Gamersgate servers seem to be down. People must have made quite the rush on them.
Good I thought it was just me. I was going to pick up that text based zombie game.
They are up and down and up and down.
Yeah I'm trying to buy Zafehouse Diaries too. Lay off it, everyone!
I just need them to be up long enough to take my money and let me download zafehouse diaries.
It's been hit & miss all evening.
Gah!!!!!!!! Gamersgate mocks me!!!!! Oh well, I'll try again tomorrow.
Apparently they put up some mega Bethesda pack that started getting mentioned all over the place, and now the site's basically screwed.
Quote from: Arctic Blast on December 22, 2012, 01:00:29 AM
Apparently they put up some mega Bethesda pack that started getting mentioned all over the place, and now the site's basically screwed.
.. and all those Swedes are sleeping.
Got on, but its very slow...
I managed to buy the IndieFort bundle eventually. I think it took about ten minutes.
It's working fairly well now. Except for one thing - browsing multiple pages in the Offers list - it only shows the first page and you can't advance.
A shame since there looks to be some crazy deals on lots of good ones, and boatloads of Packages on sale.
Looks like they screwed up again yesterday and had the Bethesda pack on for 91% off for a while. Now it's changed to "Coming soon".
...never mind. 8)
Does 'ran out of serials' mean you don't get the games at all or just can't register it on Steam? If you paid but get no games then it is up to them to refund, not wait for each consumer to contact them. If no Steam support, then I suppose it would be up to the individual to decide.
Quote from: Staggerwing on December 22, 2012, 10:28:36 AM
Does 'ran out of serials' mean you don't get the games at all or just can't register it on Steam? If you paid but get no games then it is up to them to refund, not wait for each consumer to contact them. If no Steam support, then I suppose it would be up to the individual to decide.
You must've got one of the packages that caused their hosting to die. :o
Every time I've received a message about GG running out of serials, they have had another batch sent to them from the publisher a few days later and then issue them to you.
I suggest sending a help ticket into GG about the "out of serials" message to let them know which games are getting that, just to be sure someone has done so. Unlike Steam, where it took over a week for even a cut & paste Help Desk response (and another week or two before actually receiving a serial), Gamersgate sent a fairly quick
human response pertaining to my exact issue, telling me they were getting more codes. Being X-mas sale season, however, I'm sure everyone's customer service is getting swamped so there's no telling how long it will be before they get new codes in (after Xmas?).
It might mean they are selling them faster than they get them.. don't worry. they'll take care of you.. Gamers Gate is top notch Customer Service if you open a ticket with them..
Thanks for the replies. I have not yet ordered one of the bundles so this key issue was making me think twice about it. I have a HUGE game backlog so waiting for a key is no biggie as long as they eventually deliver.
The Bethesda bundle has been confirmed as a mistake.
Haha. Seriously. Good fortune for those who jumped on the mistake. Not so much for the guy who posted it. How do you make a mistake like that though? Hey this bundle goes up tomorrow for 50%, good deal....hey what the hell? Some took my stapler off my desk!.../hand swipes keyboard in franctic search for the stapler/....OMG!!! WHAT HAVE I DONE? I accidently typed 91% Off and hit enter! SHIZNIT!!! THE BOSS IS GOING TO BE PISSED~!!!
Quote from: Bison on December 22, 2012, 12:49:17 PM
Haha. Seriously. Good fortune for those who jumped on the mistake. Not so much for the guy who posted it. How do you make a mistake like that though? Hey this bundle goes up tomorrow for 50%, good deal....hey what the hell? Some took my stapler off my desk!.../hand swipes keyboard in franctic search for the stapler/....OMG!!! WHAT HAVE I DONE? I accidently typed 91% Off and hit enter! SHIZNIT!!! THE BOSS IS GOING TO BE PISSED~!!!
fortunate for the ones that grabbed it but i see them complaining on the gamersgateforums because they cant get their keys. i mean really people? you just nabbed over 300 bucks worth of games for 30 bucks and you complain cus they dont have enough keys. even see some people had it in their cart but couldnt process payment, they now want GG to honor the sale.
I didn't know they had a forum. Where's it located? I don't see a link on the website.
Quote from: Bison on December 22, 2012, 01:06:51 PM
I didn't know they had a forum. Where's it located? I don't see a link on the website.
+1.....yes, where are they?
Their forum is called Game Tutor. It's a clickable tab on the left side of the screen.
Perhaps CptHowdy is referring to the game tutor section for the games.
Quote from: CptHowdy on December 22, 2012, 12:57:11 PM
Quote from: Bison on December 22, 2012, 12:49:17 PM
Haha. Seriously. Good fortune for those who jumped on the mistake. Not so much for the guy who posted it. How do you make a mistake like that though? Hey this bundle goes up tomorrow for 50%, good deal....hey what the hell? Some took my stapler off my desk!.../hand swipes keyboard in franctic search for the stapler/....OMG!!! WHAT HAVE I DONE? I accidently typed 91% Off and hit enter! SHIZNIT!!! THE BOSS IS GOING TO BE PISSED~!!!
fortunate for the ones that grabbed it but i see them complaining on the gamersgateforums because they cant get their keys. i mean really people? you just nabbed over 300 bucks worth of games for 30 bucks and you complain cus they dont have enough keys. even see some people had it in their cart but couldnt process payment, they now want GG to honor the sale.
LoL.
People will whine about anything these days.
Mind you I remember a Boardgaming retailer that had a very huge discount, that made a game's price drop to ~-3K or so (yeah, a minus, a negative price), allowing you to get it and a lot of other things together for free :D
Obviously they ran out of stock within a second of the posting at BGG.
Quote from: Huw the Poo on December 22, 2012, 02:17:49 PM
Perhaps CptHowdy is referring to the game tutor section for the games.
yeah the gametutor section
GG appears to be down again...wonder what great deal (aka mistake) we're missing?
It has been up and down this morning...did get in awhile ago....they have borderlands 2 and borderlands 2 season pass each marked down 50%. Suprememe Commandaer, Europa, and Deus Ex and witcher 2 on sale....nothing that really caught my eye:)
I heard it was a Borderlands 2 4-pack for around $12 that has caused the recent outage. Another pricing mistake. Ouch.
Trey
Quote from: Great Ajax on December 27, 2012, 11:19:02 AM
I heard it was a Borderlands 2 4-pack for around $12 that has caused the recent outage. Another pricing mistake. Ouch.
Trey
Then either it's some weird marketing shtick, or some disgruntled employee there in Sweden is going to get beheaded. :P
Site seems to be sporadic again today. This is starting to get under my skin, because I want to install some games from my library. IMHO some decent level of site availability is required by their business model. This has been going on for days now...
Once again the site is down. I've been patient through the holiday season figuring they have had some problems not experienced before. One of the reasons I have bought so many games from Gamersgate has been the percieved stability of the service they provide. Now I'm beginning to be concerned. The only way they are useful to me is if my library of games are available when needed. Today my son downloaded Evochron Mercenary on Steam and I wanted to download the game off my Gamersgate library to play with him. So of course I'm frustrated.
Sparhawk
Well, in the case of Evochron can't you just grab the client from the dev's site and use your key from Gamersgate to activate it?
Evochron issue resolved. Gamersgate sight came back up. The recent unreliability is what is so frustrating.