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Posted April 23, 2017
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nightcraw1er.488: Let me copy the title of the thread "Please stop auto updating my games" - cause is that the person uses "convenient" software to take this task away. Solution, don't use that software and do it yourself. Problem solved.
Ironically the solution to OP's problem was just to turn off auto updates in Galaxy so that argument REALLY doesn't hold up. :P
Posted April 23, 2017
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nightcraw1er.488: Let me copy the title of the thread "Please stop auto updating my games" - cause is that the person uses "convenient" software to take this task away. Solution, don't use that software and do it yourself. Problem solved.
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F4LL0UT: Ironically the solution to OP's problem was just to turn off auto updates in Galaxy so that argument REALLY doesn't hold up. :P
Not really, that's just switching a feature off, and if your doing that why bother installing in the first place?
Posted April 24, 2017
I tried making Galaxy check if a single game was up to date. It took over two minutes. Would be faster to just compare the version numbers myself! :-P
Posted April 24, 2017
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F4LL0UT: The thing is, though, that developers rarely push updates that break stuff, they certainly generally fix more stuff than they break. And especially save compatibility between patch versions is something that is generally ensured these days. Developers generally are aware of the responsibility that comes with auto updates.

And honestly, I don't remember the last time a patch forced me to start a game over. Even open world RPGs that may introduce big changes in the quest logic in patches (traditionally a nightmare in terms of save compatibility), usually maintain save compatibility these days.
Depends on the developer. Gog usually doesn't push patches that break things, but systems vary.
Posted April 24, 2017
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Trilarion: I would be really nice if there would be a default setting for Auto Updates On or Off that could be set in the preferences, so you do not have to do this too often if you want automatic updates only in a minor number of cases or not at all but otherwise want to use Galaxy.

This isn't really any difficult. GOG developers are just a lazy bunch of ...

What I wanted to say is that Galaxy is not beta anymore and you can expect such goodies.
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Foreros: When you install a game you can disable imediatly the auto update. If it is a problem for you, why havent you disabled it directly instaling the game/s?
Because I'm as lazy as most customers if not more. If I need to disable it anyway immediately after installation what about having it disabled by default and enabling it only when I need it? That would save a lot of clicks.

Making this a choice in the settings is exactly what I proposed and is not difficult to implement at all.
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F4LL0UT: ... The thing is, though, that developers rarely push updates that break stuff, they certainly generally fix more stuff than they break. And especially save compatibility between patch versions is something that is generally ensured these days. Developers generally are aware of the responsibility that comes with auto updates.

And honestly, I don't remember the last time a patch forced me to start a game over. Even open world RPGs that may introduce big changes in the quest logic in patches (traditionally a nightmare in terms of save compatibility), usually maintain save compatibility these days.
I agree that patches are usually not more buggy than the previous state (although that happens too).

What bugs me is that often they don't improve things directly for me but rather patch some unrelated stuff (better Finnish translation, achievements, ...) and they always happen when I want to play the game. I want the game to start immediately. If Galaxy would patch my games silently while I'm not playing them...

So my rule of thumb is never update a game that runs fine.
Post edited April 24, 2017 by Trilarion
Posted April 24, 2017
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Breja: Or just don't use Galaxy. That solves all the problems neatly for me.
Same here.
I don't want a client doing anything I don't want on it's own. So I don't use clients. Simple.
Posted April 24, 2017
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KasperHviid: I tried making Galaxy check if a single game was up to date. It took over two minutes. Would be faster to just compare the version numbers myself! :-P
Because you do it actively and focusing mainly on it, Galaxy did it in the latency tme of your machine...
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Foreros: When you install a game you can disable imediatly the auto update. If it is a problem for you, why havent you disabled it directly instaling the game/s?
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Trilarion: Because I'm as lazy as most customers if not more. If I need to disable it anyway immediately after installation what about having it disabled by default and enabling it only when I need it? That would save a lot of clicks.

Making this a choice in the settings is exactly what I proposed and is not difficult to implement at all.
Then why you dont deactivate it from the game you're not interested in regular updates and leave it active on games that you want active? It's almost the same, and require only 1 click for each game.
Even a lazy as you are can't say that 1 single click for game is too hard to do.
Post edited April 24, 2017 by Foreros
Posted April 24, 2017
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KasperHviid: I tried making Galaxy check if a single game was up to date. It took over two minutes. Would be faster to just compare the version numbers myself! :-P
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Foreros: Because you do it actively and focusing mainly on it, Galaxy did it in the latency tme of your machine...
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Trilarion: Because I'm as lazy as most customers if not more. If I need to disable it anyway immediately after installation what about having it disabled by default and enabling it only when I need it? That would save a lot of clicks.

Making this a choice in the settings is exactly what I proposed and is not difficult to implement at all.
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Foreros: Then why you dont deactivate it from the game you're not interested in regular updates and leave it active on games that you want active? It's almost the same, and require only 1 click for each game.
Even a lazy as you are can't say that 1 single click for game is too hard to do.
For more than a 100 games it would be a couple of hundred clicks. That's not nice. That's rather like work.

I agree that it's possible to turn them off, but I would say it's not convenient.
Post edited April 24, 2017 by Trilarion
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