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This would have been much less disturbing some time ago, when I could still believe GOG will fix it. Right now I feel it's 50/50 whether they will bother, or let the offline installers die and just tell everyone to use Galaxy instead.
Post edited October 05, 2021 by Breja
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I still want someone to try downloading the 8mp file to their phone and see if when you open it, it trys installing some strange game.

I could be crazy, but that's what It seemed to do on my phone.


FYI I was just trying to check the file size to see if it got fixed, I used my phone to do that. But it downloaded so fast, I knew it was still messed up.


But then while trying to delete the file I accidentally opened it. And that is why I assumed this was a huge malware attack.
It tried to install a game.
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elcid11: I still want someone to try downloading the 8mp file to their phone and see if when you open it, it trys installing some strange game.

I could be crazy, but that's what It seemed to do on my phone.

FYI I was just trying to check the file size to see if it got fixed, I used my phone to do that. But it downloaded so fast, I knew it was still messed up.

But then while trying to delete the file I accidentally opened it. And that is why I assumed this was a huge malware attack.
It tried to install a game.
Well, maybe it`s a new feature of GOG, that is leaked accidentally too early? Playing GOG-Games on your Smartphone? Maybe those are the installers for the Smartphone versions that accidentally replaced the PC ones?
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Breja: This would have been much less disturbing some time ago, when I could still believe GOG will fix it. Right now I feel it's 50/50 whether they will bother, or let the offline installers die and just tell everyone to use Galaxy instead.
Overreading some blue color posts, don't we?
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Breja: This would have been much less disturbing some time ago, when I could still believe GOG will fix it. Right now I feel it's 50/50 whether they will bother, or let the offline installers die and just tell everyone to use Galaxy instead.
Want to bet that it'll be fixed? :P
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elcid11: I still want someone to try downloading the 8mp file to their phone and see if when you open it, it trys installing some strange game.
The 8MB files are .bin files created using InnoSetup (what GOG use for offline installers). They aren't executable on Windows, let alone Android. Your phone may be mistaking them for something else and is trying to open them with another app, but as mentioned earlier, I already compared the faulty 8MB files here to the first 8MB of the genuine ones I have backed up and they are byte identical, ie, the files haven't been replaced with malware, GOG just has broken servers that aren't serving them properly.
Not sure if related or unrelated, but when I tried installing Unreal Gold via Galaxy, the download got stuck at 40something percent. I aborted after a minute or so of no progress.

fake edit: just tried it again, same shit: download gets stuck at 49.7%
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elcid11: I still want someone to try downloading the 8mp file to their phone and see if when you open it, it trys installing some strange game.
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AB2012: The 8MB files are .bin files created using InnoSetup (what GOG use for offline installers). They aren't executable on Windows, let alone Android. Your phone may be mistaking them for something else and is trying to open them with another app, but as mentioned earlier, I already compared the faulty 8MB files here to the first 8MB of the genuine ones I have backed up and they are byte identical, ie, the files haven't been replaced with malware, GOG just has broken servers that aren't serving them properly.
Ah ok that makes sense that another program could be trying to open it. I wonder what happened?

Poor GOG, this is my favorite games platform. Come on fix it baby!!!
Syberia 3 The Complete Edition fails download at 93,4 %.
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I wonder if this could be related to all the server attacks that just happened with Facebook?
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AB2012: Anyone else still having problems? I just completely cleared the browser cache along with today's browsing history, quit the browser, completely wiped the cache folder, restarted the browser, and it's still at 8MB.

Edit: The fact it's downloading from "cdn.gog.com" (Content Delivery Network?) makes me wonder if some servers around the world are affected but not others.

Edit 2 : So far myself and groundhog42 (both UK), Mori_Yuki (Austria), Cadaver747 (Russia), randomuser.833 (Germany) and Lhun Duum & BloodScourge (both France) are all seeing the problem, whilst Ketobak (Argentina) and wolfsite (Canada) seem to not be. Maybe the fault lies with GOG's European regional "CDN / cache" server? It would be useful if more people from other countries tested to get a clearer picture.
I'm in Australia and also seeing the 8MB truncated download issue. I checked a few games (with English language, Windows) and it seems varied, so far I've seen it affecting parts 3-4 of Tomb Raider GOTY, part 3 of No Mans's Sky, part 4 of SOMA, part 2 of Kentucky Route Zero
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elcid11: I wonder if this could be related to all the server attacks that just happened with Facebook?
There was no attack on facebook.
Facebook fucked up their own config. They didn't needed somebody else to throw them out of the net. They where good enough to do it themself...
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Breja: This would have been much less disturbing some time ago, when I could still believe GOG will fix it. Right now I feel it's 50/50 whether they will bother, or let the offline installers die and just tell everyone to use Galaxy instead.
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Sarafan: Want to bet that it'll be fixed? :P
I know it (almost certainly) will, I don't think they'd want to kill the offline installers just yet... and right after the shitstorm with Hitman. What I really meant was, there was a time when the thought would not even occur to me. But now it's pretty much impossible to trust GOG about things like DRM and offline installers. It's obvious the offline installers are a distant second for them after all things Galaxy.

Intead of implicitly trusting GOG, now it's more of a cynical "how likely are they to do it right now" calculation.
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Sarafan: Want to bet that it'll be fixed? :P
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Breja: I know it (almost certainly) will, I don't think they'd want to kill the offline installers just yet... and right after the shitstorm with Hitman. What I really meant was, there was a time when the thought would not even occur to me. But now it's pretty much impossible to trust GOG about things like DRM and offline installers. It's obvious the offline installers are a distant second for them after all things Galaxy.

Intead of implicitly trusting GOG, now it's more of a cynical "how likely are they to do it right now" calculation.
I think that Galaxy is also affected by this. Games are not completing the download process. This must be a huge server issue.
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Sarafan: Want to bet that it'll be fixed? :P
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Breja: I know it (almost certainly) will, I don't think they'd want to kill the offline installers just yet... and right after the shitstorm with Hitman. What I really meant was, there was a time when the thought would not even occur to me. But now it's pretty much impossible to trust GOG about things like DRM and offline installers. It's obvious the offline installers are a distant second for them after all things Galaxy.

Intead of implicitly trusting GOG, now it's more of a cynical "how likely are they to do it right now" calculation.
In this rare instance I can put your mind at ease: The Galaxy installations are apparently fucked too. ;)