Hello! I'd like to request a few features to the download area:

1) Checksums (md5, sha1, sha256, whatever) for all the active download files
2) Full version numbers displayed (ie: my downloaded Flatout 2 file has "1.0.0.2" in the filename, but the version shown on the download page is just "1.0.0" (that's for the Linux version))
3) Having a short changelog available would be useful as well.

Points 1 and 2 would make it far easier to know if the version available at gog.com actually matches the version that I've currently got downloaded. For instance, I noticed that Flatout 2 was marked as "updated" but now that I've clicked on it once, there's no longer any indication that there's a new version available. A checksum or version number check would be a quick way to find out for sure, but neither are available.

Point 3 would be useful to find out if it's worth actually downloading an update, once the availability of an update's been determined. For instance, back to my Flatout 2 example, the Linux version is a 2.9GB tar.gz archive - the game's been working great for me, and if the update only fixes some issues which don't affect me, I don't want to bother downloading the whole 2.9GB again. I know that there's a giganto thread which tracks game updates, but that's rather inefficient IMO.

Checksums would, of course, also be useful to verify integrity of the downloaded file. I've had at least once where I didn't get a full downloaded file, and while it's easy enough to just try untarring (or whatever), us Linux types are used to being able to manually verify integrity before attempting to process files.

Part of this might possibly be addressed by the availability of a gog.com downloader for Linux; perhaps the downloaders for other platforms already address some of this.

Anyway, thanks again for adding in Linux support - I've been enjoying my gog.com Linux titles thus far!

I would love to see changelogs. I enjoy reading them.

How about this ?

http://www.an-ovel.com/pages/magog.php

The forums might not be the best place to make a suggestion like this.

If you check in the lower part of GOG site, on the right, there is a button "Request Games & Site features" which takes you to the wishlist of Site Features and you can see if anyone has requested something like this before (and vote for it) or create a new petition and post the link back here in the forums so that others could vote for it. I love MaGog but
1. No cheksums
2. Full version only displayed in some cases and most likely is the one in the page
3. No changelogs

All three things have been requested numerous times by lots of different people, but so far nothing has happened.

I'd love to see these things implemented as well.

Eek, right you are - I'd missed that, sorry! I'll head over there instead. Thanks!

Edit: Yeah, indeed, these suggestions are all in there, most of them in more than one request. Here's hoping they'll get implemented someday!

ne_zavarj drew my attention to this thread (thanks).

1) I will gladly add checksums to MaGog, but I don't know of anywhere I can dependably get them from. By dependably, I mean updated shortly (say one day) after the file changes on GOG, preferably without human intervention (because humans grow tired of maintaining stuff on a daily basis, unless they are IAmSinistar...).

2) All the version numbers MaGoG displays (in the "patched" column) are of course those from GOG's game pages. If someone (Judas?) forgets to update the game page, the information on MaGog is outdated (e.g. I believe this is currently the case for Divinity Original Sin).

3) I maintain an ongoing more-or-less complete changelog (again dependent on the information in GOG's game page!) in The "what did just update?" thread. Look for entries beginning with "From MaGog's logs for <Month> <Day>". Days without an entry mean nothing has changed on that day.

In the long run I don't believe MaGog is the answer. But the changelog has been on the wishlist for years now, so I don't expect it any more.