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Do not discriminate users who prefer offline installers to galaxy versions of your games!

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During the last weeks (months?) several times gog has made patches/updates for games available to galaxy users much earlier than to customers who do not want to use galaxy and only use the offline installers to play their games.

Games where patches have recently been made available first on steam (unfortunately we are used to that) and then for galaxy users are "Thea 2" and "Fallen Enchantress - Legendary Heroes". Now, days/weeks later, we are still waiting for updated offline installers and that really sucks!

I request from gog that patches/updates for offline installers are at least published at the same time (and much earlier as usual too because gog is notorious for being late when it comes to publishing new updates of games already available on other platforms for a long time)!

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Sometimes the gog version update is mere hours after steam, other times it is days that it takes for the update to occur. Not that much can be done about it if it is due to the game publisher. However I have had bad experiences with Galaxy 2.x those problems were so bad that am unwilling to give it a second chance because of it. My main question is does the game really need an .exe file to update? If it does then maybe automating the process would get those manual-download-updates out sooner. Otherwise just providing the install .exe the ability to install patches would probably do a better job. All you would need to do then is give us an archive of some sort with all of the necessary files and instructions for the original installer in them. Much easier than making an .exe for each patch.

Nov. 18, 2021
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100% agree, only reason I use GOG is the DRM-free* offline installers. (*Though that Hitman blunder worries me.) Please keep your core audience happy GOG. FCK DRM

Oct. 26, 2021
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One of the main reasons I like GOG is because they don't enforce this launcher crap. I don't like how they're now pushing people to use the "Galaxy" launcher as the standard option. It makes the offline installers look like an afterthought. It used to be the only way to get games on GOG. Now it almost makes it seem like they're about to "phase out" offline installers entirely, try to make people forget about it.

That kind of conflicts with GOG's no DRM policy, now does it? Remember, the only reason people choose GOG over Steam is because it's DRM free. I would prefer the portable offline installers to be the STANDARD option again.

Oct. 7, 2021
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Yes, as practical as apps like Galaxy are. When it comes down to it, I would always prefer and choose the pure offline variant as a source.

The answer to this is simple. It is the greater freedom and the control is much more mine. As an individual, I am also much less suitable as a data source and thus again less evaluable by machine logic.

In the end, people always choose their greatest freedom and so do I. I don't like centralisation and pyramid systems, because corruption constantly forms there and power degenerates.

I see the offline variant of data access as a priority first and I would like to make it clear here. Galaxy is a nice thing, but what I associate with GoG is that the games belong to me again and that I get all the data managed, maintained and expanded here in a first-class way and can obtain it quickly and easily and constantly.

I can do without Galaxy, without my games that are ready and waiting, that's what I'm here for and that's what I stand for.

Because it can't be that in the end we only receive a kind of loan from corporations like EA or Steam. I used to buy my boxes and the game was mine, without all this control and online compulsion thing and monitoring etc.

And it's that self-control that GoG gives back to me. I don't have to keep 100 boxes of the games anymore to do that. But you are totally dependent on the net. And that's why it has to stay free and in the control of the people and not be transferred into the hands of the power pyramid, which has happened way too much again....

Jul. 5, 2021
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Using GOG has completely screwed up my game. I repeatedly run into problems launching it. If it were available elsewhere I would buy it there. Why is everyone on the web intent on controlling every move we make. Can't you be content to just make a profit and leave it alone.

Jul. 5, 2021
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Please continue to offer offline installers. If the offline installers go away, so do I.

I have exactly one game on Steam. I buy all my other games here.

Jun. 12, 2021
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Anyone else notice in recent months that the offline installer downloads are considerably slower and less reliable than they are in Galaxy for the exact same games?

May. 21, 2021
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Agreed. I bought all my games in years here. More than 500. Just because of the offline installers! This is my main reason why I'm super thankful about GOG and will always support this site. I will never change this. Until GOG change into some of this bloodsuckers like steam/ epic/ origin/ EA blablabla and all of this other grabbin leechers. Then for sure I leave. Youre site is for me the last site with the old gamer spirits. Arigatou gozaimasu. Otsukaresama deshita. Ita est.

Apr. 21, 2021
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While I acknowledge that it may take some time to make updates available to Galaxy, and additional time to make those offline installers, I also find more then a couple of days (2 or 3 at the most!) not acceptable. For a lot of GOG customers, including me, the availability of offline installers is the primary reason to buy from GOG.com. That said, I only experienced it around 5-10 times that I had to wait more than a week, 5 times it was more than two weeks, for the offline installers or offline patches. I can only assume that the responsible people at GOG are trying hard and they had their reasons. Communicating them may solve the dissatisfaction...

