"Frivolous"? Really? o.O

Entertainment has tremendous socio-economic significance, largely for the same reasons that it was important to the Roman Empire.

There is a huge difference between updating free software like Linux kernel, and updating a proprietary blob like Windows.

No they were promised to work on "modern" OS; XP is no longer modern by any account, if you wan to still use it fine but then it's your responsibility to make the games work on it.

Also as mentioned by others there is no "older" version of New Vegas, the very first version released on Gog is the one we currently have.

Oh? Let me quote my previous post which I even linked you to.

So congratulations, you just invalidated your own comment.

Jeez, at least READ what I link you to and take that into account when replying.
This is something I fully support, and it is something GOG still provides (though apparently they're locking down the old versions behind Galaxy, which I don't agree with). The thing with New Vegas though is that it's a completely new release not previously available on GOG. Therefor there's no old installers or versions available for the game on this platform.

Which is just great since Galaxy users are probably the only ones that have no interest in the rollback function while XP users who bought games when they still had XP support may need them at some point if things continue to go as they do.

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/include_the_rollback_function_on_the_website

Actually it's where it's the most useful give that one of the purpose of this rollback feature was has a "safe guard" for "untested" updates uploaded directly by the devs, especially for "In Dev" games

Also there is no "installer" for Galaxy, it works somewhat similar to source control, that's why it's a lot easier to support rollback on Galaxy than it would be with offline installer.

Wouldn't a better wish be "allow older installers to be downloaded where possible". They can't exactly make a "rollback feature" on the site...

You also said this...

That was in reference to the headaches I described, as well as it not having gone through GOG's QA testing. Sorry for not being clear on that part.

I was basically trying to say that if GOG releases that fix "officially" without actually testing it they can be argued is responsible despite what disclaimers and warnings they ship with it says. If customers sees GOG list and promote a "fix" to their issue that has the consequences of breaking their games (or whatever issue the DLL file can cause) then the consumer will lay the blame on GOG for the issues their "fix" caused. It ties into the corporation <-> consumer relationship subject I have briefly mentioned.

When speaking about the Steam API DLL files there's also the issue with the licensing of those files to consider. I don't think GOG is licensed by Valve to distribute those Steam API DLL files, so if they actually provided such a fix without Valve's approval GOG would be committing piracy. And that's a whole 'nother can of worms I doubt GOG is even willing to glimpse at.
Probably, though I upvoted the wish anyway. I was honestly surprised that they didn't make all the different versions available for download through the storefront already, though it's probably due to browsers generally being really lackluster download managers unless you're willing to utilize modern HTML5 and JavaScript functionality to basically build a highly advanced download manager within the website.

Their alternative is to basically provide game downloads as split ZIP archives with a max size of between 500 MB to 2 GB per archive. These could be provided on a separate webpage that automatically retrieves published games and versions available from their database (selectable through two drop-down menus) and creates a unique download link for the user to download said archives from (so if the game is on 10 GB the user gets ~5 download links to download).

No idea how it would tie into the current infrastructure, but it sure would be a good alternative as it would provide game downloads outside of Galaxy and simply through your browser.

OK, thanks for clarifying.

I don't want GOG to go out on a limb, just be as helpful as possible, and considering the circumstances, I don't think that's asking too much.

Re the Steam dll, if it is a license issue, I'd be happy if GOG would simply provide the relevant info to anyone that requests it, and when Steam finally gets around to updating it's development tools, the matter becomes moot.

Cool if this issue discussed here does not provide a problem for you.

At time of purchase, the gamecard stated WinXP compatibility. That is, at that point in time, a promise to that effect. If updates break that compatibility it would not be a problem if one could download a previous version that still works.

And at the time of purchase it was working on XP, but it was never a promise that ten years in the future it would still continue to work on Windows XP. And if you didn't download it at that time, well, fault on you.

I have clearly not stated that I insist on compatibility as a fixed status quo, to never be subject to change come inevitable tech/OS progress. But I can accept that you are - for whatever reason - not wanting to let people who could well use them, have access to previous game versions.

So - if you pay for an ebook in epub format and after some time seller make is available for you in mobi only - is it ok for you ?