As titled. I am now in China and will be staying here for quite some time. Unfortunately, I have discoverd that all the download links on GOG are disabled. Galaxy doesn't work either. I can still view my library and even buy games, just that I can't download any of them.

As you can tell, this is a problem. Is there a way to reslove this or am I doomed for the next year or so?

The only way to get around the Great Firewall of China is by using a VPN.

You're not alone with this problem.
Website and Galaxy are completely broken in China

When I was in China just about a month ago, stuff didn't work for me either: Not the GOG Downloader, not Galaxy.

However, downloading stuff manually via the library DID work... sometimes. I remember it took me over a week until I was able to grab all the files needed for FEAR 2, without the files winding up corrupted in the end. It's a complete pain in the ass, but that was the only way to access my stuff, as nothing else worked. Who knows, maybe since they did some "tweaks" to the library, downloading manually doesn't work anymore either...

Here's my speculation: GOG isn't exactly smart as to where it stores its files. Take the trailer videos from the game pages for instance: Those are embedded youtube videos and since youtube is blocked in China, no videos for GOG customers. Steam's videos work perfectly fine, as they host the videos on their own website. I'd be curious to know whether Steam customers can't access their games in China as well.

edit: Never mind, according to the thread MiKiL posted, Steam works fine in China. Maybe GOG should ask Valve for help :P

Maybe GOG ought to solve the problem themselves instead by changing to another CDN for China?

Fun fact: You can no longer set your location to China in your account settings. You can only set it to "Republic Of China" , which is just a fancy name for Taiwan. So basically, you have the choice of two different names for Taiwan, but none for the "People's Republic Of China".

That's just a mistake in translation. The Chinese text translates into People's Republic Of China. There is a separate one for Taiwan.

It'd be rather interesting to me to see how GOG would go about overthrowing the Chinese government and getting rid of their great firewall. Maybe Sony could make a movie about it! "The Interview 2"!!!

This might not work - The Great Firewall was upgraded to block VPNs.

Hey if Taiwan has two options then I want them too.

As of now I set mine to "Uruguay", I want the option to set it to "Republica Oriental del Uruguay".

Well Gog set this thread to "Solved" without doing anything, I wanna work for gog support team too, yeah!!! Even with a VPN the bandwidth is way to slow to download anything (also mentioned eslewhere on this forum). Gog could just setup another server with a different IP. Guess they don't care.
I just bought a game I wont be able to play (my Chinese Ip address didn't pose Gog any problem to accept my money)

Thank you all for your quick answers. Well first I should appologize to Gog support team ;-P
Well changing DNS servers doesn't work for me (or either of my friends in China). I guess you need a permissive enough internet provider to make it works or maybe better skills than mine...

I guess I'll have to wait for my next vacation in Europe to download it, lol.

Best regards

Well I have the 60% of my library downloaded. I stop buying until this will be solved, if it is ever solved... is a good excuse to stop my compulsive buying behavior LOL

For me the downloads work with VPN, but the problem is that nowadays they are becoming more aggressive with VPNs so we do not know if they will work tomorrow.

This is not a GOG problem, is very difficult to deal with this from outside.

UPDATE

The user BRANDEX fix this issue, I copy paste his post

I have 0 problems with GOG in China. Why? It's actually only a DNS issue. Change your DNS server to something else than the default one from your Chinese ISP.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/a/free-public-dns-servers.htm

Protip:
Use this handy automatic hosts file editor - https://github.com/huhamhire/huhamhire-hosts/releases

and most of the internet will work normally again inside China without the need for VPN/Proxy.
Post edited June 21, 2015 by BrandeX

Hey, which DNS servers do you use? I tried a few off the list (changing them directly on my router) and no luck. Still can't connect to the Galaxy client. =(

In addition, there's 4 settings on the host file editor, which one do you use for that as well?

I haven't noticed any change so far.