How would I know what people do and don't appreciate? I don't own every game. We're left to fend for ourselves for patch notes. That's how "What did just update" got started. Several of us post there when we discover patch notes.

I thought I was the only one with the bugged account! No matter how many times I refresh it, it doesn't go away

Try this:-

1. Press F12 in your browser
2. Click on "Console"
3. In the lower area where you can type, paste the following line then press Enter:-

angular.element(document.body).injector().get('menuNotificationsRepository').deleteAllNotificatio ns();

^ This has removed the purple dot for many people (at least until someone replies to your posts again...).

As for 'Update-itus', I've also stopped "updating for the sake of updating" unless there's a good reason. Many times it's just GOG messing about with how it's packaged rather than a change in game content (hence the "updated internal installer structure, no changes to game files" entries), other times it's adding something I can ignore (a foreign language pack for a language I don't speak), and sometimes it results in a downgrade, ie, an update that adds new bugs to a previously bug-free version where they then remain unfixed for years on end whilst GOG refuses to supply the last known good bug-free version...

*takes a bow*

You're a saviour!

This no longer happens (as frequently). For games that are still in a support cycle, it's usually very important bug-fixes and feature additions. I'm more concerned about games that I *don't* get a notification for when they're updated, like Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous or Hedon...

Exactly, GOG has used the flawed and unhealthy idea of packages from the beginning, which introduced this and many, many other bugs:

- Games that are updated that are part of a package aren't flagged in the library as updated and the blue dot doesn't appear.

- All games within a package almost never have complete data, so it's impossible to sort or filter them within the library. GOG can add the data upon request to support, but it seems to be a very complicated task.

- Packages introduced the age-old problem of purchased games not being marked as owned by the store when there are multiple versions of the same game.

This would all be fixable by eliminating these unnecessary packages and implementing a Steam-like system with reconfigurable bundles, but it would require disrupting the dated system that uses the store, and I dread to imagine the bugs and problems that would arise.