Hello, i personally dislike how the configuration of a game only shows the latest 5 patches and not all of the uploaded ones.
Can that be fixed? thanks.

Is this something in galaxy? If so, you might get an update. For those who don’t use galaxy, no, nothing gets updated. Loads of issues, but for patches and changelogs
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/provide_a_full_and_complete_changelogged_download_system

No, this is something by GOG iself, the list of available, downloadable patches contains the newest, at most 5, entries. Which is bad for speedrunners who want to access a specific patch for certain leaderboards. Completely drives them away from gog and towards steam, where they can freely get any uploaded patch for the games they own.

So you mean the offline installer patches? If so, check out my link. I have long campaigned for the ability to download any version or patch, and that they provide proper changelogs. Some mods need a specific version, some versions remove content or break things. It’s a basic usage thing. Unfortunately there is no drive to implement such a thing (or fix anything), hence why I am not buying anything currently.

making any version or patch available to download is the only thing gog can do though, as the changelogs are entirely fault to the devs.

Maybe it is storage cost, though I suspect GOG have every update (certainly patch) that has ever been provided for a game. Supposedly you can contact them for such at need, and Galaxy apparently rolls back versions to some degree.

I'm not sure why GOG don't have a patch section available to everyone. It would make great commonsense to do so.

It's not like it needs to be a heavily secure section if just a patch, as a patch on its own won't do anything.

That said, updates and patches sometimes have confusing names, with versions not clear at all.

And of course you need to access to an early enough version of a game for the applicable patch.

So maybe it's just extra work that GOG don't want to do ... they struggle keeping up with so many other things as it is.

Not actually true, GOg themselves update changelogs occasionally but with specifically vague text like “internal structure update” - which means galaxified installer if you are interested. Also, this “it’s up to the developer” is used for everything, patch not available, it’s the dev hasn’t sent it for instance. GOG needs to put more pressure on, they are making money from this, the dev is making money, the service should be there.

I don't want to use Galaxy to install any of them...offline installers for all versions should be available for download by browser just like the current versions are.

I don't want to use Galaxy for anything except for some multiplayer games but I'd consider using it to download any old offline installers I missed. They clearly have the old installers, so why not let us have them?

From what i've heard, GOG supposedly(cannot confirm 100%, but some of this info is supposedly from some of the devs) has partners that they prefer over others, and if a partner isn't on the list then they get: slower support responses, slower offline installer updates(they submit the files, but GOG takes it's time updating them on their servers), etc etc.

So in some cases it's likely lazy devs/partners, but in others? It's probably more GOG's fault.

-=-=-=- Well said and agreed 100%

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I am sure of one thing.....t's totally not because they want people to use Galaxy more. o.0 ;)