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Hey It's A "We Got The Date Wrong" Black Friday Membership Sale!

Extend! Renew! Gift! Buy! Buy! Buy!

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It's that time of year again! Well, one of those times of year, at any rate: another Giant Bomb Premium membership sale is upon us. Until 11/27 , you can extend your current membership for the low, low cost of $35. You can find out more information here, or just head over here to sign up or click here to extend an existing membership. This sale will last until Tuesday, November 27th!

If you're new to Premium or haven't subscribed in a while, there's a ton of new stuff to explore! Watch Alex take on the Reapers in Mass Alex! Watch Dan do his Bond impression in Die Another Friday! Have a Playdate with some friends! Join us for UPF!

Note: sale memberships do not come with the normal store discount code. That's what enables us to reduce the price! We do have Paypal available for new memberships! Unfortunately it cannot be used to extend memberships if you're already signed up with a credit card, though, due to the way our payment processor works. (If you want to shift your membership from a credit card to Paypal; email me at support at giantbomb.com and we'll work something out.)

Note that we also now have a free trial system! If you start a free trial during the sale, you should get the sale price when your full membership kicks in, even if that happens after the sale is over. But again, let us know if there are any issues.

Note that gift memberships are full-price during a sale, but you will get an extra few months of time when buying a yearly sub during sales. Unfortunately that's the way the new gift sub system works!

Also: most renewals during a sale week will go through at the full price with the store code. If you'd prefer to get the sale price, just go ahead and extend your membership during the sale and that'll be that! If you do renew at full price, just email me at support and don't use the store code; I can cancel it and refund you the difference. It might take me a day or two to get back to you, though!

If you have any questions about this sale, or have any issues taking advantage of it, please get in touch with me at support@giantbomb.com; that'll get you a much quicker response than any other method of reaching out. We get a high volume of support emails during sales and I am going to be somewhat occupied during Thanksgiving, but I will try to get to you as soon as I can!

Merchandise Sale!

As we did last year, we are planning to offer a discount on all of our store items! We have a little more work to do behind-the-scenes, and one new item to get into the store, but check back Monday for 20% off all of your store orders!

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Anthony

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Thank you Matthew

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Looking forward to picking up something from the store!

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Time to renew up to Nov. 2020 now

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Soy! Soy!

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Welp, I am sad that this store sale happened two or three days after I bought the new hoodie. Oh, well, could be worse.

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Literally the day after my premium auto-renewed lol

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I love that ya'll shout out the fact that you're about to do a merch discount. That's downright decent of you.

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.@rorie how long will the merch discounts be for? Payday is Friday 23rd!

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Undeadpool

I love that ya'll shout out the fact that you're about to do a merch discount. That's downright decent of you.

Yes, very nice of you guys to do that, thank you. I'm interested in a little bit o' merch at a sale price!

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Right after my hoodie shipped. :( But I guess I can live.

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Nooo! I prefer to trample someone for my renewable subs :(.

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Is there a video on YouTube for this?

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Well worth the money.

One question if I may, as a guy from the UK the whole auto renewal is a strange and weird concept to me.

Currently, the only way we can extend is to activate auto renewal - is there a reason for this? It would save us having to enable renewal, extend, disable renewal.

Cheers guys.

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My subscription automatically renews on the 24th; is that going to take the discount into account or no?

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@bocom: It won't. Just extend it yourself now to get the discount.

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Thanks for the discount gang! I just want to say that I've noticed the extra effort going into premium content lately and appreciate all the hard work going into the site re-design. I've been a subscriber for years now and the discount is always icing on the cake for someone who gives a lot of his pay cheque to this sickly hobby of ours.

Thanks everyone again and I encourage anyone on the fence to subscribe. Just do it already!

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Extended a year and gifted a year, keep on keeping on friends!

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Someone didn't look at the very bottom of the article before they bought up a whole glassware set and a mug. *whispers* that person is me.

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The site is so ungodly overwhelming now without well thought-out sections that use too much screen estate, that using and finding content is a chore instead of a joy.

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Love ya Rorie, but I'm not gonna lie, the way this is presented is pretty hard to understand. I feel like it makes sense to someone who already knows what you're talking about, but doesn't to those unfamiliar with the subscription systems.

One thing that makes it confusing is that this is presented as a "sale," but after reading this a few times it seems to be an additional option, a membership that doesn't come with a store discount code, with the normal subscription still available at full price. Seems like a good idea, but that's not usually what "sale" means to people.

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@mshaw006 said:

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Love ya Rorie, but I'm not gonna lie, the way this is presented is pretty hard to understand. I feel like it makes sense to someone who already knows what you're talking about, but doesn't to those unfamiliar with the subscription systems.

One thing that makes it confusing is that this is presented as a "sale," but after reading this a few times it seems to be an additional option, a membership that doesn't come with a store discount code, with the normal subscription still available at full price. Seems like a good idea, but that's not usually what "sale" means to people.

Except it's literally a sale from the normal $50 option? It's a limited time SKU of the subscription you can get at a discount and does not come with a coupon code.

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I've paid 10 years straight at 50 bucks a year. FINALLY I get off my ass and extend with a discount. $35 can't complain!

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"If you do renew at full price, just email me at support and don't use the store code; I can cancel it and refund you the difference. It might take me a day or two to get back to you, though!" Ten years down the road and this is still the only method available to you? I deal with subscriptions and know how intensely irritating it is to have to employ these kinds of workarounds. Come on, devs! If you can retool the entire site to make it more 2018ish, you can help poor, old, old, old, Rory out and find a better solution to this issue than him having to refund people's subscriptions to get the balance straight and having to be informed about it via EMAIL.

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Only a few days after I’d reupgraded to Premium. I knew I should have waited. I’m in the UK so I have a store code I can’t use if any wants if then at least some good will come from it.

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I want the new mug, but it will cost about $50 in my currency to buy and ship. Not sure if I can justify that much on a mug :~]

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Extended.:) Keep up all the great content. Just saw I have been a member since 2014. XD

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