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Posted May 06, 2015
I was reading this on the Galaxy beta page to determine if this is something I wish to do, and saw this:

"Want to backup your purchases? We get it. For all games, you can download a DRM-free backup installer that you can save to an external disk, drive or cloud."

Does this mean the entire game is no longer downloaded? Just a file or two that goes to GOG servers to get the rest as needed? Or am I so far off, that GOG's Galaxy is in a different galaxy than me right now? :)
Posted May 06, 2015
No, it's the same old installer GOG has always made available for download. Galaxy can be used to automatically install and manage your games, but if you want to continue doing things the "old way", you can.
Post edited May 06, 2015 by cogadh
Posted May 06, 2015
This just means that galaxy will also let you donwload standalone installers like we now do in the browser of with the downloader.
Posted May 06, 2015
GOG realised that people spend more time organising their downloads than they do playing them so decided, for your convenience, to do away with the whole gameplay side of things entirely and just focus on organising backups. For all we know these files could be renamed back issues of Crossstich Monthly.
Posted May 06, 2015
Thanks for all the replies!
Posted May 06, 2015
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Navagon: GOG realised that people spend more time organising their downloads than they do playing them so decided, for your convenience, to do away with the whole gameplay side of things entirely and just focus on organising backups. For all we know these files could be renamed back issues of Crossstich Monthly.
You'd be surprised as to just how organized some folks are :)
Posted May 06, 2015
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JudasIscariot: You'd be surprised as to just how organized some folks are :)
I even renamed "Republic Commando Copy3" to "Jedi Knight" :-P
Posted May 06, 2015
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SpringPower: [...]

Does this mean the entire game is no longer downloaded? Just a file or two that goes to GOG servers to get the rest as needed? Or am I so far off, that GOG's Galaxy is in a different galaxy than me right now? :)
The latter, of course! :-)
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JudasIscariot: You'd be surprised as to just how organized some folks are :)
Hmm... is that the reason GOG messes with our manual order every chance it gets?
Posted May 06, 2015
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SpringPower: [...]

Does this mean the entire game is no longer downloaded? Just a file or two that goes to GOG servers to get the rest as needed? Or am I so far off, that GOG's Galaxy is in a different galaxy than me right now? :)
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HypersomniacLive: The latter, of course! :-)
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JudasIscariot: You'd be surprised as to just how organized some folks are :)
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HypersomniacLive: Hmm... is that the reason GOG messes with our manual order every chance it gets?
Are you referring to the shelf?
Posted May 06, 2015
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JudasIscariot: You'd be surprised as to just how organized some folks are :)
You underestimate just how much I overestimate how organised some folks are.
Posted May 06, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Are you referring to the shelf?
You are not?
Posted May 06, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Are you referring to the shelf?
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HypersomniacLive: You are not?
I wasn't, I was referring to a whole different kind of file organization that some folks carry out in their spare time involving spreadsheets and the like :)
Posted May 06, 2015
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HypersomniacLive: You are not?
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JudasIscariot: I wasn't, I was referring to a whole different kind of file organization that some folks carry out in their spare time involving spreadsheets and the like :)
Spreadsheets are useful!
Posted May 06, 2015
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JudasIscariot: I wasn't, I was referring to a whole different kind of file organization that some folks carry out in their spare time involving spreadsheets and the like :)
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moonshineshadow: Spreadsheets are useful!
Yes, they very much are :D
Posted May 06, 2015
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JudasIscariot: I was referring to a whole different kind of file organization that some folks carry out in their spare time involving spreadsheets and the like :)
*whistles innocently* ( 0_0)'
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