Apr. 3, 2021
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i will buy gog games as long as offline installers exist. if it stops, then so do my purchases on this site.

Mar. 31, 2021
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I second this too.
As said by midrand, i.e. "Offline installers is the only and only reason I use GOG."
I do not want to depend to a client (like in Steam) at all.
In fact here on GoG I have buoght dozens of games since I joined, in Steam I have less then 10.
I have a PS4, with which I usually play, and seldom I use the pc to play. But when I do, I play GoG games, do not want to use a client and want to be able to play modded games.

GoG is a great site and for me better that all the others, for this two bigs points:
- DRM free games;
- No clients to run.

Enough said.

Mar. 18, 2021
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I've bought over 300 games here over the years, but in the past year or so not so much. Maybe every time I try to d/l a game using the offline link, the internet craps itself and I have to start over again. I am never using Galaxy and realized today, I stopped buying games when I lost the downloader links.

Mar. 13, 2021
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Definitely voting this and wanted to add that the throttled speed for downloading the 'offline backup installers' is insultingly slow. It took me almost 30 minutes to download what amounted to an 8GB game. I'm certain this is done on purpose to further push people to use Galaxy which is obnoxious and crappy in the extreme. The same size game would download on Galaxy or Steam within probably 2-4 minutes, not half a bloody hour and come in multiple parts.

Just really a crappy decision by GoG that's very disappointing and it does appear that they've lost all grip on who their actual core audience really is. Stop chasing the Steam money and remain true to your core ideals, GoG.

Feb. 28, 2021
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Also I would like to see an option added to get a notification via Email. that a new patch/upgrade is available!

Dec. 28, 2020
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Exactly! This is becoming an issue when it shouldn't be!

Dec. 22, 2020
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Voted. Gog is reducing itself more and more into a cheapa$$ Steam-clone wannabe. I am very angry with the many wrong turns they took. Gog became somebody else as an entity, exactly as my polish angel did. Corruption and degradation abounds.

Dec. 17, 2020
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I've never used Galaxy and never want to. I've purchased my share of games from you and feel that I deserve to be treated with the same consideration as everyone else.

Dec. 16, 2020
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yep - I tried downloading Baldur's Gate 3 by downloading it in parts and for some reason it would not install no matter what I did.

Dec. 13, 2020
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Offline installers is the only and only reason I use GOG. Take away that - and there is no difference to me between GOG and Steam.

Nov. 8, 2020
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Same as the others. The removal of GoG downloader links is already a wrong enough move as it is. The discrimination described only serve to raise suspiscions that some day we will find offline installers completely gone. Don't count on me to swallow it and install galaxy.

Oct. 22, 2020
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I have never used Galaxy and I have no interest in ever using it.

Neglecting the regular offline installers makes no sense whatsoever and it feels like GOG is pushing people to use Galaxy (which convieniently now also sells Epic Launcher games WITH DRM).

Oct. 3, 2020
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Just wanted to add that offline installers are the ONLY way I EVER play any games on gog, and gog is the only place I ever buy games from.

if offline installers go away, I will never buy a game ever again, because it is the only way I am okay with purchasing and installing and playing my games.

Just saying.

Aug. 26, 2020
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Yes please! +1 this! I only use the offline installers for my GoG games!

Jun. 11, 2020
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gog does not always make patches available, requiring a complete reinstall. they should improve that.

Jul. 5, 2019
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I never heard of this issue before, but if this is really true, I kindly ask that Gog help us so that this isn't a problem anymore. So far I have had an amazingly good experience with Gog support so I know they really care about us. I hope they will see this and check what's going on. Thank you and have a nice day.

Jul. 5, 2019
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Yes, please put a process in place which ensures that games that get updated for Galaxy have work put in queue for someone to update the standalone installers for said games, or a patch. Please automate this in some fashion so that game installers/patches do not get lost in the cracks in the future. This is very frustrating.

Jul. 1, 2019
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Went out of my way to log in and vote for this. This has been a concern of mine since joining (June 2017). I shop at GOG because it is the only place I can get DRM-free bigger titles. Without GOG I would not be PC gaming. It is already grating to be treated as a second class gamer by the general PC market (which loooooves Steam), but it is maybe even worse for us old school minded folks to be treated like second class gamers here. I can understand a 24, maybe even 48 hour delay. But to have such overwhelming focus on the client and not know whether or not the offline installers are up to date, is, well, very grating.

Jun. 29, 2019
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