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Posted May 06, 2015
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!!! PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING !!!

== BUG REPORTING ==

Please use: http://mantis.gog.com and include
1. steps to reproduce the bug (if possible)
2. screenshot or movie showing the bug (if possible)
3. Galaxy Client logs (see below)

Where can I find Galaxy logs on my computer?
On Windows 7 or later: C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\Galaxy\Logs
On Mac OS X: /Users/Shared/GOG.com/Galaxy/Logs

== FEATURE SUGGESTIONS ==

Please use: http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy. For feature suggestions and votes on them please try do explain how Galaxy and its users will really benefit from it.

== IMPORT ALREADY INSTALLED GAMES TO GALAXY ==

1. For GOG games installed using installers from the last few months (so called Galaxy-compatible installers)
Click the Galaxy logo button on top of the sidebar and select "scan and import folders" - it will find all compatible games within that folder and add them to the Client.

2. For remaining GOG game INSTALLATIONS
Find the game in the Library (click on the image of the game), then click the More button and select "Manage Installation" -> "Import folder" and point the folder selector into the folder where that game is installed.

== KNOWN ISSUES ==
- throttling max download speed is not yet possible
- notifications related to incoming chat messages and friend requests does not always disappear instantly when consumed and may require reloading Store page
- games imported from existing installations will auto-update once, even if updating is disabled
- Moving Galaxy from /Applications on Mac OS X will stop the app from working
- Galaxy cannot be launched by other users on the same computer
Post edited October 03, 2016 by Liosan
Posted July 03, 2015
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Hi Everyone,

Below you can find the changelog of GOG Galaxy.

Changelog 1.1.15 (September 7th, 2016):
Changes / Improvements:
• Added Wallet button in dropdown menu under user's avatar
• Performance improvements on UI speed and a little on CPU usage
• Enabled copying text in Galaxy forums
• History will now remember only the 100 most recent pages in history
Bugfixes:
• Fix for "Disk access problem" bug, which broke installation and updates of games. (Bug happened on Windows only, but general mechanism is better on OS X as well)
• Fix for Verify/Repair, which did not work in some scenarios (The above bug for example)
• Fix for "Server problem" while downloading backup installers or other goodies. They will now work, even if temporary download folder is same as destination folder
• Fixed situations in which Store page sometimes did not load properly after waking up computer

Changelog 1.1.16 (September 19th, 2016):
Improvements:
• Galaxy now supports H.264 codecs
• Much better handling of paying using third party processors (PayPal, paysafecard etc.)
• Friends and chat window now scale with the system scaling factor
• New and prettier GOG Eula will be used in games
• Better handling of loading timeouts

Bugfixes:
• "INSTALLED" label will appear all pages of the library now
• Fixed a bug with game time tracking for some games. Galaxy will now register more than one minute:)
• Fixed a bug in which Galaxy in rare cases could not be able to update the game (bug rather existed in rollbacks)
• Galaxy will no longer show a little bit of bare code upon launching
• Fixed blurred images in sidebar expanded list mode

Changelog 1.1.17(hotfix September 20th, 2016):
• Fixed crashes and 'Disk Access Problem' caused by updating Galaxy from 1.1.12 (and earlier versions) to 1.1.16

Changelog 1.1.18 (October 19th, 2016):
Improvements:
• More accurate game time tracking mechanism
• Improved mechanism showing current online status between friends

Bugfixes:
• Fixed a bug which caused Galaxy to stop tracking game time

Changelog 1.1.19 (October 25th, 2016):
Improvements:
• We have removed download size from Galaxy updater. It showed faulty data, as Galaxy Updater doesn't download > 100mb each time and only downloads differences. It will come back in nearest future, when it will show correct data:)
• The first check for game updates will be done 15s after Galaxy starts, instead of 5 minutes.
• OSX: Improved mechanism responsible for removing old files left by Galaxy updates
• OSX: Improved the way Galaxy handles installing games into protected locations like /Applications; you will receive a password prompt about a "Helper tool" installation

Bugfixes:
• Fixed "Essential components missing" error which sometimes appeared after fresh installation
• Fixed a situation where failure in Updater could lead to Galaxy not being able to launch
• Fixed self-update on OSX to properly delete leftover files
• Fixed friends window losing functionality after network loss and reconnect
• Fixed blurry Windows 10 Galaxy tray icon
• Galaxy will remember maximised window status

Changelog 1.1.20(November 2nd, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Fixed installing XNA4 and other msi-based dependencies.
• Store page won't be reloaded twice upon logging in

