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Posted November 20, 2012
15,504 ways to play!

Decisions, decisions, decisions. Once the holiday season gets closer, you have to decide what gifts to buy, what wrapping to use, which phone numbers to accidentally delete. There are many decisions to make as you get ready for the holidays, but one decision that we’re making easy for you is, “Should I buy anything from GOG.com’s Black Friday sale?” (The answer is “yes”, by the way. ;) Not only are we launching the sale early--in case you spend Friday in a turkey-induced coma--but we’re also giving you the power to pick your own promo!

In our Pick 5 & Pay $10 sale you pick 5 out of twenty fantastic indie games and pay $10 for them regardless of the game’s regular full price. That's $2 per game, for such titles like Torchlight, Resonance, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, Botanicula, Geneforge 1-5, Uplink, To the Moon, and many others. Seven of these games are both PC and Mac compatible, so everyone can enjoy!

The games are fantastic--and there are so many of them! That's why we started this sale early: to give you time to pick your dream-set of 5 games out of 15,504 possible combinations. You could look at this as another decision you have to make this year, but unlike trying to figure out who you should sit next to your slightly crazy uncle at Thanksgiving dinner, this one’s fun!

Black Friday marks the start of the “shopping season” for the holidays, so don’t forget to buy the gift of GOG for a gamer you love--or even just kind of like. You can’t spread much more holiday joy than this for just $10.
Posted November 20, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: I would think this would be the kind of thing that you'd be happy about, that we listen to people like you, rather than something that you seem to be casting in a negative light.
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Fesin: I don't think I've seen Simon casting anything GOG.com did in a positive light...
You can say that again :)
Posted November 20, 2012
Thanks GOG! Great sale! :-)
Posted November 20, 2012
Thanks for the promo, i pick 5 great games: To The moon, Resonance, Torchlight, Gemini Rue and Geneforge 1-5. I wait so long to buy that games and i think 8 euros are a great deal!.

Too bad i miss 2 games just because i just can pick 5 of them, but next time, probably the next months i can buy them for good prices :D
Posted November 20, 2012
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TheEnigmaticT: I would think this would be the kind of thing that you'd be happy about, that we listen to people like you, rather than something that you seem to be casting in a negative light.
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Fesin: I don't think I've seen Simon casting anything GOG.com did in a positive light...
Than you haven't been here very long.
Posted November 20, 2012
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Fesin: I don't think I've seen Simon casting anything GOG.com did in a positive light...
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SimonG: Than you haven't been here very long.
Would you be happy if I added "in over a year"?
Posted November 20, 2012
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Muageto: Hmm seems like we can pick 5, pay, then pick 5 others ... Not sure this is intended
Sure it is.
Posted November 20, 2012
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SimonG: Than you haven't been here very long.
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Fesin: Would you be happy if I added "in over a year"?
Actually, yes, as this is somewhat fitting. But I still support GOG when they are doing good. Eg. I consider their mac expansion a smart move. I also still buy any old game here, no matter if it is cheaper on Steam or GG. GOG is my number one retailer with this. I generally buy the games I want on release day, as I appreciate the work GOG does in that regard.

I criticize GOG because I care. I was from the beginning against GOGs expansion into modern games, as they simply cannot compete with Steam and the Humble bundle/store in terms of quality, service and price. And the current promo is very obvious sign that they don't have the sales numbers they expect.

Blindly praising everything they do is not helping anybody.
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Posted November 20, 2012
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SimonG: Snip
Tough Love ^^ We call this in french L'amour vache :p...
Posted November 20, 2012
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N0x0ss: Tough Love ^^ We call this in french L'amour vache :p...
Cow Love? Or does my french fail me?
Posted November 20, 2012
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SimonG: I criticize GOG because I care. I was from the beginning against GOGs expansion into modern games, as they simply cannot compete with Steam and the Humble bundle/store in terms of quality, service and price. And the current promo is very obvious sign that they don't have the sales numbers they expect.
I don't see how the current promo is in anyway indicative of the sales of GOG games. I see it as a way of them competing with the other stores and the multitudes of bundles, sure, but its not like they're selling these games at a loss - the lower the price, the lower the cut the developer gets, and GOG still makes profit.
Posted November 20, 2012
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Magnitus: The promo says that if you owe some of the games, it must be a gift.

Does that mean that I can generate a gift, give it to myself, use the gift code to get the games I didn't have and then get a new gift code for the games I already had or are the games I already had lost either way?
When you use some of the games in a gift code (because you own the others), the code still "contains" those games and you can gift it along to someone else.

EDIT: Ninje'd really hard, there. :P
Post edited November 20, 2012 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted November 20, 2012
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Huff: I was debating whether to buy the Geneforge series or wait and hope for a sale.
You should start following the various indie bundles. Geneforge has been in a couple of them already - recently on indiegamestand.com which even offered a GOG key!
Posted November 20, 2012
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kalirion: I don't see how the current promo is in anyway indicative of the sales of GOG games. I see it as a way of them competing with the other stores and the multitudes of bundles, sure, but its not like they're selling these games at a loss - the lower the price, the lower the cut the developer gets, and GOG still makes profit.
Again, I didn't criticize the sale. Quite the contrary, I consider it a very good idea. Same with the Interplay and the DKS PWYW.

I am critical GOGs way of PR. I don't like the way how GOG is presenting themselves. I find it two faced. Maybe I'm over-sensitive, but my job is going through pages and pages of BS each day to find hidden agendas, real motivations and all that. Makes you very critical of what people say.
Posted November 20, 2012
What the... I don't own anything yet?

I must fix this at once!
Posted November 20, 2012
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DukeNukemForever: Let me guess: Alan Wake is on the wishlist and the other two missing games are Symphony and Unmechanical? Welcome to the club ;-)
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Leroux: Close, only that my priority would be Unmechanical. ;)

But I'm only mildly interested in any of these three, and I'm afraid that my 2.1GHz duocore and onboard graphic card from 2007 would struggle with all of them. Something that IMO could really help promote indie games on GOG - at least the ones that haven't been in bundles yet - would be the inclusion of demos. Not as a bonus for pre-orders, but for customers who haven't decided on buying the game yet, partly because they fear it might not work. I understand that it doesn't make much sense to offer demos for the old games, but I'd really appreciate it if more indie developers let you test their game before buying. I don't care where such a demo would be hosted, on GOG, the dev's website or another server, but I usually won't spend $15 dollars or more on something that I might not even be able to play.
More demos for some newer games would be indeed nice. From the system requirements on the gamepage it seems Unmechanical needs a shader-model 3 compatible grahpics-card. From your system description I guess it's very likely your onboard-gpu will not support that :-/
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