Thank you. I now have something to check out this weekend.

Did you get them from their GitHub repositories, or elsewhere?

I linked them by editing my previous message. I was on my phone before.
I think you should only use their official repositories (look at the release for the download).

Cheers.

I chuckled so hard here, cheers a bunch.


You know what's even worse about this? They removed manual sorting with the argument that "it was beyond our reach to deliver the quality we wanted to". And last year (iirc) they added a couple of organising options only in GOG Galaxy (don't remember in which thread I found out about it, but I remember having exchanged a few posts with Grargar about it).

On a side note (and perhaps not the best of times to suggest this), if you're not averse to using user-scripts, fellow adaliabooks has made a script, Adalia Fundamentals that adds back manual sorting among other things.

EDIT: typo (not my day, eh?)

I don't think it's Monday night anywhere in the world. It's Wed night in Europe.

I just only now have time to look at this a bit, but it seems to be a new low point for GOG indeed. How you can state "No activation or online connection required to play." on the card when this is apparently untrue is baffling.

Technically that is true, I installed the game on a PC that was completely offline and could start the game and play no issue, the problem is that the game has a lot of features that are locked to an online server connection which can prevent you from accessing weapons, suits, starting points, and even difficulty levels.

So yes you can start and play the game, but you will have a very limited experience unless you connect to the IOI servers.

Please don't ask for any further information as I have been refunded and have removed the game days ago.

I see, it's another occurrence of a misleading move. Bummer, but I can't say it's really that surprising by now.

"I'm with you fellers." -Delmar O'Donnell

I was too curious to wait until the weekend. I bought a game I suspected was client-dependent and tried it. It indeed did not run.

I copied the goldberg dll and voila it works.

This is a complete game changer for me. Thank you so much.

I'll wait with streamless until goldberg fails to work on some future game.

Thanks again.

They want to eat their cake and have it too. They want to please the DRM-Free crowd, but they also want that sweet sweet cash from newer games and publishers, who are going to continue to push the envelope of what's allowed here in newer releases.

I know what you mean...I think I have some games I never would've bought otherwise, except to support them being here DRM-free with the offline primary installers and all that jazz. There are also some cases where (in a more fortunate time), I waited for a game to go OFF of sale and bought it full price to support. Unless things change majorly for the better now though, I can't see myself doing that ever again, even if I won the lottery.

Taking this Hitman Online game off the store, apologizing, and giving us a sincere look at what circumstances led to its release in the first place would be a start at having me consider that kind of support again. Which is sad, as I have often said to have the DRM-free offline installers in many cases to me would be worth even more than full price; I consider many games a total steal basically even if not on sale. DRM games however are worth less than zero.

What would you have GoG do? I would argue removing this loophole, even if it utterly fucks games like Spore and anything that needs to verify item collection for whatever reason. The chance of situations, like this one, being left in because technical loophole is just too high. Not amount of selling newer games is worth the risk this occurs again. I have no reason to believe this as anything but an outlier for abuse, as would happen in any storefront, and thus blame the publisher -far- more than GoG, but it doesn't change GoG would have to moderate shit like this, which isn't worth the price of admission. But that comes with a cost that games like Hitman may be a no go. Now, a storefront should be willing to outright say "no" to a product on the basis it's low quality or unstable, but there is still a price tag to go hardball with this.

As you said, they want to have their cake and eat it. Which is possible, but I don't think they have the staff to pull it off, nor will they have that staff or training forever. It's better to just close the loophole to never be misused.

I'm not even sure how Hitman could be a cash cow so to speak, the GOG off-sale price is high, it's been given away fro free on Epic and on deep discount on Steam a number of times.

I honestly think the whole Hitman thing has been one big great example of multiple failures within GOG and a disconnect with their users, even follow-up statements have been poor. You don't blame your users for expressing discontent and the other follow-up was just odd. There's always time for a good positive change, but I don't even think their socks on at, never mind the shoes. Hopefully though!

That's.....a damn good point honestly. this isn't how youd drive people toward GoG and only GoG. Besides GoG has already had pretty big sellers. Hollow Knight is on sale right now and has none of these problems. It help's sell MY point this is a mistake and GoG's moderators are trying to play goalie when it's not a good idea. And it's not the first AAA title on here either.