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General discussion@GOG : No good DRM FREE download option ! No purchase !(102 posts)(102 posts)
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Posted August 17, 2022
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Ruvika: Man, you have several options, Galaxy is DRM.
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Lifthrasil: FTFY. ;-)
Oh come on Lift, don't be obstinate. :P

You can use it as a downloader for offline installers and completely ignore it otherwise. How is it in any sense DRM when used that way?
Posted August 17, 2022
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FiatLux: What you mention were not referred to in the quote in question which said: "as far as I know then none of the above suggested by other do that (DownThemAll FDM , etcetera) "
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my name is grompy catte: GOGrepo was absolutely mentioned in that post, please re-read:
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Timboli: gogrepo.py (this requires you also install Python 3 and some additional libraries).
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my name is grompy catte: You replied to that saying it didn't create subfolders. It does.

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FiatLux: And I do not Agree !
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my name is grompy catte: You're still welcome to disagree, but you were dismissing Ruvika's suggestion based on their sign up date so I just chimed in to say that I've been here even longer than you, used the downloader many times and I still think Galaxy does a better job. To turn the tables on your rebuttal of Ruvika, it sounds like you have not tried using Galaxy as a downloader.
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FiatLux: (you will have to get someone else well versed in using both methods to tell you the difference I can not be bothered to have to do that !)
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my name is grompy catte: It sounds to me that if you need someone well versed in using both methods (like me) then perhaps you don't know enough about Galaxy to be shutting Ruvika down like that. Have you actually tried using Galaxy to download installers? I don't mean installing games through Galaxy, I mean using it as a Downloader.
You are a TROLL nothing else , Galaxy and it's download function for off-line installers in no real way compares to using a internet browser , with multi-tabbing and GOG.com Downloader for downloading of many games in a row.
The only way that you could be seen as to some extend not trolling would be if you stupidly thought this 'discussion' is about downloading a single game...
Anyway , I am not going to be TROLLED by you into having to go through a step by step explanation to try to convince a TROLL that one knows in advance is TROLL and therefore can not be convinced of anything !
Post edited August 17, 2022 by FiatLux
Posted August 17, 2022
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Ruvika: Man, you have several options, Galaxy is DRM.
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Lifthrasil: FTFY. ;-)
Even have to log into your account here on the website could be consider DRM if you think it.
Posted August 17, 2022
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my name is grompy catte: GOGrepo was absolutely mentioned in that post, please re-read:

You replied to that saying it didn't create subfolders. It does.

You're still welcome to disagree, but you were dismissing Ruvika's suggestion based on their sign up date so I just chimed in to say that I've been here even longer than you, used the downloader many times and I still think Galaxy does a better job. To turn the tables on your rebuttal of Ruvika, it sounds like you have not tried using Galaxy as a downloader.

It sounds to me that if you need someone well versed in using both methods (like me) then perhaps you don't know enough about Galaxy to be shutting Ruvika down like that. Have you actually tried using Galaxy to download installers? I don't mean installing games through Galaxy, I mean using it as a Downloader.
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FiatLux: You are a TROLL nothing else , Galaxy and it's download function for off-line installers in no real way compares to using a internet browser , with multi-tabbing and GOG.com Downloader for downloading of many games in a row.
The only way that you could be seen as to some extend not trolling would be if you stupidly thought this 'discussion' is about downloading a single game...
Anyway , I am not going to be TROLLED by you into having to go through a step by step explanation to try to convince a TROLL that one knows in advance is TROLL and therefore can not be convinced of anything !
Nobody is trying to troll you at all, we are just giving you our personal recommendations, I use it, many other users use Galaxy too, it's good, it work and is not resource heavy, you can use it just to download games as grompy catte suggested, it's not an obligation to launch games through it. You want an official downloader? Then you have it, it's true, I didn't know the old downloader, but this is good enough to take the task, you will have a file with the game, the goodies and the name of the game on it. Don't drown in a glass of water.
Posted August 17, 2022
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FiatLux: snip
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BreOl72: Never had a problem downloading my games via browser.
Same here. I downloaded all my 740 games with the firefox browser. It works fine.
Posted August 17, 2022
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BreOl72: Never had a problem downloading my games via browser.
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seppelfred: Same here. I downloaded all my 740 games with the firefox browser. It works fine.
Well , if that's your opinion then all further response to anyone here would be completely in vain.
All I can conclude is that it appears that most people here have no idea to what the original 'download experience' were on this site... (some of the more nerdy' ones might have but most do not)

Subsequently do not expect me to spend more time here neither picking up any response pr making any more responses myself.
Posted August 17, 2022
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Lifthrasil: FTFY. ;-)
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my name is grompy catte: Oh come on Lift, don't be obstinate. :P

You can use it as a downloader for offline installers and completely ignore it otherwise. How is it in any sense DRM when used that way?
I have 1300+ games and never once been forced to use Galaxy. Only use it for the download features. It's not much different from the old GOG Downloader. IMO even better in some ways.
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seppelfred: Same here. I downloaded all my 740 games with the firefox browser. It works fine.
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FiatLux: Well , if that's your opinion then all further response to anyone here would be completely in vain.
All I can conclude is that it appears that most people here have no idea to what the original 'download experience' were on this site... (some of the more nerdy' ones might have but most do not)

Subsequently do not expect me to spend more time here neither picking up any response pr making any more responses myself.
I been here almost long as you. Imo you are overacting about the whole thing.
Post edited August 17, 2022 by Syphon72
Posted August 17, 2022
I own a bit more than 650 games here, never used the old GOG Downloader, never used GOG Galaxy, never will.

