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Deals so good, you won't want to fall asleep.
You remember back when you used to walk into a store, browse the shelves, pick out a game, and then buy it--all in the actual real world? We don't know about you, but most of us at GOG.com have had our limbs atrophy to small vestigial nubbins since all of our shopping happens online these days. Of course, one thing that sometimes happens in real world stores with real world goods--particularly when they have a good sale--is that they run out of stock. Usually that means that the deal was so good that they couldn't keep up with demand.

Well, in the digital realm, this is usually pretty rare. How do you run out of stock on digital games, short of entropy devouring the universe? Well, we have gotten 101 games that will be on sale on the front page of GOG.com, but the discounts are so high at the moment that we can't just sell an unlimited number of copies of these games: we are only able to sell a few at these discounts--up to 80% off--and once they're gone, they're gone.

So what games will be on sale in our Insomnia promo? Bestselling classics and new games alike. There will also occasionally be some free games in super limited numbers (like, 20 or 30 copies)--if you're fast enough on the trigger finger to pick 'em up, that is. The deal will run from now until we're out of "stock" of games for the sale, and games may show up more than once. So it's time to bathe in a tub of coffee*, dip some espresso**, snort an energy drink***, or do whatever else it takes to stay up so you don't miss out on the best deals on fantastic games on GOG.com since summer.
*This is probably not a good idea
**This is definitely not a good idea
***This is totally safe, though****
****NO IT'S NOT WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU CRAZY PERSON
Post edited November 13, 2013 by TheEnigmaticT
Man, I hope the last thing they do for this sale is give out a free game to anyone who bought a game. Or just stick up a bunch of copies of one of the games.
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JohnnyDollar: You was in here giving some games away yourself, wasn't you? I would help if you had a spare.
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dedoporno: I don't have anything left, gave it all away couple of hours ago :(

I just want to say I got help from two fellow members:

Emmjay2012 and wormhole

Thank you for your help, my friends!
My pleasure! :)
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WillOfD: NOOOOOOO!!! I fell asleep waiting for age of wonders to sold out then Planescape, BG1 and Beyond Good and Evil...l!!!
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Khalaq: I'm having trouble reading what you wrote. Which games did you miss?
Planescape, BG1 and Beyond Good and Evil. Well at least winter sale is just around the corner and Theme Hospital is still available.
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Daz12380: ive a strange question about gog why are the prices in usd while they are based in europe
Only someone from GOG.com could answer that definitively of course, but a reasonable speculation is that North America is their largest market demographic, and the USD is generally considered the universal global currency for trade. I'd also hypothesize that the majority of the rest of the world will purchase from retailers in USD for the most part, but I doubt very many North Americans would purchase from Poland in whatever polish currency is called.

Of course those are just generalizations and individual people will feel differently about it of course.

I've only purchased things online in CAD (preferred), USD (2nd preference), and I've bought some games from UK outfits priced in euros or pounds. I probably would not purchase from anywhere else in other currencies however and a quick poll of some North American friends in a chat room was almost unanimous on USD and CAD, some people saying they'd do euro/pounds and nothing else. So I'd bet that pricing in a currency other than these would more or less cause the entire North American market to avoid purchase. ;o)

They could provide prices in individual currencies of course, but I imagine they want to keep things simple, and with currency prices fluctuating by the minute they'd have to choose one base currency and update game prices in all other currencies frequently to keep up.

It might not be the best possible solution, but USD is the defacto standard for the most part. I'd prefer it to be CAD myself but then I'm biased. :oP
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CalicoPup: Man, I hope the last thing they do for this sale is give out a free game to anyone who bought a game. Or just stick up a bunch of copies of one of the games.
I thought it was really cool when they handed out free copies of Witcher 1 during their previous sale.
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Daz12380: i dont think its too bad i managed to get it for a dollar on groupees at halloween
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foxworks: Even better!
it was actually this game that made me buy it.
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CalicoPup: Man, I hope the last thing they do for this sale is give out a free game to anyone who bought a game. Or just stick up a bunch of copies of one of the games.
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foxworks: I thought it was really cool when they handed out free copies of Witcher 1 during their previous sale.
Yeah. I got that one too. And several others through my time here.
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Meriande: Aaaah
While waiting for Theme Hospital to show up,
we're doing some wedding planning <3
Hey, grats :)

So what games are going on the wedding list :p
Damn I´m so tired I have read Insolence Insted insomnia...-.-
I'm really sad that I missed Icewind Dale. I saw it on my phone right before it sold out. :\
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Daz12380: ive a strange question about gog why are the prices in usd while they are based in europe
I'm sleep starved, but I think I remember a survey on that gog did some year ago. So community choice?
Post edited November 17, 2013 by Ninlil
Thank God my bank didn't freak out over the many, many individual purchases over the last couple of days. Best just load up Paypal prior. My statement is going to be loooong!
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itchy01ca01: Which mod do i use to get the BG2 engine into BG1?
Check the GOG BG sub-forum. It tells you everything you need to know, along with step-by-step instructions.
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somethingstrange: I'm really sad that I missed Icewind Dale. I saw it on my phone right before it sold out. :\
Yeah, it was so staggering to see it sell so fast. I thought it would have over thousand copies for sure but it was only 900. X.X
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Meriande: Aaaah
While waiting for Theme Hospital to show up,
we're doing some wedding planning <3
Congrats!