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Thanks for the update Ciris.
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Ciris: We've prepared the remaining games for unbundling.

After the process is complete (we're anticipating it'll take a bit less than a week, but that's not a set-in-stone timeframe), the below is the titles you can expect on your shelves (if you have the games, of course):

[many titles]
Sweet Jesus, I'm so happy I don't own most of the unbundled titles. =/
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Ciris: [..]
Thanks for the info, Ciris, even if I see that you're still separating episodes and packed expansions :\
At least, the names are better now.

p.s: what, is Earth 2150 a trilogy inside a trilogy? O_o
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Ciris: [..]
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phaolo: Thanks for the info, Ciris, even if I see that you're still separating episodes and packed expansions :\
At least, the names are better now.

p.s: what, is Earth 2150 a trilogy inside a trilogy? O_o
Earth 2015ception!
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Ciris: We've prepared the remaining games for unbundling.

After the process is complete (we're anticipating it'll take a bit less than a week, but that's not a set-in-stone timeframe), the below is the titles you can expect on your shelves (if you have the games, of course):

[many titles]
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JaqFrost: Sweet Jesus, I'm so happy I don't own most of the unbundled titles. =/
Unfortunately i own most of those games. My Library will be a huge mess. :(
I'd like to inform that the cover for King's Quest 3 has the letters "King's Quest II" on it.

Also I suggest that you find different covers for the different Quest for Glory games (the same way you did for the KQ series). It'd look far better.

EDIT: In fact you should try to do the same for every game where the covers were repeated (ex: Megarace 1+2; MAX 1+2). I know this is merely a cosmetic issue but the end result would look really nice.

Thanks in advance.
Post edited April 22, 2015 by karnak1
Posted this in the "What did just update?" thread, but reposting here, on advice from that thread:

One other little niggling detail -- in the filename, Penumbra seems to have "Black Plaque" now, as opposed to "Black Plague" :-)

Easy enough to rename once downloaded, but just an observation.
*Downloads Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures while it's still available as a single installer*

Edit: 'Unable to fetch data, try again later!' says the Downloader. It seems to be stil available through my browser, though.
Post edited April 22, 2015 by VanishedOne
Can someone please tell me. Why is it so important that games be bundled together? I mean, aside from keeping the library more organized, and downloading all the games at once as opposed to wasting time doing each one separately, I still don't see it as a big deal.
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Dartpaw86: Can someone please tell me. Why is it so important that games be bundled together? I mean, aside from keeping the library more organized, and downloading all the games at once as opposed to wasting time doing each one separately, I still don't see it as a big deal.
I think you hit and then dismissed most of the major reasons:
1. It's a major pain in the ass to back up your collection because un-bundling has resulted in extras getting duplicated (eg. Ultima 1 and Ultima 2 both have the same "Ultima 1 + 2 Manuals" entry in their extras)
2. DOSBox is often bigger than the game itself, which causes the size of older games to balloon up, wasting more bandwidth and backup space.
3. They unbundled things that are only separate because management and/or marketing demanded it. (eg. Heroes Chronicles)
4. Games are sprayed all over an alphabetical sort because GOG didn't impose consistent naming rules (eg. "Tex Murphy ..." and "Tesla Effect, a Tex Murphy Adventure"), nor did they prefix series entries with the series name in the sorting keys.
5. GOG can never get collection organization support right, so we can't fix it ourselves.
6. The "Where did that come from?" effect of seeing things like Crystals of Arborea and Softporn Adventure show up with no hyperlink on the title to clarify that they're, respectively, part of the Ishar and Leisure Suit Larry offerings.
7. The on-website collection views don't scale well and, the more entries they add, the more sluggish and buggy they get.

...and the general impression that it's another example of GOG ignoring existing bugs, hopping on an idea that one or two people wanted because it happened to appeal to GOG employees, breaking a lot of stuff in the process, annoying the hell out of at least as many users as they're appeasing, and unapologetically pretending that nothing is wrong. (See also: CADT Model)

(And what makes it more annoying is that it speaks of deeper problems in GOG's approach to development because, in any decent website development workflow, they'd be able to fix most of these things in a jiffy and would prioritize them so that the average long-term user satisfaction is as high as possible... that is, fix what users have to deal with now before you spend months underestimating the time it'll take to throw it out and start with "the new hotness". you have to make us share your enthusiasm, not take it for granted that we will.)