While I still had a much smaller library I used to download the game installers using a Web browser, then I switched to the open source tool LGOGDownloader. Now I added an automation layer on top of that, so all of the updated game installers I own from GOG, Humble Bundle and itch.io are automatically downloaded on one of my machines every night.
Posted August 17, 2022
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BreOl72: Never had a problem downloading my games via browser.
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FiatLux: All I can conclude is that it appears that most people here have no idea to what the original 'download experience' were on this site...
Well, considering that I was here around six months before you...rest assured, I have a pretty good idea what the "original downloading experience" was here on this site, when the GOG-Downloader was still around.
But I (like probably most people here) was able to adapt to the new GOG-Downloader-less times (after some initial hiccups).
Posted August 18, 2022
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FiatLux: All I can conclude is that it appears that most people here have no idea to what the original 'download experience' were on this site...
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BreOl72: Well, considering that I was here around six months before you...rest assured, I have a pretty good idea what the "original downloading experience" was here on this site, when the GOG-Downloader was still around.
But I (like probably most people here) was able to adapt to the new GOG-Downloader-less times (after some initial hiccups).
He looks even more goofy from my point of view due to having joined in 2021. I don't even understand in the first place why downloading through the browser is so hard and why downloading through Galaxy (either by installing or downloading the offline files) is so hard.... especially since OP seems to like how Steam does things. He could just install through Galaxy.
Posted August 18, 2022
ITT:
"I want a tool to download my games backup files into subdirectories with minimal clicking"
"These tools do it and they are trusted by the community since they are open source"
"I want to complain, not use tools that people have made that can do what I want."

EDIT: Take an hour and audit the code. I did. The gogrepo.py script isn't that big. It shouldn't take more than an hour or two to audit, then you can use it as much as you like and not have issues with organizing/downloading your games manually.
Post edited August 18, 2022 by paladin181
Posted August 18, 2022
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FiatLux: But since GOG refuse to supply good DRM FREE 'backup files' download options for my games
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real.geizterfahr: You can a) download the "offline backup game installers" via your browser or b) use Galaxy as "downloader" for your offline installers.
What do you do when the offline backup game installers available via your browser are older/out of date versions than those available by using Galaxy as a downloader?
Posted August 18, 2022
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seppelfred: Same here. I downloaded all my 740 games with the firefox browser. It works fine.
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FiatLux: Well , if that's your opinion then all further response to anyone here would be completely in vain.
All I can conclude is that it appears that most people here have no idea to what the original 'download experience' were on this site... (some of the more nerdy' ones might have but most do not)

Subsequently do not expect me to spend more time here neither picking up any response pr making any more responses myself.
I do, as you can see from my date I joined, I have been here a long time. I have used the old downloader, galaxy and browsers to download games. I have no problems using Galaxy to download backups, it works fine and is easy to use, and (most importantly) you get the files you need. I used the downloader before Galaxy, but I found it a bit cumbersome, as well as I had some errors in some large files it downloadsd (had not had that yet on Galaxy), and it has a lot less options than Galaxy has. In my oppinion, using Galaxy as a downloader is an improvoment over the old Downloader.
Post edited August 18, 2022 by amok
Posted August 18, 2022
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FiatLux: You are a TROLL nothing else , Galaxy and it's download function for off-line installers in no real way compares to using a internet browser , with multi-tabbing and GOG.com Downloader for downloading of many games in a row.
The only way that you could be seen as to some extend not trolling would be if you stupidly thought this 'discussion' is about downloading a single game...
Anyway , I am not going to be TROLLED by you into having to go through a step by step explanation to try to convince a TROLL that one knows in advance is TROLL and therefore can not be convinced of anything !
What an incredibly childish response. I am not a troll, I am simply someone who has been here a long time, tried many methods and am simply giving my honest opinion.

gogrepo is the best option I've found for batch downloading, something the GOG Downloader sucked at (multi-tabbing or not). Galaxy is pretty bad for batch downloading, but no worse than the old Downloader was (better in some ways, the old Downloader used to crash if you queued too many things up).

You can't help someone who refuses to be helped.

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FiatLux: All I can conclude is that it appears that most people here have no idea to what the original 'download experience' were on this site...
Except when people who have been here longer than you and remember it well show up, you call them a troll for not agreeing with you.

Is it possible... that... opinions are... subjective!?!?
Post edited August 18, 2022 by my name is grompy catte
Posted August 18, 2022
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lazydog: What do you do when the offline backup game installers available via your browser are older/out of date versions than those available by using Galaxy as a downloader?
Do you remember some situation when it actually happened?

My understanding was that no matter if you try to download them through Galaxy or the website, the game installers are the same. So if the installer from the website is outdated compared to the build available with a direct install through Galaxy, the one you can download from Galaxy is outdated too.
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