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Posted January 28, 2014
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
Posted January 30, 2014
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fronzelneekburm: Since there have been quite a few posts praising this sale over the Insomnia sale, allow me to chime in with my thoughts.

Pro:
- The way this sale is run is a brilliant inversion of the insomnia sale's greatest problem: Instead of having the most popular games sell out within minutes, sometimes seconds, while the unpopular games stay up for hours on end, it's the polar opposite now: The popular games stay on the longest time.

Cons:
- Complete lack of variety: This is the most important point of all: I LOVED the selection during the insomnia sale! It struck a perfect balance between well-established franchises and the more obscure, newer indie titles. It encouraged you to try new stuff. The time machine sale, however, has none of that variety. Worse yet, all the games offered are merely a part of a franchise. It feels more like an attempt to get people to buy one game at a good discount while hoping that the buyer might feel inclined to complete their collection as soon as possible (preferably without a discount).
- No freebies: Let's face it, one of the main factors that kept the community glued to their screens was the ever so slim chance of snagging a freebie.
- Pace: It's weird, but there was something jolly (yet also somewhat stressful) about the frenetic pace that games sold at during the insomnia sale. Slow-selling games felt like welcome chances to get some rest. I don't get any of those vibes in this sale. On top of that, not having any repeats is frustrating as it almost ensure that you'll miss out on stuff. Having to go to bed at 1997, knowing full well that your fondest years of gaming are just up ahead, while realizing that you might wake up in 2004 when gaming started to go downhill isn't exactly the best thing to have on your mind when going to sleep. Especially when you know that there are no second chances.
Your cons seem like you wanted to get a specific game on sale and you never got a chance.

Your 'variety' is completely different from other people's 'variety'. You say that but there are many posts asking if they should try whatever game was on sale. Hell, there was someone asking about The Witcher.

You don't have to get a free game at every sale.

You say slow selling games was an opportunity for rest. During this sale fast selling games gave you the same chance. There is a list of the games that lasted the longest. The Witcher is the longest so far.
Posted January 30, 2014
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johnnygoging: pro
fairly good track record good behaviour despite a large market advantage
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fronzelneekburm: Please elaborate! I can't think of a single instance of Valve ever making any major concessions to the players.

However, why don't we continue this in one of the various Steam-discussion threads. This one is fairly popular at the moment: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/sick_of_justifications_for_releasing_1player_games_exclusively_on_steam
shouldn't really need to. just in general they could be a hell of a lot worse given their position in things. they've already begun relaxing their drm, and granted, this more has to do with the push towards living room, but it's still something. they could be worse than they are right now. I read they've given out free games and such before to people who have had problems with their games due to steam bugs. so there's that as well.

they are being pressured by origin, and that's good, to a point, but they could still get away with being worse given how many users that they have.
Posted January 30, 2014
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fronzelneekburm: - No freebies: Let's face it, one of the main factors that kept the community glued to their screens was the ever so slim chance of snagging a freebie
This. Not that the Amnesia Sale didn't prove awesome for a lot of other reasons, but that's what got me interested in the first place. Giving a free copy of a game to every Goglodyte out there must be pretty costly to GOG, but giving a handful of copies to a handful of lucky users seems like the kind of petty effort that could bring them even more love from the community. My two cents.
Posted January 30, 2014
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fronzelneekburm: Since there have been quite a few posts praising this sale over the Insomnia sale, allow me to chime in with my thoughts.

Pro:
- The way this sale is run is a brilliant inversion of the insomnia sale's greatest problem: Instead of having the most popular games sell out within minutes, sometimes seconds, while the unpopular games stay up for hours on end, it's the polar opposite now: The popular games stay on the longest time.

Cons:
- Complete lack of variety: This is the most important point of all: I LOVED the selection during the insomnia sale! It struck a perfect balance between well-established franchises and the more obscure, newer indie titles. It encouraged you to try new stuff. The time machine sale, however, has none of that variety. Worse yet, all the games offered are merely a part of a franchise. It feels more like an attempt to get people to buy one game at a good discount while hoping that the buyer might feel inclined to complete their collection as soon as possible (preferably without a discount).
- No freebies: Let's face it, one of the main factors that kept the community glued to their screens was the ever so slim chance of snagging a freebie.
- Pace: It's weird, but there was something jolly (yet also somewhat stressful) about the frenetic pace that games sold at during the insomnia sale. Slow-selling games felt like welcome chances to get some rest. I don't get any of those vibes in this sale. On top of that, not having any repeats is frustrating as it almost ensure that you'll miss out on stuff. Having to go to bed at 1997, knowing full well that your fondest years of gaming are just up ahead, while realizing that you might wake up in 2004 when gaming started to go downhill isn't exactly the best thing to have on your mind when going to sleep. Especially when you know that there are no second chances.
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JustSayin: Your cons seem like you wanted to get a specific game on sale and you never got a chance.