It's especially annoying to me because, despite being one guy renting a room in a basement and programming during what little time I can procrastinate away from coursework, I still tend to do a better job of setting development priorities than GOG does. (See, for example, the lgogd_uri GUI I just wrote, where my first goal is to make what I already have solid before I start working in new features.)
Post edited April 22, 2015 by ssokolow
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Dartpaw86: Can someone please tell me. Why is it so important that games be bundled together? I mean, aside from keeping the library more organized, and downloading all the games at once as opposed to wasting time doing each one separately, I still don't see it as a big deal.
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ssokolow: I think you hit and then dismissed most of the major reasons:
1. It's a major pain in the ass to back up your collection because un-bundling has resulted in extras getting duplicated (eg. Ultima 1 and Ultima 2 both have the same "Ultima 1 + 2 Manuals" entry in their extras)
2. DOSBox is often bigger than the game itself, which causes the size of older games to balloon up, wasting more bandwidth and backup space.
3. They unbundled things that are only separate because management and/or marketing demanded it. (eg. Heroes Chronicles)
4. Games are sprayed all over an alphabetical sort because GOG didn't impose consistent naming rules (eg. "Tex Murphy ..." and "Tesla Effect, a Tex Murphy Adventure"), nor did they prefix series entries with the series name in the sorting keys.
5. GOG can never get collection organization support right, so we can't fix it ourselves.
6. The "Where did that come from?" effect of seeing things like Crystals of Arborea and Softporn Adventure show up with no hyperlink on the title to clarify that they're, respectively, part of the Ishar and Leisure Suit Larry offerings.
7. The on-website collection views don't scale well and, the more entries they add, the more sluggish and buggy they get.

...and the general impression that it's another example of GOG ignoring existing bugs, hopping on an idea that one or two people wanted because it happened to appeal to GOG employees, breaking a lot of stuff in the process, annoying the hell out of at least as many users as they're appeasing, and unapologetically pretending that nothing is wrong. (See also: CADT Model

(And what makes it more annoying is that it speaks of deeper problems in GOG's approach to development because, in any decent website development workflow, they'd be able to fix most of these things in a jiffy and would prioritize them so that the average long-term user satisfaction is as high as possible... that is, fix what users have to deal with now before you spend months underestimating the time it'll take to throw it out and start with "the new hotness". you have to make us share your enthusiasm, not take it for granted that we will.)
Hmm, I imagine they'll add an option in the library page sooner or later, to automatically bundle or unbundle collections to the user's tastes. I mean seeing the major backlash. And seeing so many people say "GOG doesn't care" or "They never listen to us" personally, I don't see GOG as a malicious company to purposely inconvenience us. I see them as a company whose sole concern is to keep their business, by which I mean, not losing their customers by keeping them happy, in turn not losing profits.
A fundamental that every (at least every "smart") business runs on. So if this gets enough backlash, it will be reversed, or rather... like I said, keep both options available in the library customization menu.
Post edited April 22, 2015 by Dartpaw86
Hey, they've fixed the cover of Cognition Episode 3. And by fixed I mean it actually says 3 now.

I guess we'll never find out why they scrapped the sweet per-title cover graphics in favor of a duplicated cover image. It was even unbundled to begin with.
Will GOG unbundle the original Tomb Raider trilogy?
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Rixasha: I guess we'll never find out why they scrapped the sweet per-title cover graphics in favor of a duplicated cover image. It was even unbundled to begin with.
I find this boggling as well. With all their protestations of not having time for certain things, they went out of their way to deal with something that didn't need attention and actively made it worse.
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juhejo: Will GOG unbundle the original Tomb Raider trilogy?
What are you talking about? They already did it about six weeks ago.
Post edited April 22, 2015 by PaterAlf