# did i miss GOG's insominia sale this year ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-miss-gogs-insominia-sale-this-year/775684>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 27, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-miss-gogs-insominia-sale-this-year/775684 "2016-12-27T02:09:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-miss-gogs-insominia-sale-this-year/775684/1 "2016-12-27T02:09:52Z")

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Ok what this bit of insanity is twice a year for a week GOG puts a rotation about 50 or so games on a non stop flash sale for rock bottom prices until a set number of copies sell out (about 5 k or so) at different prices

for example you might be up at 2 am and thell have a 40/50 dollar game for 5.99 but for only 500 copies

but the next day the same games only 30 percent off … So the hook is your supposed ot be watching 24/7 pretty much for the rare deals …

they used to have free games occasionaly but people used to use bots to steal them for resale so they discontinued that … also they have a internal timer so one game dosent hold up the sale like the infamous jack keene 2 incident…

did they have the winter one this year ? its usually a week or two before xmas but I didn’t see one …

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-miss-gogs-insominia-sale-this-year/775684/2 "2016-12-27T02:51:18Z")

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> [@nightshadea](#):
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> did they have the winter one this year ? its usually a week or two before xmas but I didn’t see one …

They had it about two weeks earlier than usual.

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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-miss-gogs-insominia-sale-this-year/775684/3 "2016-12-27T03:55:04Z")

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wow that stinks there was some newer games I was hoping would be on it … amd I didn’t see the e-mailed notice I usually get …