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Posted March 21, 2015
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angelus04: Question if they are unbundling games how come Dracula 1 is 10 gb and the other two are less space than that doesn't really make sense. Did they make a mistake and accidentally leave Dracula 1-3 bundled under Dracula 1.

Dracula 2 is 900 and something MB and Dracula 3 is 2 something GB yet the first one is 10.8 GB in hard drive space yeah that doesn't sound right.
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stg83: I just checked the actual size and when you download Dracula 1 it is 1.02 GB, so a display text error.
thanks
Posted March 21, 2015
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Ciris: Hi, guys!

Following your many requests and in connection with preparing game libraries better for GOG Galaxy, we’re going to be starting what we’re calling unbundling games.

This means that multiple games that are bundled as one “product” (for instance: Tomb Raider 1+2+3) will no longer appear as one title on your game shelf, but rather - be split into individual items. This means more convenient downloads, smaller downloads if you just want to get one game, better representation of the games on your shelf, and being able to toggle installing and auto-updating titles from such a bundle in GOG Galaxy individually (should you decide use the client in the future once it's released).

Such bundles won't be unbundled in the store, so no price changes will happen - it's just a different way to display them on your shelf, which will make things easier for you and future software.

In the first "run" of such unbundlings - tomorrow - we'll take on two shelved items: Alien Breed + Tower Assault and American McGee's Grimm. Starting next Tuesday, we'll move on to unbundling all games in our library and this process will take a week. Before this process ends, you may still see some items on your shelf stay in bundles, but don't worry, their time will come as well and your game shelf will be neat once again. :)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask and we'll do our best to answer them. We’re also awaiting your feedback in terms of how unbundling went for your games - we’ll be following this thread, so keep us informed of any issues!

[EDIT] full list of games: <a href="http://www.gog.com/forum/general/important_notice_unbundling_games/post1" class="link_arrow"></a></div><div class="small_avatar_2_h"><img src="//images.gog.com/e380dd5e8249f4ce94a3f215ccf0d99c50bf82e19aacc8e4bc3bd02da7c7e8c6_avm.jpg" width="16" height="16" alt="avatar" /></div><span class="quot_text"><span class="quot_user_name">Alex_Kagansky: </span></span>Maybe it's offtopic, I apologize for that. But I have a question. What format is used now in the GOG installers? Older distributions can be unpacked using "innounp" (I use [url=http://fec.ct8.pl/blog/innoex]http://fec.ct8.pl/blog/innoex/), but not the recent, unfortunately. Are you still using Inno Setup?
I own over 2/3rds of GOG's catalog and some unbundled games have started to show up in my shelf. Give me a few examples of "the recent" and I'll see if I can figure it out for you.
Posted March 21, 2015
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ssokolow: I own over 2/3rds of GOG's catalog and some unbundled games have started to show up in my shelf. Give me a few examples of "the recent" and I'll see if I can figure it out for you.
The list is here: http://hastebin.com/lokosotuca.vhdl.

P.S. Perhaps GOG will soon unveil a GOG hardware platform, given that they are using VHDL to write their lists.
Posted March 21, 2015
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Alex_Kagansky: Maybe it's offtopic, I apologize for that. But I have a question. What format is used now in the GOG installers? Older distributions can be unpacked using "innounp" (I use http://fec.ct8.pl/blog/innoex/), but not the recent, unfortunately. Are you still using Inno Setup?
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ssokolow: I own over 2/3rds of GOG's catalog and some unbundled games have started to show up in my shelf. Give me a few examples of "the recent" and I'll see if I can figure it out for you.
Here are examples of distributions that I currently can't decompress using external tools:

- Disciples II (both Dark Prophecy and Rise of the Elves)
- Earthworm Jim (1 and 2)
- King's Quest 7
- Might & Magic: Swords of Xeen
- Might & Magic: World of Xeen
- Might & Magic IV: The Mandate of Heaven
- Ys Chronicles (1 and 2)
Posted March 21, 2015
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RottenRotz: I like this change but its very very very sloopy job from GOG.it seems that people are coming with new issues all the time
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skeletonbow: Yeah, I generally enjoy the forums but the non-stop barrage of website bugs, glitches, forum posts getting eaten now too, sluggishness of the site, increase of problems overall, combined with widespread discontent from people about all of it, as well as my own increasing discontentment with the state of things despite my best efforts to maintain good spirits about things is making it very challenging to feel like sticking around in the forums at the moment, especially with no sign of anything getting fixed, and virtually no communications about any efforts that might be happening to do so.

Seriously thinking about taking a GOGcation from the forums for a while to avoid my spirits being drained as I'm feeling a bit grumpy. ;/
Thing that bothers me the most is lack of communication.It always was the best part of this site.And now?Not one single entry on this topic in past 12 days from GOG staff!
Posted March 21, 2015
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RottenRotz: Thing that bothers me the most is lack of communication.It always was the best part of this site.And now?Not one single entry on this topic in past 12 days from GOG staff!
TET left almost a year ago. G-Doc apparently left soon afterwards and now Ciris has been mobilised to take care of the community. I don't envy him/her at all, with no established position in the community and having to deal with the all the issues that have cropped up due to site and library changes.

So yeah, customer service has retained its old splendour, but community interaction has taken a sharp dive for the worse. Just to be clear, I am not blaming Ciris or any other employee, as this falls squarely on the management's shoulders.
Posted March 21, 2015
I have to admit, that I don't like this unbundling idea, because I have many games in my library and now it's total mess! But it can be simply resolved: it should be possible to create folders within library to group games together. And I strongly encourage GOG team to add such functionality!
Posted March 21, 2015
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Wow! O_o ...so... Are you serious about this?

