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General discussionIntroducing: GOG Galaxy, the DRM-Free online gaming platform(917 posts)(917 posts)
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Posted June 06, 2014
Freedom of choice. Optional client. Cross-play. Coming soon to all gamers!

Earlier today (or was it yesterday for you?), during the [url=http://www.gog.com/news/cd_projekt_red_gogcom_summer_conference]CD Projekt RED and GOG.com’s Summer Conference we dropped the news about our next big step forward! GOG.com has always been home to more and more of the the best games in history (for Windows and Mac), both classic and new. Differing in shapes, flavors, and sizes they had one thing in common: they were mostly single-player, and our focus was mainly on the experience of a singular gamer. If that's your thing, nothing really will change. You can always enjoy your favorite games 100% DRM-free on GOG.com, with no need to activate your game online or remain connected to play your single-player title. Just like GOG.com has always been about.. But what if you want to play with your friends?

Today we are excited to announce GOG Galaxy, a truly gamer-friendly, 100% DRM-free online gaming platform that will finally provide the GOG.com community with the easy option to play together online. GOG Galaxy will allow you to share your achievements, stay in touch with your pals and get the updates for your games automatically. We've developed this technology to improve your GOG.com experience. We think GOG Galaxy really deserves your attention and we hope many of you will give it a try! But, here's the great thing: it is totally optional, so it's all up to you! If you do not want to play online, or use our optional client to access these features, then no worries, you will always be able to play the single-player mode 100% DRM-free, and download manually the latest updated version of your favorite title from our website. Now, for one more feature we call cross-play. We always believed in an open world for gamers, with no obligation to be tied to a specific platform or client; and this is why GOG Galaxy will allow gamers to play with their buddies who use Steam, without any need to use any 3rd party client or account, nothing, nada. We’re taking care of connecting GOG.com and Steam players, so just sit back, relax and give it a try.

See the outtake from the CD Projekt RED & GOG.com Summer Conference

Talking of which, we are proud to announce the soon-to-come launch of the beta phase for The Witcher Adventure Game, a faithful adaptation of the board game of the same title. It allows up to 4 players to play together, whether they use Steam or GOG.com. Cross-play at its finest! If you wanna get the chance to try it out, please visit and sign up to get in the queue for your beta access key. You can also simply take advantage of our amazing [url=http://www.gog.com/tw3]pre-order offer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which includes 2 beta access keys for he Witcher Aventure Game, delivered to you as soon as we start handing them out to public.

We believe GOG Galaxy has the power to provide the best of both worlds. Playing the single player mode of your favorite game, 100% DRM-free, while still having the OPTION to use our soon-to-come client for an enhanced experience (auto-patching, achievements, and much more) or play online with other GOG.com (and Steam) players if you so wish.

There will be more GOG Galaxy titles coming up this year, so stay tuned for more news and get the word around!
Post edited June 06, 2014 by G-Doc
Posted June 06, 2014
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JudasIscariot: I'll make it as clear as I possibly can, then :)

GOG Galaxy will allow you to play the online portions of a GOG game with other players no matter which service they bought the game.

Let me know if I am still not making myself clear and I'll ry again :)
What's a GOG game in this definition? Any game on GOG? Or a game designed around Galaxy?

And that does seem to exclude non-GOG games then.
Post edited June 06, 2014 by Pheace
Posted June 06, 2014
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JudasIscariot: I'll make it as clear as I possibly can, then :)

GOG Galaxy will allow you to play the online portions of a GOG game with other players no matter which service they bought the game.

Let me know if I am still not making myself clear and I'll ry again :)
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Pheace: What's a GOG game in this definition? Any game on GOG? Or a game designed around Galaxy?
Any game on GOG :)
Posted June 06, 2014
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JudasIscariot: GOG Galaxy will allow you to play the online portions of a GOG game with other players no matter which service they bought the game.
What I'm wanting to know is *how*, if no deals were struck :)

"Ah, the game has Steamworks for multiplayer? No problem, you've got Galaxy! All restrictions are bypassed." Just seems too good to be true.
Posted June 06, 2014
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JudasIscariot: GOG Galaxy will allow you to play the online portions of a GOG game with other players no matter which service they bought the game.
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pbnjoe: What I'm wanting to know is *how*, if no deals were struck :)

"Ah, the game has Steamworks for multiplayer? No problem, you've got Galaxy! All restrictions are bypassed." Just seems too good to be true.
As far as I know, magic. Sorry but I am not a dev so I don't know how :)
Posted June 06, 2014
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JudasIscariot: GOG Galaxy will allow you to play the online portions of a GOG game with other players no matter which service they bought the game.
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pbnjoe: What I'm wanting to know is *how*, if no deals were struck :)

"Ah, the game has Steamworks for multiplayer? No problem, you've got Galaxy! All restrictions are bypassed." Just seems too good to be true.
How many Steamworks games have a DRM-free client though? Isn't Divinity Dragon Commander one of the only ones? None of the other Steamworks games would even qualify as GOG games I think as they wouldn't be sold here.
Post edited June 06, 2014 by Pheace
Posted June 06, 2014
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pbnjoe: What I'm wanting to know is *how*, if no deals were struck :)

