Without patch notes one can only assume why they were updated.

Given that I see games in my library that are extremely unlikely to have received any update from the dev/publisher add to this fact the sheer number that are being updated, I can only make a guess that gog are updating something to do with the galaxy files that have already creeped into the offline installers.

Of course that is only my opinion.

if you want a real answer, I would be sending a support ticket to gog promptly.

The only reason I am not doing so is that all my offline installers were backed up before the introduction of the galaxy bloatware (all that I could anyway), and it is I not gog, that determine if they should be updated.

but the number of updates IS strange... don't be harsh on him

Death has DRM. You need to be alive to die.

I know, but what i mean is when the musics are gone, there is no way to bought the game with them. In the worst case, the entire game is removed from sale.

I would like to see a changelog for many updates though.

SORRY, it was my fault. It was this thread of mine that started it all -

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/i_wonder_how_hard_it_might_be

But the question that remains, is did they make it easier for us or harder?

Or, if it wasn't me, then I suggest that GOG discovered a DRM element in many of their games, and so are updating them to remove it. I could start a rumor that many GOG games were set to stop working at an unspecified date ... GOG thought they would have died by then, but have done way better than they thought they would, so needed to add an extension ... or maybe it's the reverse, and and THE END IS NIGH.

Or maybe it's just something to do with Windows 10, like has been suggested.

Or some Galaxy issue is the reason.

Anyway ... NOTHING TO SEE HERE ... SO MOVE ON.

P.S. One EASY SOLUTION ...... STOP USING GALAXY .... works for many of us.
Wouldn't we all .... well some of us anyway. ;)

P.S. Those who use Galaxy though to get automatic updates, have abrogated all control to Galaxy, so really should not be complaining ... or even wondering ... it's not seemly. :)

It's way too easy to circulate rumours on the internet. If people didn't blindly believe everything they read online, the political landscape and the world as a whole would be very different.

Then again, it would also be a lot more boring ;)

Indeed.

Sometimes boring is good ... as I am sure many Americans could attest to right now ... for instance. :(

I don't really get why the masses of Updates might be a sign of the offline-installers to br abloshed?
Is it just because the wierd updates lately?

Might be different for others, but most of the Updates I recieved were 0 MB, which seemed either maintenace/compability relates or were bugged.

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The problem is that people seem to more and more often try to explain new things happenings (in this case game updates) with reasons that fit their beliefs (in this case something being amiss with GOG), rather than trying harder/more to search for the actual reasons behind things.
(I mean people in general.....it's a trend that seems to have been growing over the last 5-10 years or so....i.e. people not seeming to look much for reasons for things outside their own set beliefs on why such things happen and etc)

I use Galaxy as an easy to use manager to get the offline installers of the gigabyte sized games and to occasionally update the more modern games that get such every now and then. I would complain if the games would suddenly stop working just because I kicked Galaxy off the hdd or would need it running during play. Unless I play something for specific online features.

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Turning auto-updates off was the first thing I did though. Major annoyance. Especially since months might pass between two uses of Galaxy.

Because you seem to be worried about DRM?

So it turned out that Gog was moving a bunch of the titles to new servers and it fooled the autoupdater into reupdating.
Thank goodness this wasn't on a PS5 or XBXSX - would have smashed my bandwidth cap.
I'm glad this turned out to be benign, but assuming the worst is a life-skill today. Optimism is signing up to be a statistic. Wherever there is money, there is lying/cheating and not even the best companies are immune.