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Posted April 20, 2017
I have recently gotten "Saints Row 2" from the free limited time offer.
I don't want this game but my brother wants to play it, but this GOG account is my personal account.
I have checked it's allowed (share games in your houseold) so I'm clear on that.
Now I wanted to know, is it possible to download an installer for the game and give it to my brother so he doesn't have to download and sign in on my account to download this game?
Thanks in advance.
Post edited April 20, 2017 by Krokzter
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Posted April 20, 2017
It is. In the Account tab above the website, choose Library, then click the game which you want to download. You'll then see an expanded box about the game - to the left are all the files you need to install it (put them all in the same directory, otherwise they won't work). To the right are extras. Saints Row 2 has ~6 GB of files.
Post edited April 20, 2017 by Plokite_Wolf
Posted April 20, 2017
It seems like the language changer patch is not needed if you are playing in English anyway. At least it worked fine for me without it but I did not try changing the language.
Posted April 20, 2017
Alright thank you so much :)
Posted April 20, 2017
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Krokzter: Now I wanted to know, is it possible to download an installer for the game and give it to my brother so he doesn't have to download and sign in on my account to download this game?
Generally speaking: in my view the proper way would be that you install the game for your brother, instead of you giving the actual installer to him (and then he does whatever he does with it, like install it, share it to all his friends at school and to the whole world on the internet, etc.).

I just have this view that since GOG gives me the power to control how and when and why I use the games, I should also keep that power to myself and not to hand it to others. So while I might install a GOG game to someone else's computer in the household, I wouldn't hand the actual installer to him/her. (Yes I know many games can be transferred by just moving the installed game, no installer really needed, blaa blaa blaa... but it is the thought that matters.)


Anyway, since we are talking about Saints Row 2... It is free at the moment, so as long as your brother has a GOG account of his own, he can get his personal copy of the game, for free! Whee! :)
Posted April 21, 2017
I understand your point, I'll keep that in mind, but he'd have that power anyway by passing along the installed game.
Posted April 21, 2017
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Krokzter: I understand your point, I'll keep that in mind, but he'd have that power anyway by passing along the installed game.
Not if it adds stuff to the Windows registry or puts files in other places than the install folder (as I'm pretty sure is the case for this game, and most other complex "AAA" games). Just zipping up the base folder wouldn't do any good the the computer it got copied to didn't have all those other files in just the right places. :)
Portability is rare for big games like this, AFAIK.
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