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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 28, 2014
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donsanderson: What are the odds of pluses, minuses, sales and actual time flow balancing to keep this between 16 and 18 minutes for over an hour?
Wow.
As strange as it may seem, given a relatively constant influx of new people this is pretty much what one would expect. Not the exact time but some kind of equilibrium point.
Posted January 28, 2014
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Davane: snip
Excellent post, thanks. And that is indeed an unheard of turn-around for a sequel. Unless they got Roger "3 day shoot" Corman to do it. But Breaking 2 was even less watchable than most of his output.
Posted January 28, 2014
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ChiefOblivious: Oh so this voting option appears only from time to time?
It's available for every game, until you make your choice (+ or -). The option also disappears after you've bought the game on offer. But! you can still use it before purchasing.
Posted January 28, 2014
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mudd1: The "time left" curve might look interesting though. For popular games such as this one I'd expect a plateau and then an increasingly fast drop-off when saturation is reached. So I guess it will be uncomfortably difficult to predict how much time's actually left.

Someone should plot these things anyway.
I am pretty sure someone has somewhere.

Sure, people are buying these games, but I am also sure that there's a whole bunch of people here just to kill time watching the timer go up!
Posted January 28, 2014
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stg83: There, fixed that for you. :P
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sirchaox1224: Lol

Well naturally, I mean web development is synonymous to magic
Indeed, it is the closest thing to magic we have in our world. :)
Posted January 28, 2014
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sirchaox1224: What do you guys think 1987 will be?
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randomengine: Either Leisure Suit Larry or Pirates! Gold.
Well, poop I don't want either of those.
Posted January 28, 2014
What kind of Time Machine Sale doesn't let you buy a time machine?
Posted January 28, 2014
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donsanderson: What are the odds of pluses, minuses, sales and actual time flow balancing to keep this between 16 and 18 minutes for over an hour?
Wow.
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mudd1: As strange as it may seem, given a relatively constant influx of new people this is pretty much what one would expect. Not the exact time but some kind of equilibrium point.
Maybe the other sales were too short to really notice this.
I'd really love to see a graph of these, it would be very interesting I think.
Posted January 28, 2014
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Blooglspash: What kind of Time Machine Sale doesn't let you buy a time machine?
An evil one? :D
Posted January 28, 2014
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greggk124: I've only had the ability to -1 once for M&M. Do I need to logout/login, delete cookies, etc?
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mudd1: I think he just meant "everybody vote".

If I were GOG I would have put some kind of IP restriction in place or else it would be too easy to just drain this counter to 0 in no time with some scripting.
I meant "-1" for each and every sale starting with M&M. :-)
Imho, they should still limit one sale to 2.5 hours at the most.
Posted January 28, 2014
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randomengine: Either Leisure Suit Larry or Pirates! Gold.
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sirchaox1224: Well, poop I don't want either of those.
YES! I want Pirate's Gold.....Oh, you meant the game Pirates! Gold, nevermind then.
Posted January 28, 2014
Okay seriously... I think this thing has been on sale for longer than 90 minutes now. I think GoG is trolling us at this point. MOVE ON!!!
Posted January 28, 2014
This format should get interesting. Unless GOG puts the biggest turd possible out there for 59 cents, and probably even if it really and truly IS the biggest turd conceivable, it's still going to hang around for hours. If 10,000 people are willing to drop pocket change for that game, the time it will hang around will be spiked by 30,000 seconds (500 minutes - 8 hours, 20 minutes.) The cheapest items will probably be the Jack Keane/Retro City Rampages of this promotion.
Posted January 28, 2014
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sirchaox1224: Lol

Well naturally, I mean web development is synonymous to magic
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stg83: Indeed, it is the closest thing to magic we have in our world. :)
Of course it is...

<.< >.> <.<

Move along, nothing to see here!

I probably shouldn't invoke the watchtowers just to move Might and Magic 6-pack along. Who knows when Manhole, Masterpiece Edition is going to turn up! :O
Posted January 28, 2014
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Blooglspash: What kind of Time Machine Sale doesn't let you buy a time machine?
They initially meant to offer a DRM-Free Time Machine, but that is a contradiction, as no functioning time machine can be without a Distortion Riemannian Manifold. So to make up for that they are offering us game bargains instead.
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