That was a smart move. :)

Edit: Ha HA! Got me one too. :D

GOGBear-Ception!

GOG fixed my order problem. The site is running better now. I just bought 3 more games.

I'm afraid I have to agree with the original poster and disagree with all the apologists.

I've been a gog.com customer almost from the beginning (Sept 2008) and I enjoy the service very much.

But ...

This is a business, not a free service set up by your pals, or a charity, so please think things through before making excuses on gog.com's behalf.

I constantly get messages trying to entice me to visit gog.com to buy more games (not a bad thing, mind you) or to alert me to the latest (and ever more frequent) promotion. That's fine.

But ...

As a responsible adult with many demands on my time and obligations to spouse, co-workers, family, children, pets, neighbors, members of the community, fellow trustees of boards I sit on, etc. (not to mention the constant clamoring for my attention from other businesses who want me to check out their latest offers), I can't devote hours solely to checking back with gog.com just because their servers are overloaded. This latest promotion with the daily free games, deals, pick from the 3 boxes each day and the countdown timer is clearly designed to entice me to check in to gog EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. That's what gog.com wants me to do.

So, it had better work and work well for the 5 or 10 minutes I'm able to grant each day. No excuses. I have plenty of other people that want to take my money and plenty of other things to do. I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt and chalk this up to a mistake or growing pains, but gog.com needs to get it right or I'll start ignoring the promotional messages and eventually stop coming back. That's not a threat - it's just a cold fact.

Please, folks. Work out the issues with your infrastructure, because I really want to keep having a reason to keep coming back to the site.

P.S. As an added suggestion, the server infrastructure for existing customers needs to be separate from the sales-oriented infrastructure. Coincidentally, I recently reworked my storage infrastructure and alloted some time today to check and update my collection of already purchased games and was unable to do so due to intermittent server availability caused by a sale I didn't know was coming. That shouldn't happen.

Silly people thinking a site that's accustomed to only a relatively small userbase can handle the full force of /r/gamedeals.

I know there were some issues earlier and some kinks are still being worked out, but with the forums be added back to news pages any time in the future to allow for more convenient posting again, or will it only come back later in the sale?

Much ado about nothing. There was extra load for some hours when the sale started, and things are back to normal now. Having to wait a few hours is totally worth a hissyfit and a ragequit, amirite?

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/f7/f70a0e06b149d586683056d8a7ee0acf3d9dc620b0a400ac3dcd99e8e56b9818.jpg

Oh my, a website was slow during peak hours.. call the new york times!



Gog sales last at least 24 hours for the most part, if not longer.. Just wait a few hours.... I had zero trouble logging in, and getting things off peak..

I guess your HP Assisstant needs attention! :)

yeah it kept giving me an error page when i went to checkout.

better now

Yep, sure, Steam would never be down for six hours because of server problems due to giving away a free game. Nope, nope, couldn't happen.

My case = rested. 8)

And its still going,....

No, that could never happen. Oh, wait. ;-p

Can't even access the Steam page, much less log in. Good job Gabe!