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Posted May 12, 2014
Jack is Life! Jack is Love! The Keaning is happening!

Most sales are just that: some nice deals, tons of games, some flowery marketing talk about those deals. Nothing more, nothing less. As you know, last year we ran our Fall Insomnia Promo with the usual expectations that follow a typical sale.

The Insomnia Promo was different. Very, very different. It morphed into something beyond our wildest expectations. Entire communities were staying awake for this sale. The RPG Codex was busily snapping up and all classic RPGs. 4chan's very own /v/ put aside their usual bickering about which console was best and started trying to find The Pattern (sorry guys, you didn't crack it :^) ). Meanwhile, Jack Keane acquired a cult following (JACK IS LOVE! JACK IS LIFE!) all the while collecting a flurry of 5 star reviews where gamers documented all sorts of miraculous manifestations of Jack's blessing in their lives. Lastly, the Insomnia promo garnered its own entry on our [url=http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/the_return_of_the_insomnia_sale]wishlist.

Welcome to our Spring Insomnia Sale! Back by popular demand*, we will be putting up 100 games in limited quantities** with discounts up to 90%. We'll have more games for sale than Noah had animals in his ark. Indies. Classics. Classic indies, even. All kinds of games for all kinds of gamers. However, you have to be fast, faster than those Polish script kiddies*** lurking outside our offices so they can get 0.1 ms of ping!

We did change things up a bit this year. While checking out, keep an eye peeled for a random chance to get a free game. Yes, this time there will be no more split second freebies so everyone has an equal chance :)

*why would you do this to yourselves, you mad fools?!?!
**yes, we know that all games are being distributed digitally and quantities can be infinite, just roll with it, ok?
***it was a common theory that all the free games were being snatched up by Polish hackers. We don't have any hackers here in Poland, we deported them all...somewhere...
Posted May 14, 2014
Getting tired of waiting for Krondor and Arcanum. Come on
Posted May 14, 2014
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The_Blog: May be a bit OT, but I just discovered that JK II: Outcast and JK3: Academy are Open Source now (about a year ago) :D
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musteriuz: For those less informed among us - what does JK stand for? Surely not Jack Keane?
Jedi Knight :)
Posted May 14, 2014
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The_Blog: May be a bit OT, but I just discovered that JK II: Outcast and JK3: Academy are Open Source now (about a year ago) :D
Better late than never=), being the Star Wars fan that I am that was some very sweet news for me when they said they would go open source. Now I hope to see some really good mods for two really good games=).
Posted May 14, 2014
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flanner: bitchdick! it should be separated of each other the indies sale for indians and old games promo for goodoldgamers.
im gotta birth hedgehog at the such indie-keanie :-(()
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drelbs: Well then please birth Sonic so he will be fast!
uuuummmhhhh! ummmmmmhhhh aw aw! awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

sending a scan
Posted May 14, 2014
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musteriuz: For those less informed among us - what does JK stand for? Surely not Jack Keane?
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Wincerind: Jedi Knight :)
Thanks. And what exactly does Open Source imply?
Posted May 14, 2014
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Wincerind: Jedi Knight :)
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musteriuz: Thanks. And what exactly does Open Source imply?
Mods;).

It means that the source code for SP is now open for anyone to have a look at.
Post edited May 14, 2014 by CorranHorn
Posted May 14, 2014
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musteriuz: Thanks. And what exactly does Open Source imply?
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CorranHorn: Mods;).

It means that the source code is now open for anyone to have a look at.
Another term (mods) I have never been able to fully comprehend or try to apply on any game ever. How does it work? Is any of it any good or useful or necessary? Where does one go to obtain the best? I only stick to gog patches thus far.
Posted May 14, 2014
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The_Blog: May be a bit OT, but I just discovered that JK II: Outcast and JK3: Academy are Open Source now (about a year ago) :D
They were pulled by the developers about a week after releasing. From what I read it was some third party code so Raven pulled the plug. I haven't heard of anything new since then.
Posted May 14, 2014
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CorranHorn: Mods;).

