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General discussionFeel the summer breeze on GOG GALAXY Day!(103 posts)(103 posts)
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Posted June 23, 2021
The summer chillout is in full swing and with it comes a natural drive towards taking things easy. That’s why this GOG GALAXY Day is the perfect occasion to introduce such an approach to organizing your gaming library. We’ll also show you how to get The Witcher: Enhanced Edition free of charge just by installing GOG GALAXY.

Create your unique game library
You can never have too much of a good thing, they say. When it comes to gaming libraries, this saying is surely true. Did you know that an average library on GOG GALAXY consists of 114 titles, while the biggest library has…20,497 games? Just imagine the hardships of navigating through such a formidable collection without the proper tools that GOG GALAXY can provide.



By using the “Assign tags” option next to each title (see the video below), you can easily divide your gaming library into smaller, intuitive collections. This way you won’t lose your favorite titles even after adding to your library of owned games from other platforms and subscription services like Xbox Game Pass, Uplay Plus, and Origin Access.

Get your copy of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
In addition to helping organize your game library, GOG GALAXY also gives you the chance to claim and keep the famous fantasy RPG from CD PROJEKT RED. The Witcher: Enhanced Edition is widely considered one of the most ground-breaking RPGs ever made, and remains a must-play with its mature, non-linear story and challenging combat system.



To get this game free of charge, all you have to do is download the GOG GALAXY client and create an account. Once you’ve done that, head over to the "Recent" view and check the banner at the top. Click the giveaway button if you agree to receive news, updates, and GOG offers. After a while, the game will show up in your game library. This means you are ready to join Geralt of Rivia on his epic adventures!

Celebrate GOG GALAXY Day with us by discovering this useful and easy-to-access app. With it, you’ll be able to build huge libraries of exciting games (including a free copy of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition) without getting lost in the process.
Posted June 23, 2021
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What a great opportunity to put some spotlight on this abandoned still-in-beta project.
Posted June 23, 2021
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andreasmaureder: How about a "we will update all outdated offline installers" day? That would be highly appreciated!
I felt a "summer breeze" just then. No wait, it was the faint hope that one day the 20 month old bug in Divinity Original Sin's offline installers that the devs confirmed and contacted GOG about way back in October 2019 will one day be fixed...
Posted June 23, 2021
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AB2012: I felt a "summer breeze" just then. No wait...
Doesn't smell like a summer breeze.
Posted June 23, 2021
:-)
Posted June 23, 2021
It's Sonic Day, a c t u a l l y.
Posted June 23, 2021
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I have to click on everything I want to download and update on Galaxy, then completely exit and kill all Galaxy processes running, then start up Galaxy again to get all the downloads and updates to actually start.

Is there a special holiday for that GOG? How about one for games that release on GOG and are out of date by over half a year AT LAUNCH?

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_treat_gog_customers_as_second_class_citizens_v2/post2276

You got a holiday for that one too?
Posted June 23, 2021
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AB2012: I felt a "summer breeze" just then. No wait, it was the faint hope that one day the 20 month old bug in Divinity Original Sin's offline installers that the devs confirmed and contacted GOG about way back in October 2019 will one day be fixed...
Have you put in a support ticket yourself regarding this issue?
Posted June 23, 2021
20,497+ games from what systems? Does that person actually own those games or did they manually add games that they... borrowed?
Posted June 23, 2021
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Hey Galaxy devs: instead of such a unnecessary how to add tags to my library video why don't you show me instead how ti hide a or tag a game for a specific platform only? Let us say I purchased a game on Steam and later on GOG. So now I would like to hide the Steam version ONLY. Same goes for tagging.

You can't because it simply is not possible with this since day 1. And since day 1 I told you about it - have been ignored ever since.

Because of this filtering also is quite a joke. Recently I tried to let Galaxy show me my installed games on Epic and it showed Watch Dogs because I OWN it on Epic even though it was NOT INSTALLED - the installed version was the one from UBI. So whenever you own a game on multiple platform and you intend to handle them differently Galaxy is rather useless!

So no, I won't celebrate "Galaxy day" until you finally fixed this big flaw. Please don't say that I should write a ticket because I have stopped counting how many I already wrote the past years. Right now Galaxy development seem to have come to a complete halt - yet you still advertize it and even making it mandatory for special features of some games. Sometimes it is really hard to understand what you want to achieve here ... other than losing customers and fans.
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Prah: Have you put in a support ticket yourself regarding this issue?
Yes I did. "Just use Galaxy to rollback" was not really an acceptable answer and didn't fix the bug for anyone...
Posted June 23, 2021
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Maxvorstadt: GOG should get rid of Galaxy and bring the the good olde Downloader back. Less work, easier to maintain and more happy customers. A real win-win situation!
But ... but ... GOG Downloader is ... what was the word that they used as an "explanation"? Ah ... yes ... "obsolete".
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: In contrast, if GOG were to announce that they were abolishing the terrible Galaxy 2.0 and reverting back to the excellent and vastly superior Galaxy 1.2, then that would be a Galaxy day truly worth celebrating.
Since they were so proud about their integration system (which basically was the main "selling point" which was also very welcomed by social media and co) I doubt that this will ever happen. Makes it even stranger that especially the "multiple platform" thingy is the one they failed miserably.
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Posted June 23, 2021
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DoomSooth: 20,497+ games from what systems? Does that person actually own those games or did they manually add games that they... borrowed?
There's only around 3,650 games on GOG (Store -> Browse All Windows Games -> Tick "Hide DLC's", result = 76x pages of 48x items per page). So it's almost certainly one of those "I'm a millionaire who bought everything on Steam for the sake of it" accounts, or as someone pointed out above mostly games bought in cheap Humble / Fanatical bundles.
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andreasmaureder: How about a "we will update all outdated offline installers" day? That would be highly appreciated!
I'd rather have "classic games release day" with multiple classic games released.
Posted June 23, 2021
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Talking of the library, the website used to have a brilliant library where you could arrange the games as you wished. It was simple but perfect and then that got "updated" into a system of drop down menus and tags. I don't mind both being available for those that prefer it but I would really like the old library back.
Posted June 23, 2021
Oh boy...
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