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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!
Post edited May 28, 2015 by Trilarion
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Trilarion: 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!
A few of those are implemented. We have the changelog and we'll have rollback in Galaxy -- I don't know if we'll be able to get any version, though. That would be nice.

I don't care when a game is updated unless I have it installed and I like your idea of toggling that.

I would love to be notified of chats via email again. And I'd love a way to simply and easy clear the pesky number that sits in my account for days on end b/c I haven't dug deep enough into what game has changed.

In my fantasy world, the cart wouldn't fill up on its own, too. :)
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Trilarion: 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!
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Tallima: In my fantasy world, the cart wouldn't fill up on its own, too. :)
In a fantasy world that would be fine so long as it also paid for itself.
not like the one we got on here currently ;p
All I wan't to see in the notification system is which game was updated (at the moment works 50% of time), which files were updated and the changelog for it (like the one Judas delivers in the what did just update thread).