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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...
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caledhel: I got a shock this morning when I started up FF. I thought someone had replaced it with chrome. It was a pain trying to figure out how to get it back to normal.
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ReynardFox: I turned off autoupdates because i had prior warning. But if I have to update for some reason it's a good thing someone already made a classic theme restorer add-on.
The new Firefox update makes the browser run a lot faster for me, and fixed a memory leak issue I had with it. I'd say the update makes it slightly better than Chrome (for me), but the default interface needs a lot of work.
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Bambusek: And so this sales ends for me, got everything I want. :)
TTFN
has NWN2 been on sale? I'm waiting for that one, but don't have time to check the site all the time
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musteriuz: I've tried Firefox a few times and it just doesn't do it for me.
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marianne: Which do you like ? It's good to know what everyone likes, just in case> :-)
Everything other than IE is just too slow and until 5 mins ago that was my preferred choice, but as soon as Deponia 3 became available, IE completely crashed and I missed out. Is there a virtual puching bag to hit somewhere?
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FlamingFirewire: Does anyone have a list of what games have passes on this round so far? I'm assuming we're in round three right now - have we passed by Valdis Story yet?
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Cardian: Still round 2.
Oh, ok - do you or anyone else have a list handy of the round 2 games we've seen in the promo so far?
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KOC: has NWN2 been on sale? I'm waiting for that one, but don't have time to check the site all the time
NWN2 is not in this sale
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KOC: has NWN2 been on sale? I'm waiting for that one, but don't have time to check the site all the time
That isn't up for sale this time.

www.gog.com/forum/general/spring_insomnia_promo_tracker/page1

What's on that list is what's for sale this time around.
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KOC: has NWN2 been on sale? I'm waiting for that one, but don't have time to check the site all the time
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/spring_insomnia_promo_tracker/post1

