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Posted August 30, 2019
With over 250 deals up to 90% off, you’ll have plenty to choose from during the Back to School sale, including classics, latest hits, and the coolest indie gems, all DRM-free! Browse through the offers on the front page of GOG.COM as the sale runs from 30th August 30th to 1 PM UTC on September 6, 2019.

Regardless of your age, you can pack up your backpack and attend our gaming classes with the GOG.COM Back to School sale! Already a master? Then get out there and teach some lessons to plenty of monsters, demons, and other shady characters! Just make sure that when your child gets back home, you pass on your knowledge and team up with them so they can join in on the fun!

Whether you need a refresher course in monster hunting with Professor Geralt in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - GOTY Edition (-70%) or sailing with Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - Obsidian Edition (-60%), these deals will have you excited to go back to class. In between those studies, don’t forget to learn a bit about horseback riding and blacksmithing with the medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance (-40%)!

With the Back to School sale, new DRM-free titles are releasing at some great discounts! These include the critically acclaimed, strategy meets tower defense title They Are Billions (-20%), as well as two unique simulator titles with Cooking Simulator (-15%) and Thief Simulator (-33%)!

The GOG.COM Back to School sale has a variety of titles, so regardless of your favorite genre, there is definitely something here for you! Just take a quick peek at some of the amazing, DRM-free variety: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (-50%), The Surge (-70%), Vampyr (-60%), Darkest Dungeon (-70%), PC Building Simulator (-33%), ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game (-30%), Foundation (-15%), Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (-70%), Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales (-50%), and the wonderful Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition (-40%)!

Don’t miss your chance to snag some of these great deals during the Back to School sale which runs until September 6th, 2019, 1 PM UTC.
Posted August 30, 2019
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GameRager: Nice.....too bad there is no actual sale page like with the other 2 sales atm, and the banner just goes to the main store
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DerBesserwisser: Hmm..I thought this is because of the number of games currently on sale - such a page does not make munch sence with 50+ titles (imho) ?
I believe they've had sales with their own pages with 30+ games before.

You may have a point to some extent, though.....I just wish they'd made a page anyways.
Posted August 30, 2019
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ariaspi: I guess most folks are waiting for RWarehall.
Yes, we rely on the work of an individual user, which wouldn't say much for GOG browsing experience.
Posted August 30, 2019
Why is an individual sale page more desirable than checking "on sale"?
https://www.gog.com/games?sort=bestselling&page=1&tab=on_sale GOG absolutely should have included a frickin' link but what's preferable about one or the other?

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BenKii: Hey Gog, here's a thought for the next Back to School sale. How about releasing some classic old school games like Reader Rabbit, Jump Start Grades 1-6, Clue Finders, Treasure Galaxy!, Mixed-Up Mother Goose, and so many others that I remember playing as a kid?
And some more edutainment adventures like more Humongous Entertainment games! :D And Zoombinis :P

I think Mixed-Up Mother Goose & Fairy Tales are both DOS Activision titles so that may be easier than the others.
Post edited August 30, 2019 by tfishell
Posted August 30, 2019
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tfishell: Why is an individual sale page more desirable than checking "on sale"?
https://www.gog.com/games?sort=bestselling&page=1&tab=on_sale GOG absolutely should have included a frickin' link but what's preferable about one or the other?
When they are done right I like the neat orderly alphabetical/etc listing of games and such with neat little check boxes.
Posted August 30, 2019
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tfishell: GOG absolutely should have included a frickin' link but what's preferable about one or the other?
You already know why, if you think about it -- or if you at all seriously try to look at everything on sale:

It doesn't separate owned from not owned.

The sort order "bestseller" is lame...

...but if you pick another sort order, click on an interesting game, and go back, your chosen sort order is lost and you're back to "bestseller" sort order.

Also if you'd gotten up to page 7 of results, click on a game, and go back, you have to restore your chosen sort order *and* because now you're back to page 1 again, remember which page you were on, scroll to the bottom of page 1, and select page 7...no it's not showing, go to page 3 and now page 5 shows at the bottom, go to page 5 and scroll to bottom, and now finally page 7 shows, select it (ARE YOU KIDDING? WTF?!) -- just to continue browsing where you left off!!!!!!!!!

If you hover, it doesn't show you the user rating, unlike actual sale pages.

It doesn't show the year, unlike an actual sale page.

It doesn't show the top genre tag, unlike an actual sale page.

This is all with Galaxy, incidentally.

It is, in short intolerable, and I'm not going to wade through 9 pages of that kind of intense annoyance, although I have in the past.

All of which you certainly should know after all these years -- assuming you sometimes buy, and not just post. You must have just momentarily forgotten.
Post edited August 30, 2019 by faroot
Posted August 30, 2019
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faroot: The sort order "bestseller" is lame...

...but if you pick another sort order, click on an interesting game, and go back, your chosen sort order is lost and you're back to "bestseller" sort order.

Also if you'd gotten up to page 7 of results, click on a game, and go back, you have to restore your chosen sort order *and* because now you're back to page 1 again, remember which page you were on, scroll to the bottom of page 1, and select page 7...no it's not showing, go to page 3 and now page 5 shows at the bottom, go to page 5 and scroll to bottom, and now finally page 7 shows, select it (ARE YOU KIDDING? WTF?!) -- just to continue browsing where you left off!!!!!!!!!
Simple solution......middle click or right click and open games in a new window. That way the sort order stays the same on the store library list.
Posted August 30, 2019
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faroot: The sort order "bestseller" is lame...

