chandra: After announcing that we’re ceasing the active development for GOG Downloader 6 years ago, the time has come to disable it. We put a lot of work into making GOG.COM an up-to-date place for gamers. Supporting GOG Downloader, which became an obsolete tool some time ago, simply does not go hand in hand with the goal we mentioned above.
In a week from now, we will deactivate GOG Downloader entirely, and it won’t be possible to download any files with it. As of the 17th of March, there will be two methods of downloading games from GOG.COM – via the browser or with the GOG GALAXY app. For more information on how to download your games and digital goodies go
here.
P.S. :
If GOG want to ease the burden on themselves by not having to keep the GOG.com Downloader working then why not ease the burden for the rest of us (us the 'customers') also ????????????????
Why not change your so-called back up file policy to include that people can download ALL off-line game install (including UPDATES!) AND ALL goodies - ALL - that is EVERYTHING ! - packed into ONE ZIP file ! ? ! ? ! ?
Then workload would be manageable - and maybe even easier that GOG.com Downloader days - when downloading the games that we bought !!!!
I know that GOG have made the Galaxy client, AND FYI then I were one of the people that suggested a similar apparatus - though I envisioned something like a more advanced down-loader to make it easier for people less computer savvy - and I never imagined that GOG would go all Steam on my - though I actually DO understand why 'The French monk' want to include social features and multi player....
BUT before GOG ends up as just a Steam Clone then PLEASE REMEMBER that GOG has made it's business on being the company that delivers DRM-FREE games , and a CORE PART of THAT concept is that people have access to their DRM-FREE downloads - and for that to work in reality then you have to make the download burden manageable !!!!
