It isn't a secret that in order to play most of the newly released AAA titles or basically any other newly released games, you are forced to have Steam acc. So if Galaxy is successful and maybe more new/this decade's games would come to GOG. Is there any chance if we would buy game here, which we have already "owned" on steam, that we would be able to sync our achievements/hiscores?
P.S. Yeah, I know that achievements mean nothing but still (or maybe it will mean or give something here) :P

I just downloaded Galaxy on my Mac, and after it updated itself on first run, I am receiving an error:

"Failed to load game database."

OS: Yosemite 10.10.2.
Files: please see the attached image.

Is this normal?

Thank you very much for the info!

Have a nice evening.

Probably not, that info would be stored on Steams servers and GOG is competition. I can't wait for the achievements myself either though,I know some games have achievements now on GOG but it's just not the same without a profile, ect, to show off what achievements you have gotten. I know it not everyone's thing, but they add something to a game in my opinion and was one thing I really missed when I left Steam.

I just wish GOG could tell us which (if any) games currently sold on GOG that have achievements will have full integration with the Galaxy API meaning our achievements will show in Galaxy and sync to their servers.

Hopefully we are getting a new build today, I'm excited to beta test

I can't see how synchronizing achievements between Steam and GOG would affect any competition between the two platforms, it's just data not bank funds or anything. The Steam APIs make this information available to client applications so anyone can access it and GOG certainly could do so as well (although they'd have to link to Valve's Steam APIs to do so). Many web apps already access this kind of information through the Steam APIs. Whether they would consider doing something like that or not is unlikely to have anything to do with competition but more to do with customer demand for such a feature and whether it is the best use of their developer resources or whether they've got more important features to develop that matter to a lot wider customer base for their finite manpower.

GOG's Galaxy announcement and followup interviews and Twitch videos etc. have indicated that they plan on implementing an Achievements system, so it is highly likely we'll see that at some point unless they find a reason to change their minds. Then it's more or less up to individual game developers whether they wish to utilize the GOG achievements system or not with their games. Games that do not have any Galaxy functionality wont have these features either unless the developer of the game updates it to have optional Galaxy support for these features. I would imagine that it might also be up to the developer as to whether or not they wish to allow people to synchronize their achievements between the two platforms. It would require authorizing the GOG Galaxy client and/or game access to your Steam profile though via the Steam OpenID/Oauth/whatever login system like many other websites like steamgifts.com and steamcompanion.com do.

If anything like that were to happen I wouldn't expect it for a long time though as they'll most certainly be targeting the biggest and most impacting features for quite some time to come before they consider minor niche enhancement suggestions. That's my guess anyway.


Doubt they'd even know that info because it wont likely be them implementing it but rather the developer of each individual game. I would assume that when the achievements system goes live that there will be "0" games supporting it at first unless they have a developer set up to be the first to test it out like they did with Galaxy Multiplayer and AvP or something. From then on I'd expect only brand new games coming to the catalogue to potentially use the achievment service, and perhaps the odd existing catalogue game getting updated with it from time to time by an indie developer eager to boost sales or whatnot. Just speculation on my part but updating games with patches or any kind of changes on GOG.com does not appear to be the highest priority of very many game developers/publishers by any far stretch of the imagination so I wouldn't expect too many games to start using such features once they're immediately available.

It's really the game devs that need to be asked about that, but they wont likely answer hypothetical questions speculatively about an unreleased game service as that's generally a bad idea PR-wise. "We'll have to look into that and consider it" is easily turned into "holy shit, they're going to do it when Galaxy is available" by some people, followed by "Burn the company to the ground!" when it doesn't happen 5 minutes after the service is available. :)

Should we give up hope yet?

We will get it this week hopefully haha

My thought is this, with Galaxy maybe 3rd party sites like playfire will track GOG as well as Steam.

I'm giving you my life power to create a Spirit Bomb and destroy that nasty bug once and for all! [Dragonball reference]

Possible I suppose but I somewhat doubt it unless Greenmangaming started reselling GOG games in-store, as they own Playfire and they're currently almost entirely a Steam shop other than a handful of games that use their own Capsule service. They would have to see a benefit to their business in adding support for something like that I imagine (in terms that matter to them personally of course) so it would seem unlikely.

That's why playfire was my example. I don't think they specifically would, but others might. I'd really like to see GOG develop into the alternative to Steam it could be.