Hello, i am new to GOG and i am leaving steam because i feel cheated with their family plan, i bough a couple of games with the intention of sharing it with my wife and kid accounts just to find out that only one person can be playing at the same time even if its deiferent games.

I use xbox game pass and playstore family sharing and i dont have such issues.

So, how is family plan over here?

ps. sry for the english as its not my native language, ty all

GOG is DRM free, so you can install your games to any computer on your household and at least with single player games nobody cares if they're running at the same time (internet multiplayer games could make some trouble).

You can run any single player game without the client. Simply download the offline backup installers.

One thing that sadly isn't supported right now is "sub accounts" - so if you use the client, every one will be on the same account. There is no separate game time or achievement tracking or separate cloud saves (you might want to turn those off if several people use the same account).

DRM-free doesn't need a family plan. You download the offline installer, copy it another computer, install it. That's it!
(I'm only talking about single player games on GOG)

Ok i see, still better than steam, i was checking gogo client and i read that i can add any games from any platform? does that work with xbox game pass?

I can see I was too slow typing my response.

Anyway, the policy states you can't share your account and its contents with anyone. That being said, nobody's going to raid your home because you shared a game with your wife and children.

Edited due to not being able to read

He's talking about Steam...

This is part of the reason why I love GOG. I have a large family. When my kids were younger and all lived in the same house with me, GOG made it easy for me to buy 1 game and install it on all of the machines so that we can play as we please.

Never used their client, though.

this is amazing

i am trying to post a print screen lol

*it was a print screen of the gog client with all my steam and xbox games in there, very nice design

My bad - retracted and apologies

From the FAQ Actually, I think no one can legally forbid you to let your wife or kids play your games... that would be insane. Just as nobody can forbid you to let a friend play your game when he visits your place. I think "sharing" means "giving it to someone, and then having no further control over it". As long as it's in your "household" you do have control, they are still your games, you just let someone else play them. If your son or daughter moves out eventually though (or you get a divorce..), the games should be removed from their computer. You can't post pics in this forum. You can only add them as an attachment. Make sure the file extension is lower case, else a forum bug will probably prevent posting. And I think only jpg and png are allowed.

Some features are only available with more "rep", I don't know if attaching images is among those.

You won't have these problems here. As I wrote above, all single player games work without any client, so there is literally nothing stopping you from "multi-boxing" your games. If in doubt, don't use Galaxy at all, or only on one computer, and use the offline installers instead.

And I think the FAQ conveniently avoids the issue of sharing with a family. ;P Yes, you can install on as many machines in your house hold as you want, no, you can't share it with your friends. But they say nothing about that you get a license for one person, and when you have it on several machines and several people are playing it at the same or at various times, it may be not OK from some points of view.
I also think that that kind of attempts to limit what users do within their households would be unreasonable to say the least (moronically stupid would be another term). I kind of hope GOG chose a sensible approach and just dropped the issue altogether and let their users choose to what degree they want to uphold the no sharing policy.

I don't think they are intent on alienating (and thus losing) their customers. They do know that DRM-free means trusting their users to do the sensible thing. And it's a warranted trust most of the time, because we are here spending money on games that would be easy to pirate.

Btw... I'd be curious to know what happens when you have two installations of Galaxy running at the same time, and both start a (different) game. What would your friends see what you're currently playing? Both? First wins? Last wins? Galaxy crashes and GOG server farm blows up?