New games seem to be getting bigger and bigger.
I recall when 800mb was HUGE, but I'm looking
at purchasing Syberia 3, but it is 20+ GB

We live in the country and have s-lo-w- internet....
as in 172 kbs down speed. It will take me a week
to download the game.

I'm currently attempting to download Fallout 3,
@153kbs It will only take 10 hours for 1 of 2 the
4GB files, so by tomorrow evening, maybe I'll
have the game. LOL

It's too bad we can't pay GOG to mail out discs
for these HUGE game files.

Have you considered moving somewhere that isn't the deep sticks?

Alternately (and more realistically), have you considered sticking to smaller games that can be sent over your dial up connection?

I like that idea, even though I don't know how much it'd actually be used. :)

Since you live in the US, can you drive into the city and use library or some other form of faster internet? Then take the installer files home, the beauty of DRM-free.

I'll also agree to the idea of focusing on relatively small games if you can classics that still hold up. (Hopefully your internet situation eventually improves friend.)

Ah, too bad.

Physical media is the solution to his problem. DVDs shouldn't die just yet. Getting a box and a game and DVDs which act as physical backup is great, and if you don't like the game, you can use them as coasters. If anything, I think physical media is something GOG should consider looking into.

Some options you have:

1. Sign up to the nearest university (studying etno-philology or something as useless that is easy to get into), download all your GOG game installers at the dorm, and drop out of the university. Repeat as necessary. Heck, who knows, maybe at some point you will even get a doctorate degree in etno-philology, because why not?

2. Call a town meeting (you could appoint yourself a mayor if you wish) and start arranging speedy communal internet for the village, together. Or was it so that Bush Jr made that illegal? In that case, run for presidency, ousting Trump, and revert back that decision so that your town can have speedy communal internet.

Really, considering that a small thai village near the Cambodian border had options when I needed a speedy internet there a few years ago (like the local net cafe where I had access to a 10 Mbps line which was speedy enough even for downloading big files, and it cost only peanuts), I don't see why your hick town couldn't have at least the same. I guess you could even start running such an internet cafe yourself, calling it something like "GOG Download Center" where people in your town and the neighborhood people could come to download their GOG games for a little charge. USB flashsticks, or 2.5" USB HDDs for longer archiving, are much easier to use. Optical media is dying, I just helped a relative to buy a cheapo laptop (that I am now supposed to set up), and it doesn't even have an internal optical drive and I am not expecting the person to ever need one either.

I remember when games came on 5 1/4" diskettes with 160 kB per side...

Do you have some city nearby with better speeds? If so I would recommend to grab an USB drive and download the offline-installers from an internet cafe or library there. One of the really nice things about DRM-free :-)

GOG, which is located in Poland would have to label, package, and ship these discs. International shipping is not cheap, or reliable.

Now I'm sure if you understand the logistics of that or supply and demand, that would not be cost feasible.

As a shot in the dark estimate, I would presume that the absolute need for a physical medium would be somewhere in the range of MOE over the millions of downloads per month. Not to mention that considering that many games are somewhere in the range of 40+ gigs (Say Witcher 3), a DVD would be a laughable non-solution. (You'd need an entire spool of em') And for smaller games, a DVD would be an amazing waste of space, considering many of them fit on a floppy disk or even less. (Akalabeth's main program and data are a paltry 146k, so small you could cram it into the opening RAM of many systems and still have room.)

You can try downloading different parts from different locations. For example "Syberia 3" has 6 parts (5 if you omit the 1 MB file). If you have a friend(s) you can try downloading each file in different locations. 1&2 at your home and 3 at your friends, 4&5 at library :)

Same for Fallout 3. It has 2 large files. You can try downloading 1 at home and 1 at the library.

... and floppy discs were actually... floppy *biggrin*

Thems were the days! ( :

I can't find my conversion tables.

Is Gi-Normous bigger or smaller than a Shit Load, and how does it relate to a Butt Full?

Would it take me longer to eat a Gi-Normous than it would to eat a Bag of Dicks?

If I was going to count up Gi-Normous, would it take me For-Fucking-Ever?

I'm very confused.

I feel your pain, OP -- A few years ago I still had a very slow internet connection myself, and a ridiculous data cap. Until you have access to a better connection, you may have to pick your games carefully, and pay attention to their file size. Most classics and many indie games don't exceed a few hundred MBs. And every once in a while even some fancy modern games turn out surprisingly small. No Man's Sky, back in its release version, was only a download of about 2 GB. So you might be able to find some good games which are a better match for your current internet speed.

I do in fact own Witcher 3 in its DVD version, and the original game minus the expansions was shipped on 4 DVDs, if I remember correctly. And I know they're selling the complete GotY version on DVD as well, and I'd be surprised if the game required much more than say 6 DVDs in total.

May no longer be as popular as direct downloads, but at least over here there's still a market for DVD versions of games. ( And unlike all those crippled Steam game releases on DVD, in the case of Witcher 3 the DVD version made perfect sense, as it contained all the game data, and was ( sort of ) DRM-free. )

Final Fantasy XV is over 80Gb. Imagine when 4k games hits the market, very scary.