Changelog: 1.1.21 (November 17th, 2016)
Improvements / changes:
• Added "with preview updates" suffix to Galaxy window title
• Small optimizations with memory and Galaxy loading time
• Small improvements with updater, it should fail less

Bugfixes:
• Fixed a bug with Galaxy refreshing pages
• Fixed occasional crashes

Changelog 1.1.22 (November 22nd, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Galaxy will no longer freeze when downloading a game update and checking another game in library
• Galaxy should crash even less now:)

Changelog 1.1.23 (November 28th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Galaxy will be now able to reconnect to internet correctly, if computer was put to sleep and then woken up without (initially) Internet connection
• Downloading of games/updates should have less impact on starting other installations

Changelog 1.1.24(December 6th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Downloading an installer with Galaxy and using it to install the game should not result in redownloading the whole game again
• Updater should no longer report over 100% progress on download

Adjustments:
• Increased timeout for failures during sign in
• Increased timeout for "Loading Timeout"

Changelog 1.1.25 (December 20th, 2016)
Bugfixes:
• Fixed a crash when trying to install certain games (Game affected was 1979 Revolution: Black Friday).

Changelog 1.1.26 (December 23rd, 2016, Preview only)
Changes:
• Introduced new downloading mechanism

Changelog 1.1.27 (January 26th, 2017, Preview)
Bugfixes:
• Aborting or pausing downloads will be smoother (They will stop faster)
• Pausing downloads will no longer cause memory usage to go super high

Changelog 1.1.27 (January 31th, 2017)
Changes:
• Introduced new downloading mechanism
Bugfixes:
• Aborting or pausing downloads will be smoother (They will stop faster)
• Pausing downloads will no longer cause memory usage to go super high

Changelog 1.1.28 (March 10th, 2017)
Changes / Improvements:
- Better support for differential patches. They are now seperate depending on game's language and system bitness
- Italian & Japanese partial support + more Spanish translations
- Improved checking for new available updates of the games
- We'll sort available DLCs alphabetically
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash when Galaxy doesn't have permissions to the logs directory
- Fixed showing empty grey page after a while of inactivity
- Fixed infinite spinner after going to support page
- Fixed displaying of prices in cart when they were over 999 (Bug caused by a comma in the price)
- MacOS: Popup windows (for example chat) will no longer open as a tab but as a separate window instead
- MacOS: Fixed memory leak (~30MB upon GOG Galaxy launch)
- MacOS: Fixed memory leak while playing a game

Changelog 1.1.29 (March 14nd, 2017)
Changes:
- Changes in downloading mechanism, which allows for better control over download's flow
Bugfixes:
- Fixed displaying progress of differential patches (It did not display the "Extracting" status)

Changelog 1.1.30 (March 16th, 2017)
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash within games downloading mechanism

== PREVIEW UPDATES* ===

HOW TO ENABLE PREVIEWS?
Go to your Galaxy settings and check the option to receive preview updates.

HOW TO DISABLE PREVIEW?
- Uninstall Galaxy
- Download current installer from gog.com/galaxy
- Install Galaxy
- Import your games

Changelog 1.2.0 (March 22nd, 2017)
Changes and improvements:
- Cloud saves backup and syncing (supported games only)
- Screenshot capture with F12 (supported games only)
- In-game overlay with FPS counter and notifications (supported games only)
- Greatly improved chat, also in overlay
- Ability to enable or disable achievements, game time tracking, auto-updating games and more
- Desktop and in-game notifications system
- Ability to set bandwidth limit and scheduler
- New settings window
- Rarity information in achievements
- Abort button next to installation status
- Only one Galaxy Updater window will be shown in most cases
- GOG Galaxy updates will be downloaded in the background
- Games are now downloaded directly to their install directory, instead of a temporary location
- Galaxy changelog is displayed in Galaxy

Bugfixes:
- Fixed game time tracking issues
- Initial size of Galaxy Client window will respect Windows scaling
- Improved Windows 10 Galaxy tray icon
- Fixed a bug which caused Galaxy to redownload whole data in case of a failure of installation/update
- Thumbnail highlighting in media gallery now works properly
- Decreased client's network and CPU usage (especially for a lot of games)
- MacOS: Fixed situation when Galaxy Client could downloading due to App Nap
- MacOS: Fixed crash when logging out with "New post" popup open
- MacOS: Fixed game processes not being properly cleaned up after exiting
Post edited March 22, 2017 by TheTomasz
Posted March 26, 2016
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For everyone who has a problem with missing api-ms-crt dlls in Client's versions post 1.1.5:
Please install one of those windows update: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3118401
You may need to update Windows to meet the requirements for these:
For Windows 8.1 and for Windows Server 2012: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2919355
For Windows 7 and for Windows Server 2008 R2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/976932

You can also try reinstalling Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables 2015 (x86) if you meet above requirements.
Available here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

If above instructions doesn't work for you, create a separate issue on mantis.gog.com and we'll try to help you individually.

