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Posted March 11, 2015
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Ciris: 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.
Not just visible, but present. So if I am being thorough, I end up with multiple duplicates of all my extras. Yet, at the same time, you insist on giving DLC separate folders from the games they belong to.

I have a sinking feeling that this is a situation where the software is designed for the company's convenience and not for that of the user.
Posted March 11, 2015
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Ciris: 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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mrkgnao: Thank you for your answer. Could you please point me to the wishlist entry that requested this feature. I would like to see how many people voted for it.
Hey, take a look, someone actually did make a wishlist entry for this feature:

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/option_to_download_games_that_come_in_collections_separately

However, they noted it as an option, and stand back in awe of the amount of votes it has.
Posted March 11, 2015
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djdarko: Hey, take a look, someone actually did make a wishlist entry for this feature:

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/option_to_download_games_that_come_in_collections_separately

However, they noted it as an option, and stand back in awe of the amount of votes it has.
ARGH, are my posts freaking invisible? I've posted this very thing TWICE so far.

Nghnnnnn...
Post edited March 11, 2015 by IAmSinistar
Posted March 11, 2015
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djdarko: Hey, take a look, someone actually did make a wishlist entry for this feature:

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/option_to_download_games_that_come_in_collections_separately

However, they noted it as an option, and stand back in awe of the amount of votes it has.
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IAmSinistar: ARGH, are my posts freaking invisible? I've posted this very thing TWICE so far.

Nghnnnnn...
Oh crap, sorry I didn't notice.
Posted March 11, 2015
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IAmSinistar: I found nothing on the Wishlist under "unbundle" or "split". A search for "separate" turned up one relevant Wishlist request.

At 17 votes I can see why GOG felt the need to act on it.
I wholeheartedly support that initiative, the operative word being "download".
Posted March 11, 2015
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Fever_Discordia:
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skeletonbow:
On the other hand, it seems to me to be pretty pollyannaish to assume things aren't full steam ahead.
Posted March 11, 2015
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Spinorial: I wholeheartedly support that initiative, the operative word being "download".
Aye, if they want to keep the shelf boxes as they currently are and just break out the games below then into separate downloads, I've no qualms.

I'd still rather have fewer folders instead of more. And that includes moving the DLC into the parent game's folder. And the extras consolidated there as well.

I'll say it again - this whole unbundling smacks of making things easier for Galaxy, not for us.


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djdarko: Oh crap, sorry I didn't notice.
Don't worry, I get the feeling no one else did either. :/
Post edited March 11, 2015 by IAmSinistar
Posted March 11, 2015
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skeletonbow:
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budejovice: On the other hand, it seems to me to be pretty pollyannaish to assume things aren't full steam ahead.
The operative word being "steam"!
Post edited March 11, 2015 by mrkgnao
Posted March 11, 2015
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budejovice: On the other hand, it seems to me to be pretty pollyannaish to assume things aren't full steam ahead.
Woo hoo, made it!
Posted March 11, 2015
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djdarko: Oh crap, sorry I didn't notice.
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IAmSinistar: Don't worry, I get the feeling no one else did either. :/
I did. And thank you for finding it.
Posted March 11, 2015
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mrkgnao: I did. And thank you for finding it.
Sure thing. Though I'd still like GOG to indicate where they felt the groundswell clamouring for this change came from.
Posted March 11, 2015
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Treasure: [..]GOG should rather bring back the previous system of 1.5 GB increments[..]
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phaolo: To me, asking for small parts for FAT32 on USB sticks seems weird as much as asking for Win98 support..
Size and smallness/bigness is in the eye of the beholder; for me 1.5 GB isn't small-as a matter of fact, it's 2 cd-roms in terms of size!
And I usually don't download stuff at my home as I don't trust my internet connection to be stable enough and download them on a USB stick from other places with more stable internet.Although I should probably just empty my 32 GB USB one of these days and format it to NTFS or something, but that still won't solve the problem that while a big game downloads I'll be worried on whether it'll become corrupted and I'll have to redownload it (this especially with such sizes as the bigger ones they put out recently-2.5 and 3.9 Gbs). Also, my downloading stuff mostly outside of my home (with the exception of files smaller than 300 mbs-that's the most I trust my internet connection for, even though it might be more stable than I feel it is) means I don't usually use the GOG downloader, because I obviously cannot install whatever I want in machines that aren't mine.

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Treasure: [..]forcing you to redownload much bigger portions of the installer in case something goes wrong[..]
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phaolo: To avoid corruption, GOG should instead:
-1 enable download resuming.
-2 enable file integrity check&repair during downloads.
I agree with this proposal, but then this can only happen with the downloader (and unless I'm mistaken, the first of these can be already done by the downloader), so it doesn't help people who don't use the downloader a whole lot...
Posted March 11, 2015
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Treasure: Size and smallness/bigness is in the eye of the beholder; for me 1.5 GB isn't small-as a matter of fact, it's 2 cd-roms in terms of size!
And I usually don't download stuff at my home as I don't trust my internet connection to be stable enough and download them on a USB stick from other places with more stable internet.Although I should probably just empty my 32 GB USB one of these days and format it to NTFS or something, but that still won't solve the problem that while a big game downloads I'll be worried on whether it'll become corrupted and I'll have to redownload it (this especially with such sizes as the bigger ones they put out recently-2.5 and 3.9 Gbs). Also, my downloading stuff mostly outside of my home (with the exception of files smaller than 300 mbs-that's the most I trust my internet connection for, even though it might be more stable than I feel it is) means I don't usually use the GOG downloader, because I obviously cannot install whatever I want in machines that aren't mine.
Has anyone ever suggested a "GOG By Mail" service? Say for a nominal fee GOG will burn your library to a DVD-rom or whatever and physically mail it to you. I'm sure there are legal and financial impediments to the idea, but could be nice for folks with unreliable internet.

You'd still have to download patches and newer versions since your last GOG By Mail, of course. But at least some devs do proper patches instead of pushing out another Xgig release of the base game.
Posted March 11, 2015
Makes me wonder what it would actually take for people to stop using GOG altogether.
Posted March 11, 2015
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tfishell: Makes me wonder what it would actually take for people to stop using GOG altogether.
DRM.

Though this death-by-a-thousand-cuts is really testing the boundaries.
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