Just wondering if the New GOG Galaxy service will offer cloud type saves like steam. I play a lot of my games on my main Desktop PC but I also play on my Gaming Laptop when traveling and I hate having to find and move saves between computers. Specifically the Witcher 3 will it have this at launch?

Nothing official for the time being. Anything else you might hear is only speculation at the moment.

That's a biggie for me. I really hope its a feature!!!

They seem pretty focused on feature packing Galaxy, so I wouldn't be surprised to see this pop up later on if it's not available when they launch it.

This is a big one for me too! I love how Steam moves my saves between my Linux and Windows computers. I tend to reinstall my oses alot and forget to backup my saves. So just installing Fez and HL2 and just seeing them work is really wonderful to me. <3

Yeah, I suspect that they'll be adding features to Galaxy from launch until forever - they're still adding pretty major features to the Steam client and THAT'S been around for years! (which reminds me, I must give that new 'streaming to another device' thing a go!)
I would imagine that Cloud Saves is pretty high on the priority list though - lets hope its above trading cards anyway!
Lets also hope they make it clearer than Steam which games support it and which don't in the interface, unless I'm missing something - am I missing something?

If GOG had cloud save support, that'd completely destroy any reason for me not to get a game on GOG rather than steam if the game is on both services.

Same goes for me. I would love Galaxy to have cloud saves!

Yeah, also hoping for cloud saving. Although I also have to chuckle thinking back to my save folder of the original Witcher which four chapters in was half as big as the game itself. :B

Cloud saving? So, my information is stored on someone else's machine? And I have to log in to their service in order to play my game?

I feel like we're setting foot on the slippery slope this site was designed to avoid.

Yes, if you chose to use that function.

No, like everything Galaxy has to offer, if such a feature were to become available it would be optional since the entire premise of Galaxy is that it is entirely optional to begin with.

Therefore, if a game had cloud save ability, it would also have the ability to save games on your hard disk as always before and the cloud save feature would be an option you could choose to use or choose not to use. There is no slippery slope in implementing optional online features in games which can give people additional new options without taking anything away.

The fact that some games on Steam or elsewhere implement some cloud features in their game and make it mandatory and rip out any other way of having the game work without being online does not in any way mean that that is the only way possible to implement such features. In the case of GOG, GOG has categorically and very clearly stated that the GOG Galaxy client and services are and will be completely optional, therefore no game on GOG will ever require anyone to mandatorily have to use Galaxy to save their games in the cloud or other stuff.

There is absolutely no reason why GOG should however not provide additional services such as cloud based saving or any other services built into Galaxy as optional features to GOG gamers above and beyond what features a game has built in on its own without Galaxy.

Make no mistake - if GOG were to state as they have that Galaxy is optional, and then come out with any game in the catalogue that uses Galaxy and requires it as being mandatory for something like save games or anything else - the entire GOG community would go in an apeshit mad uproar and rip them apart and burn them at the stake, I know it, you know it and everyone knows it.

That fact alone, in combination with GOG's own strong claims of Galaxy being an optional thing pretty much ensures that any service or feature they provide in Galaxy will indeed be optional and never be something people are required to use or even care about.

The number of pitchforks that would be coming after them if they started putting mandatory always-on type crap into games would virtually destroy their business model over night. That pretty much ensures it will never happen.

I welcome GOG Galaxy *OPTIONAL* cloud based save games and any other *OPTIONAL* features they might decide to make available to customers (whether I would want to use these features or not) because well, options are good, more options are better. And I'd be the first person to grab a pitchfork and march up the hill to GOG HQ if they ever tried to make such a thing mandatory, which I'm confident they wouldn't.

Keeping game saves in a cloud for you to be able to pull when you need it is far more benign than storing, I dunno, your credit card info on another persons machine, which you're already doing if you're a paying customer.

AFAIK No one has said anything along those lines. Neither here, or in the promo video.