Yes. I think that. I can only tell my own impressions but years ago (the ages in which forums were still not broken and gogmixes existed) they actually gave me the feeling they were a part of the community as well. So many blue posts and each a gamer. They completely obliberated ths "we are just a company and want your money" image I always had and still have on Steam. But maybe these were just my own delusions or wishful thinking ... might as well be the case.

Well, at least we will get this poll I asked for. Unfortunately without alt account I can only vote once.

Sorry for the confusion.....I mentioned adalia more as one thing that is still helping the community, not as a GOG DL alternative.

Also did you try all the alternatives I collated in post 130 or others that might work yet? Maybe one of them could be of help. :|

Am not about to engage in a democracy debate given that what we are talking about here, is choice as a consumer, or Gogger, and how we download our games. I'd put aside Galaxy which supposedly has always been optional even when it comes to download our offline installers, so we had browser, GOG downloader, third parties. Now it's down to 2 (leaving aside Galaxy). Yes as you said GOG decided to drop one, that doesn't mean we all have to roll over and stay silent about it, that is those of us who still used that reliable piece of software still valiantly doing it's job. Given your tone, and is your right here too, end of discussion indeed.

Anecdotal, but I have downloaded many dozens of GB with chromium and haven't had any data corruption/etc issues.

There's an old saying(or there should be one if one doesn't exist yet) that one needs to leave their comfort zone sometimes else they will never know what they were missing.
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GOG might be stuck to their decision on this, but eh...if people want to talk about it I see no problem with that.

I am on it like I said. A user tried to teach me gogrepo yesterday and we ended up with an error when installing pythion and trying to run the script. I only have a few hours after work on weekdays so I had to postpone this. I already use a download manager for otther downloads on the internet (which basically was the rest of your posted alternatives) and it might be one alternative but at the moment I think I will end up with looking up my updated games on the web site and then download them in Galaxy since it is the closest to be the same as it used to be fo me ... and I said that I dislike changes. Maybe I am just too old. So with Galaxy in my head I would second the request to add update flags to Galaxy as well as those other download features that have been already requested so that this could be a true alternative for me. It still takes ages to start Galaxy (Downloader was there immediately) and it still eats much more resouces and will probably crash now and again but ... well ... it probably won't get good but maybe it will reach acceptable for me. Of course this won#t be an alternative for those who really don't want to use Galaxy at all.

That's what happens with time and growth of businesses a good number of times...they can start out well meaning and "down to earth" and then "lose touch" with the people that buy from them over time....it's almost like a natural cycle, albeit not usually a good one, but still in ways it seems like part of a natural progression.

Get the gist of what I mean(dunno if i'm explaining my thoughts right here)?

As for GOG: They had a bunch of such people on staff, then over time they fired/let go a bunch for various corporate reasons decided by the owners/board/share holders.
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For now anyways....who knows what some might create over time. :)

If it was going to happen and we find out we cannot change it, then people should move on(after some venting/etc of course) and hope for/create NEW things that are as good or better than the old. Then everyone wins. :D

Fair enough but again, if you haven't doesn't mean nobody else didn't have issues, again that's computing for you. I wouldn't say for Chromium given I don't use it.

Yes and they had a bunch of loyal customers as well which decided to simply leave GOG if GOG decided that it would be worth to lose touch with the community/customer base. Not saying that I will be the next but I say that I can understand them and maybe ... just maybe .. sometimes GOG should think about the question if those old loyal customers really aren't worth as much as the new customers they try to attract right now. You can see it in this very thread that still many completely refuse to use Galaxy and I don't blame them - it's their decision and they joined GOG in most cases when everything was different. When GOG announced Galaxy many feared that GOG would turn to Steam (and some still do) and GOG is now completely focused on Galaxy and Gaalxy 2 - clients which are basically there to attract new customers and many of the old customer base don't want to use at all. The more GOG is showing that everything is going Galaxy the higher the probability that those customers might leave GOG .... Imo (stands for in MY opinion ;)) GOG should try to balance old/classic customers and the new one and find a way which will please both. Offereing alternatives is one way to do so and they just scratched one.

Except that here, it's not like I never left my comfort zone, it simply is the fact that of all options available, GOG downloader was the best and lightest for me which never gave me any grief, unlike other options. It's like I was saying: options don't all work the same for everybody, hence best to have a few at hand.

No rush....I was merely trying to give suggestions. :)

Too bad more such things cannot be like greasmonkey extensions/scripts seem to be(from what i've heard of them)....install them and go.

I do as well, but anyways I am glad to hear you're at least trying to keep your head up and try to fix this for yourself.

Pshaw to that....:)

Also since people say one is only as old as one feels....solution: Start thinking you're an energetic young 20 something. ;D

True, but at least they still have browser downloads and the more resourceful might puzzle out gog repo.

Except that, and I don't say this in a nasty way, over time doesn't really interest me right now, given that I still have stuff to download now and in the short time.

That's exactly what some us are doing right here right now: venting/etc. As for the rest, fair enough of course, it's not like we're gonna keep at it for months to come. Well.... Nah! ;-)

I know some might have issues, and sympathize with them....that said: most who do so seem to usually be mainly those with spotty/unreliable & slow connections.....most times a good browser(any of them) will download just fine.
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The problem being that for every customer GOG loses they likely gain 2 or more that don't mind what they do as long as people can play games....same with most businesses, the blind consumers often outweigh the rest.

Also I knew what that meant but thanks for explaining it in case I didn't. :)

Agreed....we will see how this plays out in time, I would expect.

Also as I said to others...they scratched one but who knows what the future may bring us. :)


Agreed 100%

No, I agree, it’s fine to talk about it. However it seems that every post nowadays is, don’t give your opinion because everyone else has an opinion. Mine is here is no need for gogdownloader.