I can see why they do it and fair enough. This time around im only interested in 1-2 games in some of the bundles (some of the ones i had most of the games i did buy to complete) ..however those ones like the run jump one..18 bucks bit steep to buy whole bundle when i only want two of the games..

So, what about the old packs, are the news confirmed?
These 2 bundles alone are fantastic: Memorable Dungeons and Chronicles of Ultima

So, tomorrow is the last day?

Today!

Ops, forgot about the time zone.

Yeah, I just did that with two of the bundles, although in one case it was the extras attached to a game rather than the game itself that tipped the balance in favor of the bundle discount.

Still, I'm not sure that I like it as a general practice. I had no reason to look at bundles where there were only one or two things I cared about along with a bunch of them that I didn't have. A "build your own bundle" promo might work better if the difference is going to be that big.

I can see that this sale was nothing compared to the Insomnia promo. The forum thread for THAT one is currently, like, 1,000 pages long, and this is only 80. Still, I thought this was an interesting sale. It was nice to see the 3 surprise gifts that popped up on the front page every day, and the bundles that got voted on.

Well, I got my wishlist down to three games now and I picked up a few games I didn't plan on getting. So, it was a good sale all in all.

Indeed, I usually pass up the promo when that happens. I passed up 2 or 3 of them for that over the holidays but then I got a couple others where it tilted the other way too. :) One thing I just thought of, is if they automatically gave you GOG codes for each game you buy either by default, or as an option during purchase without having to manually contact support or whatever, I might actually buy more bundles like this and just trade or gift the spare games away as it would be super convenient to do so then, kind of like the various indie bundle sites. Too inconvenient as is though. I'm sure it'll evolve over time though too.
Yeah, I would much prefer a build your own bundle type thing too. "Here's 10-20 games, choose any 5 and get 75-80% off" would be a very nice option for such cases. GOG has occasionally done something similar though where they have a bunch of games and you choose 5 games for $10. I bought several of them in the past and liked that type of promo.

Depends on your metric.

I'd estimate that I got at least 3 times more games from this sale than the insomnia promo and I spent less than 1/10th the time monitoring stuff.

This sale is a clear winner for me.

In the US at least, it is fairly well known that Black Friday sales are the biggest and most profitable sale time of the year. December holiday sales are probably second to that I imagine. I don't think any useful metric can be derived from the number of posts in a forum for that though as the variables are very different in the different promos. For the Insomnia sale anyone who was actually sticking around on the website for each game coming up was automatically spending way way more time on the website than they normally would for a regular sale. That doesn't in any way mean that they were buying any more games though. But being on the site, kicking the time away in the forums with others is a natural thing to do for many folk and anticipating what might be coming up next and other chatter. The promo didn't just draw people to buy things, the way it was ran also drew people to be more social on the site since they had to stick around to fully benefit from the promo anyway.

For example, I only bought 3 games during the entire promo as only 3 games I was interested in really came up for grabs at a price point that met my criterion. So I spent less money on the Insomnia promo than I normally do on GOG promos personally, and I've bought about 12 games during the Christmas promo. At the same time however I probably posted about 40-60 messages in the Insomnia promo threads during that week while I doubt I've posted 1/3 of that in the Christmas sale promo threads this last week - partly because there's no compelling reason to stay on the website for a large percentage of the day, but also because it is holiday season and people are doing things with their friends and families and preparing for feasts and get togethers, etc.

So basically - public chatter on the forums surrounding a promo doesn't necessarily mean a relationship can be drawn between chatter and profit. :) Also, the Insomnia promo had hard limits as to how many games could be purchased at a given price point, whereas the Christmas promo does not, and the discounts in both promos are quite similar.


Is your avatar image from one of the Still Life games?

The metric obviously being the number of pages devoted to Jack Keane :-P

I totally see your point! It's just that the community discussion part for this sale wasn't nearly as involved or exciting as with the Insomnia promo, but on the other hand GOG has seen quite a bit of traffic. Boy that Fallout giveaway sure clogged the servers pretty good.

(QUOTE) We're overwhelmed by popularity of our service right now ;) Please check back soon! (/QUOTE)

Saw that message a lot for the first few days of the sale :D

Im confused and afraid of the "Wrap-UP" promo...
Does that means that the sale ends today?

most likely