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Posted July 13, 2017
http://www.pcgamer.com/gog-galaxy-is-a-great-lightweight-client-with-a-killer-feature-missing-from-steam/

A nice, cheery article about Galaxy
Posted July 13, 2017
Another terrible PCGamer article.
I don't think I've ever seen them publish a decent one.
Posted July 13, 2017
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I wonder how much did GOG pay PC Gamer for that "article"... :D
Posted July 13, 2017
I think GOG achieved one thing through the recent debacles - I feel burned out on the subject of Galaxy, maybe on the subject of all GOG's changes. There was atime I'd tear this article apart, piece by piece, but now... what's the point? Yay clients, our new gaming overlords. Sure, fine, whatever.
Posted July 13, 2017
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Smannesman: Another terrible PCGamer article.
I don't think I've ever seen them publish a decent one.
How come? I thought it was a pretty good article :O
Posted July 13, 2017
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Breja: I think GOG achieved one thing through the recent debacles - I feel burned out on the subject of Galaxy, maybe on the subject of all GOG's changes. There was atime I'd tear this article apart, piece by piece, but now... what's the point? Yay clients, our new gaming overlords. Sure, fine, whatever.
No! You can't give in! :(
Posted July 13, 2017
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Breja: I think GOG achieved one thing through the recent debacles - I feel burned out on the subject of Galaxy, maybe on the subject of all GOG's changes. There was atime I'd tear this article apart, piece by piece, but now... what's the point? Yay clients, our new gaming overlords. Sure, fine, whatever.
It's actually not a bad article. If you accept the opening premise: Why it's worth adding just one more game client to our growing software clutter piles, then the rest flows pretty well. Fairly well balanced analysis, assuming you're a person that wants/likes to use game clients.
Posted July 13, 2017
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I did post a comment:

It is funny, does no one in the industry notices or covers, does GOG pushes their Galaxy client with Adware methods onto their customers.
The default game installer downloads includes now a full copy of Galaxy (100MB+), the "classic" installer without Galaxy is hidden under more. The customers have not been informed beside a normal forum thread.
If the installer with Galaxy is launched this text is used:
"For installation and game auto-update settings click Options." If you hit install, Galaxy will be installed without any further warning or notice.
One has to click on options to read:
"Keep your game up to date with GOG Galaxy".

This are disgusting practices even worse than what this day is common practice with Adware. Even if they try to trick you, these days the at least say in the OPEN does they will install software xyz.
I am close to giving up the fight too. People deserve these industry practices.
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Posted July 13, 2017
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Rolling back updates is definitely something GOG takes seriously. So seriously, in fact, that they oftentimes don't even provide those updates until days/weeks/months later! That's like preemptive rollback, and it's the rolliest backiest one can possibly get.
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Breja: There was atime I'd tear this article apart, piece by piece, but now... what's the point?
You mean besides the sick thrill of pulling back the curtain and shoving others down the road to becoming similarly dead inside?
Posted July 13, 2017
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Executer: I am close to giving up the fight too. People deserve these industry practices.
If the world catered to what the average person deserves; we'd be thrown back in time, ruled by big corporations (in stead of royalty and land owners). A not so future USA so to speak.
Posted July 13, 2017
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Breja: I think GOG achieved one thing through the recent debacles - I feel burned out on the subject of Galaxy, maybe on the subject of all GOG's changes. There was atime I'd tear this article apart, piece by piece, but now... what's the point? Yay clients, our new gaming overlords. Sure, fine, whatever.
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GR00T: It's actually not a bad article. If you accept the opening premise: Why it's worth adding just one more game client to our growing software clutter piles, then the rest flows pretty well. Fairly well balanced analysis, assuming you're a person that wants/likes to use game clients.
Actually what made me give up was "As a store, GOG has continuously improved since it started adding new games to its library of classics in 2012".

Look, I joined in 2012 exactly because of those new games. Much as I love classic games and have enjoyed playing both the ones I knew already and various ones I've missed, it's new stuff that really brought me on board. But to say that GOG has continously improved since then is... questionable to say the least.
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Posted July 13, 2017
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Breja: Actually what made me give up was "As a store, GOG has continuously improved since it started adding new games to its library of classics in 2012".

Look, I joined in 2012 exactly because of those new games. Much as I love classic games and have enjoyed playing both the ones I knew already and various ones I've missed, it's new stuff that really brought me on board. But to say that GOG has continously improved since then is... questionable to say the least.
Well, that's from the perspective of us forumites that practically live here. But, like I noted, if you're not opposed to gaming clients, then I guess you'd see improvements.


Okay, maybe not... :P
Posted July 13, 2017
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GR00T: If you accept the opening premise: Why it's worth adding just one more game client to our growing software clutter piles, then the rest flows pretty well.
Pity that the premise is faulty. According to the article, what makes Galaxy worthy of installing alongside the Steam client is the "Fair Price Package". Alright...
Posted July 13, 2017
Kinda scanned it to get the gist. Did it mention Crossplay? That's another nice feature (potentially, not sure how it fares in reality) that helps make games slightly store-agnostic.
Posted July 13, 2017
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HereForTheBeer: Kinda scanned it to get the gist. Did it mention Crossplay? That's another nice feature (potentially, not sure how it fares in reality) that helps make games slightly store-agnostic.
No, Crossplay is not mentioned.
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