My problem with the downloader is that there was only so much it could handle. I want to be able to select a directory and have all my games be downloaded there without thinking about it. I have close to 700 games. It's too much for the downloader to handle.

Yeah like shutting itself down halfway downloading, Locking up the whole PC, Would refuse to download multiple things just to name a few!

Why is this man downvoted he is right



Edit. Unless the suspension has expiree but it doesn't bmake sense either way

I've heard from other users who used to be in touch with staff that staff supposedly discussed the bot/rep issues, an their decision was to leave things the way they were.

(of course that was many months back, so things might have changed since then)

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Purchases would probably be better....as I don't think the other users doing so would likely want to buy a bunch of games for each of their bots just so they could more easily low rate people.

(Sci says it somewhat better in post 44)

I hear tell they hired the lowest bidder they could find to code/make it, and that that person is no longer with GOG.

Well it certainly wasn't as good as it could have been, but to my mind and that of many others, it was certainly heaps better than its Galaxy replacement.

Because I always download my games pretty much as soon as I buy them at GOG, I never had much issue with it ... except when it was the height of a big sale ... and Galaxy suffers then too ... even a 3rd party program like Free Download Manager 5 can suffer then ... GOG simple don't provide enough servers to cope ... especially in some jurisdictions and time periods.

One other caveat was the slow download speed at times for non game files (extras). That could be painful. So it wasn't perfect by any means.

I don't deny, that for some it appears to not have worked well, and I occasionally had such an issue ... not often.

I could sometimes load it with about 20 games to download, but never more than that.

I suspect the issues were PC and connection related ... especially the latter during big sales at GOG.

The PC I download my games on is very low powered and Win 7, but usually I have a fair connection ... even good in certain time periods. In some GOG sales I have had to give up and try again the next day ... not often.

Before COVID I was getting a pretty stable download speed of around 5 Mb/s. Not been as good since COVID, but I was very surprised just the other day when I saw a constant 6 Mb/s.

NBN friggin sucks yeah!

I’m using gogrepoc (Python-based) for all my GOG downloads and complete game library updates, and I have never experienced any slowdowns. It’s highly configurable, and I can run it nicely via a batch file for automated updates.

Likewise for me some of the time, except I use the original gogrepo.py. For large downloads though I tend to use Free Download Manager 5 as it is slightly faster and more reliable, resumes etc. I nearly always use gogrepo.py to verify my downloads though, so it is a bit of a mix and match for me.

I have tried the forked version of gogrepo.py, but on my PC with my connection I get terrible erratic speeds with it, such that I cannot rely on it. Not so with the original gogrepo.py. The forked version according to Kalanyr uses a different download method, and I guess my downloading PC is just too old and or under-powered for that method.

I run gogrepo.py in Windows from my own GUIs.

GOGRepo GUI
GOGRepo Simple GUI

Both can be found buried in my GOGPlus Download Checker thread here at GOG, which doesn't use gogrepo.py.