puviani: There is a hideous new "feature" (which you can't turn off) that DELETES previous versions of our game installers when we update a game!

Aside from the moral, ethical, and legal dubiousness of remotely deleting content on a computer that doesn't belong to GOG (this smells strongly of DRM), this can cause technical problems.

(1) It may be that the previous version of the game worked better than the latest on certain hardware/OS configurations, and now we no longer have access to it.

(2) If the game is installed, Windows records the location of the game installer in the registry for when it needs to uninstall it. Remove the installer (which doubles as the uninstaller) and we now have problems uninstalling our games.

So, GOG, please get rid of this ill-thought feature. I'm sure that it was done with only the best intentions, but it's causing much more harm than good. And since you probably don't keep archives of older installers, those of us who lost old versions lost them for good, which REALLY pisses me off because I PAID for those and it's MY money you threw away.

keeveek: (although the dwonloader could ask you "You want to replace or rename?" when event like this occurs)

tinyE: I want it to start doing my laundry. And my car needs a wax. And the hedges need trimming.

puviani: I am downloading to the same folder, but the files that disappeared did not have the same name (I would have understood this as a normal behavior). I'm not at my home computer right now, so I can't list the specific games on which this happened, but there were installers with specific version numbers in the name (and in one case, the files for alternative language installations) that disappeared after an update using the GOG downloader. This was confirmed when I backed up the files to another HD using GoodSync, which detected the deletions I had suspected. I agree that the Downloader shouldn't delete other files, but somehow, it did.