Your 'variety' is completely different from other people's 'variety'. You say that but there are many posts asking if they should try whatever game was on sale. Hell, there was someone asking about The Witcher.

You don't have to get a free game at every sale.

You say slow selling games was an opportunity for rest. During this sale fast selling games gave you the same chance. There is a list of the games that lasted the longest. The Witcher is the longest so far.
wasn't around for the other sale, but deus ex is the longest so far, witcher is 2nd so far
Posted January 30, 2014
An interesting note:

Summing the prices of all the games so far gives $56.02. That means that, since the news post says the total cost is $65, the next three games will cost about $9 in total. That's a mean price of $3 per game, while the mean price for the 28 games so far is exactly $2 :)
Posted January 30, 2014
So let's assume Spelunky is the game for 2013. What percentage do you think they will take off from it?
Posted January 30, 2014
what the hell is that amnesia crap still doing here?
Posted January 30, 2014
Hoi guys. Finally home. How long has Amnesia been out yet?
Post edited January 30, 2014 by Malek86
Posted January 30, 2014
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JustSayin: Your cons seem like you wanted to get a specific game on sale and you never got a chance.

Your 'variety' is completely different from other people's 'variety'. You say that but there are many posts asking if they should try whatever game was on sale. Hell, there was someone asking about The Witcher.
While I must admit that not including Thief and Shock 2 in the sale DID bug me (even though I already own them), I wasn't referring to those in particular.

Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about: During the Insomnia sale I bought stuff like Puddle or The Real Texas. Stuff that I hadn't heard of, let alone considered paying money for. Sure, due to the time machine subject of the current sale, gog must of course include some of their most prominent names. But still, I liked the "This doesn't look bad, let's try that one!"-feel of the Insomnia sale better.
Posted January 30, 2014
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Malek86: Hoi guys. Finally home. How long has Amnesia been out yet?
Around 2 and 1/2 hour.
Posted January 30, 2014
With 39ish minutes left for Amnesia I'm not convinced if I should buy it or not because I'm not too much a fan of horror games. I'm actually worried this game might be too scary for me. In your opinion, from 1-10, how scary would Amnesia be? Depending on the answer I'll make a decision. Guess that sounds weird but oh well...
Posted January 30, 2014
So I just got back from work and hate to get you all "back on topic" but how is the current game? (amnesia) the reviews on it seem wildly far apart with a general bent of folks liking it.

Would it be too intense for my daughter? (15)
Posted January 30, 2014
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Grobles87: With 39ish minutes left for Amnesia I'm not convinced if I should buy it or not because I'm not too much a fan of horror games. I'm actually worried this game might be too scary for me. In your opinion, from 1-10, how scary would Amnesia be? Depending on the answer I'll make a decision. Guess that sounds weird but oh well...
It's so scary that I can barely get passed like, the first hour of it

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Cyberevil: So I just got back from work and hate to get you all "back on topic" but how is the current game? (amnesia) the reviews on it seem wildly far apart with a general bent of folks liking it.

Would it be too intense for my daughter? (15)
It just sort of depends on the person. Like, it's not particularly violent, it's just VERY tense and atmospheric. Maybe get it for her and let her try it? At worst, she'll just get too scared and shut it off forever :P
Post edited January 30, 2014 by deneric
Posted January 30, 2014
The "Good Times" are over... So I guess I'm done here...
Posted January 30, 2014
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Grobles87: With 39ish minutes left for Amnesia I'm not convinced if I should buy it or not because I'm not too much a fan of horror games. I'm actually worried this game might be too scary for me. In your opinion, from 1-10, how scary would Amnesia be? Depending on the answer I'll make a decision. Guess that sounds weird but oh well...
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deneric: It's so scary that I can barely get passed like, the first hour of it
I can personally vouch for this. I am the same way.
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