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Let's do the time warp again*!

Welcome to our [url=http://www.gog.com]DRM-Free Time Machine Sale! Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a fascinating ride to the early days of PC gaming and back again, with 30 excellent titles selected from the years 1983-2013, available up to 90% off (that is for as little as $0.59!). You'll find amazing games in amazing prices featured one by one on GOG.com main page, and before the sale is done you'll be able to complete your very own display of gaming history on a budget below $65 (because this would be the cost to get every single game in the sale). Are you ready?

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There's more than just buying games incredibly cheap to our DRM-Free Time Machine Sale! We're ready to pass its steering wheel (or rather the control console) to YOU. Each game in the sale is offered for a limited time only, and how long we stay in its year is up to you! Each time you see a new game on sale you can vote to either add or subtract 1 second from the timer. Each time you buy a game, you add 3 seconds to the time of it being on sale. We begin with 1983's Zork, bundled with the rest of the Zork Anthology of 6 games in total, for only $1.79. How long will it last on the front page? You'll be the judge. What comes next, as the game of 1984? Let's find out!

Let's take a trip in GOG.com's DRM-Free Time Machine Sale! 30 great games from 1983-2013 will be available up to 90% off, and you get to decide how long each game is on sale. Ready? The technomagical gateway to 1983 opens NOW!

* "Again?", you might ask, "when did they ever do the time warp?". Well, once you embark on a journey through time, all becomes relevant and there's absolutely no guarantee that what you are doing, you are doing for the first time. In fact, that's highly improbable. After all, time isn't linear. It's more like a giant wobbly-bobbly goggy-boggy ball of gaming awesome!
Post edited January 28, 2014 by G-Doc
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Frozen: This is madness!
THIS. IS. KEEEEEANE! :P
Post edited January 29, 2014 by stg83
One cool thing of note about this sale is that unlike the Insomnia sale where an unpopular game, or a game that had a much higher than average price could stall the sale for longer and longer periods of time due to non-movement, this sale can only extend the time specifically due to popularity either by purchase or by vote, so any games that go way beyond the initial timer are truely popular one way or another and arguably worthy of the extra air time so it kind of makes sense. I actually kind of like the fact all of the games are there for a few hours and think I'd prefer it if they even made the default time 2 or 3 hours, but increased the amount of seconds that one can up or down vote a game, just so one doesn't have to stay glued to GOG.com every 30 minutes all day long throughout the sale to not miss something. :)

Yeah, if *any* of the D&D games come up in the sale, might as well throw in the towel and come back in a week or two as any of those games will sell 1000-2000 copies or more easily. 2000 * 3 seconds == 6000 seconds. I wonder if we'll end up seeing something go over a day on sale? ;oP

What would be really really funny though, is if Mr. Keane goes on sale and the timer lapses to 0 in less than 10 minutes from all the downvotes. hehehe.
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mudd1: Speaking of the lack of technical problems, is it just me or is the forum and the site in general *much* more stable this time than during the Insomnia sale?
I think most of the troubles of that sale were caused by the flash "free" sales after every fifth deal which not only caused huge spikes in traffic at the time but motivated people to constantly spam refreshes leading up to it and for a while after. Plus, they probably did do some network tightening after seeing what a serious load could do to the system.
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justanoldgamer: I can think of a few nights where I wish time worked that way. Go to sleep at 3:30 in the morning and wake up at 6:00 after 9 hours of sleep.
exactly said! :D
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P1na: Oh boy. And I haven't even started yet..
How many copies so far? :D
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OK GOG, I see what you're doing now. You're picking titles that go perfectly or almost perfectly with Jack Keane puns :D
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mudd1: Speaking of the lack of technical problems, is it just me or is the forum and the site in general *much* more stable this time than during the Insomnia sale?
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foxworks: It has generally been very stable. I remember GOG added servers during the Fallout giveaway. They may have done the same for this sale.
The Insomnia sale also was far more crash-prone due to the way freebies worked. There were a ton of clicks any time a game changed, in case it was a freebie, and this sudden spike in traffic reliably crashed the servers shortly afterwards. There isn't a a similar dynamic at work here, the worse is likely just the initial flurry of votes. And even those are more spread out than the freebie clicks were.
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mudd1: I'm really happy they planned for the case that the time bar got overfull and this didn't crash the GOG server or something ;)
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Pidgeot: I think it would have been a nice touch if the progress bar had literally overflowed.
Make this happen, GOG. One change to the CSS and one change to the javascript, and you make this a reality.
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mudd1: Speaking of the lack of technical problems, is it just me or is the forum and the site in general *much* more stable this time than during the Insomnia sale?
It helps that there is no reasons for people to rush in to buy all at one. The forum is also more stable so I guessed you're right.
Link to my Facebook profile.

See, isn't that cover photo just purty?!
It keeps going, and going,...
2:03??? WTF :-)
They could have started this one with 5 minutes without significantly altering the outcome.
This is gonna be crazy, I feel like I could go to sleep in 4 hours, wake up in 12 hours, and Deus Ex would still be selling.
O come on! How can this many people not own this game already!? I was hoping to see the rest of the games sometime in this century.

I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm glad people have a chance to get a great game at a low price... I just wish it didn't mean waiting so long for the next game.