# GOG.com promo for the govt shutdown **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 9, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gog-com-promo-for-the-govt-shutdown/670795 "2013-10-09T18:13:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gog-com-promo-for-the-govt-shutdown/670795/1 "2013-10-09T18:13:55Z")
GOG is running a promo for the US govt shutdown, 50% on certain games. > **[Welcome to GOG.com | best PC games DRM-free](https://www.gog.com/en)** > > Download the best classic and new games on Windows, Mac & Linux. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies and 30-day money-back guarantee. > [@](#): > > **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. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gog-com-promo-for-the-govt-shutdown/670795/2 "2013-10-09T20:53:17Z")
That last twist of the knife is the best. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gog-com-promo-for-the-govt-shutdown/670795/3 "2013-10-10T02:49:08Z")
I’d been waiting for a big sale on SMAC, now that it’s available for Mac. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gog-com-promo-for-the-govt-shutdown/670795/4 "2013-10-10T03:00:05Z")
WOOT! Thanks for the heads-up, **Terminus**! I finally got Alpha Centauri, and for just $3! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gog-com-promo-for-the-govt-shutdown/670795/5 "2013-10-10T13:29:07Z")
Yeah, I saw this and snickered quite a lot.\* “Showing you how government works, in case yours doesn’t!”,\* indeed. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gog-com-promo-for-the-govt-shutdown/670795/6 "2013-10-10T13:51:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gog-com-promo-for-the-govt-shutdown/670795/7 "2013-10-10T13:57:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gog-com-promo-for-the-govt-shutdown/670795/8 "2013-10-10T22:23:24Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > 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. The thread with the [announcement](http://www.gog.com/forum/general/special_promo_shutdown_promo) is still up on their general forum though if anyone wants to read it, it’s fairly amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gog-com-promo-for-the-govt-shutdown/670795/9 "2013-10-11T00:43:57Z")
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.