As everyone knows, for a long while now, the update flags haven't worked properly on the website. I'm told they work in Galaxy, but I don't use Galaxy, so I can't confirm that.

So, every few days I always check my account page to see if there are any updates. For the last few weeks, there have been tons - and according to the "what did just update?" thread, they're mostly pointless - updated installers with the exact same data inside them.

Today I've got 20 updates, and as near as I can tell, there's 1 that actually includes an updated game. I'm not going to waste gigabytes of bandwidth downloading a new installer, so GOG have managed to take the one place that used to have some form of authority on updates, and render it irrelevant. Awesome.

Yep, I have had it a couple of times. Go into your library and 60 updates. Check the change log - its under More->Changelog (at least it is for most anyways!), all but 1 of my updates was for changes to file structure, no change to the game, so in most cases you can just ignore it.
Note that even this doesn't cover all eventualities, some games (Dying LIght) update and don't even show as updated.
But yes, those structure "updates" are very annoying.

I haven't seen any new installer-related updates in a while that I thought they aborted the process, especially considering they've become a pain to manually extract under Linux. I guess I was wrong....very...

Odd. During the last 24 hours or so, I've gotten only one update, for "Sword of the Stars Complete Collection". I guess the other 19 updates were for games I don't have, even though I have 1446 games on GOG.

In fact I think that SOTS update was the first update since Friday for me, there were no more updates during Sat-Sun.

So... what do you suggest GOG should do then? Not update the installers? Update the installers but not raise an update flag? Somehow I feel, whatever GOG would do (or wouldn't do), someone would still complain loudly.

You mean, The Guardian's flashnews each time Trump or Mueller farts ?

This was the first time I checked in at least a week. Easter messed with my usual schedule of things, so it wasn't in the last 24 hours. Regardless, I've found it to be a trend for the last few weeks. Fair enough. I personally equate an update flag with an update to the game, not an update to the installer, so I'd probably prefer to not see a flag for every updated installer.


EDIT: I just went an checked them all - it's been longer than I thought since I last checked. 18 of them were installer updates from March 30. One has no changelog, and the other is a legitimate update.

I would imagine this could continue until the "installer structure" of most or all games on the site and thus Galaxy are converted. It's probably to streamline titles or update them to be more easily installed onto systems, or at least that's what one would hope. Having many games here I can say it's still happening and It's been happening for weeks (months?).

They're just updating the games for the times, and making sure they actually work. I call it spring cleaning.

yes, those update notices drive me batty, do I click each one to clear it or live with the tag forever or until the next time I look at the game in galaxy or browser. wish they had a way to clear notices in one go for these minor update patches

Did you even read the OP? And everyone could do without that revolting thought of the day.

Of course. And i don't use Galaxy either.

I'm also finding it annoying that they are slipping the GoG Galaxy in the installers... I really wish it would be kept separate.

Please elaborate. Are you talking about the Classic vs default installers, or what?

You have to go to the URL below to see the notification.
https://www.gog.com/account

GOG's "global" notification do not show game updates any more.

Today i checked my library and i had 30 updates. Not my personal record, but a lot of updates anyway. Of those, 27 were "internal structure" ones, 1 real and 2 other without changelog that i suspect are also "internal structure" ones.

I had to go all over them checking and then i noticed (as happens usually) that i had other games updated without any notification about it. I wish that at least, if i'm going to get all those notifications that are not "real" updates, i could get also all the notifications for the real updates i am missing sometimes.

Why happens that? There's some internal tag for the system to notice an update that devs should send or activate? It is because GOG staff need to activate some tag manually when dev sends them an update and they forget about it? (this can happen, anyway, we are all humans, i am asking because i am not sure how this works and if there's a manual thing to do that can be forgotten)

Just finding the newer installers contain GoG Galaxy. Noticed it with Rebel Galaxy. Only like one game i got recently had a 'classic installer' still available.