It means that the source code is now open for anyone to have a look at.
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musteriuz: Another term (mods) I have never been able to fully comprehend or try to apply on any game ever. How does it work? Is any of it any good or useful or necessary? Where does one go to obtain the best? I only stick to gog patches thus far.
As far as I can see they are trying to improve the Code, releasing unofficial patches and stuff.

https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK

"Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy + Jedi Outcast released by Raven Software"
Post edited May 14, 2014 by Wincerind
Posted May 14, 2014
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The_Blog: As far as I know Teslagrad is pretty good.
But yeah. Kinda impulse buy for me too ^^
I like the look of it... since I only have 3 currently on my wishlist (and none on this sale)...everything I bought the last few days has been impulse buying... still happy though!
Posted May 14, 2014
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hedwards: Still not buying anything. I really wish GOG would stop these stupid bullshit promos that encourage people to behave like problem gamblers.
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tin_penguin: In what way is buying games like gambling?
It's structured based upon an uncertain payout that's vaguely in the future. You've got folks clicking on the free games hoping to win one as a mechanism for keeping them glued on the page for the games they're selling. Then you have the people who are getting very invested in the possibility that the next game will be the one they want, and if it's not, then a lot of folks would wait until the next game shows up.

It's basically the same mechanism that casinos use on patrons to get them to overspend at the tables and I don't respect it. People are free to do as they please, but GOG used to be a lot more ethical about the way they conducted themselves.
Posted May 14, 2014
Could someone please post the list of what has been sold so far during Round 3. ^_^
Posted May 14, 2014
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CorranHorn: Mods;).

It means that the source code is now open for anyone to have a look at.
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musteriuz: Another term (mods) I have never been able to fully comprehend or try to apply on any game ever. How does it work? Is any of it any good or useful or necessary? Where does one go to obtain the best? I only stick to gog patches thus far.
Sry, mods means modification and it´s not necessary at all but I do recommend getting some once you played the game (some prefer to play old games without them to get the true "old school" feeling others prefer playing the games with them). There are different kinds of mods, some enhances the actual game others changes the game completely (often called TC as in Total Conversion).

A game like Jedi Knight : Outcast is still very playable without any mod but a game like Dark Forces takes some time to get used to. With a mod, like the one for Dark Forces, it plays much more like modern games.

In short, mods are awesome and most of the time completely free for anyone who owns the game. Red Orchestra started out as a mod and so did Counter Strike.
Post edited May 14, 2014 by CorranHorn
Posted May 14, 2014
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SpellSword: Could someone please post the list of what has been sold so far during Round 3. ^_^
00 - Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut (no more keys)
01 - Shadowrun Returns
02 - Warlords Battlecry 3
03 - Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now
04 - King's Quest 4+5+6
05 - Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic
06 - Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves
07 - Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition
08 - Vampire The Masquerade - Redemption
09 - Little Big Adventure (Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure)
10 - Alan Wake
11 - Race the Sun
12 - Blade of Darkness
13 - Children of the Nile Complete
14 - Full Spectrum Warrior
15 - Time Commando
16 - Evil Genius
17 - Aarklash: Legacy
18 - 11th Hour, The
19 - Interstate '76 Arsenal, The
20 - Legend Of Grimrock
21 - Teslagrad
;)
Post edited May 14, 2014 by Cyril79
Posted May 14, 2014
Round 3

001 - Shadowrun Returns - 66% ($4.99) - 900
002 - Warlords Battlecry 3 - 80% ($1.99) - 600
003 - Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now - 80% ($1.99) - 750
004 - King's Quest 4+5+6 - 75% ($2.49) - 500
005 - Wasteland 1 - The Original Classic - 75% ($1.49) - 900
006 - Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves - 85% ($2.24) - 600
007 - Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition - 80% ($1.19) - 600
008 - Vampire The Masquerade - Redemption - 75% ($1.49) - 600
009 - Little Big Adventure (Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure) - 75% ($1.49) - 500
010 - Alan Wake - 80% ($5.99) - 150
011 - Race the Sun - 75% ($2.49) - 600
012 - Blade of Darkness - 75% ($1.49) - 600
013 - Children of the Nile Complete - 80% ($1.99) - 900
014 - Full Spectrum Warrior - 75% ($2.49) - 150
015 - Time Commando - 75% ($1.49) - 450
016 - Evil Genius - 80% ($1.99) - 900
017 - Aarklash: Legacy - 75% ($5.24) - 600
018 - 11th Hour, The - 75% ($1.49) - 600
019 - Interstate '76 Arsenal - 75% off (1.49) - 400
020 - Legend of Grimrock - 80% off (2.99) - 800
021 - Teslagrad - 75% off (2.49) - 800
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