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Posted December 12, 2013
600+ games discounted by at least 50%, bundle deals up to 80% off, daily personal deals!

It is here: 2013 DRM-Free Winter Sale on GOG.com! The biggest, the loudest, the most varied, and the most exciting sale we've ever done begins now. How big is it? There are way over 600 games from our catalog steadily discounted by at least 50%. How loud is it? Let's just mention the fact, that we're opening with a triple nuclear blast, giving away Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics for FREE the next 48 hours. How varied is it? On top of regular discounts you'll have daily deals including games presented by YouTube personalities, hot thematic bundles chosen each day by our dear users, offered with up to 80% discounts, and--finally--daily personal deals where you pick one of the special offers available to you, and you only. How exciting is it? Well, you probably get the idea by now. So, there you have it: time to save BIG on the best games in history, available DRM-free for Windows and Mac.

This holiday season, your GOG.com Winter Sale experience include the company of Jesse Cox, Force Strategy Gaming, Dodger from Press Heart to Continue, and the YogsCast team. Each day we mash-up a classic game (or games) with it's modern successors and offer them with high discounts, while our tube-casting friends explain why they consider such a blend interesting and worth playing.

2013 DRM-Free Winter Sale Video Recommendations playlist

Section updated: Don't forget about your gamer friends that may not know GOG.com yet! Sadly, for the sake of unburdening what servers we have, we had to turn off the option for gifting free games. But you can always just let them know they can sign up with GOG.com and claim a free gift of Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. On top of that, when they register to our service, they'll receive all the 12 free games we add to all the newly-created accounts. That way your friends will start their adventure with GOG.com with a collection of 15 great games total already on their virtual shelves! Be kind, share the good news! :-)

We'd also like to remind you, that all purchases on GOG.com are now covered with our new 30-day Worldwide Money Back Guarantee, so your holiday gaming shopping spree is safer than it ever was before.

Worldwide Money Back Guarantee announcement video

Our 2013 DRM-Free Winter Sale will last until Sunday, December 29, at 1:59PM GMT. Happy holidays from GOG.com team, everyone! And again, sorry for the server issues in the initial hours of our sale.
Post edited December 14, 2013 by G-Doc
Posted December 16, 2013
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Melhelix: I got Thief 3 in my box earlier today and I'm wondering if I should pick it up. $2.50, worth it? Not worth it? Hmmm....
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CarrionCrow: Would say it all depends on how you feel about stealth. If you can play a stealth game, feel like a ninja, enjoy those "Oh crap, they spotted me, what now?" moments, then 75 percent off is always good.
But, if you play stealth like me, running around like a drunken rhino who unloads a shotgun full of fireworks into the nearest wall for no apparent reason? Then it's probably a pass.
Thanks! Think I'll pass for now then. There's always the next sale if the urge to slink strikes later.
Posted December 16, 2013
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nijuu: Caved in and bought Race the Sun after playing the demo. Question, anyone who played it, are there access to mods?. Devs site mentions steamwork for people to share stuff but what about drm free owners?
Never played it but my guess is here is the best place to look for other worlds.
Posted December 16, 2013
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Ghorpm: I was thinking about it too and... well, let's do some math, shall we?

SOTS: The Pit gold edition costs 12.99$ so 70% off it will cost 3.9$
Mindgames DLC and Gold Edition upgrade cost 4.99$ and 2.99$, respectively. But they are 50% during the entire sale so they cost 2.49$ and 1.49$ so 3.98$. That's only 8 cents more than the whole Gold Edition will cost tomorrow. So I won't be surprised if they are not included in a bundle tomorrow because you can upgrade your game during the whole sale for (almost) the same price.
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doady: 70% off $7.98 is $2.39. If it's any more than that then it will be a slap in the face to all the early buyers. But I guess that's par the course for all this DLC bullshit.
I understand your point but personally I wouldn't call it "a slap in the face". After all it's up to you when you buy your games and it's almost certain that the longer you wait the better deal you may get. In many cases a game becomes a freeware, would you call it a slap in the face to all buyers too? The major difference is that you had the possibility to play the base game all the time while new buyers couldn't do that. You both pay the same price (let's forget about 8 cents) but early buyers had an access to a base game for some time already.

But as I said in the beginning, I do understand your point and partially agree with it. What I presented above it's just a calculation and we cannot switch off our emotions and deal like this (assuming there won't be 70% discount for upgrading a base game) DOES make us feel that we've been somehow cheated and that the new customers are treated better. Bad PR I would say, Kerberos Productions should avoid situations like this.

So I cannot say I share your opinion but it's not like I disagree with it completely. I'm somewhere in the middle... in a few hours we'll know more, so far those are just our speculations ;)
Posted December 16, 2013
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Buenro-games: I hope Spelunky isn't disappointing. We shall see in a few hours.
I would say it's very addictive, fun and... hard as nails. Honesty, the game is very brutal, even more than Rogue Legacy. Mainly because in the latter your heirs are getting stronger and stronger (most of the time at least) while you won't find anything like that in Spelunky. You can, however, build shortcuts that will allow you to start the game in latter levels (there are four standard worlds and shortcuts let you reach a beginning of each world). Beside that - no character development. The idea is that you, the player, becomes smarter after each failure ;) Most of the time you will learn how different traps work hard way. It's almost guaranteed that you'll die after just a few moments after reaching a new world for the first time :) But don't worry, it's not that you are losing much and every time you start a new game every level is generated randomly so it's not getting repetitive. I managed to beat the game after 140 horrible deaths and from what I saw over the Internet, it's a pretty good achievement ;) I can wholeheartedly recommend the game!
Posted December 16, 2013
Bought "Race the Sun". Immediately found that, despite being a single-player game, it hangs while loading if there's no internet connection. That's a pretty serious oversight on the part of the developers! The intentions may be different, but the effect is perilously close to internet-based DRM, so I guess this will be my first use of the money back guarantee policy, unless a patch is forthcoming.

