GOG style offline installer, but on Steam

[MeditatingHamster]

Took me a while to migrate over to steam, always loved having my physical copies, but it never sat quite right never having those physical copies.

Not sure why Steam can't allow devs to opt in, or give an option for a GOG style offline installer for certain games and a sort filter option to find games that offer such an option.

Single player and Multiplayer that offers LAN play would be perfect for this. Hell, I'd be willing to pay a bit more for a game that offered this.

Anyone any thoughts as to why Steam haven't tried going down this road?

[WolfEisberg]

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gog galaxy isnt an offline installer, my posts were always and only about the offline installer.. sigh

GOG Galaxy provides a download for the offline installers like I showed in my screenshot.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Diposting pertama kali oleh WolfEisberg:

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The whole point for me of using those offline installers is to not use GOG Galaxy.

Then you should be glad that its in 4GB chunks instead of a single file, because when downloading through a browser, if something happens like the browser crashes, you lose internet for an extended time, you accidently close the browser, power goes out, anything that disrupts the downloads you will have to start all over. On GOG Galaxy that isn't an issue the download will start off where the interruption happened.

Be happy you have to manually download 28 files?

[WolfEisberg]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Boblin the Goblin:

Diposting pertama kali oleh WolfEisberg:

Then you should be glad that its in 4GB chunks instead of a single file, because when downloading through a browser, if something happens like the browser crashes, you lose internet for an extended time, you accidently close the browser, power goes out, anything that disrupts the downloads you will have to start all over. On GOG Galaxy that isn't an issue the download will start off where the interruption happened.

Be happy you have to manually download 28 files?

Use GOG Galaxy to download the offline installers then you get the protections Galaxy provides that a web browser doesn't on top of pressing a single button to download them all.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Diposting pertama kali oleh WolfEisberg:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Boblin the Goblin:

Be happy you have to manually download 28 files?

Use GOG Galaxy to download the offline installers then you get the protections Galaxy provides that a web browser doesn't on top of pressing a single button to download them all.

What protections?

[Vaemer-Riit]

GoG Galaxy has the option of downloading the offline installer in one click without needing to install the game through Galaxy.

It will download the exe and all of the bin files to the same directory and then you can archive them however you want.

[WolfEisberg]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Boblin the Goblin:

Diposting pertama kali oleh WolfEisberg:

Use GOG Galaxy to download the offline installers then you get the protections Galaxy provides that a web browser doesn't on top of pressing a single button to download them all.

What protections?

and I'll repeat what I already said:

" when downloading through a browser, if something happens like the browser crashes, you lose internet for an extended time, you accidently close the browser, power goes out, anything that disrupts the downloads you will have to start all over. On GOG Galaxy that isn't an issue the download will start off where the interruption happened."

[MeditatingHamster]

Diposting pertama kali oleh WolfEisberg:

Diposting pertama kali oleh eram:

you are wrong but thats ok you dont need to try and tell me what was going on at the time as i was there that very evening. they even posted about it from what i remember, maybe a tweet.. you however dont even own the game.

edit update

still no download all button on the offline installer no.. im on the page right now.
it says

"Install game with GOG Galaxy
GOG Galaxy keeps your games up to date, provides all multiplayer features, enables cloud saves, makes it easy to install games and more.

GOG GALAXY requires Windows 8 or newer. Download size 1MB (additional space required for GOG GALAXY installation and Cyberpunk 2077)."

OR

Download game files only. Useful if you anticipate limited internet access, or want to have a backup. These installers don't support auto-updating, nor on-line features.

with 28 links no download all anywhere on the page

download all is gog galaxy.

edit 2

Cyberpunk 2077 Legacy 1.63 115926 MB is a single link , current version setup_cyberpunk_2077_2.13_(64bit)_(76205).exe is not

You have already been proven to be providing false information in this conversation, so there is no reason to believe your story.

The option to downnload all the files with a single push of a button is on GOG Galaxy, like I showed in my screenshot.

I decided to bite the bullet and see for myself, just got CP ultimate now as it was on my to-get list anyway and I'd seen it on the cheap. There is just a single, download option in Extras which is cool. I'm well impressed. I couldn't find the download before when I was downloading Tomb Raider Legend so did it from the website. So in a nutshell, thanks for mentioning that!

[Boblin the Goblin]

Diposting pertama kali oleh WolfEisberg:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Boblin the Goblin:

What protections?

and I'll repeat what I already said:

" when downloading through a browser, if something happens like the browser crashes, you lose internet for an extended time, you accidently close the browser, power goes out, anything that disrupts the downloads you will have to start all over. On GOG Galaxy that isn't an issue the download will start off where the interruption happened."

Browsers also restart where an interruption happens. I've had that happen multiple times when downloading large files.

[WolfEisberg]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Boblin the Goblin:

Diposting pertama kali oleh WolfEisberg:

and I'll repeat what I already said:

" when downloading through a browser, if something happens like the browser crashes, you lose internet for an extended time, you accidently close the browser, power goes out, anything that disrupts the downloads you will have to start all over. On GOG Galaxy that isn't an issue the download will start off where the interruption happened."

Browsers also restart where an interruption happens. I've had that happen multiple times when downloading large files.

Not with GOG files, it's always been like that since 2008. You'll have to start over anytime an interruption happens.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Diposting pertama kali oleh WolfEisberg:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Boblin the Goblin:

Browsers also restart where an interruption happens. I've had that happen multiple times when downloading large files.

Not with GOG files, it's always been like that since 2008. You'll have to start over anytime an interruption happens.

That's on GoG, not the browser then.

[WolfEisberg]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Boblin the Goblin:

Diposting pertama kali oleh WolfEisberg:

Not with GOG files, it's always been like that since 2008. You'll have to start over anytime an interruption happens.

That's on GoG, not the browser then.

Now that I think about it, never ever seen any place ever allow downloading from interruption spot with web browser downloading. You'll need to provide a site that does that I can test to believe it.