Any snow yet? I miss skiing. Ice on the lake? Also, there is always things to do in and around an old house, way too much so.

It's really not a fun idea, it's exploitative and a massive kissoff to people who have to work.

This wasn't a giveaway, this was an opportunity to buy something. I'm not sure why you'd think that somehow they're being generous by letting people stay up all night and skip work on the chance that they'll be able to buy something at a discount.

Of course not everyone is interested in the same games, which is a huge part of the sale. Literally the only games I might have bought during that first sale went on sale before I woke up the first day. The rest of the ones were etiher ones I had or ones that I had no interest in. And there was no re-cap sale at the end for people to catch up on the ones that they missed.

It was a poorly designed and conceived of sale and I went a period afterwards where I wasn't buying any games here because of how exploitative the sale was. There was a time when the quirky sales were fun, but that particular ship departed years ago.
I'm guessing this is why it's been so long since they did one of these. There are clearly people who liked the idea, but were there really enough of them buying enough games to make up for the folks who were either frozen out or who wound up not buying things for weeks afterwards out of spite?

Since it's been a while, I'm guessing that it wasn't a particularly successful promo in terms of actually making money when compared with other promos they've done.

It's like those asinine giveaways they were doing where by the time the free game was shown, you'd have to have already clicked on it in order to get it. Even clicking before it was revealed wasn't enough. That one seriously pissed me off having such a short period of time in which to compete where literally being in the wrong region would make it effectively impossible to get a copy.

As of this morning, 35 inches.

We're in a whiteout right now.

I can't tell if there is any ice on the lake. The lake is 150 yards from the house and right now visibility is three or four feet. :P

A game was on sale for a 99% off discount each time you blinked .

After hour 30, you could have set off a cannon next to me and I wouldn't have noticed.

Indeed.

Yes...that's what I said, boring reasons.



Last one I specifically remember -- and of which I could find evidence with a quick search -- was the Sleepy Sheep Insomnia Sale in late March 2016 (it doubled as the spring sale that year). It was actually very boring, for an Insomnia sale -- most of the flash discounts were no better than those in the typical weekly sales.
I was thinking there was another one since then, but I guess there probably wasn't.

The insomnia sales stink. I tended to just browse the regular discounts while they were happening.

I liked them, a lot. I thought the banter around the forum got pretty fun and the discounts were super good (at the time). I feel like since then there are more sales, more often. And you can "catch" a deep discount like that once in a blue moon (so every day is sort of like a year long insomnia sale ;) ).

But I'd still love to see them again. I just made sure to treat it like "OMG GOTTA SEE EVERYTHING!!!!!! NEEDZ IT ALL!!!!" and more like a fun event I'd pop into, BS for a bit and if I saw something I was interested in or wanted to maybe take a flier on at the price I like, grab it (if I could!).

And if I missed it, oh well I was there for the fun of it - there are plenty more sales when I'd have a shot, or hell maybe I'd even support the dev and just grab it later when I was ready to play it.

With the current state of the storefront, I dont think it would be a good idea.

That’s not even two days of a sale. Not good enough. You’re gonna need a bigger speedball.

would you believe I wasn't on anything when it happened? :P
I'm as shocked as anyone.

Dont lie!

We all know you entered into the Lake Michigan Space Hopper Marathon!

https://youtu.be/gELYe9Fv86U

Congrats on coming 3rd by the way. Not sure how you did that as one of only two entrants though. ;D