It shouldn't be, and let's hope not. Galaxy is an optional service of GoG's. It isn't directly what people are paying for and isn't the purest representation of GoG's DRM-free gaming principle. The offline installers are that.

Some of the IP reverted, but the remainder and the servers were bought by LCG Entertainment. They took the decision to allow people to download previously purchased games (which helped keep some trust in the brand) while they looked at what they could do with the IP they did retain.

It shouldn't be, but it has happened before...including to users ITT: user nightcraw1er.488 has (iirc) asked GOG about "less than optimal"(i.e. broken for some) game versions in their library, and been told essentially to "Use Galaxy!" to roll back to older versions.

Agreed and well said.

Yes, afraid a lot of it is galaxy only. They will try to sell you “it’s optional”, but they themselves don’t believe it. The topic mentioned was in regards to old versions as sometimes new versions break, or lack content:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/provide_a_full_and_complete_changelogged_download_system

Unfortunately as normal, GOG have failed to acknowledge any issues, a support ticket will just get you a “why don’t you our optional galaxy client”, and complaining about it will get you downvoted off the website by GOGs bots and defenders. Hence why nothing has ever got fixed on the website or the offline installers, only galaxy so they can move towards the glorious cyberpunk microtransaction gambling markets they dream of.

Yeah, that was it....thanks for linking it, btw.



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Well subjective taste doesn't always apply to everyone. Also, some versions change/add/remove various things.....so it's always good to have various versions, if possible.

That said, it is good to hear the other version has been added as an offline installer. :)

Thank you very much, that was the best solution. I sent an email to support to close my ticket.

Thank you for the clarification.

That's great to hear, and it makes GoG's service shine when a situation like this one is acknowledged and addressed with understanding of people's interests and concerns. Thank you.



I think it would be fantastic, exemplary service, and great PR, if GoG made it an official store policy that, any time there's a significant repackaging of a game, that the previous package (and any before that) as well as the new one will be available as offline installers.

By "any time there's a significant repackaging of a game", I don't mean simply when there's a new version of a game. I mean when the core identity of the package has clearly changed, such as in this case with one being the DOS release and the other being the SNES release, or in the case where a new company takes over an IP and creates their own repackaging of it (and they modify the existing store listing rather than create a new one), or when there becomes a remastered or enhanced edition of a game for which the vanilla version was previously available.