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Posted December 12, 2013
All classic Fallout games available FREE for 48 hours!

Holiday season is upon us! If you are a long-time GOG.com user you know well enough--or if you're relatively new to our service, you're about to learn--that we just love offering great games for free whenever it's possible. This year for instance, we've given away innumerable copies of the action-rpg gem <i>Torchlight</i>. Today, we're taking our gifting habit a step further. No, actually make that two steps, as we're handing out a package of three games this time around. For the upcoming 48 hours you'll be able to add [url=http://www.gog.com/promo/fallout_series_giveaway_winter_promo_2013]Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics to your GOG.com collection, completely FREE of charge. That's $0.00 (or, if you prefer the currency of the nuclear wasteland, 0.00 bottle caps) for all the three classic games in the legendary post-apocalyptic RPG series, until Saturday, December 14, at 1:59PM GMT.

Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics for FREE on GOG.com video

Section updated: Don't forget about your gamer friends that may not know GOG.com yet! Sadly, for the sake of unburdening what servers we have, we had to turn off the option for gifting free games. But you can always just let them know they can sign up with GOG.com and claim a free gift of Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. On top of that, when they register to our service, they'll receive all the 12 free games we add to all the newly-created accounts. That way your friends will start their adventure with GOG.com with a collection of 15 great games total already on their virtual shelves! Be kind, share the good news! :-)

Please note that all three classic Fallout titles are pending right holder change. Sadly, to the best of our knowledge, we'll be forced to remove , [url=http://www.gog.com/game/fallout_2]Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics from our offer. That doesn't mean, however, that you won't be able to download them if they are already a part of collection by then. Secure your copies today (or anytime before Saturday, December 14, at 1:59PM GMT)!

While you come to grab your free classic Fallout games, make sure to stay a while and browse through our 2013 DRM-Free Winter Sale selection of 600+ games discounted by 50% or more, special bundle deals up to 80% off, and daily personal deals, including the mysteriously mysterious mystery box! All that and more, now covered with our new 30-day Worldwide Money Back Guarantee, for online game-shopping safer than ever before!

We're currently experiencing server issues due to the highest traffic ever noted on GOG.com. We did anticipate much interest in our 2013 DRM-Free Winter Sale, as well as our Fallout 1,2, & Tactics giveaway, but the number of visits exceeded our highest expectations by far. And we mean FAR. For today, we've prepared double the number of servers that were needed to support our highest day in traffic to date, but it turned out to be not nearly sufficient. We're working on quadrupling our server supply, now.

We're terribly sorry for all the inconvenience you might encounter today, while visiting GOG.com store. If you're new to the site, rest assure that this is far from our day-to-day standards. We're working around the clock until all the problems are fixed, and everyone can enjoy everything we have to offer. If you've encountered any problems, please give it some time. Most issues will be resolved automatically, soon, as the first batch of extra servers is coming on-line right now. If you're affected by something more serious, please be assured that our support team will assist you and fix whatever needs fixing.

Again, we apologize for the user experience, that is not up to our usual standards.
Post edited December 14, 2013 by Chamb
Posted December 13, 2013
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lugum: It's meant as a gesture, a gift. not to abuse the darn thing, its people like you who clog up the servers.
Hope you are proud on yourself.
You don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to be gifting these codes myself, not selling them or anything. People have been talking about hoarding codes throughout the thread. I read through thirteen pages and didn't see one person get up on a soapbox until you. So maybe you're the outlier here, not me.

I didn't clog up a damn thing. I sent a hundred or so requests to the server and got back a hundred verification pages, and GOG sent out two hundred emails. You know how much data that is? A few megabytes. You know how much data a single person downloading this giveaway consumes? A couple of gigabytes. In case you didn't know, a gigabyte is about a thousand megabytes.

In fact, somebody working for GOG replied here mentioning something about hoarding codes (non-negatively), so it's not like they have a problem with it. Additionally, gifting wouldn't be totally unlimited unless Interplay was okay with it. And, by the way, I owned all three games before this giveaway happened. You can't say I'm greedily taking advantage of anything because of that.

So, yeah. None of what you said holds any water whatsoever.

