The worry of this is why I’ve been buying games on GOG when they’re available on both stores, unless Steam just has a really good price. I prefer to own my games (or at least, offline installers for them whether I actually “own” them or just have a license saying I can play it, legalese and all that) so if the stores ever go to crap that I can still have and play all my games without dealing with it.
Edit: you can download offline installers on GOG’s site or in “extras” in the Galaxy client on the game page, or using lgogdownloader or a windows/Mac equivalent for it if that exists to bulk download them
I do this too. If it’s on Gog I buy it there. I hope gog manages to stay around but even if it doesn’t I can grab the offline installers for the games I have purchased and back them up elsewhere.
Does anyone actually use offline installers on a regular basis? I tried a few times and I had problems. Dunno if just bad luck. Never managed to install Pillars on eternity with it because it errored out every time. Another game’s offline installer (can’t remember which) would stall for hours then crash. I suspect a lot of users would be in for a surprise if they actually tried them.
This looks like a problem with your system to me. Run a few checks on your RAM and storage devices. I had files corrupt on my NAS and a PC of mine, because both had defective memory. I only noticed it, because installers and 7zip began to produce errors.
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The worry of this is why I’ve been buying games on GOG when they’re available on both stores, unless Steam just has a really good price. I prefer to own my games (or at least, offline installers for them whether I actually “own” them or just have a license saying I can play it, legalese and all that) so if the stores ever go to crap that I can still have and play all my games without dealing with it.
Edit: you can download offline installers on GOG’s site or in “extras” in the Galaxy client on the game page, or using lgogdownloader or a windows/Mac equivalent for it if that exists to bulk download them
I do this too. If it’s on Gog I buy it there. I hope gog manages to stay around but even if it doesn’t I can grab the offline installers for the games I have purchased and back them up elsewhere.
Does anyone actually use offline installers on a regular basis? I tried a few times and I had problems. Dunno if just bad luck. Never managed to install Pillars on eternity with it because it errored out every time. Another game’s offline installer (can’t remember which) would stall for hours then crash. I suspect a lot of users would be in for a surprise if they actually tried them.
This looks like a problem with your system to me. Run a few checks on your RAM and storage devices. I had files corrupt on my NAS and a PC of mine, because both had defective memory. I only noticed it, because installers and 7zip began to produce errors.
I use them regularly, and have never had issues
Good to hear, I’ll check it out again and make sure I’m not having an issue on my end.
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