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Continue to provide offline installer executables
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evethewhiterabbit Visiting the site again I was rather alarmed to find that the offline installers are called 'backups' and put away into a drop-down menu. For me, at least, these are primaries, not backups; I have no intention of using Galaxy at any point.
Slick_JMista The day this stops is the day i stop buying from gog.
BandanaBob The Very Reason of why i use GOG...
zalmox what made me switch to gog from steam is when they dropped winxp support. I like playing my older games on original hardware as they were intended to be played. The moment when offline installers disappear, i as a client will disappear too !
Sfinks07 I have no intention of using Galaxy at any point!!!
Sfinks07 For me GOG = Offline Installer
For me GOG = DRM Free
I always support this site and buy Games for GOG Offline Setup and DRM Free
NovHak This wish is almost a troll. I doubt GOG has such an intention, but should they do this, they can sugar-coat this however they want, I’m out for good.
hschoepel I can fully understand the way GoG might go with forced online installer ! There are way too many websites out where you can just download the GoG games for free. I hate piracy and this already result in lot of money loss if nobody is buying the games here.
This Community wishlist is pointless if only 1-2 people are paying for the game here and all other download the games for free and just use the Galaxy installer to install it. It already cost shit lot of money to get the licenses to provide games on this website !
LurkerLito I still buy here even after buying a game on Steam mainly because of OFFLINE Installers. If GoG moved to a requires Galaxy to install and download I would have no need to ever buy a game here again. The only thing GoG has going for it is DRM-Free and Offline installers. Client downloader/installer/updater = DRM to me. Remember Impulse? They had some DRM-Free games, I bought several that required the client to install. They went under and I lost those games. So yeah Client only Installer/Updater = DRM.
syscrusher @Sarang - Yes, retail movie DVDs and Blu-rays and videos and music CDs backed up to Blu-ray M-disc 25 GB.
alt3rn1ty +1
I hate the fact that GOG now hides the Offline Manual Installers in a drop down menu, and calling them "Backups" .. feels like mission creep to me. If they ever switch to everything needs Galaxy, I'm out of here. To me Galaxy is just another process running in the background I don't want to be running, it's also a potential vector for Malware to utilise as an attack on our security (its happened before but GOG very quickly and aggressivley silenced any posts about it and quickly made amends to the Galaxy code).
Sarang I heart syscrusher!!! We think the same way. I hope you are doing the same for FLAC files and movies.
SpikedWallMan If the offline installers go away then I'm outta here.
syscrusher Offline installers and no DRM are the exact reasons why I belong to GOG. Writing them to my Blu-ray M-discs is the closest there is to owning physical copies of purchased games.
classic-gamer Since we have Galaxy we don't need offline installers anymore. GOG should save the high costs and use it otherwise.
XM16E It would be nice if we could order GOG branded physical copies of the installers on pressed discs (not burnt discs).
But I understand that would require ordering machinery, hiring a dedicated staff and opening a department solely for physical reproduction discs and negotiating shipping contracts for multiple countries.
I've had one of my hard drives fail, taking a bunch of back ups with it. including my back up copies of Homeworld, Battlezone II, SEGA Smash Pack Vol. 2, Heavy Gear II, and the "Games for Windows Live" versions of Fallout 3 and New Vegas. I still have original discs and they all still read, but I like having them backed up digitally for peace of mind.
Enderoff offline forever! thanks GOG! I like to own the things that i paid for.
a_real_user_name I have never used the Galaxy client and probably never will.
Syphon72 One of the blues said they have no plans on removing offline installers.
Syphon72 GOG is useless to me without offline installer.
Seb3.7 offline installers forever! ✊
SpellSword I agree with Evethewhiterabbit.
The Galaxy client was initially marketed as an 'Optional' client and I thought that was pretty good. As it is optional it would be nice if the 'Offline Installers' were easier to find.
