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RWarehall: I imagine that was a pricing mistake by GoG and they needed to remove it quickly. It's not the only one this sale. A bunch of things went on deeper sale this morning and were quickly reverted as well. As well as a Shovel Knight package that was clearly mispriced.

There is a difference between a flash sale and a pricing mistake.

Timboli: Sales can be so disappointing and annoying sometimes.

This is more so with a huge sale, like the current Lunar one, where you have so many pages to wade through.

Maybe I sound a bit precious to some, but I don't like having my time wasted.

Yesterday, I was roughly halfway through browsing the 38 sales pages, when my browser froze for the page I was on, then a few seconds later it auto reloaded and then only 21 Sales pages now existed, and I was sent back to page one .... WTF ... had to start browsing all over again.

Even worse, was a game I have been waiting for a good discount on, was so briefly, but had disappeared by the time I found out and went to the game page. For the record, this was Surviving Mars - First Colony Edition, which was $19.95 AUD briefly (75% off) before going back to the usual discount of $26.49 AUD (66% off).

I was so peeved, that my heart was no longer fully into checking out games ... though I pushed through.

Despite that, in the end due to annoyance I decided to buy less than I had intended. So the 'Styx' games were given the flick and a bunch of others. The joy for me was mostly no longer there.

The usual joy for me, is the journey of chasing down great discounts or discoveries, as well as the end result of having the games. So I don't appreciate being rushed.

Do GOG etc, have no sense that it takes a good while to browse ... waiting for each sales page to load, and then checking out a few game pages ... perhaps many.

What happened to advertising games on the main GOG page, that were only going to be available at a great discount briefly, and displaying a timer for each?

I don't know how others here feel, but it is kind of disingenuous to say the Sale lasts 6 days, and have games disappear from the sale before then, especially if within the first 24 hours, without some kind of notification.

There are (Credit Card/PayPal) fees generally, when purchasing games, so I like to browse for likely candidates, add those I am interested in to a short list, then afterward place all the chosen ones together in the Cart. That all takes time, and if things change without warning, it is very irritating to say the least.

I am a good GOG customer, with nearly 900 games now, and I feel like I was treated badly and poorly when this happens.

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I was also held up, doing the Fortune Cookie Email Discounts. If not for them, I probably would have seen that game in time and gotten it. The irony of course, is that while checking those discounts out and not getting any, I missed out on another.

Timboli: You might be right, as far as the game I mentioned, but I'm not sure of the case when it comes to the 17 sales pages that suddenly disappeared. That would be like saying 17 pages of games mistakenly went on sale ... is that likely?

P.S. And this is not the first time I have seen this happen ... just the first time I have gotten irritated enough to speak up about it.

Timboli: This is more so with a huge sale, like the current Lunar one, where you have so many pages to wade through.

Maybe I sound a bit precious to some, but I don't like having my time wasted.

Timboli: Yesterday, I was roughly halfway through browsing the 38 sales pages, when my browser froze for the page I was on, then a few seconds later it auto reloaded and then only 21 Sales pages now existed, and I was sent back to page one .... WTF ... had to start browsing all over again.

Timboli: The usual joy for me, is the journey of chasing down great discounts or discoveries, as well as the end result of having the games. So I don't appreciate being rushed.

Timboli: Do GOG etc, have no sense that it takes a good while to browse ... waiting for each sales page to load, and then checking out a few game pages ... perhaps many.

What happened to advertising games on the main GOG page, that were only going to be available at a great discount briefly, and displaying a timer for each?

I don't know how others here feel, but it is kind of disingenuous to say the Sale lasts 6 days, and have games disappear from the sale before then, especially if within the first 24 hours, without some kind of notification.

Timboli: There are (Credit Card/PayPal) fees generally, when purchasing games, so I like to browse for likely candidates, add those I am interested in to a short list, then afterward place all the chosen ones together in the Cart. That all takes time, and if things change without warning, it is very irritating to say the least.

paladin181: This is why I have a wish list. They put up a sale, I check my wishlist for discounts. I check it daily and see what the discounts are. If it's not a game on my wish list then chances are I didn't want it.

Timboli: But I also look out for others, and you only get the current discount listed not a record of last lowest discount as a comparison, and most of my wishlist is populated by items placed there during a sale. So without revisiting each one, and making another determination, hard to tell if a discount is now at the desirable level.

Timboli: That said, I do use helper programs to make it easier, but still a lot of browsing and checking involved, which all takes time, and time is the issue.

RWarehall: 38 pages sounds right. Are you sure you didn't accidentally click one of the boxes on the left limiting the search? I get it down to 17 pages, for example, if I select Spanish as a language.

Timboli: What option would still give me 21 pages?

Timboli: Mmmm if I did it eludes me which one and I am very doubtful.

I notice that 38 pages are showing again for me now, so maybe there is something in what you said, but I'd like to know how it happened, because those options at left are pretty removed from where I click.

All I was doing was browsing to each page, and maybe looking at a few games listed on that page. I had no reason to be near those options. Each game I checked was opened in another tab.

What option would still give me 21 pages?

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Timboli: It takes me a lot more than half an hour to check a big sale.
This is especially so, because the PC I use is not a gaming one, so takes a while to load each page due to lower specs.
On a big sale like the current one, I go through it fully once, which takes a few hours.

Timboli: It was one of my helper programs that told me about the discount on the game I mentioned, but by the time I got there it was too late. I hadn't done much browsing at that point.