Right, you can't. If everything is fine and gets you from place to place (like a horse and buggy pulling a huge motor home vs a town car), hey use what you you like. But for some of us that used different tools and they worked better than what is being offered now, well that is what we are talking about. To each their own.

Personally I am glad I found a extra browser tool/addon called XMD (https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdman/) it plugs into browsers via a addon (which you get from that browsers addon site) and gives features I need such as bandwidth limiting along with pause and resuming. Sure Galaxy can do this, but it is much slower (by a large factor). By using XMD and my browser, it am *almost* back to what I had with GOG downloader. Enough that I am still here buying games. Otherwise I would have left as I do not like Galaxy at all for many reasons. Slow being the largest one. And 2.0 is even worse, they are going backwards not forwards with it.

By the way, if anyone wants to give XMD a try, make sure you add .bin to the watched file types in options. Otherwise you might end up renaming the files (and it doesn't start the process as easy either). It has a lot of great other features as well, and don't have a lot of malware/spyware junk in it like a lot of downloader helpers do.

But hey use what you like. I'm not trying to convince anyone, I am just glad we still have the option of offline installers and tools like XMD. While I would PREFER the return of GOGDownloader, at least we still have said options.

GOG is a company, not our families...and like many such companies they care mostly about money and selling people things.

They might have been more idealistic and good intentioned and less profit minded at the start, but those days are likely long gone.

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If I may ask: Why?

Do you honestly think at this point that keeping this thread on "life support" will change things?

It has done next to nothing re: a GOG response(this and the other thread), and that is unlikely to change sadly.

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Despite our disagreements, I agree with this sentiment.

Agreed. Even then they (those who want Galaxy features) would push the BIG BLUE since it says:

"GOG Galaxy keeps your games up to date, provides all multiplayer features, enables cloud saves, makes it easy to install games and more."

I know right?

I mean I thought we(as a whole) learned NOT to click on anything in sight back during the pop-ups-galore era.

Eh, if they want that stuff and only click it to get that stuff(and know there are backup installers and how to get them, but want the galaxy versions solely or for the most part for some reason) then to me that's fine.

At most i'd maybe put a little underlined and bolded line at each galaxy DL page (in the client, etc) that says "Note: Downloading backup installers is recommended to archive drm-free copies of one's games" or something similar to that effect.

Scared the hell out of me. Luckily, I am using LGOGDownloader. Hopefully doesn't affect me....

Apologies for dredging this thread up. However, seeing as the downloader was a useful tool and we're now expected to use Galaxy for all our download needs, I gave it a chance and installed it. Mostly it just sat there until I upgraded my external storage to grab the remaining drm-free installers - only to find out you cannot sort by purchase date. I thought something so basic was built in and maybe I was overlooking it. Doing some digging I see this feature was omitted in 2.0. I guess I'll be removing Galaxy. FML

The GOG Downloader was wonderful and we need it back please.

Downloading directly from the website using an Internet browser works fine. No Galaxy needed. I used to download (almost) all my GOG games with the Downloader, now I've switched to browser download and I have experienced no problems. With Firefox I can pause and resume downloads, and the speed is as fast as before. I was disappointed at first, but frankly, the only things that have changed are that now I have to manually name the folder where I place the files, and that I have to click each link instead of just "Download all files", which take no more than 30 seconds of my time.

Um... you don't need galaxy, or any downloader tool.
You can just download normally, through the browser. Same way as you would download from any other site. ( :

With Timboli working on a replacement it's actually not as needed anymore.


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A user named Timboli is working on a replacement, actually.

I appreciate the replies. Granted, there are other ways to grab the installers, however, the downloader was a one-click tool. No need to click on each file to download. I'll likely spend the time to setup gogrepo.py as I have a fair amount to download. cheers!

Timboli's tool is actually based off of gogrepo and will be very easy to use....i'd look into it, as it might be useful to you. :)

(Note: It is still being worked on, but I believe he is close to finishing it)

Thanks, I'll take a look into it. Last I saw it was just a file checker but I guess Timboli's expanded on it? Another reason to offload Galaxy, let's take Witcher 3 for example. Galaxy wanted to install the Steam version rather than GOG's version from the GOG bookmark. My blood is boiling. Apologies for my rambling.

Yes, he is (iirc) adding things like quick and easy file downloads and other features. I believe you will need to install the gogrepo code or files or whatnot along with his program, but it will seemingly be very easy for some who liked & desired the old GOG DLer's functionality.

Not a problem.

As for that issue, all I can say is: well at least it's not as bad as GOG essentially forcing everyone's old galaxy versions to update to 2.0....to me that was one of the sneakiest things they've ever done.

(Along with other things like removing exes and such from game folders when GOG "upgraded" some games from dosbox to scummVM, thus making it a bit harder to use the games on original hardware if one wanted to do so)