Yup, there are a LOT of bonus materials including a fair amount of behind the scenes videos and cool shit. There's even a nude playboy spread of Triss - Geralt's lady friend. :) Best collection of game extras ever! :)

The largest game that I've heard of to date though is probably Titanfall which is allegedly 48GB in size but that is allegedly due to them providing all of the audio in the game as uncompressed audio files and claiming it is to reduce the load on older computers. Personally I don't buy that lame excuse though as audio decompression uses trivial amounts of CPU resources on any CPU the game is likely to ever run on anyway. The true reason they made all the audio uncompressed is to purposefully make the game as huge as possible in order to discourage piracy of it. That's my conspiracy theory anyway. :)

I'm curious though... does anyone know if there are any games bigger than The Witcher 2 in the GOGalogue, including all of the extras? I mean using a single language installer for a single platform, so not including the individual per-language installers for games that have that. Unfortunately the game card pages on GOG.com give the download size for the main game installers only rather than the complete game+extras so it's hard to tell the full download sizes unless you own and download every game. :)


I get 6.4MB/s out of my 50Mbps Internet feed. Normally one would be limited to about 5MB/s on 50Mbps but my ISP leaves the cable modem uncapped so you can saturate the entire DOCSIS channels that are allocated to you, so 25Mbps essentially becomes 32Mbps, and 50Mbps becomes 64Mbps (roughly) which is pretty cool. :) (Shaw Cable in Canada).

Not sure how long it takes to download but when GOG's website isn't buckling under load of a promo or similar I can download from it at the full 6.4MB/s so if my ballpark math skills are on the ball, that's about 69 minutes.
Beat me to the punch! hehe :)

Will we see any new bundles or flash deals? Or is it now just re-runs of what we've seen?

Really holding out hope for the Quest for Sierra bundle!

There's always a chance of that. Heard rumors about something potentially happening with Banished going on sale maybe and I think the bundles at the end of the sale are still undetermined at this point, so they may introduce something new.

And I can't remember who mentioned it, but there may be some kind of contest as well and that could result in new offers.

Flash sales have been constrained to the list for a while now. I'd say chances of new games are very slim. There were some images found that pointed towards Banished, Omerta and a few more games that never appeared.

Daily deals have been determined.

Contests and flash freebies were mentioned in some of the GOG mesages in this thread and we have not seen those. I'd say that's the only hope.

While we can't know with 100% certainty, we can make pretty solid predictions based on a combination of GOG's official sales promo advertising materials and news, GOG's past seasonal promotions, and the wonderful forensic analysis of the website code by certain community members. Based on all of that, the highest likelihood seems to be that the flash sales will be fairly consistent from the first day of the summer promo through the last and that any games that have not showed up in it already will never show up unless they have as yet unknown surprises planned. As for the bundles, it has been determined what bundles will occur every day to the end of the sale already and so far every day's bundle offerings have matched exactly what was determined forensically so we have high reason to believe the rest of the predictions will be very accurate. It was predicted that the 18th could be a "all bundles of the entire promo all on one day" day, and that also turned out to be true. So we are highly unlikely to see any new bundles show up which are not already predicted and which did not appear on the 18th super-bundle-extravaganza day. It is also predicted that the 29th will be an encore day which has all bundles/flash sales offered the same as June 18th was to give people one more final chance before the sale ends as they have a past history of doing encores also - but we don't know for certain they will do this, they might have some other surprise up their sleeves.

Even though there are uncertainties, the community forensics and predictions to date have about a 99.9% success rate though so while "anything can happen", what is probably going to happen is largely what we expect/predict so far. I wouldn't expect to see any bundles or flash sale items that haven't already showed up. There are a few special unknowns they've yet to tell us the details about yet too though such as some kind of gaming trivia contest. It's anyone's guess on that... :)

The Banished speculation is due to a game graphic being present for the flash sale which has not yet been actually used. It could mean something special is happening with Banished (as many of us would like) or it could mean graphics were prepared and left in the directory but a special promo was not able to be put together with the publisher and perhaps there is no promo for the game and just dud graphics left in the directory.

