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GOG.com is celebrating 6th birthday: 20+ games from our Year Six up to 75% off!

For six years now, we've been building a library of great games of many genres, ages, and origins. One by one they were introduced to our catalog, publisher by publisher, developer by developer, series by series. We've started small, with just a couple dozen of games and a small crew of passionate gamers. Then we grew. Each year was exciting and brought excellent additions to our offer. This week, we'd like to go back to GOG.com history, taking you on a little trip down the memory lane. Each day we'll be taking some of the games we've released in a given year of GOG's existence, and offering them to you up to 80% off.

The sixth year of GOG.com, the year we've just now completed (starting September 2013) we will always remember for the sheer amount of awesome things we managed to pull off. We've introduced an unmatched Money Back Guarantee. We gave away the original Fallout trilogy, as well as the classic Dungeon Keeper for free, to the gamers around the world. We've promised and delivered Linux support. We've launched our DRM-free movies. We've announced GOG Galaxy, a DRM-free Online Gaming Platform. All that, while maintaining our main focus: expanding our catalog with great classic and indie titles. One of them was Banished, a phenomenally well-received game made by a single person. Here's what our community member, Mordam, had to say about it:

It surprises me that this game can be so much better than most city managing sims I have seen in the last years. The interface is intuitive and helpful, the graphics is spectacular, and the atmosphere is splendid. If you have played a city building game in the last years and have been left with that bad feeling that this was not what you really wanted, try this game. Hopefully you won't be disappointed. I sure wasn't

The year 2013/2014 brought many more exciting titles, classic and new, including S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition, or . You can grab them - and many more - up to 80% off - from our [url=http://www.gog.com/promo/6th_birthday_promo_year_six_130914]6th Birthday Promo page, today!

Today's featured games will remain discounted until Sunday, September 14, at 9:59AM GMT, so don't miss your chance! And make sure to come back tomorrow for something special...
It's not like the games disappeared from the site. For what they are, they are well worth the price.

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Caine123: :(
i think they read how much i want the Crusader games and let me suffer...... gog.com how could u do it to me like this....
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igrok: It's not like the games disappeared from the site. For what they are, they are well worth the price.

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Caine123: :(
i think they read how much i want the Crusader games and let me suffer...... gog.com how could u do it to me like this....
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igrok:
u can say that to all games, dont be so ridiculous :P
Well, it managed to happen already. I missed year 6 of this promotion. Checking GOG.com was always the first thing I did in the morning. Due to the horrendous redesign of the site, my interest in GOG has been dropping daily. I don't think I've ever forgotten to check for a weekend special before now. Good job web developers, you managed to save me some money and keep my backlog from growing. I would have purchased five games if I hadn't missed this one, and I really wanted Banished.

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eiii: , too much money spent on the new web site...
too much money wasted on the new web site...
Post edited September 15, 2014 by jalister
I had to work this weekend, so it seems, that i missed something:

"Today's featured games will remain discounted until Sunday, September 14, at 9:59AM GMT, so don't miss your chance! And make sure to come back tomorrow for something special..."

What was this "something special" that i've missed?
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Kolto66: I had to work this weekend, so it seems, that i missed something:

"Today's featured games will remain discounted until Sunday, September 14, at 9:59AM GMT, so don't miss your chance! And make sure to come back tomorrow for something special..."

What was this "something special" that i've missed?
An encore sale for each year featured last week.
Okay. So nothing really missed then. I thought it was a free game or such. :-)
Here is a promo tally for the sales I posted, some interesting results:

Year 1 - 12,378 Views +38 (Frontpage)
Year 2 - 7,057 Views +62 (Frontpage)
Year 3 - 10,394 Views +44 (Frontpage)
Year 4 - 2,062 Views +4
Year 5 - 1,061 Views +3
Year 6 - 8,941 Views +14
Finale - 10,235 Views +44 (Frontpage)

Also, the indietastic sale:
Indie - 1,104 Views +0
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jalister: Well, it managed to happen already. I missed year 6 of this promotion. Checking GOG.com was always the first thing I did in the morning. Due to the horrendous redesign of the site, my interest in GOG has been dropping daily. I don't think I've ever forgotten to check for a weekend special before now. Good job web developers, you managed to save me some money and keep my backlog from growing. I would have purchased five games if I hadn't missed this one, and I really wanted Banished.

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eiii: , too much money spent on the new web site...
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jalister: too much money wasted on the new web site...
I tried to reduce my bitching about the new site a bit. :)

But yes, from my personal, egoistical point of view GOG wastes money on the wrong things, the new web site, movies and the Galaxy client. But others may disagree, especially about the Galaxy client.
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jalister: Well, it managed to happen already. I missed year 6 of this promotion. Checking GOG.com was always the first thing I did in the morning. Due to the horrendous redesign of the site, my interest in GOG has been dropping daily. I don't think I've ever forgotten to check for a weekend special before now. Good job web developers, you managed to save me some money and keep my backlog from growing. I would have purchased five games if I hadn't missed this one, and I really wanted Banished.

too much money wasted on the new web site...
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eiii: I tried to reduce my bitching about the new site a bit. :)

But yes, from my personal, egoistical point of view GOG wastes money on the wrong things, the new web site, movies and the Galaxy client. But others may disagree, especially about the Galaxy client.
I tried to, but I'm failing miserably. I stop complaining if I stay away from the new site. :)

For me, I suspect movies will be a waste. I'm not suspecting anything to show up in that category that I'll actually want. Not even one non-documentary is in the list so far. As for Galaxy, I was optimistic, especially considering how many people seem to love Steam. I'm no longer optimistic. If it looks anything like the new GOG, I'll avoid it.
Post edited September 15, 2014 by jalister
Thank you to all the staff at GOG.
I enjoyed your birthday promotion and purchased a few gems.

Maybe there be a Christmas promotion... (nudge, nudge)
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jalister: Well, it managed to happen already. I missed year 6 of this promotion. Checking GOG.com was always the first thing I did in the morning. Due to the horrendous redesign of the site, my interest in GOG has been dropping daily. I don't think I've ever forgotten to check for a weekend special before now. Good job web developers, you managed to save me some money and keep my backlog from growing. I would have purchased five games if I hadn't missed this one, and I really wanted Banished.
Since I missed this, I ended up finding the game I wanted for a better sale price somewhere else than here, and DRM free also. Thanks, things are looking up.