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Posted June 13, 2022
It’s time to brew coffee and stretch your fingers – after a few years of absence, the Insomnia Promo event is back on GOG! With it arrive the best deals and the exciting anticipation that will drive away your sleep, while also giving loads of fun!

This Summer Sale on GOG is already full of deep discounts, yet we saved the most delicious treats, especially for the Insomnia Promo. How does it work? Starting now, once every 6 hours a new great game will appear here, bearing an insanely deep discount. Right now, you can already see the first title – the best-selling strategy game Frostpunk 85% off!

What’s the catch? Every game appearing during the event will only have 6 hours to catch your attention. After the time runs out, a new game will appear, while the former one will get back on our Summer Sale with the initial, lower discount. The other factor you have to be aware of is the limited stock of Insomnia deals!

So, be on the lookout, because cool titles like Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry and Solasta: Crown of the Magister Supporter Edition are bound to appear at the Insomnia Promo event at some time (when? We’ll just have to wait and see ;)). So, take that caffeine shot and be on the lookout for great discounted games!
Posted June 28, 2022
While not as robust as past Insomnia, it was a welcome addition to your summer sale. Thanks, GOG!
Posted July 08, 2022
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CelestialBunny: Let's see if Sonico gonna kick some beef and get on the sale :)
Bro, wake up! Sonico is up on sale. I know you've been waiting for it all time during insomnias... Since I couldn't PM/notify you, I had to necro this bad boy of a thread instead. Apologies for any heart attacks, insomnia is indeed over.

Btw I have a rule of not chatting up ppl who are wearing headphones at a time, presumably listening to something or not wanting to be bothered in general, so I wish you good luck!
Posted August 24, 2022
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mrkgnao: To continue my email above with an example, here is an offer I got in today's newsletter.

The offer costs $5.24 and gives:
- Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice ($8.74 during summer sale (full $34.99))
- Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don’t Dry ($2.99 during summer sale, $1.99 during somnia sale (full $29.99))
- Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don’t Dry Artbook & Soundtrack ($0.99 during summer sale (full $4.99))

So, a very nice discount (-92.5% relative to full price vs. -82% during summer sale) --- assuming you don't own the games and are interested in them.
Ahh. I do already have them, but good to know that it might be worthwhile some day to write some kind of advanced e-mail filter which watches for e-mails from GOG and filters out things not on a whitelist of "purchase confirmation or containing coupon links" and then turn on e-mails.
Posted March 18, 2023
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mrkgnao: However, I always do the installations on my Windows 7 desktop and I often play the games on my Windows 10 laptop (copying the folder, or playing directly from the portable HDD) --- and so far, in over a year and tens of games, I have not yet encountered a single problem of a game working on the original desktop and not on the migrated-to laptop. So for me, it remains --- for now --- a theoretical problem.
Can you pratically make my FF 13, FF 8 or a new Tomb Raider work without Steam using your "tricks" or is it impossible because it is now "AAA"-Games?

Small Indies are rarely fully DRMed... i am glad you noticed.

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mrkgnao: Here are a some games that became client-free for me after adding Goldberg (I have played all, except the last one):
- Tell Me Why
- Labyrinthine Dreams
- Fae Tactics
- Rollers of the Realm
- Glass Masquerade (1 and 2)
- Ticket to Earth
- Card Quest
- The Solitaire Conspiracy
- Disgaea PC (haven't played this one yet, just tested that it launches and reaches the main menu)

There were additionally games that required Steamless + Goldberg, like:
- Hitman GO
- Grotesque Tactics Evil Heroes
Well yeah, the only game i actually got on this list is Disgaea... but i doubt that it would work without a launcher, at least not "out of the box".

The other games rarely are "AAA" so you indeed got some luck with your taste.

Sure, you can make many Steam games "work" with your tricks but rarely the ones that truly counts for many of us.

What, you needed 2 "countermeasures" for a 5-buck standard-price C-game such as Hitman GO? Okay... no way this is DRM free. no matter how you "handle" your DRM-free.

Besides "Labyrinthine Dreams" is now 50 cent on Steam, but they could aswell just give it free... because it is as good as free anyway. I mean... your reality is simply "special", but it may not count for a lot of us. I think, it is not even worth it trying to "enable" it... if you lose it just buy it another time.

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mrkgnao: I definitely prefer indie games over AA or AAA games. None of the three games you list holds any interest for me --- I probably wouldn't buy any of them, even for a buck.
Fact is: You could get DRM free almost everywhere, with a chance of at least 50% but other people do not... some gamers not even a little bit.

On Steam, from the games i had interest... less than 10 was DRM free... and the ones who got DRM, those you will not be able to "enable" it with your methods, i assume.

There are tens of thousands of games on Steam... but exactly the 10% most of the people got the most interest... they are as good as never DRM free (some rare exception is for example Witcher 3... and indeed... every platform). if it comes to money... the 10% that are rarely DRM free are actually the ones that will generate the highest revenue...

You are using a perspective that simply is not realistic for the majority, however... at least some people who may enjoy small indies may get some "light"...
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