WinterSnowfall: I've recently started looking at GOG's reviews and rating endpoints (e.g.: https://reviews.gog.com/v1/products/1/reviews), and had some interesting "huh" moments.

Let's take a brief look at the top rated titles (4.9 score) with more than 50 ratings (see attached).

Quest for Glory 1-5? OpenTTD? I wouldn't have expected people to hold these in such high regard.

As a comparison, Heroes of Might and Magic® 3: Complete has a 4.8 rating with about 9787 votes.

When it comes to the total number or rating, things get even stranger (IMHO) (see the second attachment).

The first two Fallout games? Beneath a Steel Sky? I'd expect the games on this list to be what drew the most amount of (at least vocal, review-leaving) people to GOG.

I'd have perhaps expected Horizon Zero Dawn to be here, or Control. But then again perhaps they were released with too much delay on GOG and lost the review wave.

I'll be adding the code I wrote to pull in all this data to gog_gles, once I had a chance to remove the final kinks and bugs, so feel free to explore and draw your own conclusions.

drrhodes: But reviewers don't do it that way and because of this, even I have to wonder about a game which has an average rating of 3. And I hate to leave a 3 review because I know most people will see it as inferior.

drrhodes: There is an unfortunate tendency for folks to use the endpoints of the review scale when reviewing games (or anything else). A 1 to 5 scale "should" have 3 as an adequate game but nothing special. 4 should indicate a superior game but not great or flawless. 5 should be reserved for the best of the best. The same with 1 and 2 with 1 meaning avoid at all costs.

But reviewers don't do it that way and because of this, even I have to wonder about a game which has an average rating of 3. And I hate to leave a 3 review because I know most people will see it as inferior.

drrhodes: Would you mind re-adding Timberborn to your list?

WinterSnowfall: I think I've said it before, but the list is auto-generated based on GOG API data that I collect. I only vet it for obvious false positives and update it weekly on Airtable.

In any case, I have checked Timberborn and it appears to be in sync with Galaxy offerings - that's why it's not on the list. I also saw it has plenty of newer "development" builds in Galaxy, but I don't check against those since development builds almost never get offline installers and are Galaxy exclusive. So, you could say they are meant to be an off-branch that will never get offline installers by design (GOG's design, not mine).

The problem would solve itself, I think, if the developers stopped pushing "dev" builds and resorted to the regular kind.

WinterSnowfall: In case anyone was wondering if GOG's CDN problem has affected offline installer builds, let me put that doubt to rest. It definitely has.

No less than 160 discrepancies are on my list now. I'm not entirely sure how many of them are caused by (perhaps) older offline installers now being restored from backups, but it's quite a bump from the usual 60-70 we're used to.

I hope the situation will resolve itself soon.

mrkgnao: Although I now see that someone has mentioned MD5 issues in the gogrepo thread.

mrkgnao: Or are you just saying that currently galaxy builds are back to being updated relatively regularly, while offline installer are not, resulting in a growing discrepancy airtable?

WinterSnowfall: So it's only this. Offline installer generation seems to be halted or greatly impacted at the moment.

WinterSnowfall: My guess is that the offline installer builder CI (if one can call it that) was sort of dependent on the old CDN, so it's kind of... stuck at the moment. I'll update when I see an improvement to the situation, but I think we're still quite far from a resolution on this front.