Dear GOG,

When you push out game updates that don't have accompanying changelogs, I have no idea what they will change or potentially break and therefore I won't ever install them. Please be more customer friendly with future updates and include detailed changelogs, even if the change is a single character in a readme file.

Thank you

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A good and reasonable wish, but do not expect too much.
GOG often forgot to provide changelog, and often have various stupid typo in their changelogs.
Some GOG games never have any changelog, while in fact their installers have updated several times.

You're worried about a game breaking on you due to a minor update?

Unfortunately, sometimes the "minor" updates are packaged as a whole new setup which tends to be a very big installation of several gigabytes to re-download (I've written a frusted comment about that a long time ago).

It's not funny to reveal afterwards, that the whole update was adding a language (which I don't speak or interested in within gameplay) or compatibility-stuff for Galaxy Client (which I don't use and never will) and so on.

Even if the update is really minor, like ... I don't know ... subtitle corrections et cetera, at least they can throw a small changelog at us, so that we can better justify in some circumstances, if it's worth to eventually re-download the whole new setup.


Oh, and the size of an update doesn't relate to the ability to break your setup.

Disregarding the fact that it's impossible to know whether or not the updates are minor or major due to not having the changes documented, a common misunderstanding is believing that the size of an update has any bearing on whether it can cause problems or the severity of those problems, especially when you don't know anything about the workings of the system(s) it might be deployed to.

So yes, I'm worried about GOG updates potentially breaking working, stable software. Or worse breaking something else, such as shared libraries or other dependencies, which I have witnessed. For software, and technology in general, even minor changes can be and often are responsible for bigger problems. That is why nothing gets added or changed on any of my computers without my knowledge. If something does breaks, then I have a good idea as to what caused it.

Even assuming that the update won't break anything, another concern is wasted resources and time. I don't want to redownload games just because GOG rebuilt/reorganised their installers or otherwise made changes that I don't care about.