these are the 100 games on sale
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Cardian: Still round 2.
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FlamingFirewire: Oh, ok - do you or anyone else have a list handy of the round 2 games we've seen in the promo so far?
Theme Park - 75% off (1.49) - 800
Luftrausers - 75% off (5.24) - 200 glitch?
Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut - 75% off (1.49) - 300 glitch?
Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall - 75% off (1.49) - 300 glitched at $3.74, ~75 copies
Teslagrad - 75% off (2.49) - 400
Blitzkrieg Anthology - 80% off (1.99) - 500
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers - 75% off (2.49) - 300
Shelter - 90% off (0.99) - 300
Quest For Glory 1-5 - 75% off (2.49) - 600
Race The Sun - 75% off (2.49) - 300
Blade of Darkness - 75% off (1.49) - 300
The Last Express - 70% off (1.79) - 400
Flatout 2 - 80% off (1.99) - 400
Long Live The Queen - 75% off (2.49) - 400
Tiny and Big - Grandpa's Leftovers - 80% off (1.99) - 200
Interstate '76 Arsenal - 75% off (1.49) - 300
Legend of Grimrock - 80% off (2.99) - 500
Police Quest 1-4 75% off (2.49) - 500
Driftmoon 85% off - 2.24 - 300
The Guild Gold Edition 80% off - 1.99 - 300
American McGee's Grimm 80% off - 1.99 - 300
Carmageddon 2 - 80% off - 1.99 - 500
King's Quest 4-6 - 75% off - 2.49 - 500
Broken Age Season Pass - 40% off - 14.99 - 100
Rise of the Triad - 80% off - 2.99 - 300
Etherlords 2 - 75% off - 1.49 - 400
LBA2 - 75% off - 1.49 - 400
Wasteland - 75% off - 1.49 - 600
Sang-Froid - 85% off - 2.24 - 300
Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space - 90% off - 2.99 - 400
Alan Wake's American Nightmare - 80% off - 1.99 - 400
Still Life - 80% off - 1.99 - 300
Pirates Gold Plus - 75% off - 1.49 - 400
Sin Gold - 60% off - 3.99 - 300
Hammerwatch - 75% off - 1.99 - 300
Goblins Pack - 75% off - 1.49 - 300
Humans Must Answer - 80% off - 1.99 - 300
Space Quest 4-6 - 75% off - 2.49 - 500
Leisure Suit Larry Love For Sail - 75% off - 1.49 - 700
Lone Survivor Director's Cut - 75% off - 3.74 - 450
Gateways - 80% off - 0.99 - 300
Heretic Kingdoms The Inquisition - 75% off - 1.49 - 400
Papers, Please - 60% off - 3.99 - 600
Shadowrun Returns - 66% off - 4.99 - 600
Warlords Battlecry 3 - 80% off - 1.99 - 200
Inquisitor - 85% off - 2.24 - 300
Painkiller Black Edition - 80% off - 1.99 - 400
Book of Unwritten Tales Critter Chronicles - 80% off - 3.99 - 200
Shattered Haven - 80% off - 1.99 - 200
Torchlight - 90% off - 1.49 - 400
The Inner World - 66% off - 4.99 - 150
Children of the Nile Complete - 80% off - 1.99 - 500
Full Spectrum Warrior - 75% off - 2.49 - 150
Divinity Dragon Commander - 70% off - 13.49 - 150
Deus Ex 2 - 80% off - 1.99 - 500
Raiden Legacy - 80% off - 1.99 - 300
Bard's Tale - 80% off - 1.99 - 400
Sam and Max The Devil's Playhouse - 90% off - 3.49 - 400
Pid - 90% off - 0.99 - 300
Duke Nukem 3D - 80% off - 1.19 - 300
Vampire The Masquerade Redemption - 75% off - 1.49 - 500
Uru Complete Chronicles
Ring Runner Flight of the Sages - 80% off - 1.99 - 300
Tomb Raider - Angel of Darkness - 80% off - 1.99 - 350
Deponia 3 - 70% off - 5.99 - 200
Time Commando - 75% off - 1.49 - 300
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Cardian: Still round 2.
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FlamingFirewire: Oh, ok - do you or anyone else have a list handy of the round 2 games we've seen in the promo so far?
The List!
thanks, I'll stop waiting for nothing then :p
Dang! Missed out on Sang Froid this round!
I've tested it with the InPrivate window minimized and having separate tabs (and not having focus on the gog main page) and it seems to work. I don't know why, but it acts as if there's a feedback reaction within your local network/local system updating both browsers.

Also, from what I've seen IE hate mostly stems from the bandwagon of MS hate. The only argument that I've ever heard against IE was that it didn't fully support the newest CSS for a while and issues with old versions of IE.

1) Old versions of IE exists because software for old versions of Windows tied directly to a version of IE, MS had to make updating IE optional in order that these pieces of software would still be able to be used (and so companies didn't have to spend millions of dollars updating software). .NET was made to counter that old system and introduce a new one, so it is now moot.

2) When the new CSS guidelines came out, no one followed them. When IE did follow them, they followed them pretty closely, but Google has a habit of "editing" the standard to fit their browser better, which creates incompatibility with the actual standard, so in essence, no one follows the standard, so again, it is moot. Following this logic, some web devs will only test on one browser, and due to the various "interpretations" of the standard, the page may not work properly on all browsers. I feel this is lazy, but I do mostly desktop programming where we need to consider OS and hardware and program to allow as much freedom as possible (meaning there is no "one size fits all").

Just my two cents.
Purchased:
Vampire the masquerade - Redemption
Duke Nukem 3D
Bard's Tale
Pirates! Gold Plus
Paper, Please
Shattered Heaven
Gobliiins Pack
Hammerwatch
Inquisitor

Freebie:
Gomo

Waiting for:
Valdis, Arcanum and Zork. Maybe S2.

Thanks GOG :)
I got Theme Park and Sin Gold in the sale so far. I think that does it for me. Nothing else is really a must get. I also already picked up a lot of the games that are in this sale already. Still A good sale even if it does drive people crazy. lol!