Arrrgghhh ... Im so pissed of now with GoG, why do they remove things WE use????
Totally makes no sense, I thought this company cares for the little people looks like not.

GOG should develop a cross-platform downloader tool (based on GNU Wget or something), which will work on all OS (GNU/Linux, MacOS, WIndows).
It will strengthen theirs positions on the DRM-Free front.
Maybe it even will force them to care more about Offline installers (i heard sometimes they lag behind Galaxy versions).

Indeed.

The list of unhappy people is growing, as more discover the GOG Downloader no longer works.

Just for the record, GOG never said all those years ago that they were going to remove it or disable it, they just said they weren't going to update it.

So it was working and would still be working, if they hadn't actively sabotaged it.

There is a bunch of people responding here and in other threads, that have no interest in the GOG Downloader, other than to criticize us that do. That spout all sorts of crap and try and tar us with absolute rubbish. They have no idea how to use logic, but pretend they do, but clearly none of that matters, as they are just here to cause trouble ... that is their sole agenda.

I encourage all good folk here to just ignore them.

The answers to all the nonsense they continually repeat, is spread right through out this thread and others, and really only to educate those who a genuinely interested.

As I was saying in another thread, it's growing because people who never use the forums but have been using GD come here to try and figure out why it has stopped all of a sudden. That would have been exactly my case if I hadn't come here fairly recently to watch out on games being removed from the library as some games I was planning to get were no longer available, so find out the hard way here on forums.

Non removal was also my understanding from what I read going back on threads, despite of all those talking API and security and what not, well as you said was still working great and as for security, browser and 3rd party programs are way more secure that GD was? I would think not.

Have noticed the responses and downvoting -your posts for instance, and that is a really shitty response from some of this community. It's not like we've demanded that Galaxy was scrapped so what the hell is their problem with those of us who only want a downloader, don't give a rat's behind about achievement and social this and that and the rest bloating Galaxy!

Forbid one day GOG makes Galaxy mandatory for there will be plenty of 'told you so/warned you about that. Should be constantly refreshing memories about installers bloated with Galaxy as standard until GOG backed down on that? Give a finger take an arm, what next? Only selling major titles and no longer old favorites?

So to those only coming here with again and again the same rhetoric stuff and the 'but you can download with Galaxy anyway" and blah, back off and let us be please!

Oh yes, there will be! When that day comes I will take a little solace in feeling smug and pointing out to some members around here, that the signs were there for all to see. Only some don't want to see where GOG is going. ... Still, I would very much prefer if I never get to say 'I told you so' on this topic. But the day will come. Galaxy already is the focus of GOG. Not DRM-free anymore. And sooner or later they will go the full way towards trying to become another Steam-clone.

I get that you are upset, but imo this is a "false equivalence"(or some other type of fallacy).....that just because GOG doesn't do one thing for us(keeping GOG DLer) the ones working there(or running it) must dislike/etc us.

Also that said: A good number of companies only pretend to care about people to make money/grow(for bad but also sometimes good reasons).

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This sounds like a good idea......as long as it's a tool without much bloat, as some dislike that sort of thing.
================================== Please stop spreading slander/possible slander(or is it libel?) about other users just because they disagree with your stances & you with theirs. Good advice(the ignoring part), but the ad hominem/etc wasn't needed.

I also think GOG isn't what it once was, and am not 100% in blind support of GOG as some might be...that said, I don't think it helps anyone for anyone else(in general) for some others to tout such things as fact and possibly get others(who might take such as fact) to spread such in panic/fear.

(Now with the above i'm not saying everyone is doing such, or that those doing so are doing so for bad reasons necessarily....I just find it unwise for some to keep saying such without delineating such as their opinion and not fact)

The old Windows Downloader was working fine already, till the end. It's just their strategy, they want to discontinue standalone-installers and enforce DRM through the backdoor with Galaxy.

For my part, when the downloader died I had decided to not buy from GOG again. Bye bye downloader == bye bye GOG.

It is also quite probable, that GOG have been pushed by Developers/Publishers, to increase the usage of Galaxy, so they can get better stats. The GOG Downloader of course, did not help with that, and actually did the opposite.

So to be fair to GOG, I guess they had a dilemma, as they wanted more providers of good games, but have to constantly compete with what Steam etc can deliver to those providers.

Still, without transparency we can never know and never feel motivated enough to do our bit or a little extra.

As they say, communication is the name of the game.

LET GOG KNOW HOW YOU FEEL BY VOTING
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/keep_the_gog_downloader_and_keep_it_up_to_date

FOR THOSE WHO WANT SOME KIND OF SOLUTION TO OUR DILEMMA
See my post above - https://www.gog.com/forum/general/we_do_not_want_say_goodbye_to_gog_downloader/post155

Emotionally, I am with you.

But honestly, I still want GOG to survive, at least while they still provide good games DRM-Free.

Still, they cannot have it all their own way, so I have changed my goalposts.

I will still grab free games, and ones that seem really good value for money, but my price threshold will now be much lower. So I will be buying a lot less games.

There will possibly be exceptions like NAM, which has just become available here, and an old favorite of mine. I want that and 3 of the other four that were also released by that company. But the asking price is too much, especially in the current loss of the GOG Downloader scenario.

I will probably make an exception for NAM, because of the strength of my desire for a version supported by latest Windows, but the others have gone straight to my Wishlist.

It would be interesting to know, if their loss of sales will be covered by the cost saving some claim, for the removal of the GOG Downloader. Personally, I would be surprised if they make a significant or even any saving at all, so the exercise is likely to make them worse off. And they would have gone to significant effort, to remove and disable all the GOG Downloader stuff. Time and effort in my view, that would have been better spent fixing some of the outstanding long term issues here.

I've made a significant investment in GOG, so I have never until now, wanted them to be worse off.

P.S. One other change, is that I now don't use Galaxy at all, instead I use Free Download Manager with the Linux browser links, even though I currently have no way of checking those downloads for issues. Being mostly a Windows user, I really only grab the Linux versions for that rainy day scenario anyway. Still, one day I hope to have a way of checking Linux file integrity.

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And I have also decided that wading through all 57 sales pages is just too much in light of how I am feeling. I am not gonna try that hard to find games I might want. So I gave up halfway, and even that was probably too much effort.

There won't be a huge loss of sales. GOG's customer base and community has changed a lot along with GOG, through the years. Both are linked, the changes in GOG reflect a change of target public.

Criticizing the obligation to use a client, on GOG forums, now looks like criticizing DRM on steam forums. It goes against the local common sense.

The removal of GOG Downloader is not a miscalculation by GOG. It's one paced element of a long term strategy and re-orientation.

You mean like in this thread were peoples are complaining that a client has been removed and that they can no longer use it ?

Cute but that's not what those of us who like Downloader mean by "client" in context.

What other words or language do you take completely literally?

yOuR'e So NeGaTiVe! Why don't you just try Galaxy bro? It downloads your games like Downloader, and more!

I bought from GoG before I knew the downloader existed. So now I am back at the point where I was 10 years ago.

However, I DID appreciate the downloader and found it very convenient. Three clicks in the web browser (select game, switch to downloader links, click link) and all the installer files would download automatically.

Now I'll have to see how that python script works out.
Maybe I write a simplified Java version of it (or a wrapper) with a UI to download single games (I don't want to synchronize my whole library, since I renamed the directories and sometimes put several games into one directory).


Btw, is it possible to specify a directory for the dowload of offline installers using Galaxy? A subfolderof the game directoy is not a very good solution.