What is the problem to add a "destination directory" option to the installer? That would solve all problems.

PS: It seems the Banner Saga 2 game installer has a option to choose the folder. Wow. But after installation, the game was not added to Galaxy. Trying to add the game manualy fails. It seems the Banner Saga 2 game is not like other games. It is not a single bundle, it is a app with additional data folders (Contents, assets). It seems Galaxy has a problem to import not bundled games.... But why the installer installs the game in that "not bundled" way?

Basically, this is making me unable to play games I bought on Gog. These .pkg installers require root (!) access which I am not allowed to give any non-verified appliation on my laptop (nor would I want to).

I'm more angry about this than I thought I would be, seeing as the old .dmg/.app system worked so nicely. So please, can you tell us _why_ this is absolutely required and supposedly in my best interest? I can't play my recently purchased copy of Broforce because of this.

Knowing that this is the future of Gog, I can no longer buy games here nor recommend my friends to do so. Sad.

Don't read the earlier messages in the thread. Oh, you can play it.

Thanks a lot Gideon, that did help. Unarchiving it (twice) manually is indeed an option, and I'm happily gaming with the Broforce.app I extracted.

I wish it weren't necessary (and cumbersum) though.

Thanks to all!

Here's to hoping Gog will also offer .app's for download (perhaps side-by-side with .pkg's). Perhaps with a caveat if those .app's somehow contain less content? I noticed the .pkg contained some extra levels and soundtracks on the side.

At the least, those sountracks used to be offered separately, which I vastly preferred (for some games I didn't want to have them, for others I would sell an arm and an egg or two).

Great, enjoy.

I just want to bump this thread again. I’ve noticed this for the first time a couple of months ago with Day of the Tentacle, hoping that this was an incident and not a new policy, potentially vendor-related. Now I see even more games with this, just today I saw an update to The Escapists which now too has an installer package, despite being distributed as an app bundle on a disk image before (I have an older version of my disk). With the same problems: no option to choose the directory or domain (forced install into local /Applications, requiring administrator credentials) and no inspectable file list (see screenshot), which means that I am also installing completely blindly while entrusting a program with administrator access.

This is frankly completely unacceptable to me. I take my computer security seriously and ask of developers/distributors to adhere to platform best practices. I cannot come up with a reason for repackaging single application bundles into installer packages, it defeats the whole purpose of them. I avoid automated installers like the plague, especially ones that are seemingly unnecessary and have not even a file list to see what will be installed. If this doesn’t change soon, I won’t buy games here again.

Games in my library that (now) use installer packages:
• Day of the Tentacle (but not Grim Fandango)
• Dreamfall Chapters
• The Escapists
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
• Shadowrun Returns
• Simon the Sorcerer 1 (but not 2)
• Torchlight 2

Nah, at least you have to accept the license now. ;)

You can do that with DMG files too. You can attach a licence file to a disk image and it will be shown in a separate window upon attaching the image, complete with “Agree” button (pressing “Disagree” will cancel the attaching process).

I also do not really like the automatic (and hidden) behavior of package installers.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_please_no_pkg_installers_for_mac_os_x_we_need_dmg_packages/post10

As described in _Lectral's post, you can extract the application directory "payload".
Then, you rename it to "gamename.app" and move it anywhere you want, without administrator credentials.

Thanks, I am aware of this workaround, but it is just that: a workaround. I want GOG to return to app bundles and disk images again.

I agree! I downloaded the Mac version of Planescape: Torment last night and was surprised and disappointed to discover I'd gotten a .pkg installer. Then I bought a few games and unlocked the Shadow Warrior bonus game, and it was a .pkg too.

This is a problem, as I don't make a habit of installing games in my Applications folder. I don't see any reason why you could not make these available as disk images, which is much more flexible. (I suspect you're doing it this way because the companies you license the games from are forcing you to do it. If so, neither they nor you are looking out for your customers' best interests.)

Overtime I try to download a game from GOG and get an unnecessary .pkg installer, my desire to buy more games from GOG will decrease even further. It's already getting pretty low; at this point, I'm not likely to spend more than $4 or $5 dollars on a single game.

You can add my voice to this. I started noticing this with a few games awhile back, and was annoyed, but had no idea it had become a new GOG "policy" until it kept happening, I considered contacting support or creating a thread, and found this one already in place. I appreciate the instructions for manually unpacking the .pkg files (if it weren't for that possibility I'd be a lot more upset about this), but I still find this entire thing to be a bad inconvenience and a terrible decision in general.

I will just also state that I don't really buy the "technical reasons" excuse...it's thin and doesn't make sense. There is something we're not being told about why this .pkg thing is being done, and that makes me more wary, not less.

I've liked the GOG experience in general until now, but I have to say, this has been a sour note. I hope this decision is reconsidered. Please stop these .pkg files and go back to the original .dmg format.

I agree, especially since the .pkg installers do not actually even work. Possibly it's because I recently upgraded to Sierra, however the last couple of games I bought here just don't install. The installer claims to work, but the free disk space doesn't change and nothing is installed. Examining the .pkg file with Suspicious Package shows "Doesn't install any files". (Which is indeed the case!) I managed to find a couple of other .pkg installers from elsewhere, and they do work correctly (and Suspicious Package correctly reports the number of files that are installed), so I'm not sure how else to explain this other than that the GOG installer is just plain broken. While the command line stuff does work, I don't think it's reasonable to have to mess around with that just to install a game.

So yes, please go back to .dmg files. They're simple, not suspicious, and more importantly just work.

I have exactly the same issue, and I cannot install neither DoTT nor Planescape Torment, how can GoG help me fix this issue ?