How do I find the downloader link for my games? I've only ever downloaded my games via my library page.

Well, it's there too. See attached picture. Just click on the GOG Downloader Links option.

Ah right, thanks. The reason that's gone unnoticed for me is that I use Adalia Fundamentals to control my library page and that option doesn't appear.


EDIT: Scrub that - I was looking under the wrong menu. It's there. Blush!

I have no idea what you just asked.

First of all, GOG Downloader didn't exist in the beginning of the GOG site. I am pretty sure at first the browser downloads were the only way to download GOG games.

Second, that is normal on other sites too. E.g. DotEmu offered only browser links to download games, In Humble Bundle they are also the main method, just a couple of days ago I downloaded A.I.M. freebie game from indiegala.com with the browser...

The option to browser downloads is Galaxy.

The browser links ARE the "proper download method". Can use them in any browser (well, any that the site works in, since they decided to severely restrict compatibility) and, as mrkgnao pointed out, also with your download manager of choice if you choose to use one. They should improve how they work, definitely, posting file hashes and offering one-click options for full download of installer files and/or extras in one click straight in browser, but the basic download... system is that one. Anything else is a client, and GOG must never require one (at least for singleplayer I guess, same as it is with connections/DRM, but I'm not aware of games with separate SP and MP installers, so irrelevant).
Yeah, though admittedly they came up with the Downloader very soon after launch, first asking about it in early Sep 2009. Oddly, the OP of that thread seems to have been mixed up with another, but you can find it quoted in a post. See first mention of the Downloader as being used in Oct, though I gather those were betas, see a mention of a v. 0.9 later. And in that original thread, a post mentioning "Downloader. Final" on Dec 16, 2009, so over a year later.

I won't miss it. Haven't used it in a couple of years anyway. Galaxy does the same work for me, plus it checks if any of my installed games needs updating. I also don't use galaxy for anything other than that, And if some disaster prevents it from working, the browser links are there if need be.
Like others mentioned, i do wish they would flesh out some more the download function, I would have switched to gogrepo if i had any clue about how to work with it.

If you use AF you even have the option to make downloader links the default - which I did :)
Still working - at least with adalia fundamentals (see attachment).
Edit: Accessing the page manually I also get a 404 - so GOG just removed the site and not the actual links. With AF installed you can still use those.

That's what I've been doing for years which was why I didn't see the GOG Downloader link :D

So will "Download offline backup game installer" still be there for each game? My gaming PC isn't hooked up to the internet. I'm currently downloading on another computer.

Those will still be there yes, it's the ones under GOG downloader links that are set to disappear.

and
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I play games on a computer that is not connected to the interwebz.
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So, you don't want Gog to announce anything unpopular?
You are a champion!

Thank you for the clarification. :)

I would like to see them linked to the page for each game.

+1

I'd support that.

Or:
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I've been expecting it for a while now.

Or make a new version that is not backwardly compatible with any extant automated process ….

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Fortunately it is not an option to remove a default FTL process within a web browser.

Please tell me that you didn't actually expect any blue text to show up after the initial announcement to add even a single word?



When GOG first announced its plans for the GOG Galaxy client, a number of us were interested, and repeatedly asked if they'd make it modular, so those not interested in the social/whatever else features but were happy with the way the GOG Downloader worked, could switch over after the discontinuation of the latter. They never acknowledged, let alone answered, those inquires. And as the future showed, they didn't make it modular. I don't know if they even tried and for whatever (business?) reason decided against it, but from my experience they don't seem to have the skill to actually pull it off successfully.

Not expecting ... but you know what people say about hope? ;)

With the restriction that the 3rd party tools are not supported by GOG in any way. We still even wait for any documentation from GOG about the Galaxy protocol. The removal of the downloader support might be a good reason to vote for publishing the Galaxy protocol to support the 3rd party clients.

Looking at the web site and their Linux support it's more like Steam 0.5, at best. ;P

Or even decide to fix it. I'm not sure what scares me more. ;)

I mentioned earlier I would like GOG to offer an option for p2p protocol in e.g. Galaxy.

Now that I think about it... couldn't GOG offer it already in their web site, just like Humble Store has done for years? So on each game download page, there is an optional torrent link that you can use too.

It could even be that torrent link contains all the installer files in one torrent (maybe two separate torrent links, one for the installer files and another for the extras), so that would take care of the request for one-click downloads. (However, something that might complicate that is how you get more download links to your game download page based on what DLCs or soundtracks you have bought separately; not sure how that could be handled, can the torrent link be "dynamic" so that it understand which files to include in the torrent, based on what you have purchased? In the worst case, each purchased DLC package would have a separate torrent link, I guess.).

Also, for people who complain they constantly get corrupted downloads with a web browser due to shitty internets, the bittorrent protocol takes care of that, making sure the data integrity is fine.

The only downside would be that you'd have to have a separate bittorrent client installed and running on your system (just like with those Humble Bundle torrent links), but on the other hand then you could freely choose which bittorrent client to use, just like you can choose which browser to use. And of course for people who have data caps or pay per megabyte, uploading to others is not preferable.

Even GOG would benefit from this as it would take some of the load off of the GOG download servers.