Hello all,
Don't get me wrong, but I loved GOG so much. GOG is one of reasons why I have digital games stored on its cloud instead of downloading and burning to my discs.

Now I have over 170+ games. I'm a bit concerned if GOG goes down in the future. I hope that GOG will be up for many many many years.

What would happen to those games I owned if GOG goes down?

Thanks, Tom

Hello. I̶f̶ When GOG shuts down, you'll likely receive a warning to download/backup your installers before it's too late. Afterwards, you'll no longer be able to access your library and download your games again.

All I can say is backup your games to a harddrive if you are worried of a potential nuclear war. In which case, there are other worries.

You continue to play them as if nothing happened. I mean, you do have the installers and extras downloaded and backed-up, don't you?

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...DO YOU NOT!?

(He says as he looks at his own 997 games, 34 movies, and not yet ready storage server...)

Ease your concerns with an external hard drive. $100 will get you something suitable, I would imagine.

No, you have to get two, and sync them. In case one died. ( Or you can use raid if you're advance.)

My niece killed my 4TB hdd that was on an mount dock simply by running a paper clip on the back of it while it was running. From electrostatic I guess. I was not amused. That's not a problem considering it takes me months just to beat a game these day. So it'll be a long time before I can finish all the games in my GOG library.

Thanks for your comments.

I do have some installers backed up on my external hard drive. I just ordered 100+ blank discs to burn those installers on DVD discs and backed all installers on my external HD.

Investing in GOG for a long time was what I had been doing, so I better protect my investment, LOL.

Thanks again, Tom

Those installers you have downloaded to your PC will still stay there and be fully usable. You won't receive more updates to them from GOG, though.

Those games that you haven't downloaded from GOG servers, will become unavailable to you when the servers go down for good. Then the only way for you to obtain them again would be to pirate them from somewhere, which is not an optimal solution.

Hence, if you are concerned, simply download the GOG game installers to some hard drive of yours. Either manually (doable with your 170+ games, less doable with my 1344 games), or use a third-party tool like gogrepo.py or lgogdownloader.

I have downloaded (almost, 99%) all my 1344 GOG game installers and extras (English Windows versions only for now) with the gogrepo,py tool, and keep them on an external USB hard drive.

For now, as GOG is doing well, I just keep them on one hard drive, since I know I can still get them also from GOG servers if something happened to any of them. If I started feeling GOG is not doing that great anymore and might go down at some point or stop operation for some reason, I'd start keeping an identical secondary copy of my GOG game collection.

Nothing will happen provided you keep their installers. That's the beauty of DRM-Free, no? You shouldn't be concerned about things like that. Just play the games you bought, have fun, backup them and don't get too anxious about them. We buy DRM-Free for piece of mind, you forgot? ;) Then the best you can do is to keep supporting them. ;)

Why do you want to burn them on DVD-R discs? They are not really more safe there than on a hard drive, and I feel it will be lots of work, especially to try to keep them up to date on the DVDs (re-burn whenever a game gets an update???).

A better idea would be to keep your GOG games on two identical hard drives (but as said, currently that is not as important as you can redownload them also from GOG servers).

You might like this :-)

The beauty of DRM-free is that once you have all the stuff locally and nicely backed up you're totally independent from where you bought the stuff.

GOG isn't going anywhere and I am not, not that could I if I wanted to, backing up 800 + games.

For now though, GOG servers can be considered as a secondary backup. As long as GOG servers are up, I can always redownload any games that would disappear or become corrupted on the hard drive where I keep the GOG installers.

Of course if you want to be sure not having to redownload them agan (in case your HDD completely died unexpectedly), then yeah I guess you could and should keep two or more copies of your collection already now.

It's interesting question. Just think about that - we have a lot of games on GOG. They provide us with storage, transfer, support and updates. But the only money they get is for new sales. It means that if you stop buying new games (or even you're still buying, but there is some significant drop in sales) they will be doomed.

It makes their business a bit similar to pyramid scheme. It works only as long as new games and customers arrives.
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