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It's a Premium Membership Sale!

For a limited time, load up on Giant Bomb Premium at a discounted price.

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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. For the next week, you can extend your current membership for the low, low cost of $35 or, alternately, if you don't currently have a membership, you can nab a year's worth of fantastic Premium content while also kicking display and video ads to the curb for the low³ price of $29.95. You can find out more information here, or just head over here to sign up.

Thrill to the espionage-y exploits on display in Metal Gear Scanlon! Witness the defeat of the forces of evil in VinnyVania! Gasp at the antics of the Unprofessional Fridays gang! Or catch up on over six years' worth of Premium content in our archives. This sale will be over before you know it, so sign up now!

Note: sale memberships do not come with the normal store discount code. That's what enables us to reduce the price! Note two: We do now 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 three: you can purchase gift codes over here, but only if you currently have a subscription. (Our payment processor is pretty weird!) If you want to buy someone a gift of premium access but that link doesn't work for you, get in touch at the support email address below and we'll work something out.

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 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, so please have a little patience as I work my way through them.

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Edited By dafdiego777

Membership was ending on May 20th, so perfect timing! Already renewed.

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@dafdiego777: I think they intentionally do this every year (sales at the same time) haha

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Now THAT'S a LOW price!

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My premium was just about to expire. Perfect timing!

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@suprst4r: makes sense. especially with E3 around the corner (not a premium event but I'm sure it gets a lot of new people to the site every year).

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Always, always when I don't have money to spend! Dang it!

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Think of the amount of sausage rolls you could buy with those savings!

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Argh, mine auto renewed like two days ago. Oh well. I get the coupon at least

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Im good till november but 35$ sounds pretty good and ill get to hear that dumb message agian lol i guess ill get another year

God just got it man they need to get dan and jason in on that congrats msg also miss Ryan he was funny as hell

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Thanks guys!

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@dafdiego777: yeah for sure. I am of the holiday sale time (november) - it was nice that they had the sale again last year at the same time for the savings, although I'd happily pay full price

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For anyone on the fence, getting a Giant Bomb premium membership is the best life decision I ever made. It brought me an unlimited amount of wealth and happiness.

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Is there going to be a Mario Party Party anytime soon? No... I see.

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I love you guys! Extended again ..... I'm good to January 8th 2018 ;)

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Hey @rorie, you guys stopped giving people a few months of Premium with Reddit Gold, right?

I could, and likely will, re-up my sub during this sale, but it certainly couldn't have hurt to push the renewal date closer to the holidays when I often have some extra disposable income and you guys often do another sale of this sort.

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Yes! Thank you Mister Rorie, sir!

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Mine expires in December but I went ahead and added another year. This is the best website about video games around!

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Newb question: If I go premium, can I get the Bombcast/Beastcast on my iTunes without the ads? I listen to them on an iPod.

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What kind of arcane bullshit is your payment processor made of? It seems like you have to make a deal with the old gods to make it work.

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To bad you can't use PayPal to buy gift codes. I currently have a PayPal subscribtion and no access to a CC, so I'm out of luck on these sales...

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Why is a new membership cheaper than extending an existing subscription? I've been paying monthly for a long time now, so I think the cheaper price should be available to me.

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Newb question: If I go premium, can I get the Bombcast/Beastcast on my iTunes without the ads? I listen to them on an iPod.

Yes, I listen to them on my iPod as well and recently switched to ad-free podcasts. You have to manually subscribe to the podcasts in iTunes, though. Click on File --> Subscribe to podcast and paste in the URL from the premium podcasts' RSS feed (found on the site).

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Newb question: If I go premium, can I get the Bombcast/Beastcast on my iTunes without the ads? I listen to them on an iPod.

Yes. You'll have to enter the feed information manually and enter your GB username and password in the process, but yes. Separate premium feeds do exist. I think there's a guide to this on the forums somewhere.

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@chuckvsworld: I'm not sure the "ad free" versions are even on iTunes and even if they were: How would iTunes know who's eligible to download them and who's not?

Your best chance is probably downloading the ad free versions from the site and manually adding them to your iTunes/iPod, yes that's quite a hassle. But tbh I don't really mind the podcast ads, the duders are usually making them pretty fun to listen to, they also not that long.

