Arcanum, why you no go on sale?

At this point in the sale, missing only one flash item that I would purchase, when one comes across that I have decided time and again to skip, it feels like...

God, Octodad for the 27th time???

Hoping for a Gabriel Knight bundle instead of reruns from the Grand Bundle Day Bundles and Neverwinter Nights for flash sales. Sad to say I was too cheap to get them at 60% off in the DnD Bundle.

Still, can't deny an impulse purchase or two and King of Dragon Pass, pleasantly surprised with it and that alone was worth checking out the sales.

Neither of those things are expected to happen. The tracker thread has more details.

Ok, some reposted the link to the spreadsheet.

The list of games on the right are allt he games in the flash sales, including the number of repetitions.
The list on the right are the bundles and the dates when they will appear. All of them appeared two days ago and some people conjectures that they will reappear in the last day of the sale. None of this have been confirmed by GOG but both lists have been holding on since the 16th or 17th.

A shame that I wouldn't get that bundle but thank you for the link and the heads up.

The same people who guessed that all the bundles would appear on the 18 are thinking that the last day of the sale will bring them all back, so you might want to check out then.

Don't despair "little buddy". :)

I fell in love with the SG when I was in my early teens and was finally able to afford one when I hit 20. Bought an SG-62 reissue which I played to death ever since and the frets wore out about 2 years ago and it is currently unplayable and needs a refretting and other work. Beautiful guitar which one of these days I'm going to get fixed back up. :)

Currently in it's wake I am using an Ibanez RGA7 7-string as my main guitar and an Epiphone G400 as a backup replacement for my SG as it is designed as a lower cost clone of the SG-61/62 and while it isn't quite the same thing it is about as close as one can get for $350 versus $1700. :) I will jump for joy when I get my SG-62 back in playable order again though, it has a lot of memories built into it which even a brand new one could never replace. :)
Octodad is really hard for anyone to not love once they start playing it. It's addictive fun goofy ass shit whether you're 4 or 80. :)

Yes, it will be on my list when the sales price comes down. I've watched a gameplay video and it does look quite entertaining.

It's still a fairly new release. It should be at my sweet spot by the Fall Sale. :)

Same here... A friend brought his PC over with it installed one night and I got to try it out and it was pretty fun so I'll be buying it some time later although I already had my eye on it before that. I think it comes with the original game too, but not sure.

Got everything on my wishlist but one! Come on Spelunky

Banished oh Banished, where art thou! :oP I wonder if that remaining game card was one that got pulled or didn't make it into the sale, was intentionally planted to throw us off, is yet to come, or is a bonus or some other special surprise coming up. Is it driving anyone else nuts too? :) Well, "nuts" in a fun anticipatory way, like waiting for the next season to start of your favourite TV show after a cliffhanger. Then there's the mystery surprise contest/challenge they mentioned that we haven't heard anything about yet... Probably wont find out about that until the 28th or 29th though... hrm ... Much more exciting pondering that than watching the Steam "watch paint dry" sale though. :)

Bought nothing .

Received : Outlast , Harvester , Braveland , Sword of the Samurai , Pinball Gold Pack , Corsairs Gold

[url=http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/User:Ne_zavarj]182 games remained on my wishlist[/url]

I'm pretty disappointed at the amount of times I've seen the same game going through the special sales list.

I understand giving people multiple chances to get games in case they have work or school, but there are definitely better ways.

There should be a much bigger selection of Daily Deals, and then a list of rotating random flash sales, and perhaps some other unique gimmick. Something like adding "themes" to each day based on game content, or genre. Or perhaps bundle packs based on game types, series, or publisher. (Yeah, I know the two Daily Deals are bundle packs).


The current way is just the two daily deal packs, and then a list of games of which 99% you've already seen appear on sale half a dozen times each except for that one game you wanted which cycled through while you were sleeping.

Maybe I'm being crazy, but what if someone could buy 1-3 games off their wishlist for 75% off? That would guarantee they don't miss out on that one game they are waiting to see cycle through the flash deals.

I agree. I think this format would work a lot better for a weekend-long sale as opposed to one that lasts over two weeks.

They negotiate certain discounts and amounts with different publishers and design the promo to be able to fit the constraints in a way that balances everyone's needs, so no promotion will likely ever be considered flawless to every single customer. We're getting an amazing amount of discounts and great deals and they do pay attention to suggestions on how to improve things. This current sale appears to have taken a number of suggestions from the past into account so far that I can see, but not every person is going to like that. The best thing IMHO to do is make some polite suggestions for what we'd like to see in future promos and let them do their thing and be grateful for the amazing deals they've given us opportunities to take advantage of.

If one promo doesn't offer the games one wants or at prices one wants, or one has too much difficulty connecting with the deal they want at the time it is on, there will always be another deal in the future. Or, if someone doesn't want to sit around all day every day for this promo, they could just have come on the 18th (or presumably also on the 29th) and got everything in one day bonanza. We do have a lot of opportunities and options.

I missed several games and it took 3 rotations of the flash sales before I managed to get all the ones I wanted by random chance looking at the website at the right moment. If that doesn't work for someone due to busy lifestyle/work or just not being into flash sales, there will always be future promotions that are all day or other formats that suit one's taste better that they might consider waiting for instead. Lots of options on GOG! ;o)

One can also set notifications on games/prices on isthereanydeal.com and get an email when a specific promo comes up without having to watch for it. Lots of options... :)


They could do all bundles in one day, plus 2 other special days over a weekend and we would end up with 3 days of great sales and then go back to the regular churn and sales of normal week by week activity, having deep discounted bundles and/or individual titles for a 3 day weekend. I'm afraid though that I don't see how that is a superior promotion than offering similar deals spread out over 2 weeks giving people endless opportunities to get games for 90% off every single day, rather than just for 3 days and then you pay full price for the remaining 11 days.

A two week sale with deep discounts like this blows away any weekend sale with limited time/availablity and is best both for GOG's revenue and for all GOG gamers. Any one of us might get all we want in one or two days and then none of the sale items interest us. I say "so what?" because I'm not sure how them ending the sale after two days would benefit me seeing the same games that /would/ have been on sale for two weeks but are now full price the rest of the time. I might not buy more in that two weeks but a million other people have the opportunity to do so.

Once someone has squeezed all they want out of a sale, just close the web browser and come back in two weeks if nothing else is of interest as there isn't likely to be any of the same games at full price during that time of interest either if they're not of interest on sale. I'm just saying. :)