Posted April 26, 2015
ggf162: And here's the thing, because GOG doesn't have a client yet and forces you to download installers, it really isn't the "lazy" way; Steam or any other client based service just require you to press download and then press play.
There doesn't sound like a big convenience difference between downloading an installer on GOG and downloading an installer on Steam. And with the GOG games all I have to do is click on an icon on my desktop to play it... far, far easier than having to figure out how to get the game to run on an offline PC. However, GOG is working on a client which sounds like it may appeal to those who are used to the way Steam handles PC game delivery.
There's only thing I'd want from a client though, and that's for it to be able to notify me which installers have been updated with a changelog, so that I can choose if I want to download them since my bandwidth is slow and expensive. Since I tend to store the installers encrypted on removable hard drives, the client would have to have another means of knowing which installers I have without being able to access them directly - kind of like GOG's website already does - although the update notifications need to be improved. So for me, the website is the client, and it just needs to be improved by having update notifications that are more specific as to what has been updated.