Skysect: Hi I am sending a ticket about this but I compared Steam Starbound files with GOG files bit by bit and I found a lots of unnecessary stuff there . It's huge chunk of data . And making installer bigger . I did this for windows version and seems Mac and Linux version is fine because installer sizes are around 650 MB .

So ;

In the main directory ;

giraffe_storage folder
koala_storage folder

In the win32 directory ;

output folder
stdout.txt
unpack_assets.bat

All of those folders and files inside of them are unnecessary and its 645 MB . It's nearly doubling the installer size :) Please fix it GOG !

nightcraw1er.488: Out of interest, how do you know those files are unnecessary? Have you tried removing them and then running the game? Some games, depending on how they are made will need extra items for instance Galaxy hooks if they have Galaxy support, fake files to remove the need for Steam client. Could even be a different version of the game. Just comparing apples to oranges will tell you nothing.

Skysect: Checked MD5 hashes of all files . Also game working fine but it's already impossible if MD5 files are same
Also a sidenote , Steam version doesn't have any protection . You can delete Steam after installation :)

Skysect: Checked MD5 hashes of all files . Also game working fine but it's already impossible if MD5 files are same
Also a sidenote , Steam version doesn't have any protection . You can delete Steam after installation :)

anothername: ...snip

anothername: 2x clean slate installs? AFAIK some of these folders contain player data; so if you compared with a running install there might be all kind of generated stuff stored.

Skysect: But Steam version is already DRM-free :)

nightcraw1er.488: Even clean slate might not match. A prime example is the Galaxy files, they would be different to Steam's. Also, if Steam has online saves it may include information for transfer of data. Looking at the filenames given:

In the win32 directory ;

output folder
stdout.txt
unpack_assets.bat
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stdout.txt would look to me like a logging facility - i.e. debug information which maybe turned off by default in the steam version. Unpack assets - this looks like an install file, might be removed by steam or they might not be packed in the first place. Same with output folder, sounds like its linked to the unpack process. Maybe that these get cleaned up automatically by the steam install and not the gog one, or it might never happen.

The other two:
giraffe_storage folder
koala_storage folder
Too game specific, can't really say - maybe these had some additional aspects of control in the original so they had to be exported rather than kept in a package or something like that.

I would suggest if it really bothers open a helpdesk ticket, although it would be a long process trying to understand why these differ. Odds on its just a different version, we are always a bit behind here.

That is debatable at the best of times. The process is still downloaded via the client, and the client could be doing any number of things.

Skysect: Are you kidding with me or something ???

Steam Starbound files are same with GOG Starbound files . I compared them bit by bit and did a MD5 , SHA-1 Check

You are still speaking about differences ? WTF ? I don't want to be mad but which differences are you speaking about ?

Also client doing nothing on Steam version . If you want to see buy it from Steam and uninstall Steam after download .

Skysect: giraffe_storage folder