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Posted January 06, 2017
Level Up!

The <span class="bold">Weekly Sale: The First of Many</span> is leveling up!
Joining the sale are the fantastic, retro point & click adventures from Wadjet Eye (you've got to try Technobabylon, Gemini Rue, and Shardlight) as well as a few true adventure classics including Simon The Sorcerer and The Feeble Files.

Don't forget – there are just a few days left to grab what you want!



One full week of wicked-good offers: Up to 80% off Leisure Suit Larry, Pan-Pan, Cannon Fodder & more to come!

Our weekly sales are changing!
We know that you've enjoyed the loosely-themed Weekly Staff Picks and the grand Weekend Promos - we did too. But after nearly two years of fighting the good fight, it's time to morph into something bigger, stronger, maybe even better: our mighty Weekly Sale!

Launching every Monday, each Weekly Sale will last for seven days. It's a selection of games we know you'll love – but if you don't see anything you fancy right off the bat, don't fret: we'll add another batch of super-good offers every Friday.


<span class="bold">Weekly Sale: The First of Many</span> features games with plenty of drama and heartbreak, unexpected tales, and intriguing mysteries. Get right to it with the first round of offers for up to 80% off, including Overlord, Pan-Pan, Shelter, Leisure Suit Larry, and more!

The sale will last until January 9, 5:00 PM UTC.
Posted January 02, 2017
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GOG.com: Launching every Monday, each Weekly Sale will last for seven days. It's a selection of games we know you'll love – but if you don't see anything you fancy right off the bat, don't fret: we'll add another batch of super-good offers every Friday.
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catpower1980: So the change is that the weekly sales last 7 days and the week-end one will just overlap it?
The weekend sale is going to be kinda like an upgrade to the weekly sale. If that makes sense :)
Posted January 02, 2017
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fables22: The weekend sale is going to be kinda like an upgrade to the weekly sale. If that makes sense :)
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Vovchigus: So Friday addition will only add games or some can be removed from sale or could have discount changes?
As far as I know, no removals, just more great games!
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fables22: The weekend sale is going to be kinda like an upgrade to the weekly sale. If that makes sense :)
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catpower1980: What kind of "upgrade" would it be then?

An heavier discount or adding titles from the same "theme"?

I guess the concept is gonna be clearer in 5 days :o)
Oh, sorry if that was a bit unclear. Yep, it'll be added games.
Post edited January 02, 2017 by fables22
Posted January 02, 2017
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XxXSprayvWarXxX: That a nice change! <3 Thanks GOG
You're welcome!
Posted January 02, 2017
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fables22: The weekend sale is going to be kinda like an upgrade to the weekly sale. If that makes sense :)
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vicklemos: So we'll have, instead of pan pan, queso queso!? :P
HA! ;D
Good one!
Posted January 02, 2017
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fables22: Oh, sorry if that was a bit unclear. Yep, it'll be added games.
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PaterAlf: I'm not sure if that is a good idea. It will probably just make the sales more confusing and the newly added games less visible.
Well, the idea is to actually make the sales less confusing, with just one sale going on each we but with a weekend upgrade to the sale, which replaces the weekend sale. We are testing it out and will see how it works, especially in terms of the exposure for the games added on Friday.
Posted January 02, 2017
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fables22: Well, the idea is to actually make the sales less confusing, with just one sale going on each we but with a weekend upgrade to the sale, which replaces the weekend sale. We are testing it out and will see how it works, especially in terms of the exposure for the games added on Friday.
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Painted_Doll: Off topic , but when will we see the missing Tomb Raider games and the Alice series on Gog ?
I don't have any info on this as of now, sorry!
Posted January 02, 2017
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fables22: We are testing it out and will see how it works, especially in terms of the exposure for the games added on Friday.
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Vythonaut: Sounds good enough for a chamge and I hope the friday upgrade will work well enough. I hope there won't be any "Buy-them-all-for-greater-discount" promos though -- these suck. :P
I wouldn't expect so. I think this has the potential to work quite well, but guess we'll have to wait and see :)
Posted January 03, 2017
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PaterAlf: I'm not sure if that is a good idea. It will probably just make the sales more confusing and the newly added games less visible.
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eiii: And the games which have been added on Friday will only be on sale for 3 days. That's bad when you are on travel over the weekend. I liked it that you still could buy the games from the weekend sale on Monday so far. Why don't you put all games on sale for the full week?
No, it'll work pretty much like the Weekend Promo did, plus the games that will go on sale on Friday will be on sale all the way until the entire weekly promo ends, ie. Monday 5pm CET. The new weekly promo concept just combines the previous weekly staff picks and weekend promo, the realities of it remain very similar.
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HypersomniacLive: If I'm reading this correctly, the actual change seems to be more of the formatting and naming sort than anything else:

- the (known as) Weekly Stuff Picks will last all week long, and merge with the (known as) Weekend Promo;
- the (known as) Weekend Promo will launch as usual, but end earlier than it used to till now;
- the new format is renamed to Weekly Sale.

We'll see how it gets implemented soon enough, but I guess the purpose is to give people more time to spend their money.

What is unclear to me, based on this [emphasis added]:
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GOG.com: [...] The sale will last until January 9, 4:00 PM UTC.
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HypersomniacLive: is if this is another change - will the Weekly Sale be starting at 16:00 UTC from Jan 9 onwards? Will it continue to start as usual, hence introducing a few hours of overlapping with the end of the previous week's one? Or is the first Weekly Sale a special case?
You've pretty much nailed it. And yes, the two sales will overlap for a few hours on Monday.

