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Posted March 10, 2015
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skeletonbow: *WallofText*
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Cavenagh: Nice Novel :P
PS you forgot the TLDR
Don't quote the entire huge post, please.. -_-
Post edited March 10, 2015 by phaolo
Posted March 11, 2015
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Bandock: I thought the same thing because we currently own the retail version of the Limited Edition of Might & Magic VI which includes all the classics besides Might and Magic VI itself. Unbundling 4&5 will definitely cause some interesting issues since when they are not together, they startup totally different (plus, some of the features are disabled when they are separate). I would definitely leave the two together to keep World of Xeen intact.
I don't really see the problem. I have retail discs of the games. When you only install one of them, you have a nice game. When you install them both, you also have World of Xeen and can switch between the different worlds. So creating two entries would only mean that people could experience the games the same way they were created back then.
Posted March 11, 2015
Best GOG news ever!

I dreamed about this for years, just a week ago I thought how wonderful it would be to split the games, to have each own distinguished box art and separated download options.

I love you GOG! ;)
Posted March 11, 2015
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Maighstir: The Fallouts are still there, though, thankfully, and I'm fairly certain I haven't rebought them since they were removed from sale.
It would be impressive if you had.
Posted March 11, 2015
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DyNaer: Would have been better to leave the same entry in the shekves for the bundle ; and two seperate download (one for each game) in this entry, wouldn't have created the duplicate bonus issue..... sigh...i give up , GOG doesn't listen.
Exactly what I was thinking too, why not save the trouble of creating more shelf icons and making more bugs and just split the installers into separate downloads?
Posted March 11, 2015
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Cavenagh: Nice Novel :P
PS you forgot the TLDR
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phaolo: Don't quote the entire huge post, please.. -_-
How do I not?
Posted March 11, 2015
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phaolo: Don't quote the entire huge post, please.. -_-
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Cavenagh: How do I not?
Ehm, by simply deleting the text of the quote?
Post edited March 11, 2015 by DeMignon
Posted March 11, 2015
I am so screwed. 633 games, countless hours spent organizing them by genre/theme. I have to say, I'm not quite as thrilled to hear about this as the rest of you.
Posted March 11, 2015
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Messi_is_Messiah: I am so screwed. 633 games, countless hours spent organizing them by genre/theme. I have to say, I'm not quite as thrilled to hear about this as the rest of you.
I'm sure it could be frustrating in the short term, but I bet that they will add features both to the website and the Galaxy client as it develops which allow people to organize their collections via genre/theme/tags and other arbitrary designations as a part of the UI rather than just the manual sort of the current book shelf. It is likely to be much more powerful once they have time to work it all out so probably a short term pain for a long term gain type of situation.

