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General discussionIntroducing web installers for all GOG games(175 posts)(175 posts)
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Posted June 07, 2018
This is good for now as an alternative, but if the plan is to eventually rule out the "classic" (that name is what scares me) installers, then this is very very bad news.
Post edited June 07, 2018 by hgdagon
Posted June 07, 2018
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hgdagon: This is good for now as an alternative, but if the plan is to eventually rule out the "classic" (that name is what scares me) installer, then this is very very bad news.
Why would you get the feeling this is what's planned? Unless you think this has been the plan all along. But basically, what this does is eliminate the two installer versions. There are no longer any installers that include Galaxy. Basically, they're all 'classic' installers. You now obtain Galaxy via web interface if you don't have it installed, and Galaxy fetches the 'classic' installer when you initiate the install through Galaxy. Seems to me that's the opposite of what they'd do if they plan on phasing out 'classic' installers.
Post edited June 07, 2018 by GR00T
Posted June 07, 2018
Sorry if this was asked, but the new "backup" installers are the same as the classic ones? Meaning, if I have dl'ed a classic one 2 weeks ago, I do not have to to that again, right?
Posted June 07, 2018
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elcook: What is it, you ask? Web installer is a small file (around 1MB) that makes it easy and fast to download and install your GOG games. After downloading and launching the web installer, it triggers the process of installing or updating (if needed) GOG Galaxy on your computer
Hoo-fuckin-ray.

Color me shocked.

The "optional" client takes one more inexorable step towards being mandatory.
Posted June 07, 2018
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animalmother2105: Sorry if this was asked, but the new "backup" installers are the same as the classic ones? Meaning, if I have dl'ed a classic one 2 weeks ago, I do not have to to that again, right?
They are unchanged.
You do not have to re-download them,
Posted June 07, 2018
If there was actually a Galaxy client available for Linux, and if it did incremental updates, as opposed to re-downloading the whole game, I could see myself using Galaxy for that.
Posted June 07, 2018
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yogsloth: The "optional" client takes one more inexorable step towards being mandatory.
How do you reach this conclusion from the announcement?
Posted June 07, 2018
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yogsloth: The "optional" client takes one more inexorable step towards being mandatory.
Maybe you should have tried to at least read the post in its totality....
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elcook: ...and the „classic installers” without GOG Galaxy, which are now called "offline backup game installers”. So if you don’t want to use our optional client, you don’t have to look for the classic installers through „More” option, just download the installer files from the second section.
Post edited June 07, 2018 by Gersen
Posted June 07, 2018
Is there a way to turn off this huge "Download and Install Now" Galaxy button in the game shelf? A lot of GOG users don't want to use Galaxy.
Posted June 07, 2018
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IronArcturus: Is there a way to turn off this huge "Download and Install Now" Galaxy button in the game shelf? A lot of GOG users don't want to use Galaxy.
Adblock works.
Posted June 07, 2018
The fact that we now have a Galaxy button on every single GOG game in our shelf is very disconcerting. Many are worried that Galaxy is going to be made mandatory some day. Look at the current state of the installers: first they were just called installers, then "classic" installers, now they're called "offline backup game installers." As if they were extraneous in some way.

GOG needs to understand that many do not want to use Galaxy to run their games at all. A mandatory, always-online client is considered DRM and we don't want to see this on GOG.
Posted June 07, 2018
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cachirulo: noob question: When I click on a large game on my library, and then on 'offline backup game installers', I get several chunks to download (part 1, part 2 etc). This doesn't happen with Galaxy.

So am I expected to worry about several downloads instead of a single click, if I choose the 1st way?
Cheers!
IF you want to get proper offline installers, yes. (You can also download these via some sort of submenu in your Galaxy library; I'm not sure if doing it this way downloads all the parts simultaneously, or if you still have to click on each one.)

One reason they split them up is so that, if one file gets corrupted during downloading, you won't have to download the entire game again (some games these days have downloads of more than 30 gigs), only the affected "chunk".
Posted June 07, 2018
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cachirulo: noob question: When I click on a large game on my library, and then on 'offline backup game installers', I get several chunks to download (part 1, part 2 etc). This doesn't happen with Galaxy.

So am I expected to worry about several downloads instead of a single click, if I choose the 1st way?
Cheers!
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HunchBluntley: IF you want to get proper offline installers, yes. (You can also download these via some sort of submenu in your Galaxy library; I'm not sure if doing it this way downloads all the parts simultaneously, or if you still have to click on each one.)

One reason they split them up is so that, if one file gets corrupted during downloading, you won't have to download the entire game again (some games these days have downloads of more than 30 gigs), only the affected "chunk".
I see, thanks. Will stick to Galaxy, it's not so bad in the end
Posted June 07, 2018
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IronArcturus: The fact that we now have a Galaxy button on every single GOG game in our shelf is very disconcerting. [...]
There has been a "Try GOG Galaxy" button on every game card in the library for years. This just puts it to a more direct purpose (and, unfortunately, makes it much larger).
Posted June 07, 2018
Big improvement. Thanks.

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cachirulo: So am I expected to worry about several downloads instead of a single click, if I choose the 1st way?
Cheers!
You can download offline backup installers via Galaxy too. Doing it that way will download the entire thing in a single click. Go to MORE -> Backup & Goodies.
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