Greets,

Not to say that I'm upset about games being updated; however, it seems that there are some games which require an update almost ever two or three days for the past couple weeks.

Is it that these games were release from the wild prematurely or that they really have to adjust them and tweak them so much after they've been out in the wild? (i.e. those who bought it essentially become beta testers.)

When one goes from a pre-order to a release, then has to go through several updates in the game, it just kind of ruins the continuity. I don't mind patches as I do whole new version downloads, especially with a huge set of setup binaries.

What would be nice is to also have the ability to set up "update" notifications based on platform, so if they update the Mac platform, I'm not notified that an update was released.

I feel like I spend more time updating the games I have than taking the time to play them.

That's what I always think when a pre order of hyped game appears.
What's the point of providing a bug ridden game?
Instead they should release game after fixing most of bugs.
I understand it will delay the release but at least it will be a quality product.
Personally I don't like too many patches in my game library.

But I also think may be it's one of the antipiracy strategy of game devs.
Also patches means devs haven't abandoned their game.

This would be awesome. If I could configure GOG to only give me update notifications for extras and English Windows versions of games, I would probably get about 60% fewer notifications. I too am quite tired of checking each update notification only to find that they fixed a typo in the French Linux version of some game or other.

What do you mean "require"?

Remember that the GOG update notifications don't always mean the game code itself got an update, but it could just mean a new installer or something, or lately I presume there has been updates for Windows 10 compatibility.

Usually people here complain updates come too rarely and slowly, not that they come too often. :) I simply don't care for the notifications that much. I get any updates time to time with gogrepo, and if I want to know what has lately changed (e.g. why did Carmageddon 2 receive an update; apparently it was to fix the Windows 10 installation issue, as I hoped), I check this thread:

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread

Naturally people who use Galaxy with autoupdates, care even less I guess.

Well, knowing that the developers haven't abandoned the game is great, but I think they would get an added benefit for knowing their game is solid too. You only get one chance to make a first impression. :)

From some of the change-logs that I've seen, at least some have addressed complaints and tweaked the game to make them to improve the user interface --however, there are some which have quite a bug list. I know that small shops don't have the big budget QA departments that major studios do, but at least do some type of random selection and beta testing with some avid game players that have the time to devote to giving the game a good workout.

I don't install most new releases until at least a month or so later and if they have any updates within that time, I reset the counter. I just noticed that there are a select few that seem to be in a continuous update cycle. Well, for one thing, I'm certainly glad they have added the ability to look at the "change-log" for a particular release. My first reaction was to try and download and save the new version only to find out it had the same file name (with version stamped on it). When checking the changes, it might have been a fix to the Mac version or new posting of a Linux version (or some variation for the platform I'm not using).

It's great to know those things, but it's even better if you can help quell the noise and only get notifications for a specific platform instead. That would be ideal.

Well, maybe not 'require' per se; however, when I get notifications that there are updates in my library, I tend to like to resolve them and make them go away (either by going to the updates page and clicking on the title and perhaps downloading it).

Updates for Windows 10 compatibility are expected --and when I see a game I haven't seen updated in almost a year have an update, I somewhat suspect that might be a reason. However, when I see another game almost have an update every three of four days on average, I kind of go, "hrm....."

I would only complain if an update comes rarely or slowly in the case where a game was just horribly broken or unplayable. If I had a game which caused an exception and crashed predictably and it took months to fix, of course I would be a little irate --however, having been on the end of the debugging stick before, I know if enough information isn't provided by the user, it's very difficult to reproduce the issue. It could be one of those weird cases where choosing brown hair for your character causes an exception if you leave the upper left portion of the screen (a contrived example, but I've seen things just as strange). I used the Galaxy client from time to time, but I still like to keep my game archive updated. I definitely like that they added the ability to get a "change-log" for the update, it does help determine whether or not there is something I really need to download, but I still need to check it to be sure.

In some cases there is just a patch, in other cases, it's a re-download the of the entire installation --in other cases, it's not a change that affects me at all. It would be nice if there were a way to get a more "refined" heads-up (at least per platform). Even better if you could filter a 'category' of change (i.e. crash fix as opposed to UI tweaks).

Just my humble opinion.

I hate knowing that there's an update for a game and it doesn't come here for weeks, months.

It makes me not want to play it, despite how great it is.

The issue isn't so much whether or not I need to download anything in response to an update. I almost never do that anyway, except with fairly new releases. The issue is that in order to get the notification to go away, I have to go into my game list and open the details of the game which received the update. While doing that I naturally check the changelog to see whether the update affects me or not, and it almost never does. I would much rather simply not receive updates of a nature that I know are irrelevant to me, such as updates to Mac or Linux versions, or updates to other languages than English. Indeed. And to think, all it took was me and several others nagging them about it for just 7 short years :-D

You and the others' have my thanks! :)