Recently I have a problem with updating the games in my account, and I thought it might be good idea to adress this problem in the forum, since it seems to be a general problem. The problems consists in newer versions of the games being available as a new install, while the actual patches are not available.
At first this was the case for Gal CIv III, now it seems to be the same for Master of Orion. In one case I asked the support about this and they answered me that they were working on it. Since this was more than four months ago, I guess that this probably isn´t accurate anymore.
Maybe I failed to understand something, because otherwise it would mean that I am really expected to redownload and reinstall games with every new patch? For me this would actually mean not to buy any more recent games/ games still in development on gog.com, as this would be more than just a little inconvenience.
But maybe (and I really do hope so) there is something I missed, so please correct me if I am wrong.

Edit: Or is the answer that since there is gog galaxy, which updates the games automatically, gog.com does not provide the actual patches for games in any other way anymore? I don´t necessarly agree with certain complaints about galaxy being some kind of drm (I simply didn´t bother to learn about it) but gog galaxy does seem a little bit less optional, if it´s really necessary to keep games updated in a reasonable way, doesn´t it? But again, maybe I misunderstood something

This has been an issue for some time. I've also complained about it. Not sure exactly why it occurs this way for some games and not others, but I'm highly skeptical that they intend to do anything to change it.

Are not the patches or new files supplied by the developers? All GOG can do is remind them that not all players have fast internet connections and please make patches.

The slowest connection my ISP offers is 50mb/s (oh, do you really only want that one?!) but of course it is not like this all over the world and that is a fact of life.

I understand that the files are provided by the developers. But since the new files are provided, I thought there must exist something like a patch. I mean clients do not reinstall the whole game with every update, so there must be a patch and it just has to be converted into gog update, right? Obviously this might be a lot more complicated that I imagine but still , there is a patch, there is a new version the only thing missing is a patch for gog.com...

…or the facts of life.

Most likely there are variety of reasons they may not be able to provide a patch from the previous version to new version. If they can't or won't then yes, you have to re-download the entire game.

GOG provides the standalone installers for those who prefer using them over Galaxy, but providing separate upgrade patches seems to be less of an priority. They just get rolled into the full installer. They still provide the patches on the site just not as a separate download...

But Galaxy would be better for this in most cases as Galaxy has the ability to download the difference in the patches, instead of the entire game because Galaxy is designed for this and devs can push updates to Galaxy, meaning Galaxy sometimes gets patches before the site does. For instance Master of Orion sometimes gets patched on Galaxy before the site. This is because standalone installers still have to be manually packaged by GOG then tested and this is a slow process. On Galaxy this is not the case.

In this case, it could be the entire game as a new build, and the client may just change whatever is changed in the code and not DL the whole thing. GOG has to wrap them into their own installers, which shouldn't take too long, but does take time - and they test them (this is generally the reason we get patches a day or so behind other places like Steam). Still, why they din't inform the devs/publishers as suggested is frustrating (although maybe they do and the pubs/devs just don't care).

Well, I guess this means galaxy for me. As I said, I don´t think that this is necessarly a bad thing, just not so optional as I thougt it would be (because providing only an updated installer and forcing therefor to reinstall the game, obviously makes it too inconvenient not to use the galaxy client).
I accept that there might be very good reasons for this, but a little more clearity in the communication would have been appreciated (i.e. informing us that seperate patches are not longer a priority for gog).

Thank you to all of you for your information and help