I keep seeing this Jack Keane 2 thing pop up lately and people are saying it's bad, in a jokingly manner, and if it pops up in the sale today they will be angry. What's up with all this?

People are trying to be funny by shunning a game they (most likely) haven't played because it sold slowly during the insomnia sale.

It's a reference to the Fall Insomnia Sale. Jack Keane 2 slowed down the "Flash" sales considerably. It lasted maybe five hours.

^This. Basically people got annoyed at Jack Keane for something they should have got annoyed at GOG for.

You people take all the fun out of secrecy! We could have told him ANYTHING and you all went with the truth! Way to fuck up a perfectly good joke. :P

For putting Jack Keane 2 on sale? o_O

Yes, they should have known that putting any higher priced game up for a minor discount would stall the sale.

The numbers doesn't lie. 18.000 copies of Jack Keane 2 The Fire Within sold out in seconds during this spring sale.
http://i.imgur.com/HHax2YW.jpg

It is a cult classic! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcI_S6Lasr0

Uh, thanks for the clarifications... :D

TL;DR version:

There was a Fall Insomnia Sale, which worked pretty much like this one, except
- free games were available directly from the front page, for split seconds, and
- GOG didn't anticipate the demand, the publicity and the enthusiasm.

Which is why cult classics (that had been on sale several times and most regulars should have had them) like Deus Ex and Theme Hospital sold within minutes no matter the quantity, and games which weren't cult classics and thus presented little interest for the HUGE irregular audience stuck around for exponentially longer.

Now, Jack Keane 2 happens to be a movie-like point-and-clicker made by a German company for the German market, where adventure games are huge, fans of the genre keep buying and playing everything, and the price tags are comparable with those of AAA titles. As such, these games (Deponia, Satinav, Edna, Unwritten Tales, Whispered World and of course Jack Keane) are considered to be "kind of" to "significantly" overpriced on the global market. It's especially noticeable on GOG, where AAA releases are few and far between and there's much more playtime, depth and replayability to be found in a typical classic oldie.

So Jack Keane 2 is fairly unknown, happens to be a part 2 of a series, costs a lot, and the discount wasn't deep enough for greed/completionism to kick in - for the same price you could have bought a bunch of standalone well-publicized classics. And Jack was stuck on sale for a long, long time, so much that I went to sleep and didn't miss anything. At some point, people got the idea to rate the game 5 stars and add hilarious reviews, in a tongue-in-cheek effort to persuade more people to buy it. Other people loudly objected to the fake reviews because they thought they were destroying the integrity of the site's user feedback, still other people raged at GOG for using blackhat social engineering and taxing their minds and bodies for pitiful amounts of real dollars, yet others were bitter about never getting free games and blaming script kiddies / Eastern Europeans in general (even though GOG uses a content delivery network), there was 503, there were GOG Atlas bears, lags, bugs, rage, drama, sleep deprivation, and Jack Keane was in the center of it all.

Then it showed up two more time in increasing amounts.

No, the last time it did it was actually a handful of copies and was gone relatively fast.

Incorrect. Jack was the only game that had decreasing amounts throughout the sale.


Yes, Jack is a JOKE. Really, you had to be there otherwise it really isn't funny.

Last night, instead of watching the Insomnia offers go by, I started playing Divinity II.

After a short time I was sent on a sidequest to talk to Keane.