So, gog is really struggling financially and has to resort to begging. Sad.

But then again, they already resorted to abandoning all their principles, including DRM-free, years ago.

That makes sense. TY for the balloon help. (:

Exactly this. That would make GOG stand out. But again, I fear GOG can only offer what the publisher allows.

Also maintaining 2-3 previous installer versions in case an update does something not everybody might like so you can still back it up after the fact.

Nothing to stop gog staff. They already have previous versions, when each game is updated. The staff CHOOSE to not provide this. Which is ironic, because, gog would have more customers flocking to them over steam. Respecting customers, earn loyalty. Dismissing customers= upset and derision.

Well ideal has gone bye bye that is hardly an improvement for Dutch customers.
Any idea when that wil return or are we just SOL.

WTF?! I guess that's the end of me spending any money here... :/

Ideal has gone bye bye
And gog is nice and transparent about it as usual.

Sorry to hear(also sad news for others who used it). I recall you saying you had quite the collection.
quite

I see from the other thread that the ideal integration broke (didn't show banks anymore - probably because of changes related to ideal pushing those annoying profiles), and GOG only removed it after that. So that gives me hope that it's a simple bug that they'll (eventually) fix - with the feature simply hidden in the interim to not give a bad user experience - rather than a conscious and deliberate decision to remove it.

It would be nice if they told us that, in any way shape or form.
But that's probably expecting too much as usual.

Ah, to be so idealistic. I imagine what has happened is that they got migration notices from Ideal, a deadline, and then they promptly ignored it to sit on their chairs and spin in circles until their fresh fruit came spinning up the wrong tube.

In a less metaphorical sense, I think it was put off until it was too late, even if it was functionally simple to switch.

Haven't seen this thread hidden in the stickies...

Indeed, I rather would give them money when they would leave good old games alone, provide me original files instead of tainting these games with shop based online features.

When you need money, GOG, perhaps sink less into your online client, which prevents Linux versions coming to the shop, and stop making offline installers 2nd-class citizens!? That would be something I would support!

And of course you have to add this to the checkout page, the most sensible part of the shop. Have you not broken the checkout page already for too long?

It already would be a good start when they at least would provide us the same rollback features for the offline installers which they provide with their "optional" client. Of course, having vanilla game versions with original files as a download option would be the dream. :) Then they also could add all the missing Linux versions which were held back because of the lack of client support.

Exactly, that's why I also prefer vanilla game versions, not touched by any anti-preservation program. And often vanilla games work better on older Windows versions too.

But that's exactly the part where GOG also often fails. Incompatibilities, increased system requirements, longer installation times and delays, and general more bloated or even broken games when you do not use the exact same, single one, Galaxy-fied installation they have used for testing.

The sad part is, that GOG apparently already has sunken so much money into the wrong priorities that they seem to search desperately for money now.