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Posted March 21, 2016
Limited-quantity deals round-the-clock | Tired-looking sheep.



UPDATE: Time to go to bed, everyone! It's been a fun, intense, coffee-fueled week but the sheep has finally saled on this Insomnia sale so everyone can now get their (hardly needed) beauty sleep. Or go try out those fine-looking games they snagged moments before stocks disappeared. So long and don't let the bedbugs bite. Slay them for precious XP, instead.
Remember to check your email for your unlocked freebies, and you can always contact <span class="bold">Support</span> if there is anthing you're missing.



Don't fall asleep, don't look away… heck, just give up blinking.
Prepare yourselves a cauldron of hot coffee and stock up on eyedrops! Our infamous Insomnia Sale returns with a relentless stream of limited-quantity deals, one game after the other, nonstop until the games run out. Or the sheep doze off.

We've been studying your valuable feedback on this annual event, including comments like "AAAAARRRRGHHHHHH!!!" and "Please, why won't you let me sleep?!". We took them to heart and decided that what you guys are saying is that you need more gaming stimulants to fight away sleepiness. Worry not, we're here to help.

You lucky Insomniacs will also be treated to a number of games never before seen on GOG.com as well as the best-ever deal on our crowning jewel - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (-50% after the recent price drop, that's $24.99 in the USA).


If you want to learn more about the intricacies behind this whole science of non-sleep, check out the promo <span class="bold">FAQ</span>. But don't dally there too long, because games will start disappearing before your bloodshot eyes!

The GOG.com Insomnia Sale starts Monday, March 21, 2:00 PM GMT and will run until the limited-quantity deals run out.

While counting sheep and game deals, make sure to also drop by our <span class="bold">imgur</span> page and grab your Insomnia wallpapers.

Twitch Insomnia Marathon

We won't let you fall asleep while you're waiting for your favorite game to go on sale! Tune in at any time of day or night to twitch.tv/GOGcom for the best games being played by our mighty team of streamers, joined by special guests. 20 streamers. 100 hours of gameplay. Lots of empty coffee mugs.
Post edited March 26, 2016 by maladr0Id
Posted March 24, 2016
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Klumpen0815: Witcher 3 Linux release on sale now!
No penguin in sight.
Posted March 24, 2016
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TwistedFate.385: Freebies aren't pulled from the 'for sale' pool. They are special free codes provided for giving away. Plus, logically it makes no sense. If they pulled free codes from the 'for sale' pool, how could they run out of freebies and still have copies to sell?
Option 2 then. When a game has X copies for sale, it is possible for more than X copies to be sold, so they'll be pulled from subsequent batches.
Posted March 24, 2016
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omega64: "Once upon a Time"
Oh boy, I loved that show - bingewatched it on Amazon Prime, after I watched the first episode out of sheer curiosity on a very boring day.

Never have I seen a show, in which even all the bad guys have something, that lets you have understanding for their deeds.
Posted March 24, 2016
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TwistedFate.385: What I don't understand is why they would have odd numbers in the first place. Who says, "Let's put 476 copies on sale, and sell them 25 at a time, except for the last batch."? Everything has been sold in multiples of 5 up til now.
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Habanerose: Leftovers from former batches. Either more than the number of initial copies sold (lots of people hit "buy"), or some of them hit buy but then decided against it, which after some delay should put the games back into the pool.
I subscribe to the leftovers idea too. After the game was in your checkout this time, you got to buy it. I took minutes to finalize some of my purchases, while the game turnover continued on the main page. That's bound to have resulted in either over-selling certain batches of games, or under-selling when people chickened out in the checkout phase.

In previous insomnias, the game wasn't guaranteed yours until you actually got that "game is in your account' page. You could miss out on a game by not completing checkout fast enough. They may have changed it to allow a fairer shake for people with horrible connections or slow typing.
Posted March 24, 2016
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InfraSuperman: It's been done...
Never forget, never surrender D:
Posted March 24, 2016
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TwistedFate.385: Freebies aren't pulled from the 'for sale' pool. They are special free codes provided for giving away. Plus, logically it makes no sense. If they pulled free codes from the 'for sale' pool, how could they run out of freebies and still have copies to sell?
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JMich: Option 2 then. When a game has X copies for sale, it is possible for more than X copies to be sold, so they'll be pulled from subsequent batches.
I agree with leftovers, not extras sold. They put 40 copies up for sale, pull 1 copy from total for everyone that puts it in their cart. After 40 people have it in their cart the sale goes away. Now if only 37 people actually purchase it, they have 3 left over, but 45 people can't add it to their cart, because their aren't 45 copies available.
Post edited March 24, 2016 by TwistedFate.385
Posted March 24, 2016
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Klumpen0815: Witcher 3 Linux release on sale now!
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Laberbacke: No penguin in sight.
Just teasing.
I knew that noone would fall for that, it would be too awesome to be true.
Posted March 24, 2016
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Habanerose: Unless they add new games... guess the sale's gonna end pretty soon.

Kinda sad they didn't even offer the Jack Keane games, for nostalgia purposes :P
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saberstorm11: what if they end it with that XD
This is my hope. Like, 2000 copies of Jack Keane 2 as the very last sale.
Posted March 24, 2016
Another reason for an odd size listing, people bailing after partly committing to buy.

I noticed this the other day but if you click on the game and it goes to where you need to checkout through paypal, you can go as far as logging into paypal but not pressing to pay. From there if you use the back arrow, GoG has no clue, it still thinks you are getting it as it's reserved while you're in the process. If you go into your order history it will show the game with a green button to pay up with the reduced price shown as listed.

Perhaps that's why? The game meter already hit 0 and moved along, and you backed away. So then the next one would get +X entries?
Posted March 24, 2016
I missed the Metro Bundle? You mean it was only 50 copies alltogether? Wow.
Posted March 24, 2016
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omega64: "Once upon a Time"
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BreOl72: Oh boy, I loved that show - bingewatched it on Amazon Prime, after I watched the first episode out of sheer curiosity on a very boring day.

Never have I seen a show, in which even all the bad guys have something, that lets you have understanding for their deeds.
I just love this guy's acting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Carlyle
Posted March 24, 2016
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Klumpen0815: Just teasing.
I knew that noone would fall for that, it would be too awesome to be true.
Off topic and simply out of personal curiosity.
How different is programming with the OpenGL API instead of the DirectX one on even ground hardware?

Any code monkeys around who can actually provide an answer?
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merin: I missed the Metro Bundle? You mean it was only 50 copies alltogether? Wow.
52 actually.
Post edited March 24, 2016 by j0ekerr
Posted March 24, 2016
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omega64: I just love this guy's acting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Carlyle
Yeah - he's fantastic in every role he plays.
Posted March 24, 2016
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saberstorm11: what if they end it with that XD
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Bookwyrm627: This is my hope. Like, 2000 copies of Jack Keane 2 as the very last sale.
Or maybe they will be given away as a final freebie, as everyone should experience their greatness :P
Posted March 24, 2016
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Klumpen0815: Just teasing.
I knew that noone would fall for that, it would be too awesome to be true.
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j0ekerr: Off topic and simply out of personal curiosity.
How different is programming with the OpenGL API instead of the DirectX one on even ground hardware?

Any code monkeys around who can actually provide an answer?
I could, but I'm not terribly experienced with OpenGL, so I was waiting to see if somebody with more experience chimed in.
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