Hopefully if anything gets mangled for people it will get sorted out quickly enough, but there are likely to be some growing pains along the way, the random disappearance of Fallout, and the graphics for Original War vanishing on and off for example. I don't mind a few bumps along the way myself, but then I also have downloaded my entire catalogue and have a backup here in case the website is messed up at a given time and I know everyone doesn't necessarily so hopefully people don't get too inconvenienced for too long. What keeps me in good spirits about it is seeing what the end results might be in 3/6/9/12 months and keeping my hopes up that they whip up the features that I'd like to see happen. Time will tell. :)
Posted March 11, 2015
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Messi_is_Messiah: I am so screwed. 633 games, countless hours spent organizing them by genre/theme. I have to say, I'm not quite as thrilled to hear about this as the rest of you.
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skeletonbow: I'm sure it could be frustrating in the short term, but I bet that they will add features both to the website and the Galaxy client as it develops which allow people to organize their collections via genre/theme/tags and other arbitrary designations as a part of the UI rather than just the manual sort of the current book shelf. It is likely to be much more powerful once they have time to work it all out so probably a short term pain for a long term gain type of situation.
Thanks, you have a good point. Manually sorting it the way it is now is so tedious. I suppose I could be okay with a jumbled library for a while if I can see a bright light at the end of the tunnel : )
Posted March 11, 2015
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skeletonbow: I'm sure it could be frustrating in the short term, but I bet that they will add features both to the website and the Galaxy client as it develops which allow people to organize their collections via genre/theme/tags and other arbitrary designations as a part of the UI rather than just the manual sort of the current book shelf. It is likely to be much more powerful once they have time to work it all out so probably a short term pain for a long term gain type of situation.
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Messi_is_Messiah: Thanks, you have a good point. Manually sorting it the way it is now is so tedious. I suppose I could be okay with a jumbled library for a while if I can see a bright light at the end of the tunnel : )
Yeah, I toyed with manual sort up until I had about 30-40 games and then shook my head and said "<censored by GOG Net Nanny>" and gave up on that pretty quick. :) I just use the title and purchase date sorts, but would like to set games into one or more arbitrarily designated categories like on Steam client, and potentially add arbitrary numbers of tags to games also for purposes of searching/sorting filtering. That would make organizing things a lot better IMHO, and having individual game boxes expanded like this would allow a consistent way of showing each game and accessing options related to it wherever that is doable and makes sense that way. At least in theory anyhow, but it sure seems to work fairly well on Steam client at the moment but I think GOG could do something even better.
Posted March 11, 2015
I'm not completely opposed to this idea but I can't imagine this stuff happening without a lot of problems. Missing games and double bonuses apparently occured already. Why didn't you fix the website first? (and I mean fix it like in "repair what you broke last year and never considered fixing although it worked before")

Do you guys also remember when they announced Divinity: Original Sin was about to be released together with the now infamous GOG Galaxy? Ah, Galaxy will fix all of our problems! Yes, I'm grumpy. Whenever GOG updates stuff they also break at least one thing.

edit: typo
Post edited March 11, 2015 by Wurzelkraft
Posted March 11, 2015
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DeMignon: Ehm, by simply deleting the text of the quote?
But you have to replace the text with something, or else you get no quote.
Posted March 11, 2015
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Messi_is_Messiah: I am so screwed. 633 games, countless hours spent organizing them by genre/theme. I have to say, I'm not quite as thrilled to hear about this as the rest of you.
i am honestly completely and utterly indifferent about this piece of "news"

gog could spend their time doing better things
such as fixing that fucking dissapearing games bug
or implement more then basic features on the board

or implement mods

but no
they are unbundeling games
fucking brilliant
just what we always wanted
Posted March 11, 2015
Hi, guys!

Just wanted to drop in with a full list of the games we're currently planning on unbundling, including their current and future titles. You'll find it under that link, downloadable in PDF format.

If you'd rather not download anything, here's the full list in hastebin, but it's not nearly as pretty.

To answer some questions that have appeared in this thread so far:

Will we be able to toggle unbundling?
No. We're doing this for all the games, it's not a customisable feature - it's something we'd been planning for a while now as a more accurate representation of the games on your shelf.

What about games with bonus installers (in the future)? Say a game has a DLC, will it be a separate “box” on the shelf?
DLCs are not affected by this, they will stay „inside” the parent game in your My Account tab and on the shelf to avoid any confusion.

How will the new games be ordered on the shelf: at the start/end as newest appearances, or with the games they are related to?
If you have games ordered by purchase date, they will be placed where the old game was placed. If You have manual sorting they will be placed at the beginning of your collection.

Bonus goodies: will I get four copies of the same wallpaper/soundtrack/etc, or will there be yet another folder apart from the games which house those?
They will be the same for each one of the unbundled games, and available alongside each one, so you don't have to remember which game they're under.
For example, if game X+Y+Z had 2 wallpapers and manual, after unbundling the same 2 wallpapers and manual will be visible on game X, on game Y and game Z.

Galaxy wasn't supposed to affect other users, and this is affecting us.
As I said in my initial post, and in this one as well, the change isn't dictated by the introduction of the GOG Galaxy Client. Instead, it's a change we'd been planning and a change that's been asked for many times that we're implementing at this time. The fact that it'll make for faster installations when using the optional client is just an extra bonus :)
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