BreOl72: Ironically, the offline installers that you don't wan't to use, serve the same purpose as your physical copies did back in the days before "
games-as-a-download-only" and "
always-online" became a thing...to storage our games in a "physical form" (HDD) to being pulled out and played, whenever we feel the longing for game X or game Y.
Where have I written that I don't want to use offline installers? That's a problem that I want to, and better, it's the only way I prefer but I can't get games in compatibility state which I bought.
BreOl72: With the added bonus, of course, that GOG's offline installers will run on your modern OS, while your precious physical copies probably won't run anymore (
IF you're not willing and/or capable to do the same work, that GOG does).
"Modern" doesn't mean "latest" what have you suggested before. None of this means that you have to storage it by yourself.
BreOl72: Let me also be as clear as I can:
IF you rely solely on some servers being up and running forever, you haven't understood what DRM free really means, and you could equally well buy all your games on Steam, instead.
Where have you got this from? What? It has no "hard" relation. I mean one doesn't causes the rest. If you are able to do something doesn't mean you have to.
BreOl72: Because:
IF you don't storage your offline installers, there MIGHT be a very rude awakening lying in front of you,
IF the servers ever got shut down for good.
And
IF that ever happens (
and I'm not saying it will, mind you), there won't be someone around, to whom you can complain about your games no longer being accessible - with one sole exception: yourself.
You will only be able to blame yourself, for not storing them on your HDD, when you still had the opportunity. To be clear. I'm going to buy some game. I check compability and success. It will work on my PC. GOG says that I will be able to download it anytime I want and it will always waits for me in my gog account library. But when I want to download it some time later, it becomes clear that they changed offline installer in the way which remove compatibility with my PC.
Especially this days when win10 doesn't have some parts of OS related to gaming which earlier systems had, and cause win10 is service, not operating system, it's important to keep offline installers compatible with previous OS's. In my opinion it's last call to do it before gog will change every installer for win 10 and delete old ones.
Are you sure that next non skippable win update won't close win 10 for only approved programs?
You are confusing intentional action made by gog with random event that no one could counteract like shut down/malfunction of the servers or end of business.
It's impossible for normal customer to keep an eye on every change gog makes and to storage massive amount of TB. The storage is a part of digital distribution and reason of using one.
I haven't bought any uplay game in digital distribution because those days they made you download it in 30 days or you lost your purchase. Gog was different that's why I choose it.
Takashi2222: Always snag the offline installers! Though some newer games like Shadow Warrior 2 get thic
BreOl72: Ain't that true? I think it's "
Kingdom Come", which weighs
60+ GB on your HDD.
And your backup HDD will die quicker than GOG will. If it will happen and you won't be able to get version that could run on your PC because gog changed it, you will only be able to blame yourself, why did you guard some non-user-friendly practices years before, instead of pointed a problem and help to find solution that will make everyone happy.