do you guys all back the installer up?

is it necessary to buy a new harddrive?i hope GOG is everything ok

It's a Good Idea to do so.

Not all do. But if you want to be safe, go ahead. Well that would depend on the installers and the old drive size. They just got Diablo. It doesn't get better than that.

Someone from gog already confirmed that everything is good.

Backing up games is good in general since that is one of the benefits of games on gog in the first place.

no, it's better to live dangerously.

Who knows? No one can predict the future. But there is definitely cause for concern with how GOG has been losing money in recent quarters.

The only almost 100% sure way to keep your games definitely safe is to have multiple backups of them, and with not all of them stored in the same physical location. If you don't have that, then you are taking your chances that you could potentially lose all of your games one day.

I back them up for convenience. I also append the download date to the folder name for easy checking of any updates.

There's no telling what the terms were. Did Blizzard throw a life-line to GOG? That would be good to hear.

Did GOG sell their soul to Blizzard in a Hail Mary to bring Diablo to their storefront? That is the sad reality that I expect.

Been backing up my games here for a few years. It's a great idea to because you never know when the internet will shut down, GOG will shut down, or they may change a game in the library.

I download every game right after my purchase, and back it up on a external hard disk.

Well if you back up your games, internet interruption won't stop you, you also get a fixed version you know what it is and certain mods that work only with said version...

One of the major advantages of buying DRM-Free versions is that you can back them up, so why not do so if you have to download the installer anyway to install it? Even if GOG remains fine long-term, you still gain other advantages like:-

1. Much faster re-install times from a local HDD

2. Immunity to Internet outages

3. Protection against games being altered in unwanted ways, eg, GTA IV had songs forcibly removed for licensing reasons not just for new customers but even existing ones for whom the music licenses were valid when they purchased it. Although I'm not aware of equivalent GOG games doing exactly this, the point is developers can push any update at any time that can change the cloud version in potentially unwanted ways and having a "static" local installer is insurance against that.

4. Can retain custom tweaked installs. Eg, the GOG versions of many games only come with official patches, not unofficial ones, 3rd party widescreen fixes or source ports. If you add these yourself, often you can "zip up" the files as they are which then saves a lot of time when reinstalling.

The only advice I would give is if you do start making backups, try and make at least two backups (on two drives) of important games you want to keep (this advice should really be followed by everyone anyway for all their personal irreplaceable data). That way if one HDD dies you can buy a replacement and restore it from the other.

There's no hurry to download everything now, BUT the point of DRM-free is to own copies that you can run without restrictions whenever you want.