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@nethlem: You are incorrect, premium feeds for Bombcast and Beastcast exists on itunes and various podcast apps. Just Google it, there's plenty of forum posts and the like detailing how it's done.

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no paypal option anymore? rip

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@greyhulkoa: That's a very standard thing with subscriptions. You give a discount to new members to try to draw them in. Virtually all subscription services do it when they have sales (Netflix, HBO Go, Hulu etc.).

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@cooljammer00: GB didn't stop their Reddit Gold offer, Reddit just completely stopped their partnership program or whatever it was called which GB was part of.

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@nightriff: Dan said on a recent stream from home that there would be another Mario Party Party before E3 :)

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Awesome! Thanks duders! Perfect timing.

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$30 Tip. Thanks, duders.

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@chuckvsworld: Of course you can but you have to do it from your collection's podcast page rather than the store (searching in the store will only find the free one).

To subscribe to a premium (i.e. password protected) podcast in iTunes:

  • Go to "Podcasts" tab
  • Under "File" click "Subscribe to Podcast..."
  • In the pop-up "Subscribe to Podcast" box asking for the "URL:" enter the link to the RSS feed of the premium podcast.
  • i.e. These links to the Premium Giant Bombcast and the Giant Beastcast, or the feed for all other Premium Podcasts.
  • iTunes will then tell you that an authentication server is asking for a username and password. Enter your information for a premium subscribed account and it will then be allowed in to sync with the RSS feed.

If you use other podcast apps, most will have a similar system based in their UI (some allow you to pick an option to include protected RSS feeds when searching for a podcast while others ask you to manually bring the rss feed) but most recently-updated apps should feature a way to do it.

Hope this helps.

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Was due to renew in August, but took the time to tack on the extra year now while it is a few quid off. Shipping t-shirts from the GB store to Ireland costs almost more than the shirt itself, so it suits me perfectly to be able to renew without getting the store coupon with it.

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I just renewed on Sunday!!! I didn't expire until June. My timing Sucks!

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Damn! Not paid for another 10 days.

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I love a good sale but it always struck me as odd that regulars get the worse deal. I know that it's important to entice new blood, but seeing how I can never even use that $15 coupon because of international shipping prices it's a bummer.

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@humanity: It's pretty standard stuff for subscription services to offer a lower price for newcomers to try to get new business. You hope that your regular customers will still be with you at the normal price and you lower it slightly to try to get new people on board.

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@amyggen: Well a sale is always better than no sale!

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Abracatiming!

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Ugh. I just bought a month subscription on Friday. Just my luck.

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Woo, it must be my birthday!

Hey, wait... it IS my birthday! Well timed, GB!

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So, I intentionally pay for a monthly membership because it comes out to the highest cost per year and I feel like I'm doing the site a little favor. Am I right or wrong about that? Would they actually prefer a one time $35 (or the regular $50) payment over $5 every month? I can't see why they would but I'm no businessman. I also feel a little burned by still getting served ads despite paying every month, so that's why I do use AdBlock on GB. Sorry, but I'm giving you guys $60 a year already.

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Wow, I am already out to 2020. That is dystopian future territory. I'll get one more year for the premium podcast covering the descent into end of the world that comes January 01, 2021.

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Shoot, no income till this is over. But I think I will be fine w/ the usual T-shirt purchase when the time comes to renew.

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Wow,wow,wow. I renewed on the 29th. I hope to recieve the discounted price being 4 days early, feels like I've been stabbed!

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Reddit actually pulled the plug on the partners program entirely, not us. But yeah, we no longer partner with them.

Hey @rorie, you guys stopped giving people a few months of Premium with Reddit Gold, right?

I could, and likely will, re-up my sub during this sale, but it certainly couldn't have hurt to push the renewal date closer to the holidays when I often have some extra disposable income and you guys often do another sale of this sort.

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Wow,wow,wow. I renewed on the 29th. I hope to recieve the discounted price being 4 days early, feels like I've been stabbed!

Feel free to email support and I can get you the sale price so long as you haven't used the store code yet.

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@rorie: Thanks Rorie! Feels like I've been hugged!, email away!

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Out of work. A ton of free time. Less money. Great sale. Love premium content. Must resist?

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There's never been a better time (sub expired just yesterday).