To broaden their market, they have to fire the niche e-diots, first. Preventing new deals and releases from arriving, depriving GOG of extra income, plus calling the thousand voters "niche geeks" right in their face, is actually working towards the exact opposite direction... Thinning its market.

What a blessing that would be. We would get some great games, and the curator would be able to spend more time within the looner community, a win win.

Our gog's in Jeopardy?

Baby.

War Drobe?

To set up gogrepo, there are certain steps you need to take, but when you have the instructions, it is quite easy and straightforward to set up.

In Windows pretty much:

1. Install the python (3.x) package from python.org on your PC, like you would install any program. Just remember to check the option that python will be in your path so that you can run python commands in the command prompt, regardless of in which directory you are.

2. Run certain pip commands in the command prompt to install needed python modules.

3. Learn the basic gogrepo commands (five commands or so), mainly (in this order normally):
login
update
clean
download
verify

In Linux it is even easier because python is usually pre-installed. You would still probably need to install the needed pip modules, similarly as you would do it in Windows.

The main problem at this point is that the current main maintainer of gogrepo hasn't written such up-to-date instructions. Plus, when new users visit the humongous gogrepo thread, they are understandably confused because the first message points to the old and obsolete version of gogrepo, not the most current one (kalanyr version).

If one is ready to use Linux (even if merely running in Windows VirtualBox), one can also consider lgogdownloader which works similarly. It has pretty good instructions how to set it up (in Linux), a clear list of commands what to give in the Linux shell. Too bad there is no native Windows version (unless one compiles it themselves), and that is the beauty of gogrepo as it runs on pretty much any system that supports python.

gogrepo allows that quite nicely. It weeds out obsolete files (ie. files that you have on your local GOG collection but don't exist on the GOG servers anymore)... but it doesn't outright delete them, but moves them into a special !orphaned-directory in which you can go through them if you wish, to see if there is something you still want to keep.

That allowed me to keep e.g. the CD and DVD versions of Riven when GOG replaced them with a ScummVM version. So now I have all the three, just in case. Or, with some games e.g. a soundtrack was removed from the game goodies for some reason, so I kept them.

+1. Thank you Tom. I am going to have a stab at it, but not being tech-savvy, I fear I won't have much luck.

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Reposting this from another thread - sorry. It seems this was the better thread to post in, but it was hard to find the right one amongst so many.

If this has been discussed before, so be it. Too many threads, too little time.

Backing up all your GOG games is the ideal, but one backup is as good as no backup at all. It's like 'quis custodiet ipsos custodes'?

What do you do when your 6Tb Seagate HDD flatlines, as mine has just done, and no amount of work will wake it up., and that's where all your GOG games were stored. Of course I know I should have had a second backup, which, of course, i don't have. I have a few favourites backed up elsewhere, but by no means my whole library. Just didn't have the funds to get another big hard drive.

Excuse my cynicism - but although GOG blithely assures us that good days are ahead, that somehow makes me even more nervous about not having my games backed up.

Of course there is also the question of access to updates to games, if one even has them backed up up in the first place. I'm sure that's discussed somewhere also, but I just can't wade through all the threads about this. Would the developers, shown proof of a GOG purchase, allow you to download an update to a game?

I have read about a Python script for backing up your whole library, but I'm not very good at stuff like that, will try to find it. I know I tried it once before and didn't manage to get it to work - 'it's not you, it's me', as the saying goes.

But first I need to rob a bank, hard drives are expensive here with our useless currency.

Going off-topic, but that seems to be happening in all these threads, where are your saved games stored? Other than on my dead 6Tb Seagate?

+1 Thank you for the help. I will try, with some trepidation....

Personally, I think GOG will be around for a long time to come! I doubt it's parent company would just fail overnight, although a little bit more support for them would help!

I don't think Jeopardy is popular enough to carry GOG for the foreseeable future. Unless they implement some kind of Battle Royale mode.

maybe if they added old t riple A games more people would come here but atm all i see them adding is weird indie titles and weeb games, if they wanna have more customers they need to get the games they want i know its not easy ofc not, but you have to put work in to reap the rewards. heres my list ive posted numerous times of games id like to see here

pro evolution soccer - or any other soccer game for that matter

more sports games like old tennis and golf games. ( davis cup tennis or 3dultra mini golf)

sniper elite v2 and v3

cities skylines

euro and american truck simulator with DLC

dynasty warriors 1 - 6

metal gear rising

devil may cry 1 - 4

duke nukem 3d

warcraft 1 and 2

road rash 2

snowboard kids

gta 1,2 and 3

and many more, the problem with GOG is they need to add well known games like this and manym ore i have not listed also they need a mod store where people can upload mods and download them like steam does, cos some games are broken without mods. and some websites can be pretty shady with mods for pc games hosting malware ads etc.

GOG is fine atm but they need to do the above to get with the times, yes indie games can be cool and all but most people like to see well known games, i dnt wanna see gog just turn into a dumpster bin for indie weeb games