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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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The psychology of the "Last Chance" tag: almost had me buying a game I have no interest in playing.
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ruebezahl: So which games are you guys waiting for? I'm mostly sticking around for a couple of potential impulse buys myself. ;)
Syndicate.
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hammersport: will someone please buy 400 Carmagedons?
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DieselX: Sure thats only 800 buck I'll get right on that
But now it's down to 324! Now you're missing out!
Am i the only one who has only bought one game ? (Children of the nile)
The one game I cared about getting, The Witcher 2, wasn't in this cycle (and I watched it all day, because I have no life), but I saw many other great offers. Sadly, I already had most of the games in this cycle that I were interested in. Others, like Shadowrun Returns, certainly sounds good, but my backlog is big enough as it is. Even just my GoG backlog is quite substantial.
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ruebezahl: So which games are you guys waiting for? I'm mostly sticking around for a couple of potential impulse buys myself. ;)
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LesterKnight99: Syndicate.
Syndicate isn't among the 100 games in the promo, so you may be waiting a while for it...
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ruebezahl: So which games are you guys waiting for? I'm mostly sticking around for a couple of potential impulse buys myself. ;)
Deadly Premonition... I'm not even sure why.
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hammersport: will someone please buy 400 Carmagedons?
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groze: Oh, come on, now, it's not going *that* slow... it may yet stall a bit, but it seems to be going pretty fast, especially given what everyone has been saying about it being one of the "Keanes" of this promo.
:-) just joking. Watching the bar on each game is getting addictive. I'm glad they have an actual end to this sale or I would worry about growing roots to my chair.

I don't understand the 'Keanes' refrences. could someone enlighten me?
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Wargamer234: Am i the only one who has only bought one game ? (Children of the nile)
nah, I bought two? Though I got a carmagedon for free even though it's a game I will never play /eyes it.
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DieselX: Sure thats only 800 buck I'll get right on that
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implord66: But now it's down to 324! Now you're missing out!
IDK must be lots of buyers because the check out page is taking a long time to load. I hope they dont sell out before I get there.....
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ruebezahl: So which games are you guys waiting for? I'm mostly sticking around for a couple of potential impulse buys myself. ;)
Ditto! I was waiting for Shadowrun. But got that and can't stop...
Way too early prediction for the next game, have to see if I'm seeing something, Symphony next? If not, back to the drawing board.
Post edited May 13, 2014 by gamingrn
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Wargamer234: Am i the only one who has only bought one game ? (Children of the nile)
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Novaclaw: nah, I bought two? Though I got a carmagedon for free even though it's a game I will never play /eyes it.
It does get some points with me for it's punny title.
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Wargamer234: Am i the only one who has only bought one game ? (Children of the nile)
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Novaclaw: nah, I bought two? Though I got a carmagedon for free even though it's a game I will never play /eyes it.
If you click 'Buy now' and the game its a freebie it tells you right away?
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groze: Oh, come on, now, it's not going *that* slow... it may yet stall a bit, but it seems to be going pretty fast, especially given what everyone has been saying about it being one of the "Keanes" of this promo.
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hammersport: :-) just joking. Watching the bar on each game is getting addictive. I'm glad they have an actual end to this sale or I would worry about growing roots to my chair.

I don't understand the 'Keanes' refrences. could someone enlighten me?
Jack Keane 2 killed the pace of the last insomnia sale by staying up for 4 hours. Games that stay up for a long time in the promo are referred to as keaning.