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Showing you how government works, in case yours doesn't!
Speaking from one organization that has had an unpopular shutdown to another: America. What are you doing? America? Stahp.

Shutdowns are never popular, and all of the polls show that this is not a big hit with most Americans either. Americans may be looking for something fun to do, since all their parks are closed for the moment. Thankfully your favorite purveyor of digital games is here to help. It occurs to us that one of the problems may be that there are people on Capitol Hill who don't know what a functioning government looks like, so we thought we'd help and point a few out with a special 24-hour 50% off [url=http://www.gog.com/promo/shutdown_promo_091013]Shutdown Promo.

The Guild: Gold Edition is a great place to see where the term "Machiavellian Politics" originated from. If you're looking to find a land where earning power was the key to success in the political arena, look no further. Meanwhile, in Capitalism Plus and Capitalism 2, you can get the best economic sims that money can buy half off and see for yourself how a demand economy functions. Tropico Reloaded is 50% off as a reminder of what can happen when governments go awry, and Alpha Centauri (with the Alien Crossfire expansion!) has more different styles of governments modeled than you can shake a stick at. So, really, these games are a quick lesson in civic government. Because we're concerned for you guys.

There has been a lot of furor over health care in America leading up to this shutdown, and we think it's a shame so many people are upset about medicine and how to treat each other. To help further our educational mission for this promo, we figured we'd put Theme Hospital in the sale as well, because that way you can judge for yourself just how tricky it can be to balance the needs of sick patients against limited budgets. Finally, for reasons entirely unrelated to who may or may not have been involved in shutting down the US Government, we also appear to have Redneck Rampage on sale 50% off.

Finally, we would like to express our condolences to everyone who's been furloughed by the shutdown. More than that, actually, we'd like to offer you the games pack of our special Shutdown Promo for free. Send an email to [url=]thanksobama@gog.com[/url] with your picture holding the official furlough letter you received, before Friday 11 October 2013 at 12:00 EDT and we'll give you The Guild: Gold Edition, Capitalism, Capitalism 2, Tropico: Gold Edition, Alpha Centauri + Alien Crossfire, Theme Hospital, and Redneck Rampage free.

We hope the games will keep you all occupied while you're waiting for someone on Capitol Hill to get their act together. Meanwhile, get The Guild, Capitalism Plus, Capitalism 2, Tropico: Gold Edition, Alpha Centauri + Alien Crossfire, Theme Hospital, and Redneck Rampage 50% off (or free if you met the requirements above), in our special Shutdown Promo! The offer lasts until Thursday, October 10, at 12:59PM GMT.
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ucfalumknight: Thank you GoG for reminding me how inane my government truly is. And in particular, thank you for choosing Redneck Rampage as a game to represent. I think I will go shove my head in a hole somewhere, why not, most American's do....
Hey, I'm American and I wrote the newspost. I sympathize.


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Toefur: Yep, taking a picture of your Gov ID is a bad idea. Depending on where you work you could get fired or worse for doing that. Free games aren't worth that risk.
Not being aware of that, we structured the giveaway poorly. We've amended the rules. Thanks for the heads up.
Post edited October 09, 2013 by TheEnigmaticT
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zorach: Nice, but we're not actually allowed to take photos of our ID. (Particularly not allowed to have photos of ourselves wearing our ID.)
We've changed the requirements: "Send an email to thanksobama@gog.com with your picture holding the official furlough letter you received, before Friday 10 October 2013 at 12:00 EDT and we'll give you The Guild: Gold Edition, Capitalism, Capitalism 2, Tropico: Gold Edition, Alpha Centauri + Alien Crossfire, Theme Hospital, and Redneck Rampage free."
Very nice gog, but I hope not too many goggers qualify for the free games. That would suck, unless you are a rich politician who can afford to not get paid....... Oh, wait......
LOL, what a nice promo theme!
Is a picture of the furlough letter allowed?

Either way this premise is hilarious.
How does Redneck Rampage compares to games like Blood, DN3D or Shadow Warrior?
Im probably being a stick in the mud here but whatever.

Im not American so im not the best person to make this argument but meh.

I think this promo is in a bit of bad taste. From what I know of the shut down in the states 10's of thousands of people are not able to go to work or be paid for this time until the government pulls its collective finger out of its ass.

To my mind that leaves a lot of people in a very uncertain time, their income is under threat and I feel making a sale because of the shut down is in bad taste.

Thats just me personally though.
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jalister: but I still don't want GOG to shutdown, ever.
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Maighstir: Certainly not, I was referring to the out-of-beta PR cup, which I assume jamyskis also referred to. The far most common sign of anger was "I was afraid I lost all my games, stop scaring us like that" which was completely unnecessary if people had actually downloaded their purchases (though the temporary page did clearly state that the games would be available for download again, people just went into panic mode directly and stopped reading before that statement).
I remember the PR stunt all to well. I was safe though. Besides, I was able to read between the lines on that one, and knew GoG wasn't done.
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ShadowWulfe: Is a picture of the furlough letter allowed?

Either way this premise is hilarious.
Yes. Picture of the furlough letter with you in the frame. :)
Whew it's getting political in here.

*runs away screaming*
You should amend the rules again to charge double for anyone who can prove they are in congress. Or, better yet, shutdown their account :)
I've got all the games I want from this promo, but wanted to say:

GOG really knows how to do a promotion! The free games bit for furloughed employees is just...kind. Keep up the great work, GOG! It's stuff like this that reminds me why I like to purchase (or even repurchase) my games here. :)

Thanks!
Justin
Just bought Theme Hospital :D

Can anyone tell me anything about The Guild ? I kinda want to buy it, but I already bought tons of games lately, and I'm trying to pace myself .
Post edited October 09, 2013 by Licurg
Haha, gotta love this promo. You guys are awesome.
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Licurg: Just bought Theme Hospital :D

Can anyone tell me anything about The Guild ? I kinda want to buy it, but I already bought tons of games for myself lately, and I'm trying to pace myself .
Ask The Joe. See if you can get more than just buy it from him.

He is Tea on the IRC if you want to catch him there