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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
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bradelli: I wonder who actually bought Jack Keane? Has it turned out to be actually amazing?
Good question. Picked it up in July and still haven't played it yet. My backlog just grew 50% because of this sale.
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Briareos262: lol, yeah I noticed that too now ya mentioned it.
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nijuu: Lot of longtime members judging by the join dates... :D...

Hooray 29 copies left ... there is a gaming god!!...
Glad you mentioned 29 copies left, mine was still showing 149... Refresh and drop by 120 :-)
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BananaJane: OMG JACK KEANE AGAIN? 1400 COPIES?
You know... some of us are watching the thread and not the dreaded countdown for the updates... :P
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bradelli: I wonder who actually bought Jack Keane? Has it turned out to be actually amazing?
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BananaJane: It took 4 hours to sell 100 copies!
That's like, 10 minutes each
Closer to 5 hours ;)
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bradelli: I wonder who actually bought Jack Keane? Has it turned out to be actually amazing?
Jack Keane is probably a nice average game. Just not $12 nice, trying to discount into this sale from $30 was the downfall.
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Prydeless: Room for 22 more golden despots, you know you wanna!
Already did just as soon as it showed up. When Tropico's gone, it's a straight 1 in 20 chance of hitting my final item.
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Cardian: I really hate fiddling around with DosBox to get many old games to work properly (or at all) and that is my main reason for getting stuff on GoG. Most of the games in my inventory I still have as boxed copies.
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skeletonbow: Indeed. So far, the majority of games I've tried have worked out of the... ok, not out of the box... um... they've worked out of the bits! :) I've only had problems with a few older games, some of which were solved by right clicking on the shortcut and choosing "Run As Administrator" and a few games such as the original Alone in the Dark series required some tweaking of DOSbox using hotkeys that took me a little research to figure out. Having said that though, it was far less time consuming than it was back in the MSDOS days of editing AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS and running QEMM OPTIMIZE and configuring IRQs and DMA channels and ugh... :) GOG makes things easy even when something doesn't work right away. :)
I actually miss editing those files a bit. It's almost too easy nowadays to play games, so every idiot can do it ;)
Jack Keane Vs Commander Keen





Would probably sell more copies than Jack Keane 2
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pseudonumb: I know it's been said, but this format for the sale is weird and frustrating. I'm looking at missed opportunities on games I want because I have a life and can't spend hours watching a ticker wind down, time after time. I appreciate the discounts, but I'm feeling some resentment here.
I did it at first. then I understood it a bit. It's kinda like lotto I think or a cheap way to get free or almost free like games super cheap. The catch is to be awake and up at the lucky or random times the games randomized up. They also at least given 3 round rotations which was very nice in case you missed the game on the 1st or 2nd round.

The ones that are best at it is usually those that are just lucky or those group of people that can forgo sleep and social time to get what they want ^_^
When will this end, GOG? I haven't slept yet, you know. LOL.
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CarrionCrow: Five days in, I almost can't believe there are still twenty games left to go. Really interested in what GOG staff's thoughts on this whole experiment will be once it's finally over.
I think they overestimated the want for certain games. *cough*Omerta*cough*. Also it's weird to me that they wold sell 1500 copies of one game and then the next day, sell 1200 copies of the same game. If it went slow the first time...
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nijuu: anyone made a list of games they want at Xmas? (not the games on this promo)
Well, I guess we still have our wishlists going here on GoG. I have Papers, please! on the top of that.
high rated
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BananaJane: Jack Keane Vs Commander Keen
Meh. They'll make a movie. Keanedergarten Cop.
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Kaitu: Found this site entirely by accident when I realized that my backup copies of Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire had gone missing. I was so upset and spent FOREVER pouring over the web to find it. Eventually I found this site and the rest is history. :-)
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skeletonbow: Sounds like the loss was a gift in disguise eh? :) The cool thing is that the GOG versions of these games are pretty much all way better than owning the actual original games, at least in many ways. No more fumbling with CDs/DVDs to install, or worse - to play, with some games like the Tex Murphy ones requiring frequent disk flipping on the originals... ugh.. :) No DRM of course so none of the hassles with that nonsense (manual lookups, codewheels, Alone in the Dark cards (argh), and other nonsense), various goodies, updated to work in current Windows... Hard to beat! :) I've bought many games here that I own on floppy/CD/DVD, as well as buying games I had "copies" of from before and ditching the inferior copies for a more legit one from GOG. :) If I had it my way, all my games would come from here in the future. Just need to be patient enough for all the big publishers to wake up and smell the GOGfee. :)
That is exactly it. This is an AMAZING site! I am finding games that I thought were long dead. Heck, when I bought Alpha Centauri I got a free copy of Tyrian (one of the best games for random humor interlaced into the actual game). I hope the folks running this site know how awesome of a thing they have and how much us old-school gamers appreciate it. I would honestly be curious to find out how many people skipped the midnight launch for (I think) the PS4 to try to get more games here or at least monitored the sale from their phones while in line. We are the ones who thought gaming and geekiness were cool before they were both mainstreamed. We are the original gamers! :-)
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pseudonumb: I know it's been said, but this format for the sale is weird and frustrating. I'm looking at missed opportunities on games I want because I have a life and can't spend hours watching a ticker wind down, time after time. I appreciate the discounts, but I'm feeling some resentment here.
Just ignore the sale and enjoy the forums, possibly taking a casual glance at the current game from time to time but not getting sucked into staring at it like a bug heading towards a bug lamp ;oP The holiday sales are almost here and you'll like that much better likely. Last year it lasted for about a month or more with a great deal on many games every single day. They had an "end of the world" sale on the day the Mayan calendar ended encouraging everyone to buy games because it wouldn't matter tomorrow anyway and they put all of the month's worth of sales all up on one day, then when the world didn't come to an end they just continued the sale as normal. Then as a nice final surprise, some time around January 2 or so they put the mega sale back up for one more day like the end of the world sale, so every deal was up for at least 3 days in about a 4-5 week period of time. Awesomesauce.