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Posted November 13, 2013
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
Posted November 18, 2013
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UncleOvid: Internet Lesson #1: EVERYONE lies about EVERYTHING.
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MaximumBunny: Lesson 2: ^The above is true, and therefore a lie.
Perhaps, but I find it an excellent rule of thumb.
Posted November 18, 2013
Wanna win a game?

There. Do it.
Posted November 18, 2013
If anyone has an extra copy of NWN 1, I'd be willing to trade HoMM3 for it.
Posted November 18, 2013
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gogbot: Insomnia Sale:
Jade Empire
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream*
Resonance*
Rogue Legacy
Don't Starve*
System Shock 2*
Deus Ex*
Reus*
The Chaos Engine
Thief 3*
Rayman Orgins
Myst Masterpiece Edition
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams*

Everything with an asterix (*) was an impulse-ish buy. Without the sale price and exposure I probably wouldn't have got them.

Also, I had a lot of fun in this thread. As another member said, the Insomnia Sale was the real game -- Free to play, but lots of DLC.
If I put asterisk by all of my impulse buys there would be one by all of them. The game I wanted NWN I didn't get.
Posted November 18, 2013
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Knofbath: Hard to implement.
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UncleOvid: Really? I confess, I don't know anything about programming, but it seems to me like a pretty straightforward algorithm.
Not really, harder to implement if you're going for a first click scenario, much easier if you go for a pot. The pot scenario also ensures that the freebie button is displayed to everyone whereas the current way of doing it means a lot of people don't even see the free games.

Thinking back to something something mentioned elsewhere as well. If the people claiming multiple copies are lying and the majority of people actually got only 1 or maybe a few lucky 2 free games then all the claims of 3-15 games that are out there put GoG in a difficult position. Unless they can prove that these people are lying the rest of us carry on believing the system is broken, And if the system is broken there's no incentive to participate and we go away with a negative experience.
Posted November 18, 2013
Bumping for my giveaway! Hepp!


http://www.gog.com/forum/general/charity_giveaway
Post edited November 18, 2013 by Kennethor
Posted November 18, 2013
Has anyone got the last long list of games gone?
Posted November 18, 2013
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Minmataro: Im shocked that people dont have Duke. GoG gave the game away not too long ago.
That would only be shocking if every person who could possibly be a GOG customer and would ever become a GOG customer was a member of GOG at the time the giveaway occurred and GOG never expanded their business afterward by acquiring new customers after the giveaway who had never heard of GOG or the giveaway, and also that all customers who were GOG members, pay attention to GOG closely enough to even know that there was a giveaway and didn't have something else happening that day - and that anyone who didn't found out shortly after and everyone got free codes from others who had spares, and that every person now has it and there is no more market to sell the game or even give it away. ;o)

When presented like that, it's not really shocking at all. There's more people that don't have any of the games GOG has given away for free than there are who have gotten them. ;) Heck, this week alone there are hundreds of people showing up in the forums for the first time who have never even heard of GOG before this promotional sale. :)
Posted November 18, 2013
I don't know why I'm still here. I've got everything I'm looking for already, just thinking about a second copy of Psychonauts, for posterity.
Posted November 18, 2013
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Infin8ty: It's different because of the OS architecture. Powershell is (as far as I know) a part of the .NET project, so that simply added a more easy-to-use way of doing things in the NT architecture. I've used Windows my whole life (born in 1993) and I've seen the death of DOS and such. I've used Unix/Linux but still prefer Windows. Mac is far too overpriced and Linux, well, it's good, but not great. As a programmer, I know some people who would burn me at the stake for not liking Linux, but I don't. It's good, but everything in it you can also do in Windows (even before Powershell, you just had to know what you were doing). Linux really is an OS stripped down to nothing, so it may run a bit faster, but with multiple cores and so few games actually using multithreading, odds are most people won't even notice a difference. Even with multithreading, the difference is pretty negligible due to the sheer speed of processors nowadays. As for Mac vs. Windows, as an OS they are pretty much the same, just a different architecture. Mac is just far too overpriced. And Apple uses proprietary things far too much.
Well, I'm not trying to get into an OS war here. I've had my fair share of those in the past ;) Actually I'm pretty happy with the OS landscape as it is. I don't think there is any of the three major OSes that don't have their place (unless OS X actually goes Appstore-only, then they must die die die). It's just a matter of personal taste. My taste is that I need a proper shell. I start half my programs via the shell (and roughly the other half using a launcher, so I don't click that much to start things up). I want to hack together one-liners that do the stuff I want without actually starting to program. And I'm going mad if I can't move windows by doing alt+drag ;) Like I literally don't survive 5 minutes of Windows for that reason alone (and because I constantly press the middle mouse button and that damn thing won't paste).

Anyway, that's just me and I wouldn't expect everybody else to have the same priorities. Several people have tried to make me like Windows. In addition to obvious political obstacles, this usually turned out something like this:

1. Me: "I need/want Feature X!"
2. Them: "Go install Free Tool Y."
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 many times.
4. Me: "My system has become an unstable pile of slug shit."
5. Them: "Well, look at all the crap you've installed! It's no wonder your system turned out the mess that it is!"
6. Me: "Ok, I'm done here!"

Oh and overpriced: Windows Enterprise will set you back by an outrageous amount of money and AFAIK you aren't allowed to freely use it on virtual machines if you don't have some kind of Enterprise edition. Maybe they changed that policy though, given how important virtual machines have become even for home use and private servers.
Posted November 18, 2013
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Kennethor: Bumping for my giveaway! Hepp!

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/charity_giveaway
Bumping?? With 33,000 previous posts. lol
Posted November 18, 2013
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jamotide: Gog has servers everywhere, there is no regional advantage.
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gogbot: So Truth!
Hail GOG! Hail Keane! Hail The List!
By the end of the Fall Insomnia Sale the Great Kheanhulhu will wake up from his slumber... and his Kingdom will take over all the gog servers...
Posted November 18, 2013
Hi everyone, I just came in to say you will not regret buying Sword of the Stars the Pit.

If you want a 50% luck 50% skill dungeon crawl, you could not choose a better game.
Posted November 18, 2013
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Knofbath: I don't know why I'm still here. I've got everything I'm looking for already, just thinking about a second copy of Psychonauts, for posterity.
We can't leave now, we've been here too long we need to stay till the end.
Posted November 18, 2013
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Kennethor: Bumping for my giveaway! Hepp!

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/charity_giveaway
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keef0723: Bumping?? With 33,000 previous posts. lol
Advertising for it then... ;D
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