...but if you pick another sort order, click on an interesting game, and go back, your chosen sort order is lost and you're back to "bestseller" sort order.

Also if you'd gotten up to page 7 of results, click on a game, and go back, you have to restore your chosen sort order *and* because now you're back to page 1 again, remember which page you were on, scroll to the bottom of page 1, and select page 7...no it's not showing, go to page 3 and now page 5 shows at the bottom, go to page 5 and scroll to bottom, and now finally page 7 shows, select it (ARE YOU KIDDING? WTF?!) -- just to continue browsing where you left off!!!!!!!!!
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GameRager: Simple solution......middle click or right click and open games in a new window. That way the sort order stays the same on the store library list.
That's not supported in Galaxy. No right click options at all. At least, it has never worked for me, on Windows 7.

The workaround of using a browser instead loses the various features that justify the existence of Galaxy in the first place. (Plus various browsers have had their own problems with Gog in the past)
Posted August 30, 2019
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GameRager: Simple solution......middle click or right click and open games in a new window. That way the sort order stays the same on the store library list.
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faroot: That's not supported in Galaxy. No right click options at all. At least, it has never worked for me, on Windows 7.

The workaround of using a browser instead loses the various features that justify the existence of Galaxy in the first place. (Plus various browsers have had their own problems with Gog in the past)
Then buy games in the browser but DL them once you load galaxy. :|
Posted August 30, 2019
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faroot: That's not supported in Galaxy. No right click options at all. At least, it has never worked for me, on Windows 7.

The workaround of using a browser instead loses the various features that justify the existence of Galaxy in the first place. (Plus various browsers have had their own problems with Gog in the past)
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GameRager: Then buy games in the browser but DL them once you load galaxy. :|
Dude, that only fixes one of the long list of problems. You're doing an apologia for Gog; I was factually answering a question about what the problems are.

But as long as you're making suggestions, which browsers currently work 100% with the gog store and which ones don't?
Posted August 30, 2019
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faroot: ...
It's time to get so angry about this you flip cars over and even assassinate politicians AAAAAAAAAA /jk

I don't buy often. Also since the catalog now mentions "In Library" under each game, I see less of an issue since people know already what they own. I guess the slower the internet the bigger the issue though since you have to open a bunch of tabs to get more info.
Post edited August 30, 2019 by tfishell
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faroot: Dude, that only fixes one of the long list of problems. You're doing an apologia for Gog; I was factually answering a question about what the problems are.

But as long as you're making suggestions, which browsers currently work 100% with the gog store and which ones don't?
*Moving the goalposts*

It still helps and is a solution, and I offered it to be helpful, not to apologize for GOG in any way. :)

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As for Browsers: Chromium(windows version verified for sure by me) works, and i'm guessing chrome itself works as well. Other chrome offshoots likely also work, and I am pretty sure Edge also works.

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tfishell: I guess the slower the internet the bigger the issue though since you have to open a bunch of tabs to get more info.
Killing processes and tabs via chromium(and maybe other chrome variants) helps to mitigate such things....especially killing advert processes. ;)

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Post edited August 30, 2019 by GameRager
Posted August 30, 2019
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faroot: Dude, that only fixes one of the long list of problems. You're doing an apologia for Gog; I was factually answering a question about what the problems are.

But as long as you're making suggestions, which browsers currently work 100% with the gog store and which ones don't?
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GameRager: *Moving the goalposts*
Sorry, I didn't mean it like that. I just didn't want anyone saying "all browsers work" (because at least some versions do not, including three that I currently have installed for unrelated reasons).

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GameRager: It still helps and is a solution, and I offered it to be helpful, not to apologize for GOG in any way. :)

As for Browsers: Chromium(windows version verified for sure by me) works, and i'm guessing chrome itself works as well. Other chrome offshoots likely also work, and I am pretty sure Edge also works.
Thanks.
Posted August 30, 2019
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faroot: Sorry, I didn't mean it like that. I just didn't want anyone saying "all browsers work" (because at least some versions do not, including three that I currently have installed for unrelated reasons).

Thanks.
Not a problem and sorry if I misunderstood. Have a good one and enjoy the sales/your day at any rate. :)
Posted August 30, 2019
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tfishell: Why is an individual sale page more desirable than checking "on sale"?
- It separates owned / not owned titles.
- It shows the games on that specific sale, not mixed with others.
- It displays the time left until the end of the sale.
- It offers a clear URL for that particular list.
- It uses the "legacy" site model, for those who prefer it, and also for browsers with issues with the new one.
- It shows everything on one page.
- It displays those little additional details on the right when you hover over a game.
- It calculates the total discount percentage if you select multiple games.

Off the top of my head...
Posted August 31, 2019
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tfishell: Why is an individual sale page more desirable than checking "on sale"?
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Cavalary: - It separates owned / not owned titles.
- It shows the games on that specific sale, not mixed with others.
- It displays the time left until the end of the sale.
- It offers a clear URL for that particular list.
- It uses the "legacy" site model, for those who prefer it, and also for browsers with issues with the new one.
- It shows everything on one page.
- It displays those little additional details on the right when you hover over a game.
- It calculates the total discount percentage if you select multiple games.

Off the top of my head...
Well said. One note: people have said "but a big sale like this won't fit on one page" -- however, this kind of web problem has been solved well enough by other sites for decades.

Hiding the discount percentage per item (and not indicating which items are DLC) is another huge flaw.
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