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Ciris: Following your many requests and in connection with preparing game libraries better for GOG Galaxy, we’re going to be starting what we’re calling unbundling games.
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Wow, that's pretty awesome. You know it never even dawned on me to even suggest such a feature or that it was a problem the way it is now, but it makes total sense. I didn't know I wanted it until you said it, although subconsciously I probably did. LOL

Having said that, with all change comes "WTF" threads in the forums and also resistance to change so I'm totally bookmarking this thread and maybe assigning the URL to a paste function on one of my spare 20 mouse buttons. ;)

This will be interesting because I always wanted to know how many games I _truly_ own on GOG, not just purchased products but the individual games they contain. Having them all show up individually will be a nice way to find out, although what will happen to expansion packs?

Anyhow thanks for doing this, it's a welcome change in my books!
Post edited March 09, 2015 by skeletonbow
Sounds like an unnecessary change to me. Most of those bundled games are small anyway.

Also, how is this going to be handled for games that use the same manual, such as Leisure Suit Larry Collection? Are we going to have a download link to the same manual for 5/6 different games?
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InfraSuperman: Will Alone in the Dark 2 and 3 also get individual "boxes" in the library or will they remain extras for the original Alone in the Dark? After all, they're technically not "bundled" together.
Yeah, that has always been a strange anomaly IMHO, you have to know they're there and manually go install them from extras instead of the main installer installing all 3 games like almost every other game in the catalogue. :)
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djdarko: Also, how is this going to be handled for games that use the same manual, such as Leisure Suit Larry Collection? Are we going to have a download link to the same manual for 5/6 different games?
Some extras are already the same for the whole series.
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aluinie: no you cant tomb raider 1 - 3 love being bundled together lara will cry if she split her up.
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Fever_Discordia: ...but don't like to hang out with their expansion packs, apparently...
Unfinished Business is a free download from somewhere online, I had it bookmarked somewhere but can't seem to find it. I've got it installed though, but it would be nice if GOG could just include that directly with the game.
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Barefoot_Monkey: By the way, Ciris, how come your thread titles are never blue? This is totally a blue-worthy announcement :)
Blue threads are those created by the GOG.com account, not by staff members. There are multiple examples of those non-blue staff threads around, though they are rare indeed.
I guess it's already happening. Mortal Kombat 1,2,3 took 3 places on the shelf. Yet Tomb Raider 1,2,3 still takes only one.
You can't make everyone happy but I'm a little surprised by the hate for this. I really don't mind especially in cases (like I joked about earlier with Commandos) where the two games are too damn big, and different, to be lumped together. On top of that, I worship Tomb Raider, but it's not like I need 1-3 on my pc at THE SAME TIME! :P

I would also like to mention this is a pretty minor thing to bitch about, but considering some of the stupid crap I moan about, I think I'll pass on this particular argument. :D
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mrkgnao: Thank you for the heads up.

It seems you are doing this because it was requested by some users. Did you take into consideration that more users might NOT want this feature, but did not think to request that the current state be left unchanged (or better yet, do the reverse, i.e. bundle the previously-unbundled Cognition, XWing, Tie Fighter, etc.)?

Too late, I guess.
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Tallima: I think it will be more useful for many users of Galaxy. You'll be able to track how long you've played an individual game and you'll also be able to join bundled multiplayer games easier. I would imagine it's a lot easier to make Galaxy and the website look the same.

Moreover, we might get some new box covers (Cognition got a bunch)!
As far as I remember there will be also no new GOG Downloader, which means Galaxy will also do this job. In fact from gog point of view it makes sense to have only one library struture, and as it seems more logical for a client to install, update and manage each game on it's own it should be really no surprise that the usual library will also switch to single game downloads and management.

Edit: Just another idea, if GOG will do it smart they will have an autoroutine to create the downloadable installers from the game install files used for Galaxy. In that case they only need update one package and not multiple.
Post edited March 09, 2015 by DukeNukemForever
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Ciris: Following your many requests and in connection with preparing game libraries better for GOG Galaxy, we’re going to be starting what we’re calling unbundling games.
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mrkgnao: Thank you for the heads up.

It seems you are doing this because it was requested by some users. Did you take into consideration that more users might NOT want this feature, but did not think to request that the current state be left unchanged (or better yet, do the reverse, i.e. bundle the previously-unbundled Cognition, XWing, Tie Fighter, etc.)?

Too late, I guess.
I would certainly have preferred this. It annoys me that Cognition is listed as a series of episodes. The option to at least download the whole set at once would be nice.
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011284mm: Please do not unbundle DLC's from their games, it is bad enough as it is for game like SotS:TP.
Probably makes sense to have a properties page on the game with a DLC option, similar to how Steam does it per-game.
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mrkgnao: What could go wrong? GOG never ever messed up anybody's library.
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IAmSinistar: So that's why Fallout 1 keeps disappearing from the shelf. They're rebundling it with Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics so that they can unbundle it properly.

No, wait...
In truth, the only true purpose of all this unbundling is to make it ever more difficult to notice that Fallout is gone.
Post edited March 09, 2015 by mrkgnao
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PaterAlf: Damned, it just occured to me that the unbundling will destroy my 10% quota. I always try to have at least 10% of games in my library that I successfully completed. Of course there will be some games that I can add to the completed section when GOG is unbundling the packs. But on the other hand there will be a lot of new games from packs that I've never touched so far.
Just go to howlongtobeat.com and look up all of your games, pick the games with the shortest solution times, then get cracking! Gotta keep up your ratio! :)
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mrkgnao: In truth, the only true purpose of all this unbundling is to make it ever more difficult to notice that Fallout is gone.
To that end it may succeed. Hell, once they do this, I don't know if I'll even notice a game disappearing until I go to download it.
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Fever_Discordia: ...but don't like to hang out with their expansion packs, apparently...
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skeletonbow: Unfinished Business is a free download from somewhere online, I had it bookmarked somewhere but can't seem to find it. I've got it installed though, but it would be nice if GOG could just include that directly with the game.
Here: http://www.tombraiderhub.com/guides/2014/12/11/tomb-raider-advanced-installer/