Originally Posted by stubbie
So GOG is telling me to download their latest 8+gig installer so I can apply the patch...So how is that being melodramatic?...
It's being melodramatic because you're making a big protest over a triviality. The hotfix isn't needed unless you're playing in French or German (see the hotfix notes here) so if you're playing D:OS in English, you can just ignore it.

And if bandwidth is such a problem in your case then Steam is unlikely to be any easier, given others have reported 10GB+ downloads.