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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...
Alan Wake? They're giving us a breather here, guys! :) Thanks, GOG! :D
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SonataFanatica: Alan Wake? They're giving us a breather here, guys! :) Thanks, GOG! :D
LOL
I can't say sales excite me as much as they used too, as I've already got all the games that I think would be nice to own. Well, at least I can sleep peacefully because of it.
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stg83: What is going on here this is like the anti-Keane insomnia this year, you better not blink or you'll miss a game. KEEP THOSE EYES OPEN 0_0.
This is how it was the first time through in the original Insomnia sale. Things started getting bogged down later when keane hit and the the repeats with larger quantities of games came around...
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sirchaox1224: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHAT DID I MISS?! >_<
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Splatsch: Here is the full list :
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/spring_insomnia_promo_tracker/post1
Thanks! :D
Well... time to hit the loo then. :D
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Licurg: I missed Bard's Tale :( That's the last time I take a shit...
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Stooner: Same happen to me in the in Interestate/Uru. No pooping anymore... ;p
what's with everyone leaving to do the deuce? now see what you missed? :p
93 volunteers who can spend $6, step forward please! :P
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SonataFanatica: Alan Wake? They're giving us a breather here, guys! :) Thanks, GOG! :D
Yeah...thank heavens, I need it. I have Alan Wake. I'm going to run to the kitchen and get some more iced coffee.
Thanks Alan Wake. I've time to fix dishwashers :)
Starting on a Monday? :o
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jalister: Damn work. I've missed three so far that I would have purchased.
List done by IAmSinistar (and other people :) )
I heard that in the last insomnia sale, they put the games another time on sale, so you may have a new luck to get them if they do the same thing ;)
Post edited May 12, 2014 by Splatsch
really hoping for Bloodrayne , Alone in the Dark Series, Undying, Sword of the Samurai, and especially Covert Action !
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BillyMaysFan59: 93 volunteers who can spend $6, step forward please! :P
We may need them for a greater cause. I am not jokeane around either.
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Reading through the posts, I can see many who hate this sale, and they seem to outnumber those who like it. Also, GOG points out that there was a wishlist entry to bring it back. REALLY GOG! 136 votes is hardly a large number. You have a number of wishlist items in the Thousands that are still waiting to happen.

I usually try and be well thought out and give sound reasoning in my posts, but this time I may not do as well. I hate, hate, hate this sale type. Die, die, die. I love you GOG, but when this sale type hits, it makes me want to go and buy a game from someone/anyone else which is normally the last thing on my mind. I always look here first.

So, in response, here is my Death to the Insomnia Sales wishlist item. http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/death_to_the_insomnia_sales

Let us all banish this filth, bloated, worm ridden corpse of a sale type back to hell where it belongs. Anyone and everyone that is annoyed by this sale vote on my wishlist item please. I normally really care about my rep, especially just barely growing as it is on GOG, but on seeing this sale type again, I don't care so much.