Posted September 28, 2021
Rodimus_2316: What does that mean, exactly? What exact changes are those? I'm guessing the last one lets you hear other character voices when you talk to them? All I really want is to first play Ultima 7: The Black Gate, part 2 Serpent Isle, and the original Ultima VIII: Pagan (for now). If the patch and pack of the Gold Edition don't really change the story or anything, I'd be willing to settle for it, but I kinda want to see it for how it really was, then maybe Gold Edition afterward if the changes are too much. Same with also later doing Ultima VII Forge of Virtue and Silver Seed, from you guys.
I don't really know where to find Ultima 8 without the patch, but you can read all about what the patch fixed here (https://gigi.nullneuron.net/ultima/u8/u8patch.php). I kind of wish I could find an unpatched version of Ultima 8, since that is how I originally played the game, and the jumping puzzles were *much* more challenging. The speech pack just allows you to hear the voices of the Titans when they talk to you.
Rodimus_2316: So in order to get other games I also need to go to my GOG.com account? And check my "gogaccount1.jpg" and "gogaccount2.jpg" attached images for pics of my GOG.com account. And/Or I just download these on my account and they'll stay on my computer to play on and I won't need to save them on Gog Galaxy to play them? LMK if you need more info.
OK, so now you have a very interesting configuration. According to all of your screenshots, it seems like GOG Galaxy shows that you have Ultima 8, but your GOG account shows that you never purchased Ultima 8 before. So...that probably explains why you're unable to install using GOG Galaxy. What I am guessing is happening is when you click on anything Ultima 8 related in GOG Galaxy, GOG Galaxy probably tries to contact the GOG backend in order to do things like retrieve installation files or retrieve extras (since GOG Galaxy is merely a fancy front-end for your GOG account). But since the GOG backend account shows that you never purchased Ultima 8 before, that creates a weird error message that I've never seen when you try to use the GOG Galaxy front-end to retrieve files from the GOG backend. So, to fix this, you'll probably need to look in your records and try to find your receipt for Ultima 8, and show that receipt to some authority at GOG Games, and they can probably fix your GOG account so that it shows that you've purchased Ultima 8. Otherwise, you'll need to purchase Ultima 8 in the GOG store (which you can still do here. (https://www.gog.com/game/ultima_8_gold_edition), which will also probably fix your issue.
Sorry mate, looks like you're at a bit of an impasse when it comes to Ultima 8 and GOG.
Post edited September 28, 2021 by bliznik