Please note that this solution only helps with the missing api-ms-crt dlls.


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Answering this question: Why 1.1 doesn't work after updating to 1.2?

This is happening probably due to incompatible database from version 1.2, please delete this folder:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\GOG.com\Galaxy\storage
usually
C:\ProgramData\GOG.com\storage\

Then you'll have to use scan&import (menu under the top Galaxy logo) function to see your games back in Galaxy Client.
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Post edited March 27, 2017 by TheTomasz
Posted August 05, 2016
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moonshineshadow: Thing is, just because you value your privacy does not mean you are opposed to everything online focused as you call it.
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BKGaming: I didn't say it did. But have your tried playing a game online on Galaxy, it's rare finding someone and I would argue that is largely because GOG has a very large conservative fan base who oppose Galaxy and multiplayer in general. I'm just saying let's not find ways to make it worse when GOG is growing with new people who don't share that view.
Or it might be because there are just not the right type of games. I ran one or two games in multiplayer for testing purpose but that's it. Not because I'm not interested, there just isn't any game here on gog that I play in multiplayer or where an online multiplayer is available.

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d2t: what are you talking about man? the post says about sharing it with FRIENDS, not with the world.
why do you add people to your personal list of FRIENDS in the first place or accept their requests if you don't want to do anything with them or let them see anything more than general public does? keep them in the contact list and you have full privacy control.
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BKGaming: This is also true.
Perhaps you just want to share some things with them and not everything? Also the contact list is totally useless. As soon as you reach a certain number the oldest contact just vanishes and you have to open chat with them again manually. Maybe not a problem for most people but there is no way that it can replace a friends list.

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BKGaming: Making sure it's functional for each game? Find weird glitches such as perhaps the text of the game name being messed up or the wrong game being shown when playing?
Uh and how exactly should that work? I mean no one will know if the wrong game is shown, since I can't see it myself and others won't know that I'm not playing the game that is shown ;-)
Post edited August 05, 2016 by moonshineshadow
Posted August 05, 2016
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moonshineshadow: Or it might be because there are just not the right type of games. I ran one or two games in multiplayer for testing purpose but that's it. Not because I'm not interested, there just isn't any game here on gog that I play in multiplayer or where an online multiplayer is available.
Okay that might be true, but we are starting to veer from the original point here. Making everything disabled by default would not help this situation. I fully agree give an option to do so, but let not lose sight of just what Galaxy is meant to be.

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moonshineshadow: Perhaps you just want to share some things with them and not everything? Also the contact list is totally useless. As soon as you reach a certain number the oldest contact just vanishes and you have to open chat with them again manually. Maybe not a problem for most people but there is no way that it can replace a friends list.
I personally am not disagreeing that you shouldn't be able to do that, not at all. More options the better really. I just think were going a bit beyond what the scope of a beta is suppose to be right now. In release (or sometime after release) I fully agree these should be there. Rome wasn't built in a day though, and neither is Galaxy.

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moonshineshadow: Uh and how exactly should that work? I mean no one will know if the wrong game is shown, since I can't see it myself and others won't know that I'm not playing the game that is shown ;-)
Who knows what information GOG is getting from logs, I certainly have not looked through it all. Furthermore, I've had friends message me because they seen me playing a certain game to ask questions about it. If I had this disabled, they would not have seen what I was playing and I would not be able to confirm if the game I was playing was showing to them correctly.
Post edited August 05, 2016 by user deleted
Posted August 05, 2016
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BKGaming: [...]
I'm sure some of us would even like to test nightly/weekly unstable builds like a lot other companies release to which we can report issues before the public ever sees them.
I can't properly express how much I agree with that. I don't have much free time at the moment (repairs at home, change of heating system and so on) but what free time I have I would gladly devote to testing.
Posted August 06, 2016
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BKGaming: I would fully support those features (well Galaxy has an offline mode if no internet is hooked up), they just need to add an option to start in it. I also would support a private option for chat. I just don't want to see them disabled by default.

People are generally lazy by definition, if they were disabled by default a majority would not use them even if they wouldn't mind using them just because they would not want to take the time. This means Galaxy's online system would suck and make Galaxy irrelevant to what it is meant for.

