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LeoLeonardoIII

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Re: GOG Insomnia Sale
« Reply #30 on: November 13, 2013, 07:50:29 pm »

Probably a bunch of people doing that, with rotating obfuscated IPs and multiple accounts to avoid detection. I doubt any one person is getting more than 1% of the freebies. And considering they're doing the sale and getting profit from it, I doubt they need to put a stop to it.

The tiny, beleaguered optimist in me says the GOG people care about it and would like it to stop, though. Unlike many other companies whose employees have no damns to give.
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Re: GOG Insomnia Sale
« Reply #31 on: November 13, 2013, 08:04:11 pm »

Yeah, ideally something along the lines of a raffle would have been better than the first come, first serve giveaway they are doing.

GOG is very generous with their free promotions, though.
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« Reply #32 on: November 13, 2013, 08:08:22 pm »

Yeah, ideally something along the lines of a raffle would have been better than the first come, first serve giveaway they are doing.

GOG is very generous with their free promotions, though.

I'm sure those script kiddies are loving that generosity.

All of it.
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« Reply #33 on: November 13, 2013, 08:18:13 pm »

I mean they are very generous with free promotions in general.  Some months ago I got a free copy of Fallout and Torchlight from them and I wasn't even a paying customer at the time.
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« Reply #34 on: November 13, 2013, 08:56:16 pm »

I'm not trying to buy anything (or get any of the free things), and I still think this is just awful. I'm certainly not going to stare at GoG for the next 6+ hours hoping for something I'm interested in to appear, and then rush to try to buy a copy before they all get snapped up by people with macros or something (Or just by the effect of lots of people trying to buy something popular without enough copies to go around).
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Re: GOG Insomnia Sale
« Reply #35 on: November 13, 2013, 10:47:35 pm »

I just finished Durlag's Tower and got through the Kora-toh mod for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition in the time it took to sell 24 copies of Jack Keane. I could kill Sarevok easily by the time it finishes but I would have to go through the Rogue's Labyrinth, yuck.
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Re: GOG Insomnia Sale
« Reply #36 on: November 13, 2013, 11:11:56 pm »

I'm thinking of going to bed.  By the time I wake up, another 60 people may have bought Jack Keane.

From GoG's twitter feed, 22 minutes ago:

"We scheduled this tweet hours ago so we have no idea what our Insomnia Sale has now, but it's probably awesome"

Awesome...except if you are Jack Keane.
« Last Edit: November 13, 2013, 11:24:04 pm by Bouchart »
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« Reply #37 on: November 14, 2013, 12:10:04 am »

Sure enough, it's barely selling. I kinda feel bad for the few who ARE buying it though.
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Re: GOG Insomnia Sale
« Reply #38 on: November 14, 2013, 12:11:26 am »

That bad, huh?
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« Reply #39 on: November 14, 2013, 12:42:13 am »

Sure enough, it's barely selling. I kinda feel bad for the few who ARE buying it though.

Is it really that bad? It seemed questionable based on the screenshots, but...
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« Reply #40 on: November 14, 2013, 12:49:39 am »

Posting to watch in case of cool freebies.
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« Reply #41 on: November 14, 2013, 12:51:45 am »

By the time they get posted here they'll be gone. I saw one freebie game get "sold out" in less than a second :P
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« Reply #42 on: November 14, 2013, 01:07:33 am »

It's been several hours now and it just now has more than 60 sales...

It seems that to most people $10 seems to be to high a price for this one.


I actually like this sale idea.  A decent way to see what people want and will pay for.  Also smells a lot like a black friday sale.
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Re: GOG Insomnia Sale
« Reply #43 on: November 14, 2013, 01:41:07 am »

Apparently /v/ have taken it upon themselves to deface the Jack Keane wikia with images of goatse and other beloved internet classics. Stay classy, internet.
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« Reply #44 on: November 14, 2013, 01:44:05 am »

Apparently /v/ have taken it upon themselves to deface the Jack Keane wikia with images of goatsex and other beloved internet classics. Stay classy, internet.

Actually, it looks more like they created a wiki for the sole purpose of messing it up.
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