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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 26, 2016
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YenRug: The bundle was supplied as three separate items, can't be sure, but presumably there would have been separate gift codes for each item. You could have still bought it and redeemed the gift codes for the other two games on your own account.
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Shendue: Yeah, i bought the ANNO bundle and I already owned 3 of the 4 games. Still got the full discount on the 4th game.
So u had to buy the whole bundle? Did u end up with seperate keys?
Posted March 26, 2016
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tanukisuit: I'm beyond livid over that. I have given myself 4hours of sleep the last 2 evenings watching the site while doing other stuff, even through work waiting on it it's bullcrap. I had something planned I had to do, and when I got out of the first longer part of that, I checked nothing, minutes later it pops, then I see it was 50min ago when I check after I was done with my thing. I yelled when I saw that in my car, still pissed about it. Now it's like do I even bother waiting again to see if it pops up once more given that METRO fired off twice within an hour or two yesterday to play catch up.
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Shendue: Yeah. I love GOG but sometimes it feels like they are trolling us. And they definetely trolled people with the D&D bundle. It's like they looked purposedly for the best way to prevent people figuring out when/if the bundle would came back. It just didn't make sense for me.
I can handle not being able to get it because i'm not fast enough to click before other people, but waiting for a whole day and a half and it doesn't show up at all and then it's there out of the blue makes no sense. It is, indeed, trolling.
To be straight with all of you, I have my motive. I'm sure a lot of you probably think well $60 isn't much or $30 when they're individually 1/2 off isn't bad either, but for me it is. My wife is partially disabled can barely work and we don't scrape by well without family help. Because of that I'm very limited in funds and what I can do without selling off old video games or other stuff I have. So I limit myself to cheap GoG purchases and more or less the old Gameboy carts as almost all them can be had in the $3-30 range (greatly $3-10ish range.) So when I saw that 75% I sat and sat because a game like that (let alone 3) can take months a piece to play out the story if not years between them all. I could really get some long term fun and distraction. That's why I'm pissed off. It's not one of those oh sh*t I missed it moments, it's a finally can afford it and the system screwed me anger.
Posted March 26, 2016
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andimisaris: I did think that could be the case but I wasn't prepared to drop $20 on it to be told it was a bundled package. If someone can confirm that's the case then I might try and hover around in the hopes of seeing the bundle again
As i wrote already, i bought the ANNO bundle despite already having 3 games out of 4 and I only paid for the 4th game, with the same discount of the whole bundle applied to the price of the single game.
You'd definetely be allowed to pay only for the games you don't already own.
But since last time they had EXACTLY 57 copies available, I think it's pretty safe to assume it's not coming back this time.
If it were 50 or even 55 copies, there would have been a chance, but the odd 57 number means very likely that those were all the copies left.
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Shendue: Yeah, i bought the ANNO bundle and I already owned 3 of the 4 games. Still got the full discount on the 4th game.
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andimisaris: So u had to buy the whole bundle? Did u end up with seperate keys?
Nope, I just had to pay for the one game i didn't have, and the discount was applied just to that game instead of the whole bundle.
Post edited March 26, 2016 by Shendue
Posted March 26, 2016
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andimisaris: I did think that could be the case but I wasn't prepared to drop $20 on it to be told it was a bundled package. If someone can confirm that's the case then I might try and hover around in the hopes of seeing the bundle again
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Shendue: As i wrote already, i bought the ANNO bundle despite already having 3 games out of 4 and I only paid for the 4th game, with the same discount of the whole bundle applied to the price of the single game.
You'd definetely be allowed to pay only for the games you don't already own.
But since last time they had EXACTLY 57 copies available, I think it's pretty safe to assume it's not coming back this time.
If it were 50 or even 55 copies, there would have been a chance, but the odd 57 number means very likely that those were all the copies left.
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andimisaris: So u had to buy the whole bundle? Did u end up with seperate keys?
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Shendue: Nope, I just had to pay for the one game i didn't have, and the discount was applied just to that game instead of the whole bundle.
Yes I have seen that with other bundles in this sale too. This didnt happen with the DnD bundle, thats what I'm saying. All 3 games came up, including the 1 i owned and it forced me to gift it. So I didnt buy it. If it was working like the others than I wouldnt have hesitated.

Its done now I guess, Ill just wait for the next sale
Posted March 26, 2016
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tanukisuit: To be straight with all of you, I have my motive. I'm sure a lot of you probably think well $60 isn't much or $30 when they're individually 1/2 off isn't bad either, but for me it is. My wife is partially disabled can barely work and we don't scrape by well without family help. Because of that I'm very limited in funds and what I can do without selling off old video games or other stuff I have. So I limit myself to cheap GoG purchases and more or less the old Gameboy carts as almost all them can be had in the $3-30 range (greatly $3-10ish range.) So when I saw that 75% I sat and sat because a game like that (let alone 3) can take months a piece to play out the story if not years between them all. I could really get some long term fun and distraction. That's why I'm pissed off. It's not one of those oh sh*t I missed it moments, it's a finally can afford it and the system screwed me anger.
That's unfortunate and i sympathize with your situation.
But no matter the reason, even if you has a shitload of money and just wanted to grab another game at a discounted price, it was still handled poorly IMO.
Now that you told me, I'm even more inclined to hope GOG realizes how high the demand for a discount on these games is and tries to manage giving us more of them.
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andimisaris: Yes I have seen that with other bundles in this sale too. This didnt happen with the DnD bundle, thats what I'm saying. All 3 games came up, including the 1 i owned and it forced me to gift it. So I didnt buy it. If it was working like the others than I wouldnt have hesitated.

