Thanks GoG for completely removing old versions yet again.

Why are you so allergic to letting people chose what they want to play?

People are free to download the patches and offline installers, precisely to keep a local copy of older versions, every time a new version launches.

Harddrives, even enterprise ones, are basically free these days, so there really is no excuse not to do it for games where people may want to patch back down.

I don't know, as much as i absolutely despise Steam, they don't remove old versions of the games, unlike how GoG does it.

I guess i'm screwed if i ever want to play the game before mechanic changes after 1.23, just because i didn't have the chance to download the installers. What a joke.

Edit: Huh, i apparently had a 1.23 installation hidden within the depths of my backup HDD, so it's not a big deal, as i'm not interested in later versions. Still, it's fucking idiotic that it's impossible to revert to older versions without resorting to piracy. Advent of digital only titles was an absolute disaster.

Yeah, the 20 TBs are still too new to be the best option, TB / [currency]. The 16 TBs are getting there, though.

I currently got one Exos X20, one X18 and a X16, plus a duo of the older Enterprise Capacity 10 TB and one 8 TB. Everything just running in JBOD. Plus a 250 GB SATA SSD for the OS, and a 1 TB Corsair MP600 NVMe as my 10 Gbit network upload "cache". And an APC CS-500 UPS for power loss protection (which is what killed the 10 TB I had to replace). Case is a Fractal Design R6. Using regular Windows 10 Pro (don't need server OS features for my in-house use case).

In hindsight, when I replaced one of the 10 TBs recently, I should have bought 2x 16 TB instead of the one 20 TB. Platter density is getting dangerously close to its limit now, regarding seek and read errors, and ultimately data degradation.

So I likely won't be getting any more 20 TBs. I find the risk of a LOT of data loss to be too great.

People are not free to download the patches and offline installers if said offline installers are removed from the website and thus not available to download.

I think that most old versions of the game are available from torrent sites.

Torrenting isn't illegal and if you own a legitimate copy of the game it's not piracy to download older versions.

But they were available for everyone at some point.
It would be unreasonable to have GoG store ALL versions for ALL their games for ALL time.


As the next guy says, torrenting isn't inherently illegal, that's all down to the content in question, that's true. And in this case I agree with what someone else said earlier: GoG can make torrents of their older game versions, and then leave it up to the userbase to keep them available.

No, it absolutely would not be unreasonable. Storage is cheap, you said it yourself.

This type of mess w/ file integrity problems, possible DRM-check problems via Galaxy client-app and/or servers, etc. - yeah, this is exactly why I backed-up v1.63 in full ahead of time just in case into a different folder (that Galaxy won't look for it in) - knowing this game was getting updates and the PL expansion.

I so learned from the GTA: SA updates on Steam, breaking saves some years ago when they updated it. Learned the hard way.

What a mess.

I think we will just have to agree to disagree on this one.

Yes, storage is cheap, but GoG got so many games, it would cost a lot of money to purchase all the required storage drives, with redundancy, and power them, and require a lot of space to house all the drives with the network infrastructure to serve them, it would be unreasonable to expect them to host every release of everything.

You got 66 games - it would be a breeze for you to download all the releases of all the games you would want to keep on an external 8 TB drive. Or probably even a 4 TB drive.