my name is capitayn catte: black dust specs with giant red lips.
WinterSnowfall: While we're on the topic of splitting hairs, the lips were orange, not red :P.
my name is capitayn catte: Why is your dust black anyway? Is your house situated in the industrial revolution?
WinterSnowfall: Pretty much, yeah... Nonetheless, the resemblance was recognisable and unfortunate so changing it was understandable. The good news is that if you are upset by (self) "censorship", you can still play the golliwog version if you own it on GOG, which was my actual point.
my name is capitayn catte: You have access to the version the game was on at the time you buy it. I suppose theoretically the game could get updated between you paying and downloading. The argument about buying the game at launch is irrelevant, because when you buy the game you're paying for the game as it is at that time with an option on future updates.
AB2012: You seem to be wildly missing the point. As a real life example, take
Divinity Original Sin. The two newest updates (2.0.119.430KO and 2.0.119.430CH) that added Chinese and Korean language support introduced a bug. The last good bug-free version was Version 2.0.119.430 (A) that's two versions old. The only people who can "roll back" to that last good version are Galaxy users and for offline installer users, those who bought the game 2 years ago and backed up that last good version then. For someone buying the game today and who wants an offline installer, there is no "good" version available to download, and nor will they obviously have any local 2 year old backed up installer to restore from for a game purchased 5 minute ago...
This is why it's an entirely reasonable request to allow offline installer users access to the same 1-3 older versions as Galaxy can roll-back to and there's no real technical reason for it as they take up the same server space and the offline installers don't need recreating each time someone wants one, GOG simply has to not prematurely force delete them on every update. The rest is people talking around the issue rather than addressing it.
I see your point, but the problem here is that someone buying it now is buying a broken game. The real solution to that problem would be fixing the game. Rolling back should be a perk, not something that the user is reliant on to have a playable game.
I don't disagree that it would be
good to be able to download older installers, I just enjoy playing devil's advocate.