Is this a five-minute argument or full half-hour?

You didn't tell me.

Yes I did.

More townie points, you're just amazing today. :-)


That's something I'm concerned with, but GOG staffers are not saying which is a bit worrisome. It took them more than a few months to tell us that the function of the GOG Downloader will eventually be incorporated to the client.


At least you're not reading it as Confrontational Free-For-All Thread. ;-)

No, you didn't.

When does GOG ever say anything. :-)

I think they only mentioned the integrated downloader because of all the comments that came from them announcing the end of the downloader. I think they intended to just stop support as soon as Galaxy launches, then they changed it to phasing it out instead. That's why I think it may not end up being as completely optional as they say.


So that's the key, just talk about games and I will be fine. :-)

Certainly can't complain here. Resupplied, got back, and j0ekerr was just awesome enough to gift me something I thought I had no chance of getting after burning all my cash on GOG sales. So yeah, I've had a hell of a lot worse mornings....=)

Do you think if it will still be possible to download the games manually seperate from the gog installer? I'm probably part of the minority that don't use the gog installer.

Thank you! That's your five minutes.

That is great to hear :-) So I'll forgive j0ekerr for his grumpiness earlier on and spoiling nice hugs :D

They said it will still be possible to manually download the installers via a browser, just as you can do now.

So, when dressing for a formal occasion (suit and tie), do I have to wear my black swim-fins,
or can I choose to use a color (for the swim-fins) that will match my tie?

Glad you liked it, I'd imagine that's a nice way to start the day.

I'd imagine they'll leave the options pretty much as they are now and give you another choice. You can either download them directly. Use the downloader which I imagine will stop being updated, OR use the Galaxy function.

As for downloading and installing with Galaxy, I imagine the underlying system remaining exactly as now, since it works perfectly and just requires a simple script, and just make the process more transparent to the end user wih a single click. You'll download the installer files, just like we do now, then install them automatically, and the settings will allow you to choose wether to delete or keep those installation files and where.

A question for sysadmins and codemonkeys. The more I think about it the more I feel a GameRanger service could be feasible. How difficult and more importantly bandwidth consuming would something like that be? Does it even have to be centralized? Couldn't both users tunnel directly to each other once their IPs have been provided to each other by the main server?

Wait... the end of the downloader? When was that announced?