Yay! confirmed that method. But still there is no major changes in client skin. I mean it's not look like what they're posted as client view in images. Looking forward to see that change.

I also didn't get an email, but the installer did appear in my library.

Really? I don't see it.

Just be patient, the invites are sent out over time.

I just woke up, fired up the client and didn't get an update. Came to the forums to catch up on the mornings news/activities etc. and your post was the first one I saw here. Immediately exited the client and restarted it and it updated right away so I can confirm on my end that a startup + exit + startup caused the update to trigger here on my end as well. It might be a random 1 in N chance due to a throttling mechanism or something so if someone doesn't get it, it seems a few restarts may indeed do the trick.

Ok, now to check out the new goodies... :)

I got an email with I presume a download link for the Beta Client. Yet it doesn't do anything, the link opens a new page and it closes immediately. Am I doing something wrong or is the Beta not actually available yet?

Looks like they still haven't implemented download compression.

You'll have to click on the "Invite" button on that webpage and you'll receive the actual code for the Beta (eventually).

You then go to www.gog.com/redeem and enter the code there.

Restarting half a dozen times did nothing for me.

Instead I uninstalled the Alpha (and that awful GOG downloader) and downloaded and installed the beta from my library page, and it has worked.

first of all steam is not (really)bad, (its still bad though) let me explain what is very bad in steam:


1) you need the client installed to be able to get the game (download from steam if its a product that was bought from steam that is)

2) the client can play ofline mode but to do that the client must be installed

3) some games can be played on every pc , BUT they do need the installed client to download the game (black mirror 3 for example is one of the many games taht can be moved/copied to any folder or pc after the game has been installed using steam,so you have to have the client active , then download game ).

4) i have steam on old xp installed not on my win7,
if you are not in the windows that has the client installed you cannot use prepaid to buy games cause the store seems to be doing something with the client) (i dont know if a credit card will work)but prepaid does not work.

i was on win7 logged in (seldom use win Xp since i got used to win7) and wanted to buy a game for fun at very low price , 19 cents it was insetad of 1.49 so you cant buy it if you dont have steamactive so i had to logout, log into my old Xp and login the site and then i could finally buy the 19 cent thing)
and thats bad... real bad.





So i hope that we will be able to order games with any payment option from any device all over the world even if the client has become common use.

I also hope that the gog website wont disappear including the shelves and forum , cause i think that betting all on 1 horse is risky , so as long as the site be there aswell as it is now , i wont have any problems with clients.


i signed up gave the mail and am now waiting for a link or code or whatever to start trying the client.
I do have some other questions but i will do that in a new post.


when did you sign up? today or days ago? i recently gave the mail so i think that it might take some days to arrive in my case, so i am patiently waiting for it.

gog doens't loves me =(

Question: How do you manually add games that were installed with older installers, as was mentioned in the FAQ? I heard somebody mention The Witcher 2 has achievements, which I'd kind of like to try out, but I installed it over a year ago, and it would take forever to re-download it.

Thanks.

i can test as and when the info arrive, i signed up a few hours ago today.

i did read that some users had all games uninstalled instead of one...
i assume the uninstalling is done by the info gathered that was paced/installed on the users machine during the setup"?

so if there would not be inof like that there would be no way to accidentally unistall things? right?
So thats why i always install all my drm free games from GOG aswell as retail cd casualgames (yes these are still available , not much but they are around) on my drive...

Then since its drm free , i copy the folder to usb drive, i uninstall all the games and even check for leftovers , then when al is gone i copy the folders with the games back on my drive, so there is no refering to any logs installs uninstalls.
The games still work cause there drm free and no one or no tool can uninstall anything by accident.
Its a bit of extra work but i do this as long as i game.
Ofcourse i also backup the folder with the games aswell as the setups.

Hmm, I am having problems with the restart-client-to-get-patch fix. Have done so multiple times now. The only difference I see is the version number which is now 1.0.0.871. But when I got to the options menu it still lists features as coming soon, and they are all greyed out.

You have the beta version. The only difference to alpha at the moment is the social stuff. You should see a friends symbol next to your avatar in the client.