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Posted March 03, 2011
... and win yourself some free games from GOG's catalogue!

[url=http://www.gog.com/upload/forum/2011/03/4f3963e21328f65bce5d80dbe26b57cd8dff1e7b.jpg" target="blank][/url]PAX East, the three-day festival for all fans of tabletop, video and PC games, is getting closer with every minute. The gamers holiday will take place in Boston, USA, from 11th till 13th of March. Unfortunately we won't be attending this year's edition, so we'd like to ask those of you who are going to PAX East for some help. Attached here, you'll find a [url=http://www.gog.com/upload/forum/2011/03/4f3963e21328f65bce5d80dbe26b57cd8dff1e7b.jpg" target="blank]ready-to-print GOG logo[/url]. We'd like to ask you to take the logo with you to PAX and make a photo of yourself (with the logo) and industry's celebrities, cosplayers or the few booth babes that maybe will appear at the Expo. Just take an example from [url=http://www.gog.com/upload/forum/2011/03/285e91592d3d799715c4b09df61aadd6fcf8a3b0.jpg" target="blank]TheEnigmaticT posing with one of our testers[/url] :).

Post your pictures in this thread or send them in at users@gog.com until March 18, at 11:59 p.m. EDT. Out of all entries we will pick our 10 favourite photos and reward their authors with a free game code.
Post edited March 03, 2011 by Cook
Posted March 03, 2011
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Vagabond: I'll do it at PAX Prime in September!
Same... i could make it to PAX Prime.
Posted March 03, 2011
It'd be fun to have a couple of goggers doing this at the expo and then... running into each other. Hey, they'd be competitors. Fighting for the very same prize. If one of them wins, the other is very likely to lose. They'd be SWORN ENEMIES!

A picture of two goggers meeting and kicking each other's ass should be worth extra points.
Posted March 03, 2011
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El_Caz: Fighting for the very same prize. If one of them wins, the other is very likely to lose.
I'd guess that given the 'limited' GoG community and the very local nature of the contest, ten rewards wouldn't allow for much competition, or how many people do you see living close enough to the event to drop by?
Posted March 03, 2011
Calm down Euros and people form Oceanic countries, unfortunately most Americans wouldn't be able to make that, Boston would only be feasible if you lived in the northeast, unfortunately I live in the Midwest. Unless you had a lot of free time I suppose.
Posted March 03, 2011
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tburger: Did you notice that on that logo it's:

Good old Games

and not

Good old Games or
Good old Games

changes incoming? :-)
No, it's typeset like that due to it being printed as it it's one word like the following:

goodoldgames
goodoldgames

which is easier to read? That's why.
Posted March 03, 2011
I'm definitely doing this.

Going to PAX East and probably going to tape this on my back or tape it to all available pillars :)
Posted March 03, 2011
For the record, Booth Babes are not allowed at PAX.
Posted March 03, 2011
I'm headed to PAX East myself this sounds like a lot of fun. Though I imagine it will be a lot of photos with me and the sign in line...
Posted March 03, 2011
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HarpuaScorpio: For the record, Booth Babes are not allowed at PAX.
You're right, officially, but a few big booths at PAX 2010 managed to get away with it, I have the pics to prove it (part of a photography scavenger hunt).
Posted March 03, 2011
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HarpuaScorpio: For the record, Booth Babes are not allowed at PAX.
When I went last year, I saw plenty. Not as many as E3 booth babes, but they were certainly babes working at booths dressed in suggestive fantasy garb (that RIFT lady...). And Duke Nukem had them too.
Either way, I hope you guys are doing this for PAX Prime, because I'll be there, with a GoG T-shirt!
Posted March 03, 2011
Too bad for GOG members not living in US (or living near PAX)... not that I am confident enough to post my pictures, but still...
Posted March 03, 2011
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tburger: Did you notice that on that logo it's:

Good old Games

and not

Good old Games or
Good old Games

changes incoming? :-)
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mehall: No, it's typeset like that due to it being printed as it it's one word like the following:

goodoldgames
goodoldgames

which is easier to read? That's why.
True, but they have been getting more and more new (-ish) games; the most recent addition is from 2005!
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tarangwydion: Too bad for GOG members not living in US (or living near PAX)... not that I am confident enough to post my pictures, but still...
Dude, silly masks are always an option!!
Post edited March 03, 2011 by Curunauth
Posted March 03, 2011
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SimonG: I'm no native speaker, but doesn't cheap have a rather negative connotation in english? Don't most stores use words like "bargain" or "inexpensive" to avoid this?

Apart from that, it is a nice idea and fits into the whole "GOG underdog" concept.
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Daedalus1138: I suppose it does sometimes, as it can give the impression that it is of low quality.
OTOH, that applies more to commodity items: "a cheap chair" is probably low-quality, but "a cheap Ferrari" is a good deal. Any individual game is a specific, known item - a cheap copy of Baldur's Gate is not inferior to an expensive one the way a chair is likely to be.

Interestingly, "bargain" in the context of games provokes the same reaction that "cheap" does for other things - I guess that's because overhyped games that turn out to suck show up in bargain bins as retailers try to dump their overstock.

(That said, I've picked up some awesome games in the bargain bin, but those were there due to damaged boxes - I got Homeworld that way!)

Edit: oops, didn't mean to double-post . . . apparently they don't auto-merge after ~15min.
Post edited March 03, 2011 by Curunauth
Posted March 03, 2011
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Aliasalpha: Shouldn't that be spreading the word AT pax rather than ON pax?
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Miaghstir: Not if you consider "the word" to be something you can touch, perhaps sticky. Then you can spread, or smear, "the word" ON "pax". Now, what "pax" and "the word" actually means, is up to your imagination.

I imagine they're "bread" and "butter", respectively.
Like some kind of sandwich spread? Perhaps a hybrid of alphabetti spaghetti & peanut butter
Posted March 03, 2011
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Daedalus1138: I suppose it does sometimes, as it can give the impression that it is of low quality.
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Curunauth: OTOH, that applies more to commodity items: "a cheap chair" is probably low-quality, but "a cheap Ferrari" is a good deal. Any individual game is a specific, known item - a cheap copy of Baldur's Gate is not inferior to an expensive one the way a chair is likely to be.

Interestingly, "bargain" in the context of games provokes the same reaction that "cheap" does for other things - I guess that's because overhyped games that turn out to suck show up in bargain bins as retailers try to dump their overstock.

(That said, I've picked up some awesome games in the bargain bin, but those were there due to damaged boxes - I got Homeworld that way!)

Edit: oops, didn't mean to double-post . . . apparently they don't auto-merge after ~15min.
Well, that's true. I didn't think of it that way.
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