Goodbye GOG Downloader, you served me well!

It was a useful program please pass on my thanks to whoever wrote it.

If the downloader is going inactive I would really like more options to download the installers such as download all for the installers that have a lot of parts.

Had no idea the GOG Downloader was still functioning. It would be great to have some alternative means to download games from GOG introduced in the future. Perhaps official GOG torrents?

At now, 10:45 AM.

I've done an attempt to download Blackguards and its sequel via GOG Downloader.

Seems it's still working.

And it's doing its job without problem, as always for me (and many others)!
If a tool works fine, there is no need to discharge it!!!

^this, that's why we want to keep it.:)

Let us all collectively download Huniepop with the GOG downloader one last time. To let it off with a bang ;). Cheers

If everyone had that stance it's likely not much would ever be improved/improve....or at least to the degree it does in modern times.

Sometimes things change and it'd be best for some(in general I mean) to move on(though of course this is usually up to them...but sometimes these sort of things are not our choices to make and are made for us) if it's something mostly/fully out of our control.

(Of course this is not me saying that change should be mostly/solely done for the sake of change)

Let's be honest, here.....it's likely close to under a thousand users at best(going by the wishlist numbers and extrapolating for/adding in those likely people who didn't vote yet and those who don't feel like voting for some reason but still want GOG DLer).

Should GOG be expected(or forced) to provide things/support/do work for such a tiny fraction of the user base when said fraction can either use another(even NON-GALAXY) method or maybe even make a new one for their needs(and those of others)?
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The Serenity prayer says it best, I think(it applies to many things, not just this) :

"Grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

I'm not in fatalist stuff: if something is wrong, I do not accept it. Period. And the only thing I can do is the same others will do: stopping purchasing.

I migrated here, tired of Steam... Hell, tired of the entire new way to see gaming industry: always connected, forced to play with others. etc. A big middle finger to all of this!

I'm here because I thought GOG could give me a chance to be free to play without being connected, without sort-of-social junk client, etc.

But now... GOG is becoming an ugly clone of Valve's site.

You are free to not believe me, fine. But, if this is GOG's actual route, remember my words when all of you will be forced to use Galaxy (and ONLY it) to download your titles.

It means to try changing what one can, but if something is certain or near certain to not be changeable & there is little point to trying too much to change such things, that one should then focus on working on what one CAN change instead.

Also as for stopping purchasing: This is likely gonna come off bad/uncaring(though that is not my intention), but...do you really think GOG cares much if they lose a handful of us(any of us, even me)?

I don't think that will happen, BUT if GOG ever went that route i'd likely be standing with everyone else against it.

sucks but what are consumers of the service gonna do, but grumble at GOG again.

When there are so many things that don't work, or work very badly, and even more that don't even really exist at all but should and could, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" needs to be a rule to live by.
(And there you go again just with what I was saying, fighting with such determination for not fighting.)

I'll remain loyal to myself: this is all I care. :)

Agreed, but it likely cost them SOME amount of time/money(even if seemingly small to us) to support a likely very small chunk of the user base.....also they are a business, not a charity/family/close friends....I don't get why some(seemingly) cannot get that.

(Or maybe they do and don't want to get it?)

What is the saying about it being near pointless to try to move a mountain? That would apply here, I think.

Now if a movement/push has a good chance of being supported or succeeding then it'd be more realistic to pursue/go through with such, imo.

(Or did I get what you meant by this bit wrong, and you meant something else with this?)

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Now THIS I support 105%....agreed wholeheartedly. :)

Dam it ... It's dead Jim! :(

Shame it was better than both Galaxy and Direct website downloads. Galaxy is just bloated software for me just to download the game. The website, is just a pain in the ass because you have to download a bunch of files separately one by one. *sigh*

Though I knew it was coming when I had an issue with a broken gog downloader link a couple of months back and when I mentioned it to support they told me it wasn't going to be fixed.