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This is all messed up. Unbundled games does not have links to their gamecards (just like with games removed from GOG). Please fix this.
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870 --> 978
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Matruchus: Ok, I asked gog support for links to old versions of the games that they trashed (bundled games) so that I could download them to my hard drive but they don't support old formats anymore so the things are going to stay wasted as they are.
Figured as much, which is why I imaged my drive yesterday.
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IAmSinistar: Feel free to add your own comments.
Hmm. Blowdz?
Not seeing any technical problems in terms of things missing, save for a few titles which I'm guessing haven't been unbundled for anyone yet (King's Quest, MAX, Pirates, Blitzkrieg), but I really wish there was a little more consistency in some of them .Leisure Suit Larry having separate VGA versions, but not Police Quest and Quest For Glory, for example. Would've been nice to see a few more things on the list, like Dangerous Dave or Hugo (or Alone in the Dark, which I still don't get why 2 of the games are listed as bonus material), but nothing stopping that from happening in the future, I guess.

That said, I really hate how some things have been knocked out of order entirely. Police Quest SWAT 1+2 lodging themselves between PQ and PQ2, for example. The Ultima and Wing Commander series are enormous messes right now, too. I really, really hope that gets fixed.
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budejovice: :(

870 --> 978
Just a small push and you're ahead.
890 --> 1004.
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budejovice: Hmm. Blowdz?
Perhaps I should have stipulated "constructive" comments. But "cathartic" are good too. :)
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budejovice: :(

870 --> 978
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mrkgnao: Just a small push and you're ahead.
890 --> 1004.
I did go on a slight spree post-Insomnia to clear (and download) the most important of my wishlist in case things don't work out between GOG and I in the Galaxy era.
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IAmSinistar: Okay, so, a bit of feedback on the process to date, purely subjective.

POSITIVES:

1) Some nice box art being added.
2) Separation of games that really are independent (such as Deus from the Robinson's Requiem bundle).
3) Ability to download and install individual games when desired.

NEGATIVES:

1) Unbundling of properties that really should remain bundled (e.g., Heroes Chronicles).
2) Some dramatic uptick in space required to store these broken bundles.
3) Poor alphabetisation/categorisation of broken bundles, leading to related games appearing scattered across shelf.
4) Disconnect between game cards (and purchases) - what's in the catalogue no longer maps 1-to-1 to your shelf.
5) Even worse shelf load time.

Feel free to add your own comments.
Point 6 on Negatives. All new pack purchases/collections will be unbundled and have countless installers without an option for a pack/collection installer.
Post edited March 17, 2015 by Matruchus
I guess it's time to manually sort my shelf so that the "unbundled" games stay together. Luckily I don't think there are many packs that separated due to alphabetizing, but I'll have to check everything to see and also everything from now on.

When will the game pages be updated to show what items will go on your shelf when you purchase the game?
The little bullet point saying "includes game X, X2, and Y" like for the Ishar Compilation does not make it obvious that the game become separate items on your shelf, especially since the Catacombs Pack has the same bullet point and it doesn't clutter, I mean unbundle.

Shame they couldn't have just been unbundled on game shelf slot.
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IAmSinistar: Okay, so, a bit of feedback on the process to date, purely subjective.

POSITIVES:

1) Some nice box art being added.
2) Separation of games that really are independent (such as Deus from the Robinson's Requiem bundle).
3) Ability to download and install individual games when desired.

NEGATIVES:

1) Unbundling of properties that really should remain bundled (e.g., Heroes Chronicles).
2) Some dramatic uptick in space required to store these broken bundles.
3) Poor alphabetisation/categorisation of broken bundles, leading to related games appearing scattered across shelf.
4) Disconnect between game cards (and purchases) - what's in the catalogue no longer maps 1-to-1 to your shelf.
5) Even worse shelf load time.

Feel free to add your own comments.
Positive :

i can't find anything positive aside the new box arts , which is purely cosmetic.

Negatives :

i add ,

- duplicates bonus + product bonux xxxx invasion (see Cognition reported earlier)
- i liked to have all games in a bundle in the same folder , i agree seperate download is a + (except heroes chronicles , which is not good at all) , but not in this state > products sold in a bundle should stay in the same download folder.
Post edited March 17, 2015 by DyNaer
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Matruchus: Point 6 on Negatives. All new pack purchases/collections will be unbundled and have countless installers without an option for a pack/collection installer.
You have my vote. It would appear that GOG needs to once again learn that new things aren't necessarily bad, but that choice isn't something we are willing to give away easily (remember the regionally priced classic games idea).
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Matruchus: Point 6 on Negatives. All new pack purchases/collections will be unbundled and have countless installers without an option for a pack/collection installer.
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de_Monteynard: You have my vote. It would appear that GOG needs to once again learn that new things aren't necessarily bad, but that choice isn't something we are willing to give away easily (remember the regionally priced classic games idea).
Personally I have nothing against the separate downloads they wan't to offer to users with hard drive limitations but bundled downloads for collections/packs are a standard feature that really shouldn't be removed just like that.
The unbundling hit my account some minutes ago and now I have 80 new entries on my shelf. Seems manually sorting it again will be a good occupation for today's night shift.
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DyNaer: - duplicates bonus + product bonux xxxx invasion (see Cognition reported earlier)
+1 for this one, the bloat from duplicate bonuses is about the worst offense for me. I tried it just to see what will happen, and this is the result (as expected):

$ du -hs ./might_and_magic_{2,3,6}*
535M ./might_and_magic_2_gates_to_another_world
542M ./might_and_magic_3_isles_of_terra
1.3G ./might_and_magic_6_limited_edition

Each entry from the now separate bundle includes 518M of bonuses, for mm6 this means 5*518=2590M of new worthless downloads, with no real way to filter that out - lgogdowloader sees them as separate entries and that's it. For now, I'm keeping my perfectly good existing mm6 bundle folder, and will eventually look to see if there is anything in the "api" to put the bundles back together (unless someone else looks sooner).