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Posted April 12, 2018
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rtcvb32: 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.
Then something is wrong with your account. I can see the classic installer just fine for Rebel Galaxy. See the attached picture.
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Posted April 12, 2018
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timppu: Please elaborate. Are you talking about the Classic vs default installers, or what?
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rtcvb32: 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.
Or do you mean they contain galaxy dlls or setup folders? The dlls have been around for a while and they are to allow integration with the client if it's used at a future point. The folders setup in hidden directories are "helpers". Afraid there is not much to be done about either.
Posted April 12, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: Or do you mean they contain galaxy dlls or setup folders? The dlls have been around for a while and they are to allow integration with the client if it's used at a future point. The folders setup in hidden directories are "helpers". Afraid there is not much to be done about either.
How about the installer with a default 'install galaxy' unless you go to the options and manually remove it.
Posted April 12, 2018
Yes. As best as I can tell this has been occurring for some time now. At this point it is what it is.. Not sure GOG has any RND dollars allocated to this site anymore, other than the best way to add more random games to "treasure boxes" in the next sale.
Posted April 12, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: Or do you mean they contain galaxy dlls or setup folders? The dlls have been around for a while and they are to allow integration with the client if it's used at a future point. The folders setup in hidden directories are "helpers". Afraid there is not much to be done about either.
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rtcvb32: How about the installer with a default 'install galaxy' unless you go to the options and manually remove it.
That's not a classic installer then. Classic ones don't have that, but they might still have galaxy dlls and create folders in hidden areas.
Posted April 12, 2018
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Leroux: What I'm tired of are notifications like "x items from your wishlist are on sale", since they don't tell me which ones anyway, so I feel that's completely pointless. Besides, I already get e-mail notifications about that from GOG and IsThereAnyDeal. I wish the forum notifications would only tell me about thread and chat replies.
Yup. I just clear the update flag, and then check my email. There's always an email there, and it shows me the games, which is far more convenient than paging through my wishlist looking for the discount, especially if I'm on my phone, where the wishlist doesn't show the discounts.
Posted April 12, 2018
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Posted April 13, 2018
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Telika: You mean, The Guardian's flashnews each time Trump or Mueller farts ?
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Fairfox: i remembah when teh president wasnt an ass mekkin' nu's all teh tiem :/
Whats this obsession with some old guy's bodily functions! Its revoltving! Does this place have moderators or not!
Posted April 13, 2018
Come on TC, the update culture on PC is a mandate. You need to download the update to ensure that "thefile" is *UPDATED* to "the_file"!
(yeah I hate these too).

The main issue for us non-Galaxy users is that there is no archive of patches. Say for example that the developer puts out patch 1.1, but then follows up by putting out patch 1.2. If you do not download patch 1.1 before patch 1.2 comes out, patch 1.2 is all that will be available for download and will not work for you, since you are missing patch 1.1. Oh but you can redownload the whole installer, no big deal right? Oh but you might want to wait a day or two because Galaxy is seemingly updated first, so you might just be redownloading the same (unpatched) installer you had already originally. Oh and there is no way to actually tell this (that I know of) until you have actually downloaded the whole thing.
Post edited April 13, 2018 by rjbuffchix
Posted April 13, 2018
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Dahlia_Finola: Does this place have moderators or not!
Not.
Posted April 13, 2018
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Fairfox: i remembah when teh president wasnt an ass mekkin' nu's all teh tiem :/
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Dahlia_Finola: Whats this obsession with some old guy's bodily functions! Its revoltving! Does this place have moderators or not!
Would you prefer some new guy's bodily functions?
Posted April 14, 2018
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Dahlia_Finola: Does this place have moderators or not!
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hummer010: Not.
Thats become obvious very quickly! : /
Posted April 14, 2018
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Dahlia_Finola: Whats this obsession with some old guy's bodily functions! Its revoltving! Does this place have moderators or not!
One offhand comment by one person: hardly an 'obsession'. And the comment was downvoted anyway.
Posted April 14, 2018
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hummer010: snip
According to Linuxvangog, this change is to make updating offline installers faster:

One of the biggest issues reported is that in some cases, game updates distributed in offline installers are/were behind updates distributed by the Galaxy client, sometimes even lagging by a day or two. This might not be your priority, but we are now resolving this problem for everyone interested in being up-to-date when using offline builds.
I feel like GOG is damned if they do or damned if they don't. People complain that Galaxy offline installers are less of a priority now for GOG since Galaxy released, but even when GOG takes action to help offline installers and to make the experience arguably better they still get complaints.

https://gog.com/forum/general/linuxvangog_fantastic_linux_mac_guy_and_where_to_find_him/post140

Not even Galaxy users are 100% free of these updates, sometimes the builds are updated on Galaxy too. But we at-least don't have to re-download the entire game.
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Posted April 14, 2018
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BKGaming: I feel like GOG is damned if they do or damned if they don't. People complain that Galaxy offline installers are less of a priority now for GOG since Galaxy released, but even when GOG takes action to help offline installers and to make the experience arguably better they still get complaints.
Depends on what the reason for the "installer refresh" update is. One thing I've suspected is "updated installers" simply means rotating the internal banner adverts that show in offline installers for other GOG games whilst the game is being installed. If that's the case, then having to re-download dozens of multi-gigabyte games on a regular basis for the sake of swapping out half a dozen 30kb JPG's and changing their links seems like a tremendous waste of time and bandwidth. Surely a better way would be just to have identical universal Advert1, Advert2, etc, links in the files themselves to adverts hosted online and then GOG could just swap the adverts they link to around on the site without needing to mess around with doing so for each installer. Changing installer banner ads around may or may not be the reason, but if it is then it seems like another case of over-complicated "make-work" by GOG staff.
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