It's bad enough finding older members on GOG now who aren't opposed to everything online focused. Let not make it worse when GOG is now slowly getting new people who don't share that view point.

And I'm not disagreeing with this at all, but I would think you would understand more than most just what the point of a beta is. It's not about giving people ways to disable features, it's about having people test those features and reporting valuable feedback either though manual bug reports or Galaxy sending automatic reports.

Having said that, I assume we will see more privacy related options soon enough during this beta.
Sure, I agree that the point of the beta is to have people test everything. But advertising something as optional and never actually making it optional for several years while dangling greyed out options in the settings dialogue is not helpful either. It's not like if something is optional immediately the millions of people "testing" Galaxy are going to all unanimously shut it off and GOG wont get any testing of the feature. I don't buy that for a microsecond. If something is advertised as optional, made optional, actually configurable - most people will leave most settings at the default as a part of human nature anyway. Those who change the default will most likely be the minority. Test coverage is actually increased because the thing that is "optional" is being tested both ways - enabled and disabled.

The things that are supposed to be optional are much more likely not optional simply because nobody has written the code to make them optional yet, rather than because they want to force everyone to test it.

They should make the defaults what they think the general user will want or appreciate to be the default. If they make things optional and with a way to change the default it isn't a big issue for people who want non-defaults to go and change the settings. I personally like to go through the preferences of every application I use and customize all the settings to my own personal taste and possibly refine that over time based on usage. I don't have a problem with changing defaults if I need to. What I don't like is when certain things have no options to configure them to personal preferences that should be. The only thing worse than that is showing a greyed out option that you can never actually configure for 2 years.
Posted August 06, 2016
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d2t: what are you talking about man? the post says about sharing it with FRIENDS, not with the world.

why do you add people to your personal list of FRIENDS in the first place or accept their requests if you don't want to do anything with them or let them see anything more than general public does? keep them in the contact list and you have full privacy control.
You're completely misunderstanding the point of my post. For starters, look at my Steam account (same nickname). It is shared with the world and everyone can see my list of games, wishlist, game time played - whatever. I wasn't forced to set it that way, I chose to set it that way, and more likely than not I will set up my GOG account that way also. That is what I'm talking about.

But regardless of how I would choose to set my account up if I even have a choice - I want the choice. And I'd like to be able to configure things on a finer grained basis. Why? Because that's what I would like that's why.

In real analogue life offline as a human being I can choose on an individual basis who my friends are, who my acquaintances are, what I tell them about myself, what aspects of my life I'd like to share with them, etc. because I get to decide what words come out of my mouth and who I direct them towards. It isn't perfect, but it is about the most control that we have over these things.

Online social networks, gaming platforms etc. do not give that level of control over how we share things. Fine, that's understandable because doing things digitally is more complex, and furthermore if you have too many options people can be confused.

It is completely possible however to provide a happy middle ground where just the right amount of control is present to let people decide what they would like to share about the information they have decided to make available in their online presence but make sensible defaults at the same time. That way people who have needs or desires that differ from the average joe can have their needs met also.

My friend list has dozens of people on it in chat that I don't even know who they are. Maybe someone messaged me once 3 years ago and GOG deleted the entire chat history with them sometime or lost it in a hard drive crash or something. It has a fascination with permanently leaving people on the list if you've ever even talked to them once or they to you. Even though I generally will share most of my gaming related data etc. with other friends, there are reasons why one might not want to do so as I indicated above. If the boundary of choice that one has is "make someone not be a friend" in order to prevent them from seeing some data in your profile, that is too fine grained and depending on the people can have social consequences. Unfriend someone because you don't want them spying on how many hours you log in some game because they are getting on your case about it for some reason, and maybe that causes real world social dysfunction drama.

