GOG is running a promo for the US govt shutdown, 50% on certain games.
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The Guild: Gold Edition is a great place to see where the term “Machiavellian Politics” originated from. If you’re looking to find a land where earning power was the key to success in the political arena, look no further. Meanwhile, in **Capitalism Plus **and Capitalism 2 , you can get the best economic sims that money can buy half off and see for yourself how a demand economy functions. Tropico Reloaded is 50% off as a reminder of what can happen when governments go awry, and Alpha Centauri (with the Alien Crossfire expansion!) has more different styles of governments modeled than you can shake a stick at. So, really, these games are a quick lesson in civic government. Because we’re concerned for you guys.
There has been a lot of furor over health care in America leading up to this shutdown, and we think it’s a shame so many people are upset about medicine and how to treat each other. To help further our educational mission for this promo, we figured we’d put Theme Hospital in the sale as well, because that way you can judge for yourself just how tricky it can be to balance the needs of sick patients against limited budgets. Finally, for reasons entirely unrelated to who may or may not have been involved in shutting down the US Government, we also appear to have Redneck Rampage on sale 50% off.
As a special bonus, if you’ve actually been furloughed, you can get the games for free.
That last twist of the knife is the best.
I’d been waiting for a big sale on SMAC, now that it’s available for Mac.
WOOT!
Thanks for the heads-up, Terminus ! I finally got Alpha Centauri, and for just $3!
Yeah, I saw this and snickered quite a lot.* “Showing you how government works, in case yours doesn’t!”,* indeed.
DCnDC
October 10, 2013, 1:51pm
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I got furloughed, but I didn’t get a letter (I’m a contractor, so I’m not getting back pay either). I don’t have Windows anyway.
Seems to be gone/over now. Or at least the page no longer loads and I can’t see a way to it from the main page.
No big deal to me – mainly wanted to share it for amusement value.
The thread with the announcement is still up on their general forum though if anyone wants to read it, it’s fairly amusing.
Chronos
October 11, 2013, 12:43am
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OK, this is frustrating. Just bought a new game, obviously I want to try it out, right? Except I can’t.
See, I’m currently in a Civ III game, and I’m in the modern era, so obviously I need to finish building the spaceship and launch it before I can play Alpha Centauri, right? And then Xerxes had to go and attack me, so equally obviously now I need to finish splattering him before I can finish the game.
