Same for new installers.
I installed Hard Reset Redux other night & it advertised ARMA II Combined Operations & that hasn`t been here for a long time now :(

True, but it's still absurd they haven't taken the time to update that mix for new installers.

Yeah, it's totally something automatable too. I'm big on that.

Yes. Everybody is. At least if you don't work for GOG. ;-)

LOL

Sadly, that's more common than not in software development shops I find. In former software engineering positions I held I found a common recurring theme. Whenever I would identify tedious repetitive work routines and suggest that either it could be automated or that I could automate it and suggest I do the automation, I would routinely get shut down by a manager. It seems that management sees automation as a waste of resources which seems as stupid as possible to me personally. So they would never give me the green light to spend work time writing scripts etc. to automate tedious repetitive tasks either for myself, our entire team, or for the entire business. This always baffled my mind as the few hours or few days worth of work that would need to be put into it up front would save endless hours of labour over the long haul, and the majority of them would pay for themselves in a few days to weeks of use - usually in a few days.

This really irritated the F**K out of me. So, I did what any sensible person would do. I did my job as expected during work hours, and during my personal hours after work where I get to decide what to do - I went ahead and wrote scripts to automate my job. Since my employer was opposed to giving me on-pay time to do this, I considered it to be tools of my own creation and for my own benefit. So instead of working for hours doing tedious shit all day every day, I would sometimes work all day and get 2/4/10 times as much stuff done, while other days I would work 1/10th as much and get the same amount of work done then spend the rest of the time doing things for myself. I never shared my scripts because they didn't pay me to write them.

It worked out great. I had both great productivity, and lots more free time combined.

I bet there are a lot of people out there that do this though when their employer is braindead about automating things that are trivial to automate and that the effort pays off quickly. I read not long ago about some guy that completely automated his job on Slashdot or similar, and worked for years like that, going into work and running scripts then playing video games etc. LOL He eventually got caught and fired, but really if he was putting out the expected productivity output then they really lost a good employee if you ask me. If they were smart they would have given him a raise then officially got him to automate everything they could. :)

I don't think he worked at GOG though LOL

Here's the news article on that guy: http://www.businessinsider.com/programmer-automates-his-job-2015-11

Pretty funny. I didn't take things that far. :)

http://interestingengineering.com/programmer-automates-job-6-years-boss-fires-finds/

Funny stories, but I'm not convinced that they are true.

Repetitive tasks are a huge problem; it's hard to keep your concentration up all the time.

I've had to copy 8 values each from many files into a huge spreadsheet a few weeks ago. I did the first batch by hand because I had convinced myself that writing a parser would be a waste of time – after five files I was really annoyed, but I continued working. After I've finished all 24 files (at that time) I had to take a nap and still was not convinced that I didn't make a mistake picking the correct value, rounding by hand and changing the decimal mark from dot to comma.

Afterwards I wrote a python script that uses many REs to scan the text files and produces a semicolon separated table that can be inserted into the spreadsheet. It also displays warnings if finds warning messages while scanning the text files. And on top of that it generates a statistic with mean and standard deviation of some important data.

Never do anything repetitive by hand that can be automated.

Can't be certain of course, it was just in the news so I took it at face value.

For myself, I just automated everything that involved tedious repetition at the commandline combined with lengthy waits for jobs to complete etc. Everything in bash, perl or python. The thing is, for me - I couldn't imagine why anyone wouldn't have done the same thing, it just seemed so obvious to me.

Slight problem with that though.
There were some new released games that also had the ARMAII images in the installer too.
Guess they just forgot to check through their images or something ;)

Same here. Although I've never had that problem at work because my bosses have been (luckily) reasonable guys, I keep writing small programs for personal use. Sometimes somebody will see one of them and go "wow, that's cool but it must be a lot of work". My answer is always that actually I do it because I'm lazy and I don't want to do something that a program can do for me, and I think what *they* are doing by hand is a lot of work, and why they keep doing it.

By the way, last chance to get Dragonsphere free, yoo-hoo! \o/ :-D

Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what I end up thinking. I observe the task N times where N is noticeably repetitious and then consider how much time it takes to task, estimate how much time it would take to automate then double it. If it's a task that's only going to be done a few times then it is less likely to be worthwhile to automate, but if it is something done regularly - once per week/day/hour or more often either by myself or by several people and the automation overhead will pay off in reasonable time - which it always does, then it's just a no brainer for me. Obviously if you have urgent work to do or high priority stuff to do then that needs to take focus, but when the higher priorities are clear then automation of tedium like this just makes sense. On the contrast however, I think that managers often for whatever reason either just can't see the value out of blindness, or they think it's going to hijack higher priorities and defocus. It may be a concern for someone who doesn't produce regular efficient work, but it's micromanaging to those that do.

Any update on how these "talks" to get Duke Nukem back on gog went? Because it seems Gearbox is going full Denuvo with the Bulletstorm remake.

I also want to know! I wanna play the GOG version :'(

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Arma 2 is something they should try getting back on GoG considering the scale of that game.