Alex_Kagansky: 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)

ssokolow: No clue why innounp is having trouble with it but innoextract has no problem and it's also available for Windows.

silalus: Unlike a lot of folks complaining in this thread (some with very understandable complaints) I fully support the unbundling. And I have a little over 100 games in my library, many of which are impacted, so this is a pretty big thing to me too.

I was actually just thinking about downloading the Quest for Glory series on my underpowered little extra-tiny laptop, and decided not to bother- I really only wanted 1 and 2 on there, and the whole bundle was just too big to bother with on that little go-cart of a machine. So this is great- I'll actually be using it really soon.

However this does make something really clear: we desperately need better organizational tools for our libraries.

I want to have options to:

*Group games by series and then explode those into the individual games.
*Sort by original release date.
*Sort by rating (yeah, I use this to decide what to play next sometimes).
*Sort by most recently updated.
*Filter by... stuff like the above.

For those unaware someone has made an awesome tool that can do some of this for us at this site. GoG really ought to learn from this tool and implement some of these awesome features for their site.

Branais: The more I think about this, the more I think it's a disaster.

I have no knowledge of the new client, so I have no idea how this will work, but I don't intend to use it, so I really don't give a toss about it.

I just know that my shelf is now an unholy mess, people are saying "you can list them lphabetically" which is completely feeble logic, because A) I prefer to keep my genres together, and B) games that were previously bundled together are often going to be listed in different parts of the aplhabet.

But th business about "smaller downloads" is complete rubbish. For those games that were previously bundled, and came with a single installer, updating was easy: point the Downloader at the bundle's folder, and launch the download, and only updated files get downloaded. Simple. But now, if a game that previously bundled gets an upload, the Downloader isn't going to recognise the bundle's installation files, and so THE WHOLE DAMNED THING is going to have to be downloaded, all over again. And then, to manage your offline files, you either keep the bundle files PLUS the downloaded version of the updated game, or you blow away the bundle and completely re-download all the component games in separate packs, complete with the duplication of ancillary files and installer code.

That is NOT "smaller downloads"!

Wow, GOG. I HATE this idea. I HATE that it makes things more complex for your customers. I HATE that it's a retrograde step in logic. But most of all, I REALLY HATE that, instead of having the balls to be honest and say, "OK, you're probably going to find this inconvenient, but it's what we've chosen to do, and here's why", you're actually bullshitting your customers and, as you've done so many times (for instance, with the regional pricing that you claim is "fairer" but is really only fairer to GOG itself), you're trying to convince us that this is good for us.

That's just disgusting, GOG.

trusteft: ... I will never use the client and the only thing that GOG manages is to make me feel more annoyed with the way this is done.
I don't want any fraking client, not now not ever. If I wanted another Steam I would use just Steam.

HeDanny: I now have to re-download what looks like hundreds of games that have just been unbundled, but I'd really prefer not to use the GOG Downloader.

Does anyone know of a third party downloader that allows you to chose where each download goes individually, and then remembers that location so it can compare its contents with the source files on the GOG servers?

Galaxy can't come soon enough.

silalus: Unlike a lot of folks complaining in this thread (some with very understandable complaints) I fully support the unbundling. And I have a little over 100 games in my library, many of which are impacted, so this is a pretty big thing to me too.

I was actually just thinking about downloading the Quest for Glory series on my underpowered little extra-tiny laptop, and decided not to bother- I really only wanted 1 and 2 on there, and the whole bundle was just too big to bother with on that little go-cart of a machine. So this is great- I'll actually be using it really soon.

However this does make something really clear: we desperately need better organizational tools for our libraries.

I want to have options to:

*Group games by series and then explode those into the individual games.
*Sort by original release date.
*Sort by rating (yeah, I use this to decide what to play next sometimes).
*Sort by most recently updated.
*Filter by... stuff like the above.

For those unaware someone has made an awesome tool that can do some of this for us at this site. GoG really ought to learn from this tool and implement some of these awesome features for their site.

ssokolow: Depending on which possible interpretation is correct, either nothing yet in existence is likely to fit the bill or lgogdownloader (for Linux) might.