If Banished does not show up in some kind of special offer though... maybe LucasArts games will show up! :)

Sanitarium, please feel free to stop by soon :)

I remember visiting my dad at work in the 80s (he was an engineer at a large Silicon Valley tech firm), and his co-workers were all still gawking over his new hard drive, which had an astonishingly massive capacity at 10 MEGABYTES! OMG!

It was the most memory any of the leading-edge tech workers had ever seen in a single personal machine. He still remembers having no idea what he was going to do with all that space. No one had any idea. It was completely excessive.

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Back in 1994 when I got my first PC with a 345MB hard disk in it, there were ads in the computer magazines at the time for hard disks of the ridiculously massive size of 2GB. TWO GIGABYTES! HOLY SHIT! They were about $2000 if memory serves correct so it was a total fantasyland item to say the least. Nonetheless I planned on some day owning one in the years to come and created a text file called "2GIGDISK.TXT" planning out how I would partition the monster into a partition for video games, another for computer programming, another for utilities, etc. etc. etc. It was an elaborate plan for organizing all of my stuff across the many partitions I'd have and basically never run out of space EVER.

Now I have a 120GB SSD in my current computer which is constantly maxed out and undersized bigtime, and 3 2TB hard disks that are also maxed out for the most part too. It's funny now times change!

I spent $400 putting 4 megabytes of memory into my first PC too back then, and when I built my new PC in February 2013 I was budgeting out $400 for memory as that's the number I've used all along for budgeting memory in new computers. Of course I just about fell off my chair to find out that I could get 32 *GIGABYTES* of memory for the new PC for $200! So... I have 32GB now which is just ridiculous LOL What's perhaps even funnier, is that the PC I was using before that had had a hard disk failure causing me to fall back to an older smaller drive, and then that one died pushing me to an even older smaller drive - 20GB. So my current new PC has 50% more RAM in it than my previous PC had total hard disk space in it when I did the changeover.

It's amazing how much technology changes both over a period of a decade or two and even just within a few years time!

I've also got huge "Computer Shopper" magazines in the basement from 1990 era which have brand new super holy shit 486 computer systems for $12000... LOL Crazy stuff! :)

I was going to ask this also. Thank you for the answer.

Another fun thing to contemplate is that modern internet speed is faster than the hard disks access from way back then.
My first hard disk was 15MB, second 100MB, after that I'm not sure how I got to 1GB but by then I knew that hard disks fill up fast if you're not careful, no matter how big they are.

Ha ha, me too. And I was saddened by the fact that my Amiga 500+ wasn't powerful enough to run the game.

Indeed, you're absolutely right! And in some cases the Internet is faster than a 40x Tru-X CDROM drive also! If memory serves correct, a 40x Tru-X gave a sustained data transfer rate of 6MB/s while a standard run of the mill 40x drive gave an average speed across a full CD disk of more like 12-13x which was significantly lower average speed than 6MB/s even if they burst at that speed. I get 6.4MB/s out of my Internet at the moment which is kind of nuts all things considered compared to back then. ;oP

Yep, there is the invariable law of hard disks which states that with any sized hard disk, the data will accumulate and fill up all space regardless of the size.... or something like that. :)

Or internet speeds!? Remember when all you had dial-up? The modem in your computer dialling the ISP to connect, and then waiting patiently for the page to load?
Those AOL CD's that AOL used to give out to every computer magazine issue and everywhere? Using them as coasters because you had so many?
The UK is pretty much stuck in the dark ages internet wise. No one wants to stump up the money to lay fibre optic cable throughout the country, especially since the government has stated that the ISPs must play nice, and whoever lays the cable must let other companies use it. So, spend a gazillion pounds to lay the cable, engender bad feeling because it's your branded vans digging up the road when you've got go somewhere, and *then* let others play in your sandbox?!
Nuh-uh.
Our Communication minister stated that the goal for the Olympics was to have every home capable of 2Mbps by 2012! 2Mbps! Needless to say, 2014 and that still hasn't come true...

I would like to ask a question to the precious Community members.

I want to buy Defender's Quest as it is on its way upwards on Flashdeals section. I also checked its Steam page and it appears that the devs published a patch or something like this to fix certain bugs on June 15th (just one week ago). Are those patches or whatever the developers do to fix bugs automatically applied in games that we purchase from GOG/

I don't want to buy a game from Steam if it is offered in GOG but I also want to have the patched versions.

Thank you.