Nice to hear....btw is that it's actual name(my program)? And if so, have you thought about giving it a more interesting official name yet besides just calling it "my program"?

Sounds good

It is, though, when compared to the full GOG userbase.....to put it into perspective, around 300,000 people downloaded the Legend of Keepers Prologue....so around 600 compared to at least 300,000 GOG users(and we likely have more than that).

Also as others said, the wishlist for adding Linux to galaxy sits at 25,000 or so.....a much bigger number.....and nothing has been done on that end.

I agree they should've gone into more detail as to their reasons for doing so, but would some(who are vocal about this) accept ANY answer beyond "we will add it back to the site"?
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To everyone: Look, if they brought it back it'd be nice for those who need it(actually need it, not just don't want to use anything else), but at this point it's likely that's not going to happen....which is why those fighting for it have to eventually make a choice....continue championing a likely lost cause for as long as GOG is a thing, or move on somehow(use an alternative[if any], buy elsewhere, buy here anyways).

I haven't been keeping track of your personal stances towards gog through the ages (especially as I wasn't giving enough attention to GOG's shifts). I just notice that you keep deliberately avoiding the matter at hand here, people complaining about an obligatory caravan, by answering that a car is obligatory.

If your responses had been honest (stuff like "yeah, gog keeps trying to make galaxy obligatory as much as they can without it looking too official ...BUT i don't care because i accept anything for drm-free games" or "...BUT i don't care because i'm happy using 3rd party softs instead"), okay. But your denial rhetorics (claiming there is no difference between offering a standalone downloader or a social gaming bloatware client to manage downloads) shows me that there is not the slightest attempt or intend to grasp the nature of the complains, whatever your motive. Because it's you, you won't fool me into thinking it's a question of lack of intelligence. You have your reasons too prefer looking away, and to do it noisily. How they articulate with your former critical stances is your business.

Just don't expect others to simply go "duh, yeah, after all, having to use gogdownloader and having to use galaxy is absolutely exactly the same thing, where's the problem".

We would probably do better without your input.

You already falsely portrayed me as someone who thinks GOG can do no wrong. I have no time to argue with someone who would question my motives instead of my stance.

SirPrimalform, it would help if you would clarify your stance.

You have decided that a third party approach is required by you in order to use the only existing method left in order to download gog games without installing Galaxy. All is fair and good with this.

You will surely appreciate that this may not be acceptable to some and an extremely infuriating prospect to others.

Can we agree that anything that places a hurdle in front of a paying customer should at least be considered by gog?

You just don't stop do you.
Why are you even here, in this topic.
And still not reading properly ... you even quoted the name of MY PROGRAM (GOGDownload Checker) in your second quote.

As you should recall, I am not really promoting my program yet, as I don't want to distract from what many of us really want. It will get its own thread if I ever do wish to promote it. And gawd, you only had to click the link to discover my program's name ... all too hard I guess for some.

For those who want some kind of solution to our current dilemma, my program is available to help out, but not replace.

Still not reading properly and putting two and two together.

I clearly stated, that you cannot compare the voting number for something that has always been missing (i.e. Linux downloader) with something that has existed, but has now been removed without a good clear explanation or perceived need to do so. Two very different things, and not logical to compare numbers over.

To spell that last out even more clearly. The GOG Downloader could return, just by making a decision, throwing a switch in essence, while with all the other false comparisons, it requires substantial work and time and effort.

And even though 598 votes is small compared to the total number of customers at GOG, it is still a huge number to ignore profit from, so one has to be realistic and not just throw comparison numbers around as if they mean more than they do. And especially not wise to ignore us, if as we suspect, GOG ain't doing so good.

We really do need to spell out things for you don't we. Perhaps that should be your clue, to your flawed thinking and lack of being able to use logic and see the bigger picture. I say that in a friendly tone. :)

My program, GOGDownload Checker, has been updated to v1.2, and uploaded.

The update includes support for BZ2 files, and RAR files now require UnRAR, as 7-Zip surprisingly does not test RAR files, despite being able to open them. I have also added support for PDF files, and have been looking into media files, though not added that yet. Several more options have been added to the console window, as can be seen in the screenshot at GitHub.

See my project here - https://github.com/Twombs/GOGDownload-Checker

Latest release here - https://github.com/Twombs/GOGDownload-Checker/releases

At best, my program is just a slow stop-gap measure, but needed right now, because file integrity for archiving is vitally important.
It is not a replacement for the GOG Downloader, only a helper while it is missing.

My program is not a 100% guarantee, but it is far better than nothing.

This is why we need the GOG Downloader back.

LET GOG KNOW HOW YOU FEEL BY VOTING
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/keep_the_gog_downloader_and_keep_it_up_to_date

Still steadily climbing, there is 657 votes now.

Great work Timboli! Glad you didn't leave after all. I've been wanting for a long time to be able to verify my downloaded installers in a simple way. Of course I know of GOGrepy, but I'm put off by the complexity of using Python to get GOGrepy to work.

You honestly think you'd get tons more votes/etc if I didn't post here?

One could also ask this: Why are any of the ones asking for GOG DLer to come back(despite it being obvious to most that that most likely won't happen) posting about such on GOG for so long?

Sometimes some things just don't make any sense to some others.

Did I? If I did and actually missed it then sorry for that.

Actually, you seem to have done this by not getting the point I was trying to make: i.e. that the GOG galaxy for Linux wishlist entry has gotten more votes and GOG didn't bother fulfilling it, hence the chances of GOG fulfilling this one(especially after 3+ threads on it) being extremely low.

Proof of this...that it is so easy to do?

Sadly, 598 is nothing compared to HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of customers.

Or maybe I see it more realistically, being not as emotionally invested as some of you are, and can see things that some of you don't want to acknowledge? That is also a very likely possibility.

I was just coming in to say how about calling it "MyGOGC" or "MyGOGChecker" if you decided to name it, but I see you already did (or very close to it). :)

Just one thing, if you didn't notice (or it might have been mentioned in this thread and I missed it lol), there is a integrity check when you use the offline installers. While the GOG installer doesn't mention this by default, if you misname a file in a several file game/archive it does say that a file is missing and will be prompted for but integrity check will not occur.

I don't know how robust this check is compared to yours, but it is there at least.

Giggles, no, your posts are rather stressful and am sure they bring in votes because of that.

Oh, you are right with this except for one tiny little thing. You still posting here does not make sense for ANYBODY - not even yourself if you are honest. Let me explain:

You think, our fight is a lost cause and you think we should not post here at all because it is senseless. You only posted this to tell us your opinion. Well - you did. We disagree but we heard your opinion. So do you really want to convince us to stop our fight and stop posting here for GOG to see? You are out of luck so you might as well move on. You see, there is absolutely NO reason for ANYBODY that you still post here - not even yourself, since you already told us your opinion (I guess at least 100 times or so). I mean ... wait ... perhaps you are just bored in your live and doing this for entertainment. In that case let me please tell you that this might entertain you but it's extremely annoying for everybody else. Oh - and we are still posting here because we DON'T think that our fight is already lost ... at least we don't think that it is a bad idea to let GOG know that we are still offended.

I seriously gon't get why are you all still responding to this guy. He's just about the most obvious troll since Bert, Tom and William from The Hobbit.

Keep fighting the good fight. However there is a good chance that you will lose though because I have seen quite a few wishlist items that go up on GOG with several thousand votes that GOG didn't do anything about or they tired and didn't succeed and I have seen others succeed.