In my shelf I have this bundles that you are going to unbundle:

Blackwell Bundle Blackwell - Episode 1 - The Blackwell Legacy
Blackwell Bundle Blackwell - Episode 2 - Blackwell Unbound
Blackwell Bundle Blackwell - Episode 3 - Blackwell Convergence
Blackwell Bundle Blackwell - Episode 4 - Blackwell Deception
Cognition: Game of the Year Edition Cognition - Episode 1
Cognition: Game of the Year Edition Cognition - Episode 2
Cognition: Game of the Year Edition Cognition - Episode 3
Cognition: Game of the Year Edition Cognition - Episode 4
King's Quest 1+2+3 King's Quest
King's Quest 1+2+3 King's Quest 2 - romancing the throne
King's Quest 1+2+3 King's Quest 3 - To Heir is Human
King's Quest 4+5+6 King's Quest 4 - The Perils of Rosella
King's Quest 4+5+6 King's Quest 5 - Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
King's Quest 4+5+6 King's Quest 6 - Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
King's Quest 7+8 King's Quest 7 - The Princeless Bride
King's Quest 7+8 King's Quest 8 - Mask of Eternity
Leisure Suit Larry Leisure Suit Larry 1 - In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Leisure Suit Larry Leisure Suit Larry 1 (VGA) - In the Land of the Lounge Lizards
Leisure Suit Larry Leisure Suit Larry 2 - Looking For Love (In Several Wrong Places)
Leisure Suit Larry Leisure Suit Larry 3 - Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals!
Leisure Suit Larry Leisure Suit Larry 5 - Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work!
Leisure Suit Larry Leisure Suit Larry 6 - Shape Up Or Slip Out
Leisure Suit Larry Leisure Suit Larry 6 (VGA) - Shape Up Or Slip Out
Leisure Suit Larry Softporn Adventure
Police Quest Collection Police Quest - In Pursuit of The Death Angel
Police Quest Collection Police Quest 2 - Vengeance
Police Quest Collection Police Quest 3 - The Kindred
Police Quest Collection Police Quest 4 - Open Season
Police Quest: SWAT 1+2 Police Quest - SWAT
Police Quest: SWAT 1+2 Police Quest - SWAT 2
Quest for Glory 1-5 Quest for Glory
Quest for Glory 1-5 Quest for Glory 2
Quest for Glory 1-5 Quest for Glory 3
Quest for Glory 1-5 Quest for Glory 4
Quest for Glory 1-5 Quest for Glory 5
Space Quest 1+2+3 Space Quest 1 - The Sarien Encounter
Space Quest 1+2+3 Space Quest 2 - Vohaul's Revenge
Space Quest 1+2+3 Space Quest 3 - The Pirates of Pestulon
Space Quest 4+5+6 Space Quest 4 - Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
Space Quest 4+5+6 Space Quest 5 - The Next Mutation
Space Quest 4+5+6 Space Quest 6 - Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier
Wing Commander™ 1+2 Wing Commander
Wing Commander™ 1+2 Wing Commander II

I mean... my unbundling would be from 12 games to 43 (plus the rest of my games)... 8(

Instead of unbundling things, I would prefer to BUNDLE more!!!

I don't like having 4 Cognition episodes separated! Or things like the xwing where the 1993 and 1998 version are separated games (!) It should be just different downloads options from the SAME game.

So, please... NO.

How to do it right (as already stated on this thread)?

Episodic games (Sam&Max, Cognition) = One game, sub-seasons, each episodes with different downloads, plus full season download and full game download.

Game Series (Xwing games, King Quest, Broken swords, Zork Anthology...) = Option to arrange the full series into a folder, one position on the shelf, with different downloads.

Generic bundles (Time Gentlemen, Please! + Ben There, Dan That!) = OK, unbundle it. They are games clearly not related.

And for every future decision, the right choice is: more options for your customers, no less options.

So please, think about it.
Posted March 21, 2015
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momomomo888: In my shelf I have this bundles that you are going to unbundle:
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So please, think about it.
I'm afraid you're a bit late. All the games that you list, except KQ 1-3 and KQ 4-6, have already been unbundled 4-5 days ago.

If you don't see it, you can refresh your account: https://www.gog.com/account/refresh.
Post edited March 21, 2015 by mrkgnao
Posted March 21, 2015
Thank you :) I like this very much! :D Especially the separate covers i have on my shelves, gorgeous !!! (for example for the Dracula series)
Posted March 21, 2015
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Ciris: This means more convenient downloads, smaller downloads if you just want to get one game, better representation of the games on your shelf, and being able to toggle installing and auto-updating titles from such a bundle in GOG Galaxy individually (should you decide use the client in the future once it's released).
>:-(
It also means much more work babysitting more installers if you want the entire bundle. Unticking boxes to omit bundled games from an install was MUCH better than separate installers.
Post edited March 22, 2015 by rawmilk905
Posted March 21, 2015
I love this. Thank you.
Post edited March 21, 2015 by Zoth-Ommog
Posted March 22, 2015
if anyone don't see the effect happening go do an account refresh, I had to do it in order for all the changes to take effect to see all the games not bundled anymore.
Posted March 22, 2015
I have finally restored order to my shelf. I feel vaguely as though I've been punished for something.

An additional irritation is that there are now many more shelf items that lack links to corresponding catalogue pages.

I do know of one game that's been the subject of an unbundling-like request. It isn't listed for unbundling, though:

http://www.gog.com/forum/gothic_series/forced_to_install_notr_in_g2
http://www.gog.com/forum/gothic_series/no_option_to_install_gothic_2_without_night_of_the_raven
Posted March 22, 2015
This is pretty awesome! Thanks GOG!
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