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Loger13: Thus there is no reason to buy the game from Monday to Friday, because on Friday, discounted games will be added more? And hence it is advisable to be purchased on Saturdays.
I do not mind, I prefer to buy once a week (instead of two). I like the change.
I'm not sure you understood what I meant. The games that are on sale from Monday on will stay on sale with the same discounts. However, on Friday, a new bunch of games will be added to the sale, which means there will be more games in the sale over the weekend. Does that clarify it?
Post edited January 03, 2017 by fables22
Posted January 03, 2017
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fables22: I'm not sure you understood what I meant. The games that are on sale from Monday on will stay on sale with the same discounts. However, on Friday, a new bunch of games will be added to the sale, which means there will be more games in the sale over the weekend. Does that clarify it?
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moonshineshadow: I think he understood the change pretty well. Because he is right, now that the Monday games last a week there is no need to buy anything during the week and one can wait for the weekend additions before making a decision ;-)
I took as in he meant that the games already there will have higher discounts - apologies if that was a misunderstanding on my part.

However, the concept is not very different from the concept we used previously - other than the fact that there will be more time to buy the games that go on sale on Monday.

All in all, as I said, we'll see how this works out :) I personally think that it's a good move, but who knows - our users might show us otherwise.
Posted January 03, 2017
All hail the Weekly Sale :D
Posted January 03, 2017
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Prolence: I usually wait till weekend promo starts if I'm on the fence with some titles from the weekly pick, so this way I get even more time to think how to spend my money. I also like that fact that the sale will still overlap with the previous one, so I can easily check if the new stuff has something I'd like more, without losing the opportunity to buy the ones from a previous sale.

Overall, I'm happy about this.
That was pretty much the idea behind it - giving people more time to enjoy the deals. Glad you're pleased!
Posted January 03, 2017
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Andrey82: Very good news and great idea!

Why wait for Saturday if on Monday there is already discount on a game you want?
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Loger13: Because on Friday may add another game that I want and buy them at once both is more convenient and therefore a Saturday or Sunday - the most convenient day for shopping? С.O. to the rescue!

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fables22: I'm not sure you understood what I meant. The games that are on sale from Monday on will stay on sale with the same discounts. However, on Friday, a new bunch of games will be added to the sale, which means there will be more games in the sale over the weekend. Does that clarify it?
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Loger13: Be sure, I understand what you mean. There is no reason FOR ME.
But, anyway, thanks for additional explanation. May be it will useful for someone else (who is really confused).

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moonshineshadow: I think he understood the change pretty well. Because he is right, now that the Monday games last a week there is no need to buy anything during the week and one can wait for the weekend additions before making a decision ;-)
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Loger13: That's correct statement.
Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant for a bit there - apologies!
Posted January 03, 2017
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fables22: No, it'll work pretty much like the Weekend Promo did, plus the games that will go on sale on Friday will be on sale all the way until the entire weekly promo ends, ie. Monday 5pm CET. The new weekly promo concept just combines the previous weekly staff picks and weekend promo, the realities of it remain very similar.
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eiii: And the games which will be added on Friday are still only on sale for 3 days now while they were on sale for 4 days during the old weekend promos. ;P

Over all the old scheme was better distributed over the week, 4 days for the Weekly Staff Picks (if I remember correctly) and 4 days for the weekend promo, while it's now 7 days for the games added on Monday and only 3 days for the games added on Friday. Plus there's no need to check the page during the week now, checking it at the weekend is sufficient.
I like it that the weekly sale runs for longer now, but I do not like it that the "weekend sale" part has been shortened.

Maybe add the 2nd batch of games already on Thursday?
We'll have to wait and see how this pans out, but I'll pass your feedback onto the marketing guys.
Posted January 04, 2017
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josipk: Hi GOG, just want to say that since singing up with you a few years ago, I have really enjoyed all the improvements large and small over the years and this looks like another good one for me! (I never was sure about what day the weekly & weekend specials went up, & keeping them together seems easier for me).
Thanks for your words of appreciation! Hopefully it'll be nothing but positive improvements in the future too :)
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fables22: Well, the idea is to actually make the sales less confusing, with just one sale going on each we but with a weekend upgrade to the sale, which replaces the weekend sale. We are testing it out and will see how it works, especially in terms of the exposure for the games added on Friday.
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zlep: It's the games added on Friday that concern me. Once I've seen what's in a sale, I mentally tick it off as "never need look at that again". I'm almost guaranteed to randomly miss the added games because I forget to check back on the weekend.

Hopefully you plan to add a second news post for the weekend additions to remind those of us who won't re-check unless a notification beeps on our radar... ^_^
I'm fairly sure that the Friday added games will have a separate newspost, but will double check this and let you know.

EDIT: Indeed, there will be a newspost on Friday as well.
Post edited January 04, 2017 by fables22
Posted January 04, 2017
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josipk: Hi GOG, just want to say that since singing up with you a few years ago, I have really enjoyed all the improvements large and small over the years and this looks like another good one for me! (I never was sure about what day the weekly & weekend specials went up, & keeping them together seems easier for me).
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blakstar: Singing up with GOG might not be a good idea, sometimes they go horribly out of tune! :-P
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