Hey guys! I was trying to download a game whose backup installer wasn't downloading correctly and tried using the downloader, but I noticed the lack of downloader links. Not only that, but the link to the downloader is broken as well.

Has GOG quietly pulled it?

Yes, here's more: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/we_say_goodbye_to_gog_downloader

Sucks they didn't mention this on the webpage. At least I have the Firefox DownThemAll! plugin for when Galaxy feels like not working.

Yep, that's GOG for you. "GWENT has a new update!!1!1!oneone" will be shoved down your throat every which way, but "we're removing a tool many of you still find important" or "we'll be bundling Galaxy with offline installers" or even just games being removed from the store? That's not news, that's an unmarked thread on the forum at best.

To be fair, why would gog bother announcing it, every single thread on the forum is now about this topic!

Which only shows how important and useful this downloader really is to the community.

No, it really just shows everyone wants to create their own posts regardless of what is already there. In a modern day forum, such as anything after 1990, topics could be merged and thus avoid pages of duplication. But no, that won’t get fixed, anymore than downloader will come back, but it will alienate most people having to wade through page after page about this topic, I know it has done for me.

To a very insignificant vocal forum minority. GOG knows what it does. Wouldn't ditch it if wasn't mathematically ready to lose or upset the gogdownloader users.

The current community is essentially made of steamboy clones, requiring a client to run their games. GOG knows it, and, frankly, even the forum as a whole illustrates it well. It's the same few who are complaining in all these threads. Most of those who feared this at the launch of Galaxy either left already in reaction to several other disappointments, or got used to the "new normal" that are bloatware and gaming clients (if not DRM itself).

it shows every low lee person who is whinin' boot teh already obsolete 'n' unsupported crap-app is makin' new threadies 'boot it to bloat their presence

all 12 of you

i think gogie can cope with this 'mass' dessertion

Yep, gone. Didn't you get the memo?

And like with other people who have good causes but annoying ways to promote them, the way some(NOT the OP here) are pushing this issue makes me want to side more with GOG just to spite them at this point.

Naw. I don't do a lot of forum stuff. Usually playing the games.