Its done now I guess, Ill just wait for the next sale
Really? Sorry, then, I misunderstood the issue.
I think you should try contacting GOG about it. Maybe there's nothing they'll do, but it's worth trying.
Post edited March 26, 2016 by Shendue
Posted March 26, 2016
Yeah no doubt.

As for her I'm going to use some tax money to hire a pro to write a solid resume and things for her, she has some skills and even worked for the USMC for a few years (a few years ago) too. I'm hoping with the coaching and write up we can get her a sit down job her body can handle and get the money back in because as of now it has been stand up jobs and she can't take more than 4-5hrs on foot in such a spot like 3 days a week at best. Going from a good $15/hr 40/wk job down to $10/hr 15/wk is murder on the wallet.
Posted March 26, 2016
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tanukisuit: Yeah no doubt.

As for her I'm going to use some tax money to hire a pro to write a solid resume and things for her, she has some skills and even worked for the USMC for a few years (a few years ago) too. I'm hoping with the coaching and write up we can get her a sit down job her body can handle and get the money back in because as of now it has been stand up jobs and she can't take more than 4-5hrs on foot in such a spot like 3 days a week at best. Going from a good $15/hr 40/wk job down to $10/hr 15/wk is murder on the wallet.
Unfortunately I've read a lot on these forums about all kind of economical issues and health problems. I really hope the best for every single one of those people because I really like the GOG community. Unlike in many other places I've been chatting online, here most of the people is pretty nice.
(SCAMMERS APART, obviously. May those damned hyenas rot in hell forever.)

I hope the best for you and your wife. If I happen to ever be able to grab an extra copy of those games for some sort of miracle, I'll be happy to gift them to you.
Maybe try asking on the community giveaway and other giveway threads. It's pretty unlikely they'll have code for those specific games, due to the high demand, but it's always worth a try.
Post edited March 26, 2016 by Shendue
Posted March 26, 2016
Oh I don't want pity gifts. I'll pay the rate of the current discount if someone got a spare, it's the right thing to do.

I did put a request in since I did earn Grimrock 2 but I've had no bites.

A true saint of a GoG'r just gifted me the package. Wow, never had someone be that nice on a forum before. I'm going to at least try and compensate him the price as it's the right thing to do.
Post edited March 26, 2016 by tanukisuit
Posted March 26, 2016
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andimisaris: Yes I have seen that with other bundles in this sale too. This didnt happen with the DnD bundle, thats what I'm saying. All 3 games came up, including the 1 i owned and it forced me to gift it. So I didnt buy it. If it was working like the others than I wouldnt have hesitated.

Its done now I guess, Ill just wait for the next sale
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Shendue: Really? Sorry, then, I misunderstood the issue.
I think you should try contacting GOG about it. Maybe there's nothing they'll do, but it's worth trying.
All good mate. I sent off a request and will see what they say. But yeah, doubt anything will come from it
Posted March 26, 2016
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tanukisuit: Oh I don't want pity gifts. I'll pay the rate of the current discount if someone got a spare, it's the right thing to do.

I did put a request in since I did earn Grimrock 2 but I've had no bites.

A true saint of a GoG'r just gifted me the package. Wow, never had someone be that nice on a forum before. I'm going to at least try and compensate him the price as it's the right thing to do.
No pity gifts at all. If everything, what I appreciate about the community is that they donate indiscriminately as long as you are not a scammer of a douchebag. It doesn't matter, as long as you are a nice person, since they know that most people will eventually give back to other GOGgers if they aren't broke.
Post edited March 26, 2016 by Shendue
Posted March 26, 2016
It's rare to find that with gamers anymore, anything more than a few years old turns into a violent cash and scam grab to one up the rest which is why I walked away from old Nintendo(nes/snes/n64) carts completely.

Due to him not wanting compensation I have a gift code for a game, in the other thread related to this the sales tracking thread I put a post up, first one to chat me can get legend of grimrock 2 key if they have a legitimate interest in the game to play it.

IT's taken in case someone hops.
Post edited March 26, 2016 by tanukisuit
Posted March 26, 2016
until the freebies ran out some people said that they filled in the collections with them if you owned part of them already

btw I have a feeling if you missed something try g2a.com (or something similar)

although I think that's why gift codes were only given if ya already owned it sos they could cut down on the resellers......................
Post edited March 26, 2016 by nightshade2013
Posted March 26, 2016
Hrrm cannot catch a break lol. Missed pillers of eternity every single time.
Posted March 26, 2016
So, is it sure that the D&D combo is not coming back? Crap, I've been waiting on that for ages and never even saw it. How much was it?

TIA for any info.
Posted March 26, 2016
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tanukisuit: Oh I don't want pity gifts. I'll pay the rate of the current discount if someone got a spare, it's the right thing to do.

I did put a request in since I did earn Grimrock 2 but I've had no bites.

A true saint of a GoG'r just gifted me the package. Wow, never had someone be that nice on a forum before. I'm going to at least try and compensate him the price as it's the right thing to do.
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Shendue: No pity gifts at all. If everything, what I appreciate about the community is that they donate indiscriminately as long as you are not a scammer of a douchebag. It doesn't matter, as long as you are a nice person, since they know that most people will eventually give back to other GOGgers if they aren't broke.
durning the ins sale that had the infamous jack keane 2 there was this guy who kept trying ot get this game for a week ..always missed it or itd glitch on him or something

half the board bought and gifted it to him heh he said thanks but he had 12 copies and if anyone wanted it let him know heh ...............
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