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JoseWisemang: Lol, I tend to go to my account tab and click on "gifts."
This has a list of all the codes and if I want to know what one is... I click it.
Wow. I can't believe I wasted all that time :/
Post edited December 13, 2013 by dzylon
Posted December 13, 2013
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Chandoraa: What happens with the extras? Will those still be downloadable after the games are pulled, as long as we own the games on GOG?
I have XIII on my shelf (pulled 1 year ago) and it still has extras.
Posted December 13, 2013
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dzylon: So now I'm looking at a text file with a hundred codes in it. Beautiful. I think I'll stop here.

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And what do you intend to do with those hundred codes?
Posted December 13, 2013
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lugum: It's meant as a gesture, a gift. not to abuse the darn thing, its people like you who clog up the servers.
Hope you are proud on yourself.
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dzylon: You don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to be gifting these codes myself, not selling them or anything. People have been talking about hoarding codes throughout the thread. I read through thirteen pages and didn't see one person get up on a soapbox until you. So maybe you're the outlier here, not me.

I didn't clog up a damn thing. I sent a hundred or so requests to the server and got back a hundred verification pages, and GOG sent out two hundred emails. You know how much data that is? A few megabytes. You know how much data a single person downloading this giveaway consumes? A couple of gigabytes. In case you didn't know, a gigabyte is about a thousand megabytes.

In fact, somebody working for GOG replied here mentioning something about hoarding codes (non-negatively), so it's not like they have a problem with it. Additionally, gifting wouldn't be totally unlimited unless Interplay was okay with it.

So shut up. None of what you said holds any water whatsoever.

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JoseWisemang: Lol, I tend to go to my account tab and click on "gifts."
This has a list of all the codes and if I want to know what one is... I click it.
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dzylon: Wow. I can't believe I wasted all that time :/
I am not the only one who ever said something about this, especially with previous free codes being given away.

You know hundreds of people to give them too? I doubt anyone have that much friends, real friends and not like in those facebook friends people call today. Especially with your attitude.
Secondly if you gonna give them away to people you know just send them over here.

On your own no its not all clogging up the servers but if you have like 10 of you, or even more then yes together it will clog up the servers. Especially in the beginning of events like this, and there were major server issues.

Fact remains that do hold water is that having and keeping 100 codes is just utter bullshit.
And i don't know what i am talking about? Looking at your rep and join date a heck of alot more then you.
I been around a little bit longer then you. ;)
Post edited December 13, 2013 by lugum
Posted December 13, 2013
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lugum: I am not the only one who ever said something about this.

You know hundreds of people to give them too? I doubt anyone have that much friends, real friends and not like in those facebook friends people call today. Especially with your attitude.
Secondly if you gonna give them away to people you know just send them over here.

On your own no its not all clogging up the servers but if you have like 10 of you, or even more then yes together it will clog up the servers.

Fact remains that do hold water is that having and keeping 100 codes is just utter bullshit.
Like I said, I read through most of the pages in the thread and didn't see anything. If somebody agrees with you, that simply means both of you are wrong. Nothing more.

I'll be distributing (probably most of) the codes over the internet, of course. After the giveaway ends.

I requested the codes over a period of about ten hours. If fifty people (I'm being generous here) download a hundred codes each over a period of ten hours, there won't be any noticeable change in server response time. I may not be an expert in this kind of thing, but I am an experienced web developer and I have operated websites in the past, so I'm probably more qualified to comment than you are.

Lastly, it's utter bullshit? Why?

Edit: Anyway, I'm done here. If I haven't convinced you of anything yet, I'm not likely to. Any further bickering is pointless. Good day.

Edit2: And here's the GOG guy's message, in case you were interested: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics/post105
Post edited December 13, 2013 by dzylon
Posted December 13, 2013
Maybe he's going to be that awesome kid we wish we went to college with... would be a sweet "end of semester gift" to just hand out to peeps.

FALLOUT!
FALLOUT, FOR EVERYBODY!
Post edited December 13, 2013 by JoseWisemang
Posted December 13, 2013
I've got 2 whole gmail pages of receipts sitting in my inbox

That's a whole ton of codes o.O
Posted December 13, 2013
Downloaded right now also I have three and new vegas on consoles
Posted December 13, 2013
Thanks for the great free games GoG :D
Posted December 13, 2013
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lugum: I am not the only one who ever said something about this.

You know hundreds of people to give them too? I doubt anyone have that much friends, real friends and not like in those facebook friends people call today. Especially with your attitude.
Secondly if you gonna give them away to people you know just send them over here.

On your own no its not all clogging up the servers but if you have like 10 of you, or even more then yes together it will clog up the servers.

