Posted May 28, 2015
I just wonder how you would like to be notified about updates of your game library... and how they should be applied?
I assume a fairy tale world where I can just state my desires and they are magically realized. No limits.
I know what I would want then:
- For each game a complete browseable update history with dates and versions and affected languages, OS, extras and descriptions
- An adjustable default setting for automatic updates (yes/no) but with manual overrides for each game
- An adjustable default setting for notifications (language, OS, extras included/excluded)
- A manually creatable overview of updateable files (in the archive) with the ability to exclude some of them (and the side ability of looking at the relevant part of the update history)
- Following the last point a button to synchronize the archived installers and archived extras which have updates or only those who I did not exclude
- The ability to go back to a previous version for any game
- A noticable but not too intrusive display of which games would have updates and which of this updates happened recently (last 4 weeks)
- All this for installed games as well as for archived installers/archived extras
- The option to keep older installers or to remove them (with an adjustable default setting)
It's far more then what is possible right now (even if the system would be working well) and who knows how little or how much of it GOG will implement. But anyway that's what I would call a really good notification and update system!
I assume a fairy tale world where I can just state my desires and they are magically realized. No limits.
I know what I would want then:
- For each game a complete browseable update history with dates and versions and affected languages, OS, extras and descriptions
- An adjustable default setting for automatic updates (yes/no) but with manual overrides for each game
- An adjustable default setting for notifications (language, OS, extras included/excluded)
- A manually creatable overview of updateable files (in the archive) with the ability to exclude some of them (and the side ability of looking at the relevant part of the update history)
- Following the last point a button to synchronize the archived installers and archived extras which have updates or only those who I did not exclude
- The ability to go back to a previous version for any game
- A noticable but not too intrusive display of which games would have updates and which of this updates happened recently (last 4 weeks)
- All this for installed games as well as for archived installers/archived extras
- The option to keep older installers or to remove them (with an adjustable default setting)
It's far more then what is possible right now (even if the system would be working well) and who knows how little or how much of it GOG will implement. But anyway that's what I would call a really good notification and update system!
Post edited May 28, 2015 by Trilarion