+1 bro.
nowadays. I only have the downloader on my pc.
That was the worst news i ever read on this plataform.
Browser download is a big shit.

You can use gogrepo. It's a lot better than the downloader for backing up your library.

You and who else?


I have to check that out, thanks.
I thought I was stuck with DownThemAll

Me at the very least and I guess anyone else who looked for alternatives back when they announced the slow death of the downloader.

The alternative I found was gogrepo and it's better than the downloader ever was.

Imho it is not needed at all , website and galaxy downloads are fine.

Farewell, GOG! o/

Fair enough. But next time you say "we" you need to specify who you mean.

hmm this actually looks good :P

whiners gonna whine
basically they are always looking for things they can whine about
fe here , there are better alternatives than this abandoned downloader which so few used gog decided to not support anymore , yet they don't want to use it, why? cause then they couldn't whine about it ,it is clear
sollution : just ignore these whiners, they will accept this downloader is not efficient use of gog's manpower and will move on, i bet most didnt even used it

oh and they also gonna downvote cause they are full of hate :P hello downvoters^^
they are so slimy they can't reply cause they know they have no arguments and just tap minus like that means anything :D

Not necessarily just one person. E.g. for gogrepo the original author has been inactive for quite some time, so the project was branched and "adopted" by another. There are also other gogrepo branches by other people, and also at least two other less-known alternatives to gogrepo and lgogdownloader.

Also, these third-party user-made tools are quite bare-boned (not in functionality, but ease-of-use and interface). They don't have any GUI, setting them up can take some effort etc. An official tool would be expected to have a proper installer for different OSes, GUI etc.

Most stores similar to GOG offer only browser downloads, or at least as their main method. I got A.I.M. from indiegala.com a couple of days ago, and "had to" download it with my browser.

On top of that, GOG allows one to download them with the official Galaxy client.

The reason GOG hasn't offered such mass-downloading tool (where you basically can download ALL your games with "one click") is the same no other store offers it either:

They don't want to promote the idea that their customers constantly download and redownload all their games, but rather only when they are going to play some game.

It is quite understandable, after all the update and download functions of e.g. gogrepo can certainly cause quite a significant stress on GOG servers (ie. both when the tool downloads all the information from gog.com what games someone has on their GOG account, and actually downloading the games).

GOG could alleviate that stress somewhat at least for the downloading part by offering also an option to use p2p technology (e.g. bittorrent) to download the installers. Humble Store at least used to offer such an option (but it doesn't download everything you have with one click, but you have to click through all your games in your account, one by one).

So, all in all, it would be nice if GOG offered some official "one click mass-download tool", but I am not holding my breath waiting for it and can understand why GOG nor any other store offers such an option.

Also, in a sense I prefer that e.g. gogrepo is an user-made tool because it is now quite cross-platform, you can run it on pretty much any device and OS that can run python scripts. I am running it e.g. on my Raspberry Pi4 minicomputer. If there was an official tool with a GUI etc., then it would most probably at least at first be restricted to Windows, then maybe, just maybe, also Macs and Linux. I am 99% confident that e.g. my Raspberry Pi4 wouldn't get its own version of such client. It has it perks that some software is open source managed by many users...

Maybe my main wish towards GOG at this point is that they don't try to block tools like gogrepo or lgogdownloader from working. So far no sign of that.

Fellow Aussie, use a third party downloader. It might take extra effort to click on each installer, but there's nothing wrong with using something like FDM (Free Download Manager) if GOG insists on terminating Downloader. Speed is excellent as well, and I'm likely on a worse cap and flakier connection than you are. It obviously won't verify your files for you, but I've never had corrupt sectors this way, and you can update dead download links and pause / resume downloads (even throttle) as you need.

I've desperately been trying to get people to support my wishlist for getting checksums added to the download page, but for some reason even after a year I haven't even gotten 200 votes yet despite prodding the forum about it.

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/more_detail_on_offline_installer_pages

yeah hash checks should be added, it isn't even costly to do, maybe some hours for a developer

I see a fresh wave of blanket downvotes have arrived.

When did I say we? I think you're talking to the wrong person.

yeah they even downvoted my little support for adding hash feature for downloads :D
clearly they are just haters

I don't know about that since I only downvote spammers or those who I believe are DRM shills (i.e. people saying "just buy the Scheme version"). But, maybe you realize that your manner in this topic hasn't exactly been endearing. You have basically made fun of Downloader users and act like you're better for using GOGRepo...guess what, it didn't have to be an either/or choice...as proven by the last five years!