Would be nice if we could have a link on the store page of a game that we already own that takes you directly to that game in your library where you simply press "download". No searching (lol my library is 15 pages long).

I think that would be nice. Of course, I may be the only one that thinks it would be nice in which case... DO IT ANYWAY! lol

That's the way Galaxy functions I think.... if I remember correctly from the last time I looked at it, but it's an install button. But it would be nice if instead of a greyed out "in library" button it was a download button for the offline installer.

Yeah, it would be nice to have that for the offline installers, thank you. I wouldn't know about the Galaxy thing since I've never even installed it or even watched videos of it in use. lol

I keep thinking I'm going to install it one day just to have a look see (not interested in having another client full time though) but every now and again I read a post where someone who had installed Galaxy and then uninstalled experienced some.... lingering effects. Negative lingering effects. So that's kept me scared enough from even tinkering with it lol.

In some countries there are download limits; for instance when my ISP "upgraded" my existing internet service, the 10GB off-peak + 10GB account was converted into a 10GB cap, which I now must manage for the next 12 months (or pay to upgrade the service). I have about 50GB of games to download, so I won't be needing to purchase any games until after Christmas …!

PS I also care about the DRM-free (and not losing my purchases!) but one must use the tools available at the time they are available. :/

Data caps in this day and age are laughable. Truly laughable. But it's where we are financially... "People will pay for it, so......" No different than many monetization schemes in media. Everyone wants a bite at the apple of your wallet once they see that people are willing to pay, it's testing HOW MUCH they're willing to pay..

it's not just that.....in Australia IIRC/AFAIK(feel free to correct me, ppl, if I am wrong) they have limited bandwidth to/from the other continents so of course there will likely be data caps/limits per user/person when transferring data to/from those continents.

Also some nations/companies have unlimited plans but they cost more.

10GB for the rest of the year? How can you be online at all? Doesn't your Windows/Linux system download OS updates that much in a month or so? I recall when I was in Thailand and had to survive with a prepaid data SIM that had a 9GB data cap, I consumed that much already in one or two days by simply downloading a Windows 10 installation media from MS homepages, and Windows updates to that system which I installed with that media.

But even there I did have an option to go to a local net cafe and download at 10Mbps speed for peanuts. That's what I actually did after I had used all that prepaid SIM data, to get some missng Win10 updates for that new laptop.

How much do you pay for that, and what would the upgraded service offer and cost?

If I were in a situation like that, I'd probably try to download my GOG games here and there for free, whenever I can. Libraries, work place etc. The good thing about GOG games is that you can download the games in a compressed format once, which you can freely reuse whenever you want.

Here in Finland I have a basic 10Mbps cable modem internet connection at home which is "free of charge" (included in the general housing costs; I could upgrade it to e.g. 200Mbps for 20€ month or so I think), and 20€/month for mobile 4G/LTE data SIM. Neither have any data caps. I guess I am fortunate.

Yeah, I know Finland is quite info-tech literate (like not teaching primary school pupils how to use a pencil, and instead just teach them to type! —— and let's all hope that the next Coronal Mass Ejection doesn't fry the electricity grid and leave the next generation after Z without a means to write out their thoughts … :).

It's 10GB per calendar month, which equates to a queue for downloading my backlog that will take the rest of the year, and then some.

Last month my cap was blown by updating Windows 10 (and the drivers managed by the proprietary application supplied with the computer, which actually failed on a small item in the queue, after downloading the 700MB update for nVidia, then re-downloaded it, much to my chagrin). It was over 8GB by the time I disconnected. (The laptop is not connected, usually, and only when I have a good reason. I *hate* always connected devices.)

For example, Dragon Age: Origins is 22½GB, which is more than two months' capacity.* I also have other purchases awaiting download, like XCom: Enemy Unknown 21½GB, BioShock 4GB & Remastered 15GB, Fear Effect: Sedna 5GB, Shadow Warrior 2 17½GB, and a few others, like The Witcher, which is 9GB. I was even going to download the updated KotOR files, too, but they seem to run fine (and there was a comment earlier about cloud saves corrupting local saves for computers that are not connected to the interwebs, so I am now less inclined to auto-update every game installation file).

Believe me, I'm not happy about the fine print. Australia in in the midst of a huge government infrastructure project to improve the existing ADSL technology: the new (National Broadband Network) backbone. This project has the legal authority to compel people to upgrade their service (not really an upgrade, since it's fibre-to-the-node, not fibre-to-the-home, and the short link from the "node" —— i.e., the street terminus —— to the home router is the old telecom copper connection, so my baud has changed from 1.3MB/s to … 1.3MB/s) within the next year. Because of the enforced switch, I opted to take the earlier opportunity when my ISP connected this suburb (thinking I had a better choice now than later, when compulsion might erode the options), but made the mistake of not reading every bit of documentation, wherein the cap was reduced.

I'm still debating whether I will take some sort of legal action. (I've had a few extra challenges to my time management these past few weeks, so I haven't made a decision as yet.) Upgrading is a nice idea, but the key phrase here is "fixed income", meaning that my recent splurge on new hardware has left little for discretionary increases in variable costs for the foreseeable future. :/

I have toyed with the idea of a public space, but it is really inconvenient (my local library has crap network latency; for instance they have removed all the magazines and replaced them with digital versions, and it takes a few seconds just to turn a page, sitting in the library at a hard-wired terminal!) and also I am on-call, all the time, so I can't really disappear for a couple of hours to download stuff.

But thanks for the suggestion, I appreciate the thought. :)

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*The real annoyance with this is that I already have this game on disc. I bought it here on Gog so that I might install it without recourse to the optical drive (which my new laptop doesn't have), though @Teceem has already advised me, previously, that Win-10 allows me to mount the DVD as an ISO image, so I will experiment with that. I also have Neverwinter Nights 2 —— I bought three or more copies of when it was released, but only one has survived the travails of the last decade.Oh, and Total War: Napoleon, but that requires a Steam activation and the last time I tried to install it my (previous) laptop was hi-jacked, so I am reluctant to even bother.

edit: added Windows update anecdote and corrected split infinitive

1st bit: There are many skills/techniques that are in danger of dying off in the future due to not many knowing them(like some traditional animation techniques/etc)...which is sad/scary. Automation/tech reliance has been bad for that in many ways.

2nd bit: If I were you i'd have cut back a bit on hardware upgrades and focused more on the bandwidth needed to get software to enjoy on said hardware. Just my two cents.

Well, it has been nearly thirteen years so I need to buy a new laptop. And because gaming is something I do regularly, and I have had a laptop without a dedicated graphics card for so long, I was determined to play the games I have already bought (and downloaded) but was unable to play. I thought purchasing a future-proof machine more prudent.

I don't use the internet for much, except e-mail and a couple of websites (in the months before I started the new contract, I often didn't use all of the 20GB allocated to me) so I can live with a few months' delay before I can play a few other games (assuming Gog doesn't go bankrupt in the meantime, of course :o) —— as Saint Augustus said: “Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

1st bit: I get that, but it is not needed to get the best/most bleeding edge hardware(which is often overpriced), usually. Most often the stuff a level or two removed is just as good for running most new games.

2nd bit: True enough......you still might need gthe better bandwidth to GET those games DL'd in a timely fashion, though. ;)