I use GOG Galaxy and I quite like it.

I pre-order games.

That doesn't make you unworthy. Piracy for theft reasons would make you unworthy.

All I want to know is how you use?

I can't even find it.

I tried but.....it's so.....stealthy.

True, true. I had a piracy phase way back when, since I was too young to know better, didn't have a job and it was a common practice here in Portugal (I think it still is). I remember computers being pre-packed with cracked versions of games, one of my first machines came with Jazz Jackrabbit 2 already installed -- the full version, not the shareware one.

Still, I see so many people dissing Galaxy and pre-orders, that I feel kind of bad for liking the client or pre-ordering games, like I'm a part of something really bad in the video game industry, enabling studios to keep their "bad practice" of pre-orders and the "stealth DRM" that is GOG Galaxy, shaking the "last GOG principle".

I use Steam

and uPlay

and Battle.Net

and Origin

BURN THE HEATHEN!

I suspect rare is the person here who hasn't done that at least once. But at least we're now amending our ways. I can't give you any guff about pre-orders. I recently pre-ordered a new Thrustmaster HOTAS combo that isn't yet released, so I'm as "guilty" as anyone else. And the multiplayer DRM thing? That's a matter of opinion.

Prepare for dislikes.

I'm fine with those. :P

first point, up to you ;)

Second one: Light up the fire, heat up the oil!!!!!!! ;)

Seriously? Pre-ordering?

Is it not already enough that as a paying customer we are nothing but paying alpha/beta testers?
Going with pre-ordering nowadays sends IMHO a wrong message. Allowing companies to get a card-blanche for everything. PLUS (unlike kickstarter) you will NEVER really know if you will get what you pay for, right?

With a normal purchase, you can normally just go back to the place were you bought the game and cancel the purchase. (GOG-CDPR did the same here on GOG, not sure about other devs?)

Just a wee bit to think about ;)

So do most people... though some would like to believe otherwise.

To be fair I only pre-order games from studios that I trust will deliver, hence why I was never disappointed in my pre-orders so far. What you say makes sense, though, but I will still pre-order games if I feel like it's worth my money.

GOG does allow you to cancel the pre-orders, by the way, and they gave me store credit after a game I pre-ordered wasn't quite what I expected (Cornerstone: A Song of Tyrim). I now have Owlboy pre-ordered and I absolutely trust the studio behind it, and I feel fine with my money helping them fine tune the game until release.

100% agreed.

I mostly use Galaxy as a downloader and as a central hub for my GOG notifications and chat/friend management (plus the games I own that require Galaxy for multiplayer -- which aren't a lot). *All* of my GOG games run just fine without Galaxy and that's the way I play them, even though I do like the keeping track of play time Galaxy offers. Another feature I once used is the rollback, which Steam doesn't have, that allowed me to go back to a previous working version of a game after a patch had broken it (Dropsy).

I also use Galaxy. At first I didn't but now I find it more convenient. I've also preordered two games in my life, PoE and The Witcher 3.

OK, being on the same page ;)

just wanted to bring a wee bit of attention to it!

Before you getting burned and feathered, or was it the other way round *checking the notes* ;)