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Rumor says that expeditions will be part of the BTA for tomorrow’s humble weekly anyway

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That would be great. I just popped for $5 on the Humble WB Bundle because of the BTA additions of FEAR (to make it a complete trilogy) and the LOTRO bonus (500 TP) and Guardians of Middle Earth stuff. Giving them another $5 for Expeditions Conquistador would make my week complete.

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It’s hard to keep perspective as the deals whiz by on GoG. This sale puts the boot into my obsessive weakness.

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Jack Keene 2 is apparently the cure for insomnia, as it’s been the deal now for over an hour.

Goodnight GOG sale!

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Yeah, they didn’t figure on Jack Keane 2. This batch was only 100 copies but they are not moving.

But it has spawned some hilarious user reviews:

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I really, really don’t like the idea of limited quantity digital sales when half the frigging point of digital is that QUANTITIES ARE NOT ACTUALLY LIMITED. If this form of sale takes off I will be a really unhappy camper.

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Yeah, time-limited sales seem much more naturally suited to the digital format yet achieve the same effect. GOG could just do 1-minute flash sales for 6 hours and I think it would have gotten just as much excitement.

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They didn’t limit quantity. You can still buy all those games right now.

Anyway it was a fun gimmick likely aimed at getting a bunch of press (which they did) and hopefully getting some new customers to come in for the bargains and stay to buy more stuff later. It’s probably a limited gimmick in that people will get sick of staring at a webpage for hours hoping something good comes up.

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Yeah, I guess I missed all of the excitement during my commute home from work! (Plus… you know… working at work, then dinner, then TV news… blerg!)

I gather that they’re just cycling through the same list again? Is that listed posted online somewhere? In the last 15 minutes I’ve seen exactly 2 people buy Jacke Keane 2 (down to 55), so I’m trying to gauge whether it’s really worth my insomnia to wait for some more exciting deals (Alpha Centauri and a few others would be nice to see on super sale…)

[edit: 70 minutes later and Keane is only down to 33 copies… I’d never heard of this game before tonight, but GoG has successfully seared it into my memory as a game I’ll forever dislike* for no other reason than the inconvenience of its existence.
*(“hate” seemed too strong)]

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Yes, but I can’t take advantage of the sale. I don’t care about being able to buy the game at its regular price, since if I cared to do so I would most likely have done so already. With physical goods, a sale is inherently limited to the quantity of that good in stock. There’s no good reason to place a similar limitation on a digital sale.

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Wow, I was sure they had put in a safety valve that slowly drains the inventory if no one’s buying something. I assumed that’s how we got past Jack Keane the first time!

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I feel sorry for the developers, knowing that it was their game that Stopped The GOG Sale.

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I briefly monitored the sale yesterday, but the three sales I was interested in, I’d click the buy button and would get a “Our system cannot handle the traffic” message as a result.
Doing this kind of sales when the system cannot handle the load was not a very good idea - it’s bad enough at amazon’s lighning sales, but at least the worst that can happen there is that the quantity is all used up by the time your request is processed, whilst here I get an error message.

Timsfker’s idea is spot on - they should have just made limited time sales instead.

Jack Keane 2 was the very first game I saw on sale when I opened up the GOG site yesterday, so their sales seem to be revolving/repeating … it’s down to 11 copies now. I can’t help but wonder if the game is purchased by people that are not actually interested in playing it but instead want the sale to continue… :p

rezaf

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Well, a whole mess of people who wouldn’t have been talking about or writing about or thinking about or buying things from GOG today, instead were. There’s one good reason. I’m not sure why that causes you angst. Would it have been preferable if they had instead had a series of 5-minute sales?

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New deal of the week for Amazon is going live any minute now. First, you can get Far Cry 3 for $14.99, or with Blood Dragon for $19.99. Strangely you can get the base game for Steam, but the bundle is Uplay only. The Pixel Junk games are also on sale, including a bundle with PJ Monsters, Shooter and Eden for $16.89. Those 3 are Steam games.

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Yes. Not that I would like that, either, but at least people who happened to be lucky enough to be around for the key five minutes wouldn’t be in direct competition for the sale price.

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Good news everyone!

Sometime in the wee hours Jack Keane finally sold out (or the plug was pulled by GOG). The sale continues, and right now you can get Shadow Man for only $2.39. Hurry though, as it’s flying off the digital shelves nearly as quickly as Jack Keane 2!

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It’s not Shadow Man anymore, titles are flying around again. It’s Ultima Underworld while I’m typing this, but about to disappear.

Humble Bundle WB Games unlocked a bunch for the beating-the-average price:
F.E.A.R., Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection, Guardians of Middle Earth + DLC, Lord of the Rings Online starter pack, Gotham City Impostors, and the Millenial Skin Pack for Batman Arkham Origins (LOL the lure to buy the new game).

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Indieroyale has a new bundle out:

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I tried all the humble bundle free to plays:

Guardians of Middle Earth. I love games like this & Lord of the Rings. This was my most disappointing game since Duke Nukem Forever. I liked that a lot more. It doesn’t respect the lore at all, and provides no reason for why Bilbo and Legolas are fighting with Sauron against Gandalf, Galadriel and the Witch King (for example. you make the teams). The game itself is incredibly boring. The only good things I could say about it was it had great presentation quality and I liked the intro movie. If you want to try it I recommend using 5v5 co-op versus bots. Expect a bunch of your teammates to quit during the match, which would be disatrous versus other players, but their bot opponents disconnect as well.

Gotham City Imposters. Enjoyed this. It’s similar to Team Fortress 2, but oozing with style and batman-related goodies. Grappling hooks and gliders are some of the tools you can use while fighting against other people.

Lord of the Rings Online. Great if you enjoy either World of Warcraft-style MMOs, or the story. It’s another hotbar masherwatcher where you run to locations marked on the compass for quests. Pretty much everywhere in the first book (second with the expansions) can be visited. Unlike Guardians, it completely respects the lore and builds its own well-written story and experience around it. I recommend starting in the Shire. The bundled stuff will let you get to level 45ish (~50 hours) before you have to decide if you want to spend money on the game. The best LOTRO bargain, if you wanted to spend a lot of time with the game at once, is to buy a single month of VIP. This temporarily unlocks most quest packs, and permanently unlocks things (gold cap, riding skill, inventory slots, trait abilities and more) on every single character you play during that time. It’s also the only way to permanently unlock the swift travel ability, which I can’t imagine playing without at higher levels.

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Gamersgate is having an all Assassin’s Creed weekend. I am currently 2/3 of the way through AC2. They have Revelations and Brotherhood on sale. Should I buy them? Both or just the better of the two, and which is better?