This isn't a demand, it is a preferential suggestion, and one that nobody would have to care about if they don't want to use it. As others have stated, on Steam you at least have some level of control over what certain classifications of people can see in your profile. I'd like to see Galaxy have at least that level of configuration. But I don't want Galaxy to just clone Steam as a boilerplate either. I would like to see Galaxy become way better than Steam, and the ability to configure things more user friendly and caring about the unique needs of certain classes of users who want greater flexibility is a way to provide that level of differentiation.
Posted August 06, 2016
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skeletonbow: The things that are supposed to be optional are much more likely not optional simply because nobody has written the code to make them optional yet, rather than because they want to force everyone to test it.
Most likely. Still doesn't change the point of what the beta is for, meaning it's probably also not a high priority to get these things coded. But agree fully that part of a beta is testing to make sure those optional features can be disabled. So as I said, I'm sure we will see them soon enough even if we don't see them in this next update.
Posted August 06, 2016
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BKGaming: Most likely. Still doesn't change the point of what the beta is for, meaning it's probably also not a high priority to get these things coded. But agree fully that part of a beta is testing to make sure those optional features can be disabled. So as I said, I'm sure we will see them soon enough even if we don't see them in this next update.
Yeah, I just hope we see the options actually show up soon, or get removed from the settings screen completely until they're ready. It just reminds me of those "Under Construction" web images of the 1990s which generally meant "this content will never actually ever show up" in reality.
Posted August 06, 2016
Had trouble with updating the client so I uninstalled GOG Galaxy, deleted all leftover files and installed again but it still wont update fully, it loads until 18 MB (out of 100 something) and then it stops. I thought re-install might do the trick but i was wrong. It's happening again.
Posted August 07, 2016
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BKGaming: Most likely. Still doesn't change the point of what the beta is for, meaning it's probably also not a high priority to get these things coded. But agree fully that part of a beta is testing to make sure those optional features can be disabled. So as I said, I'm sure we will see them soon enough even if we don't see them in this next update.
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skeletonbow: Yeah, I just hope we see the options actually show up soon, or get removed from the settings screen completely until they're ready. It just reminds me of those "Under Construction" web images of the 1990s which generally meant "this content will never actually ever show up" in reality.
It pains me to agree with skeleonbow...
I like galaxy installer just cause it is simpler...

Achievements/my time recorded for just me is fine...
(though even that should be option)

What should never be forced is making personal stats/information public.

This is walmart... not a public blog/diary.

If I want to make posts about how pathetic my life is I can go to twitter/instagram to do that.
Post edited August 07, 2016 by Regals
Posted August 07, 2016
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Regals: What should never be forced is making personal stats/information public.

This is walmart... not a public blog/diary.

If I want to make posts about how pathetic my life is I can go to twitter/instagram to do that.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Posted August 07, 2016
Hi,

should it be possible to access windows file shares using the \\servername\folder\... syntax for GoG folders in the client?
As I do not have a problem to browse them, and the settings show the actual address ... although when I try to download something after configuring it immediately fails.

I connected with a user that has full rights to those folders on that machine, so access should be possible.
Is the reason for failed access that it is simply not built in correctly or does GoG Galaxy client need some additional rights?

/Edit:
Filled a bug report 0004515, although there are already a few duplicates out there. According to the logs it seems that just a function for remaining disk size check fails and therefore the whole download job fails.
Post edited August 07, 2016 by daisho.102
Posted August 08, 2016
Asking here first to find if a bug or the way it is meant to be. If the latter, please change it! (Achievements are pointless & just ruin immersion.)

I was playing Grim Dawn, not via GOG Galaxy, just standalone.
Galaxy is installed but was not up & running.

I had three achievements pop up (grrrrrr!) in game, screenies provided.
I'd had none up until now & this kind of stuff ruins immersion, which is why I never play via Galaxy etc.

If this is a bug, I'll report it.
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Posted August 08, 2016
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fishbaits: Asking here first to find if a bug or the way it is meant to be. If the latter, please change it! (Achievements are pointless & just ruin immersion.)

I was playing Grim Dawn, not via GOG Galaxy, just standalone.
Galaxy is installed but was not up & running.

I had three achievements pop up (grrrrrr!) in game, screenies provided.
I'd had none up until now & this kind of stuff ruins immersion, which is why I never play via Galaxy etc.

If this is a bug, I'll report it.
In galaxy you can try to turn off overlay


shrug
Posted August 08, 2016
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fishbaits: Asking here first to find if a bug or the way it is meant to be. If the latter, please change it! (Achievements are pointless & just ruin immersion.)

I was playing Grim Dawn, not via GOG Galaxy, just standalone.
Galaxy is installed but was not up & running.

I had three achievements pop up (grrrrrr!) in game, screenies provided.
I'd had none up until now & this kind of stuff ruins immersion, which is why I never play via Galaxy etc.

If this is a bug, I'll report it.
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Regals: In galaxy you can try to turn off overlay

shrug
Done that just on the off chance, but as I didn't have it running when I was playing, it really shouldn't pop up anything at all.

/shrugs some more ;)
Posted August 08, 2016
I have my account set to show SEK but the GOG Galaxy Beta client shows the money in EUR anyway. Although both the website and the client shows that it should be SEK.

Also, the EUR price is about 7 SEK more expensive than the Website in SEK.
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