EDIT: I messed that up. The game does hang if I tell my firewall to deny it internet access (which is of course an entirely reasonable thing to do to a single-player game with no stated internet requirements), but that may be dependent on the firewall in question. The game works just fine with no internet when the firewall is not intervening!
Post edited December 17, 2013 by Shadowcat
Posted December 16, 2013
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Shadowcat: Bought "Race the Sun". Immediately found that, despite being a single-player game, it hangs while loading if there's no internet connection. That's a pretty serious oversight on the part of the developers! The intentions may be different, but the effect is perilously close to internet-based DRM, so I guess this will be my first use of the money back guarantee policy, unless a patch is forthcoming.
The internet should only be an option if you wanted the online leader boards and daily challenges; I know I can play offline (press a button). As for it hanging I haven't seen that personally yet, but definitely make some noise about it to get it fixed.
Post edited December 16, 2013 by rtcvb32
Posted December 16, 2013
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rtcvb32: The internet should only be an option if you wanted the online leader boards and daily challenges; I know I can play offline (press a button). As for it hanging I haven't seen that personally yet, but definitely make some noise about it to get it fixed.
Yep, I've logged a support request, and hopefully the developers will get a patch underway (I'm pretty sure there's nothing GOG can do about it directly). FYI you should be able to see this for yourself simply by pulling your network cable out before running the game.

EDIT: As per the edit to the original post, this was incorrect. Although I thought I'd tested this very scenario before posting, I seem to have messed it up. Without firewall intervention, the game does work fine if I simply unplug my network cable. It successfully loads the menu, and I can choose the offline option.
Post edited December 17, 2013 by Shadowcat
Posted December 16, 2013
2 hours 43 til SOTS Gold is mine :D
Posted December 16, 2013
This year I am doing all of my Christmas games shopping here at GOG. Keep growing and giving us DRM free goodies!
Posted December 16, 2013
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disulfiram: This year I am doing all of my Christmas games shopping here at GOG. Keep growing and giving us DRM free goodies!
I think some of us will be buying more closer it gets to Xmas. i wonder if GOG is planning something for Xmas day? (wonder they will do the day the other sale launches....)
Posted December 16, 2013
I didn't have any GOG games other than the free ones until yesterday. The D&D Desire deal is just amazing! Regarding the boxes, I had "Nox" from clicking on the classic box, "Shadow Warrior (2013)" on the Brave New World box, and "Deus Ex: GOTY Edition" on the random magic box. It's my chance to pick something up. I'm wondering if I'll get something from my wish list to show up and which box should I click next. This sale is so great for newcomers. Thank you GOG!
Posted December 16, 2013
I like the sale, but I miss the every Saturday sale. I hope Gog goes back to the regular sale after this one. I like when I could buy one game instead of the whole lot. But I did buy the RPG deal. It was too great to pass by. Gog gave the game plus the expansions, wow. Hope I can pick Deus Ex: GOTY Edition too.
Posted December 16, 2013
They should go back to regular sales.... but maybe not til after near year. There was an encore sale after the xmas one last year....
Posted December 16, 2013
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rtcvb32: The internet should only be an option if you wanted the online leader boards and daily challenges; I know I can play offline (press a button). As for it hanging I haven't seen that personally yet, but definitely make some noise about it to get it fixed.
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Shadowcat: Yep, I've logged a support request, and hopefully the developers will get a patch underway (I'm pretty sure there's nothing GOG can do about it directly). FYI you should be able to see this for yourself simply by pulling your network cable out before running the game.
I just tried it myself (switched off wifi on my laptop and started the game), the game plays fine offline. Not sure why it isn't working for you. Did you choose the offline option in the game, and didn't try to log in to the leaderboards or whatever?

Then again there's something to be said about the game itself... I must admit I was waiting something more than just steering a ship left and right. Yeah, it's an endless runner game so I should have known it is not more than similar genre games on tablets and smartphones, but somehow I was still expecting a bit more...

The screenshots and such actually reminded me of some (freeware?) Star Wars game from close to a decade ago. The graphics looked somewhat similar to Race the Sun (simplistic shades of gray mainly), but the game was basically an Star Wars action game. Damn I recall I enjoyed it a lot, I wonder if it is still available out there

I also always wondered how on earth it could have been freeware to begin with, since it had very Star Wars-like music, and overall it felt like a proper, albeit a bit simple, Star Wars game... Maybe it was later pulled away for mimicking the SW license too much or something. Now I must search my hard drives if I still have it around somewhere...
Post edited December 16, 2013 by timppu
Posted December 16, 2013
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timppu: The screenshots and such actually reminded me of some (freeware?) Star Wars game from close to a decade ago. The graphics looked somewhat similar to Race the Sun (simplistic shades of gray mainly), but the game was basically an Star Wars action game. Damn I recall I enjoyed it a lot, I wonder if it is still available out there

I also always wondered how on earth it could have been freeware to begin with, since it had very Star Wars-like music, and overall it felt like a proper, albeit a bit simple, Star Wars game... Maybe it was later pulled away for mimicking the SW license too much or something. Now I must search my hard drives if I still have it around somewhere...
Not sure, but you might be talking about Star Wars: The Battle of Yavin.
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