For CD Projekt's sake, we hope they don't get those two promotions mixed up. To wit: "Congratulations! You're our six millionth customer, so here's Broken Sword! Everyone else, here's everything for free oh god we gave all our games away."
Six million GOG downloads means Broken Sword for everyone
by Griffin McElroy 
on Sep 22nd 2011 2:15PM
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For CD Projekt's sake, we hope they don't get those two promotions mixed up. To wit: "Congratulations! You're our six millionth customer, so here's Broken Sword! Everyone else, here's everything for free oh god we gave all our games away."
Reader Comments (28)
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 2:19PM Xiegfried said
I'm kind of tempted to just buy a ton of cheap games to win.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 2:25PM Scuffles said
Sounds cool, unfortunately I have already purchased from them the one game I was personally interested in ~.~
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 2:26PM DevilSei said
Watch that counter freeze at the 5,999,998 mark, because everyone is watching it to try and get the "free catalog" prize.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 2:27PM Marco le Polo said
I like me some GOG, but it's so hard to play them with such a large backlog. I'll get Broken Sword: Shadow of The Templars Director's Cut, but I dunno if I'll ever play it. Unless it's super crazy awesome.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 2:29PM Marco le Polo said
@mazinhofz
Make your online money now? You should get something to cover the part of your URL up. What's this ".com"? What ever happened to shady extension like .nz? or .scam?
Missing those.
Make your online money now? You should get something to cover the part of your URL up. What's this ".com"? What ever happened to shady extension like .nz? or .scam?
Missing those.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 2:45PM Courtney said
I wonder if they mean 6 million downloads, or 6 million sales. I've downloaded multiple copies of some games (desktop, laptop, work).
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 2:47PM Courtney said
@Courtney
Answered my own question by going to GoG:
"Note that when we say "unique games downloaded," that means redownloading games that you have already downloaded before won't increment the counter."
So if you bought a game, but never downloaded it, then that should count.
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Answered my own question by going to GoG:
"Note that when we say "unique games downloaded," that means redownloading games that you have already downloaded before won't increment the counter."
So if you bought a game, but never downloaded it, then that should count.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 2:59PM jcoggs said
Time to finally pickup the Witcher Enhanced Edition. Viva la 6,000,000!
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 3:06PM Accessgranted said
Yay Gog! I've been a gog person since beta. GoG is awesome! still have to finish some of the games I have on there like Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. =)
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 3:42PM Warlock234 said
I like changing my computer clock so that it's two weeks from now and the counter goes over 6M!
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 3:47PM Warlock234 said
@Warlock234
P.S. The free game is only worth $5.99 normally... They should give us the Witcher 2 for free.
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P.S. The free game is only worth $5.99 normally... They should give us the Witcher 2 for free.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 4:41PM Heffer Wolfe said
@Warlock234
Somehow I'm not surprised that there are people complaining about free games.
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Somehow I'm not surprised that there are people complaining about free games.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 4:45PM MystcLazrDragon said
@Warlock234
It's free quit bitching. Also, they don't owe you anything it's not like you earned the witcher 2 or anything, you're lucky you get a free game to begin with.
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It's free quit bitching. Also, they don't owe you anything it's not like you earned the witcher 2 or anything, you're lucky you get a free game to begin with.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 4:53PM Warlock234 said
@MystcLazrDragon
I'm just thinking about if I owned a service that was about to hit 6M downloads. I would want to give my active users something that was valuable, something that was new and popular, not something that was released 3 years ago and now only costs $6.
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I'm just thinking about if I owned a service that was about to hit 6M downloads. I would want to give my active users something that was valuable, something that was new and popular, not something that was released 3 years ago and now only costs $6.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 5:09PM Warlock234 said
@Colin
Guess what, I didn't call it bad. I called it old. You don't seem to understand. When you celebrating something like this, you don't give away something cheap and old, even if it is good. When Apple hit 1 billion downloads on the App Store, they gave away a ton of NEW iPods and Macs that were worth TONS of money, they didn't dig up some iPhone first gens and some 3 year old iMacs to give away.
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Guess what, I didn't call it bad. I called it old. You don't seem to understand. When you celebrating something like this, you don't give away something cheap and old, even if it is good. When Apple hit 1 billion downloads on the App Store, they gave away a ton of NEW iPods and Macs that were worth TONS of money, they didn't dig up some iPhone first gens and some 3 year old iMacs to give away.
Posted: Sep 23rd 2011 3:29AM killerjuice said
@Warlock234
I don't see why people are even trying to reason with this guy. You get a free game. Enjoy it.
Geez. Is it really that hard?
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I don't see why people are even trying to reason with this guy. You get a free game. Enjoy it.
Geez. Is it really that hard?
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 3:46PM Colin said
Another note! For their third anniversary, all D&D games on GoG are %60 off for the whole pack, and varying savings depending on how many you buy.
So seriously, now is the time to finally buy Balder's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights and Planescape Torment.
So seriously, now is the time to finally buy Balder's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights and Planescape Torment.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 5:48PM jtothechan said
@Colin
Oh yes, Baldur's Gate, II, and Throne of Bhaal. So many well spent hours as a child... one of the few games which almost brought me to tears at the end of the series because I had become so attached to my group.
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Oh yes, Baldur's Gate, II, and Throne of Bhaal. So many well spent hours as a child... one of the few games which almost brought me to tears at the end of the series because I had become so attached to my group.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 4:27PM Brained said
Director's Cut licks balls compared to the original.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 7:29PM PeteZahutt said
The problem with them giving out a high priced game are people like me. I admit I haven't played any PC games in like 10+ years except for FFXI. Everything I play anymore is on consoles because I dont keep my PC up to gamer specs.
However I have downloaded steam finally when TF2 went free. I downloaded it but haven't played it yet. I also grabbed Portal last week because it was free. Some day I might play it. I will likely sign up for GOG simply to download this free game.
I admit to being a freeloader when it comes to PC games simply because I have more than enough games on my console to satisfy all my gaming needs. I dont pirate games but I do take advantage of free ones. And I am sure there are a lot more people like me too. So who knows how much GOg would spend on bandwidth and other related costs for people like me. Better they give away a smaller game that is older and perhaps less desirable than a more recent game that would use a lot more bandwidth and overhead.
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However I have downloaded steam finally when TF2 went free. I downloaded it but haven't played it yet. I also grabbed Portal last week because it was free. Some day I might play it. I will likely sign up for GOG simply to download this free game.
I admit to being a freeloader when it comes to PC games simply because I have more than enough games on my console to satisfy all my gaming needs. I dont pirate games but I do take advantage of free ones. And I am sure there are a lot more people like me too. So who knows how much GOg would spend on bandwidth and other related costs for people like me. Better they give away a smaller game that is older and perhaps less desirable than a more recent game that would use a lot more bandwidth and overhead.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 6:24PM fortunzfavor said
I don't know what broken sword is, but suddenly I want it.
Posted: Sep 22nd 2011 7:58PM Stevetrop Man of Mystery said
28 of those downloads are mine. I reckon with the counter going it will reach 30.
Curses and drats GoG.
Curses and drats GoG.