VoradorSurtur Definitively there should be offline installers. This is why I have chosen GOG - no constant need of online activation, logins logouts, no DRM's, no need to download DRM to download your game - which the constantly updating launchers are - and I hope galaxy will NOT become one any time soon, you can even not have internet and still be able to reinstall if needed. Galaxy is just and option for easy life. and should remain so.
GOG returned us what was rightfully ours and was taken from us when the companies digitalized the market - our ownership of what we gave our money for.
With DRM free offline installers - now we have and own our games we gave OUR money for - like when we had our disks. I buy it, I OWN IT, and no one can change the stupid EULA every day AFTER the deal is concluded, and no one can just remove the game from the platform and shrug shoulders - well it is no longer available. Another interesting point that comes to the mind because well there it is, is that if there are no offline installers anymore - you can get in the point like with steam very easy - for example the scenario with "you have to upgrade to next operating system because of plot in 150 days for example OR ELSE" - which in my opinion is extortion to give Microsoft money. My security, my games and the things I gave money for are not anyone else's problem in this matter. "But chromium blah-blah is not working anymore on this system" - well find a way, you provide me "service" that should not even be service in the first place, not the other way around. But of-course nobody cares that you paid for the product and now it is being taken away from you. Do not work on this system? Well make alternative - I bought it on this system and it worked on this system. Constant updates with constant changes and constant but this and but that... that is why I rejected steam and I love GOG - if there is something I want and it can be found here - I will always come here first. And will not return there or go anywhere else If I have ANY other choice.
Larisabrownb From posts I've seen there are a lot of... not tech savvy people... not knowing what these installer files are. Sometimes we forget the average PC gamer, with all this automation, doesn't really have to know much to play games on something like Steam. Galaxy is their attempt to make it easier for these normies to play games through their platform (and any linked platform) to gain more users and potential buyers. It makes sense. I think we'll alw
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Xeshra I hate to admit, but i am not very happy with the way CDPR is nowadays acting, yet i am not sure how much of "force" they still hold toward GoG. The issue is that, as soon as a company got a certain size... such as CDPR, they got less interest into being customer friendly. Their main focus is to provide their shareholders with sufficient profit, so they keep "investing", which is their main source of income. The rest of it is customer-support, and because the customers can be manipulated you simply need to know "how to manipulate them", all good... I really worry that this capitalistic system may someday break to much bones. The majority will even admire it... because they can not feel themself properly and will need a broken bone a month... borderline-syndrome from the masses, i believe. Anyway, i strongly recommend not to destroy the installers, because even worse than to less broken bones is to lose your heart... and soul.
SargonAelther @RedRubio CDPR themselves are a threat to our offline way of life with their Galaxy-Only "My Rewards" and now Twitch Drops and other junk.
255ff Access to these files is essential for Linux gamers, as long as they'll not port Galaxy to Linux...
DoomSooth You read too much into "backup". They're called backup installers so we can back them up. Would you prefer to archive a game that's already installed and have to manually copy registry keys and such, or would you prefer to use an installer that handles that for you?
dhonavin If Galaxy is required to download these offline installers, that would be the end. Galaxy is their way of trying to get modern gamers to switch over. But there would be no defense for requiring Galaxy at any point from purchase to download. From posts I've seen there are a lot of... not tech savvy people... not knowing what these installer files are. Sometimes we forget the average PC gamer, with all this automation, doesn't really have to know much to play games on something like Steam. Galaxy is their attempt to make it easier for these normies to play games through their platform (and any linked platform) to gain more users and potential buyers. It makes sense. I think we'll always have these files to download, they bury them for the newbies so they don't get confused IMO lol
RedRubio I mean, not sure that's a "threat" on our offline way of life - BUT if it is, then yes, shouldn't even be a doubt: it's one of the main reasons I pick GOG over the rest.
EV_Gamer Yes!
yestok Should be #1 Priority and the marketing should reflect this.
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