nightcraw1er.488: Well, the first question there is why are you buying games at work :o)
- Privileges of being a white-collar worker. I don't work on the assembly line, having to ask the boss for a permission to pee in a bottle, or get some coffee. In fact, my current boss is located 6000 km away from me in a completely different time zone (it is already past noon for him when I get to work)... As long as I do the tasks assigned to me and no one complains, he seems content.
- Because GOG tends to launch their sales and promos when I am still at work.
nightcraw1er.488: As for keeping up to date, its no big issue, log in once in a while check what the updates are and download the necessary ones.
That's the hard part, figuring out what has changed, especially as it seems sometimes there are unreported changes, I don't know if the GOG update reporting system doesn't work reliably or they just don't report all changes. Sometimes the changes are also irrelevant to me, like changes to Mac versions.
I can skip all that by just telling gogrepo to do the checking for me. I ran it last night and I think it re-downloaded quite many updated installers for which I don't recall seeing any notification.
Also, the clean-option is a great way to track if GOG has silently removed some game (or versions of a game). Remember when people wondered why the number of games in their library had been reduced by one or more titles, and tried to figure out which game(s) exactly had vanished? Well, "gogrepo.py clean" tells you exactly what has become "obsolete" in your library, when crosschecking it against the online GOG library.
I tried to keep up with the updates earlier when I had like less than half of GOG games what I have now, and even back then I started to lag behind seriously, and at some point I couldn't really tell anymore what, if any, updates I might still be missing. Especially in cases where some separate patch has disappeared and an even newer version has been integrated to the main installer...
It is a bit like with my Humble Bundle DRM-free PC and Android-installers. If I want to make sure I have all the latest version, it seems easiest just to redownload them all one by one. as checking manually which have a newer version on the HB servers is just too much damn work. I think I've redownloaded my whole HB Android game installer collection all over again like 5 times, to make sure I have them all and up to date...
To each his own of course, glad you can manage fine without such a tool. :)
