Nice fancy new installer.
Wants to put things in a new place (probably bacause Windows 7 et al get pissed off at things in Program Files writing stuff in there).

So, first of all I can't just change the drive letter from C to E because the whole path is different now Well, I can live with that - I'll do it the hard way ... but wait whats that?

Path contains illegal characters.

The dot in GOM.com isn't allowed any more. Was there a memo from Microsoft I missed?

So now I have to have a second folder where I put my GOG games.

Sometimes its the little things that annoy you the most you know.

The reason for the dot is because some games were uncomfortable with being in a dotted directory, so some games installed in GOG.com and some in GOGcom. They standardized the directory by removing the dot for everything.

Well I now have 67 GOG games happily playing in "GOG.com"
And 4 in "GOG com"

Its just plain untidy is all.

And I am not uninstallnig and re-installing the other 67 to fix it,

You could just merge the folders. I feel like you're making an unnecessarily large deal of this. I actually do visually prefer the old installer, but I appreciate they're standardizing directory names.

Meh. All my games, whether GOG, Steam, Origin, or other go onto my E:\Games drive. No big deal to me.

Humor transmission failure on my part.
Not really a big deal - just a minior annoyance.

It does at least look like subsequent installs will remember that last place you installed a GOG game to and use that from then on - so I wont actually have to change anything next time.

Oh, and I do like how the new downloader bunched the parts of a game and tis extras together now.

By the way - care to tell me how to "just merge the folders" together and ensure that all the games and their shortcuts are going to continue to work? Have I missed that useful utility in XP?

This slightly annoyed me too, but I can live with it.

You can rename folders, merge and such, but the problem with doing that is Windows 7 changes all the Start Menu icons for GOG games to the sort of blank, generic like icons unless you leave the different installer type games in separate folders and don't rename them. Going into properties and trying to change the icons back doesn't work in my case. Not having the right icons just bothers me a little bit. (a little OCD) I discovered this with the Retro City Rampage installer by the way.
Strangely, when I recently installed some updated Interplay games that use the new installer, they installed in the usual separate folder in my drive, but somehow showed up in the GOG.com Start Menu folder with the other GOGs that use the older installer. All the icons were normal and everything, maybe that was fixed or it fixed itself?

HES RIGHT GUYS. ITS TIME TO SECEDE FROM THE GOG.COM UNION!!!

We'll have our own installer, our own gogdamn website, our own currency!

RISE UP GOGERS, RISE!

It's only for games that won't work when installed to a path containing a dot. Also, it was always like that for some games, even with the old installer. The only thing the new installer has changed is the default path. I just installed Costume Quest to C:\Games\GOG.com, so it's definitely not the new installer.

Also, we've had this discussion about 10 times in the past two weeks.

I must have just been lucky with the other 67 games. Missed that - did a quick scan of past posts and didnt see anything. Sorry.

Not particularly lucky, there were never that many of them. I have over 100 GOG games, and the only one I ever came across that wouldn't accept the dot in the path was Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 Triple Thrill Pack, but that used the old installer, not the new one. Also, as I said, I just installed Costume Quest to a path with a dot, and that definitely uses the new installer. Ergo, it's an issue with specific games, not with the old or new installer. Q.E.D. ;-)

Yup, I have 250+ GOG games and about 5 or 6 hate periods.

People bitched and moaned about the installer not accepting periods so a staffer decided to take the limit out.

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/deponia_2_cant_have_brackets_in_a_folders_title_you_want_to_install_it_too/post14

Very well, I stand corrected. It used to be a problem with the new installer, and with a very few specific games using the old installer.

The GOGcom thing isn't new, I've had several games installed there for quite some time.

And MS has never been very good about enforcing the legal characters in the filesystem. I remember nearly 20 years ago finding that I had directories which couldn't be deleted because they weren't named differently enough from each other. I can't recall what the specifics were, but I think the problem was that I used numbers in a way that MS didn't approve of.

And as has been noted, I think that it has less to do with GOG and probably more to do with the games they're installing. MS should never have created the Program Files (x86) directory as such.