Fact remains that do hold water is that having and keeping 100 codes is just utter bullshit.
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dzylon: Like I said, I read through most of the pages in the thread and didn't see anything. If somebody agrees with you, that simply means both of you are wrong. Nothing more.

I'll be distributing (probably most of) the codes over the internet, of course. After the giveaway ends.

I requested the codes over a period of about ten hours. If fifty people (I'm being generous here) download a hundred codes each over a period of ten hours, there won't be any noticeable change in server response time. I may not be an expert in this kind of thing, but I am an experienced web developer and I have operated websites in the past, so I'm probably more qualified to comment than you are.

Lastly, it's utter bullshit? Why?

Edit: Anyway, I'm done here. If I haven't convinced you of anything yet, I'm not likely to. Any further bickering is pointless. Good day.

Edit2: And here's the GOG guy's message, in case you were interested: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics/post105
Dammit, mate, this means I won't be able to get rid of my own codes for the next few years :D Though I didn't get nearly as many as you did :D
Posted December 13, 2013
Can I just say that I FREAKING LOVE YOU GUYS!
Posted December 13, 2013
You guys seriously just made my weekend. Thanks so much GOG.
Posted December 13, 2013
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lugum: I am not the only one who ever said something about this.

You know hundreds of people to give them too? I doubt anyone have that much friends, real friends and not like in those facebook friends people call today. Especially with your attitude.
Secondly if you gonna give them away to people you know just send them over here.

On your own no its not all clogging up the servers but if you have like 10 of you, or even more then yes together it will clog up the servers.

Fact remains that do hold water is that having and keeping 100 codes is just utter bullshit.
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dzylon: Like I said, I read through most of the pages in the thread and didn't see anything. If somebody agrees with you, that simply means both of you are wrong. Nothing more.

I'll be distributing (probably most of) the codes over the internet, of course. After the giveaway ends.

I requested the codes over a period of about ten hours. If fifty people (I'm being generous here) download a hundred codes each over a period of ten hours, there won't be any noticeable change in server response time. I may not be an expert in this kind of thing, but I am an experienced web developer and I have operated websites in the past, so I'm probably more qualified to comment than you are.

Lastly, it's utter bullshit? Why?

Edit: Anyway, I'm done here. If I haven't convinced you of anything yet, I'm not likely to. Any further bickering is pointless. Good day.

Edit2: And here's the GOG guy's message, in case you were interested: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics/post105
And i am a microsoft certified software engineer, studying computer science with 15 or so other computer certificates in the pocket, plus i had a website myself so i am not completely an idiot at that department either.
Again i never said you alone would clog it up, but hundreds of people like you will, especially in the beginning.
And yes eventually there will be plenty of room to get codes and not clog it up as much, but it is still abuse.

I am interested as to where it condones getting 100 codes in that comment? because it doesn't.

But you are right, you believe what you want, so its no point in discussing anything further with you then.
Post edited December 13, 2013 by lugum
Posted December 13, 2013
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nijuu: I keep reading comments in different places that FONV is actually the better game? (havent finished either but FONV seems to feel meatier storywise)
They're both somewhat different from each other. I enjoyed both games immensely. I think the mechanics of FONV was interesting and I really liked the different environment and ambiance. It really gave a sense of placement in terms of now being in the West, instead of in the East.

I would really love to know more about the story and mysterious (super creepy) locations in the game in future games.
Posted December 13, 2013
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dzylon: Like I said, I read through most of the pages in the thread and didn't see anything. If somebody agrees with you, that simply means both of you are wrong. Nothing more.

I'll be distributing (probably most of) the codes over the internet, of course. After the giveaway ends.

I requested the codes over a period of about ten hours. If fifty people (I'm being generous here) download a hundred codes each over a period of ten hours, there won't be any noticeable change in server response time. I may not be an expert in this kind of thing, but I am an experienced web developer and I have operated websites in the past, so I'm probably more qualified to comment than you are.

Lastly, it's utter bullshit? Why?

Edit: Anyway, I'm done here. If I haven't convinced you of anything yet, I'm not likely to. Any further bickering is pointless. Good day.

Edit2: And here's the GOG guy's message, in case you were interested: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics/post105
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Reever: Dammit, mate, this means I won't be able to get rid of my own codes for the next few years :D Though I didn't get nearly as many as you did :D
You might want to act more quickly than that, lol. Apparently codes can't be trusted to last more than a year.
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