Seconded. Some more detailed communication would be appreciated. The answer given by a blue in the official thread (after many pages of silence) seems unsatisfactory to me too. "Obsolete" and "outdated" are the new "too niche". Those offline installers you like so much? Well, I'm afraid they're "obsolete!". That's the future I see with moves like this.

why? cause fewer used it than its worth for gog
most companies cut things out to remove clutter thats all

1. How do you know that "fewer used it than its worth"?
2. How much work is it to maintain Downloader links for those who want them? Obviously minimal, since it was unsupported for half a decade yet we were getting the links just fine.
3. Let's cut Galaxy then. All I need is a simple DRM-free way to download installers from this site.

1. I dont gog does , and they decided they remove that feature i just assume that their action is a logical decision as they know the numbers.
2. This is the same as the 1.
3. Galaxy is used by many (like me:P) and clearly gog's main feature they are working on atm , they wont cut it

Cutting Galaxy is not happening. Also another reason why they are getting rid of the downloader is because Galaxy has the same feature as the downloader. If you don't like it then there is a 3rd party alternative that is command line based but the commands are not that difficult to learn. Also Galaxy has it's own user base as well.

Ah, what's that I see? You guys don't like the idea of a feature you use being cut?

Im not too fond of the downloader being cut but I adapted by starting to use the 3rd party alternative.

Guys, as much as I support people who want to keep using the downloader or at least get a propper explanation from GOG, do you really need a third thread for that? Having the same discussion go on in multiple threads only makes any development harder to follow.

I think at least in spirit all three threads are distinct.

The first, "official topic" was GOG informing users that Downloader was being cut.

There was a separate response topic to that where users more clearly put it front and center "We DO NOT WANT to say goodbye to GOG Downloader".

This new topic is, or at least should be, asking why Downloader was cut. The reasoning given in the official thread is wanting, to say the least.

They already answered that five years ago, they planed to have Galaxy as their new "client" which would handle both downloading of the installer (which weren't called "offline installer" at the time) but also install / auto-update / Multiplayer functionality / etc... and as they didn't wanted to maintains two "clients" doing the same thing (i.e. the old downloader and Galaxy) they were deprecating the downloader; it would continue to exists for some time, to give time for Galaxy to catch up, but in the end, once they would consider Galaxy to be ready, it would be removed.

And now five years later they consider that the time has come.

Haven't users in the other topic(s) already linked to a post from back then saying something like "GOG Downloader won't ever be intentionally removed"? That doesn't jive. I don't recall seeing where they said anything about "once they would consider Galaxy to be ready, it would be removed".

Thats a corporate for you. They constantly lie , sue em, thats the only way.

Yeah good luck with that because they can counter sue you for filing a frivolous lawsuit if you don't have a case to sue. Which in this case no one does.

they cant , why wouldnt you have a case? they made a promise they didn't fulfill , the promise could be taken into your decision to purchase their product or not , clearly suable