Dears,

Since installing Baldur's Gate 3 month ago several updates were released and distributed via GOG Galaxy. More often than not the "update" is larger than 100 GB, so in actuality the launcher is downloading the whole game all over again. Right now it is downloading an "update" thats 122,89 GB in size, with a whopping 3.3 MB/s on average (~12 MB/s are possible). The machine is online almost every day, GOG Galaxy launches with windows, so no updates inbetween were missed. And please, for the love of god, don't tell me that all files need to be redownloaded because each single one of them got changed. That's bullshit, and you know it.

Installing the launcher, which is no doubt gathering data for you to sell and therefore profit from, is advertised by telling your customers that, to compensate for this, it should make one's life more convenient. How is wasting the precious little time I can spare for gaming making my life more convenient?

OK, so: Why? How? WTF? Any explanation and/or solution? Having the machine online for 15+ hours for an "update" every other week or so does actually cost money, you know?

Cheers,
Michael

why is because Steam matters and Larian changes the patch for those customers... Gog gets the basic build which means its the full game

hotfix files tend to be smaller and mostly "hay Larian your patch broke the game here type things"

I'm not sure what this rant is about... The last huge patch was on February 16th and I didn't have any issues downloading it in Germany. All the other patches I have experienced where reasonable in size.
In addition to that it's an offline game. If you don't want to download that much, simply disable updates. Nowadays people complain about too much care of the developers instead of too little.
Also: you don't have to use the launcher and I doubt that Larian collects your data with it unless you create an account with them - which you don't have to do. Where else do you get that option?