"Ah, the game has Steamworks for multiplayer? No problem, you've got Galaxy! All restrictions are bypassed." Just seems too good to be true.
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JudasIscariot: As far as I know, magic. Sorry but I am not a dev so I don't know how :)
I figured, I'm just saying what I'd like to find out in the future :P If it ends up working like that, I literally see no reason to purchase games anywhere besides GOG any longer, now that the I-wanna-play-with-steamonly-friends thing would be gone (barring some absolutely killer game that refuses to sell here for some dumb reason).
Posted June 06, 2014
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npalsensei: Yes, what's wrong with it?
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amok: It was a load of PR speak without substance and even factual wrong information. You do not own your games, you own a license to play them. Freedom of choice is not something "we call" as a new invention, it is something it is. "We give you freedom of choice" for example, is much better. "We call this FREEDOM OF CHOICE" almost implies that this is a gOg invention. and the share audacity to announce an optional client and then say "We call it the OPTIONAL CLIENT". It is like a bad comedy film. "I have made an mechanical horse... I call it the MECHANICAL HORSE"... and it is also not a gOg invention, Desura, for example, have had an optional client for years.
The European court highly disagree with you.
IF it didnt, then on the games there woud have been no case here valve had to meet in court.
Of course they are trying to sneak past the rulig since they changed their ula, in the end though steam isnt a renting service but a store where you or me buy products digital or not.

In July 2012 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that users have the right to re-sell downloaded content and a publisher can’t stop that via EULA.
Post edited June 06, 2014 by Lodium
Posted June 06, 2014
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pbnjoe: What I'm wanting to know is *how*, if no deals were struck :)

"Ah, the game has Steamworks for multiplayer? No problem, you've got Galaxy! All restrictions are bypassed." Just seems too good to be true.
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Pheace: How many Steamworks games have a DRM-free client though? Isn't Divinity Dragon Commander one of the only ones? None of the other Steamworks games would even qualify as GOG games I think as they wouldn't be sold here.
Dragon Commander has the direct IP multiplayer option that's DRM free without Steamworks. I personally hope we can get Dragon Commander to have the full gamut of multiplayer options available just like they are elsewhere but DRM free :)
Posted June 06, 2014
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pbnjoe: What I'm wanting to know is *how*, if no deals were struck :)

"Ah, the game has Steamworks for multiplayer? No problem, you've got Galaxy! All restrictions are bypassed." Just seems too good to be true.
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Pheace: How many Steamworks games have a DRM-free client though? Isn't Divinity Dragon Commander one of the only ones? None of the other Steamworks games would even qualify as GOG games I think as they wouldn't be sold here.
Hm, I thought there were some games that only had steamworks for the netcode and the single player portion was left alone (and sold on GOG minus the multiplayer), but now that you point that out, I can't think of one off the top of my head.

Need to do less talking and more thinking ;) still, if this turns out it'd be great regardless.
Posted June 06, 2014
In order to do the matchmaking, will we sync our GOG Galaxy accounts to our Steam/Origin/Uplay accounts, in order to merge friend lists?
Posted June 06, 2014
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pbnjoe: What I'm wanting to know is *how*, if no deals were struck :)
Probably the Galaxy app will use the official Steamwork DLL to communicate with Steam like all the Steam games does, technically it's not hard IF Valve allows it of course.
Posted June 06, 2014
I am extremely excited for this. Thanks, GOG!
Posted June 06, 2014
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pbnjoe: What I'm wanting to know is *how*, if no deals were struck :)
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Gersen: Probably the Galaxy app will use the official Steamwork DLL to communicate with Steam like all the Steam games does, technically it's not hard IF Valve allows it of course.
That's the "deals struck" part ;)
Posted June 06, 2014
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Lodium: The European court highly disagree with you.
IF it didnt, then on the games there woud have been no case here valve had to meet in court.
Of course they are trying to sneak past the rulig since they changed their ula, in the end though steam isnt a renting service but a store where you or me buy products digital or not.

In July 2012 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that users have the right to re-sell downloaded content and a publisher can’t stop that via EULA.
Ow that case? Valve won that one. Your info is out of date.

“German consumer watchdog group Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband argued that if copyright law, through the doctrine of exhaustion, allowed the resale of used computer game DVDs, then a clause in a standard contract restricting the transfer of the online account necessary to play the game was at odds with the basic principles of statutory law and therefore unreasonable, abusive and, ultimately, unenforceable,”

“So is the Regional Court of Berlin going against Court of Justice of the European Union case law? Not quite. The judges’ comments at the oral hearing held a few days before the verdict transpired do indicate that they do not consider the doctrine of exhaustion to be applicable to digitally distributed computer games at all.”
Post edited June 06, 2014 by Pheace
Posted June 06, 2014
I like the idea of this, and will be hanging out for a try. Love the fact that it is a choice - classic gog being gog!


One question though, if we have our gog games already installed will Galaxy come along and find them? or would we have to uninstall and reinstall through Galaxy for it to know the games are there?

(If this has been answered already, sorry, haven't had a chance to read all the comments yet!)
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