# Weekend Gem Sale (January 24 - 27) **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [January 24, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/weekend-gem-sale-january-24-27/60929 "2020-01-24T05:37:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![noob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/noob/32/54823_2.png) [@noob](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/noob)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/weekend-gem-sale-january-24-27/60929/5 "2020-01-24T07:39:27Z")
In case anyone wonders why gem sales are increase in gems instead of % decrease in price > [@Upcoming Gem Sale (May 24th - May 27th)](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/upcoming-gem-sale-may-24th-may-27th/55315/28): > > Hello folks! I thought I’d give a bit of “behind the curtain” description, which might help assuage some of the feelings put forth in statements like: For reference - I’ve been a game designer (largely console games) for 22 years. I worked for 505 a few years back, and as part of that work I worked on GoW. I haven’t touched GoW codebase in 2 years now, but the things I’m going to say aren’t GoW-specific, so that shouldn’t matter. “Selling” things digitally is complex. The laws are still ver… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/weekend-gem-sale-january-24-27/60929)._