeal to someone dipping their toes into GOG.com for the first time.

Typically, old and new members alike would benefit from this being a bundle deal where all the games are available at once.

Of course, GOG.com, like many other website producers, actually use metrics like website visitations for financial purposes - I am pretty sure that while GOG.com doesn't feature monetised adverts, such metrics can be useful for attracting other potential developers to the fold, when such events that prolong website visitations and community activity will actually increase the exposure of a developer to their consumer base.

That means that ultimately, this promotion is really just an advertising exercise. Of course, more games on GOG.com aren't a bad thing, as it does provide useful leverage. Imagine a rerun of this where the game for 1996 is actually Command & Conquer: Red Alert, or the game for 2000 is The Sims. Where games like Dawn of War are featured.

For that kind of chance, I'd put up with an "Keaning" promo by GOG.com!

Yet those attacks, being or not 'for the lulz', were in the past still mostly pointed at services that are perceived as "evil", as dumb the concept may seem. Big greedy corporations, organizations of dubious morals like Scientology, and so on. And GOG certainly doesn't fit the profile.
Time will tell. I'm still convinced that scenario is, albeit possible, very very unlikely.

I think it's almost lucky that they managed to piss off so many people with their intrusive DRM. Steam is way too sneaky. Few people bother to criticize Steam because things just work, even if your Internet's broken. Always-on DRM? Combined with greedy idiots who plan server capacity for the estimated average plus some percent, a plan that is bound to fail at release day and on holidays? Brilliant! Make people hate themselves for ever giving you their money. There is no better way to cure the world from DRM.