i'm with you
i will not use galaxy
i don't use clients and galaxy will not be an exception
i don't use "clients" to play games
i play games directly
its me and the game, with no "third parties"
overall i don't use "clients" to interact with software
i don't need a "client" to take care of myself or my computer
i know how to work with computers enough do without any "help"

I should mention that I'm a bargain hunter and while I bought top of the line Corsair high speed RAM at the time, I got a really good price on 16GB for $89 and bought 2, plus tax which came to around $200. I'm not sure the regular price of it at the time but it was somewhere around $110-120 for 16GB of that I think. No idea what it sells for nowadays though. :)

When you click on a game, you can then just click on your system next to "Game Downloads." Which is then just like downloading anything to your computer. It's not the old downloader, so it doesn't seem as if using Galaxy will be necessary to download games - unless, of course, it ends up being the only way to get updates.

Are we really that short sighted though? I kind of feel like this isn't really the fault of Galaxy honestly. I mean before Galaxy the downloader was the practical way to go, the way I see it they changed one practical way to grab installers with another practical way to grab installers. Grabbing installers without the downloader is nearly the same pain as it grabbing them without Galaxy. Just now we have replaced "downloader" with "client", to do that job and suddenly it has become an issue for some people. The website option was never the good option. If were going to blame Galaxy for being to practical then we got to blame the downloader for the same thing.

But I honestly feel GOG went the right way here though, they kept essentially the downloader in Galaxy, allowing people to get that same functionality they always had or more functionality if they want it, while not having to support two different programs. Logically that makes a lot of sense... I think people just need to adapt to Galaxy not being Steam and that Galaxy is really no different than an expanded downloader. The "client" rep just gives it a bad name from the start, and people aren't receptive to things that get a bad name.

I only see 4 starting with "steam": Steam, SteamService and two steamwebhelper processes. What's the fifth one?

They're currently have about 230MB working set and about 110MB private working set, which is what I guess most people would see in the task manager.

Let's hope that never happens.

I quite like the proposed system that:
a) If you want to play the latest version right now, you can auto-update the game via Galaxy and get the latest updates the developer has released and take your chances with it, or:
b) You can download the updated GOG installer where GOG have had a chance to make sure the update is fine on their various test systems.

I just don't want too long a delay between b) happening after a).

My cynical self says that developers will rush to implement a) and delay the implemenation of b) as long as possible... in which case I'd delay my purchase of the game as long as possible until I know there is a GOG installer available that includes what is widely regarded as the most stable version.

I'm not using it yet.

This might change when it finally comes out of Beta or when I really want to play Multiplayer game (which rarely happens), but for now I'm quite content with the old GOG downloader.

I prefer doing things a la carte, for the most control. While Galaxy might be a practical downloader, it also brings along with it a bunch of other things some of us don't want or need - I mentioned a couple features that are handled well (for me, anyway) just fine the old way. That's what I mean when I say I hope they don't make it such a pain to do the same stuff the old way. I don't need the social stuff, the achievements, the auto-updates, etc., so why would I download another piece of software to do those things I do use the site for, and that I can already do just fine now? All I'm asking is that in the process of making Galaxy 'the thing', they don't overly-complicate up the very basic website-based functionality that gets the job done for the rest of us.

I get what your saying, but I kind of feel like it's not valid when it's all optional. Being forced into sure, I wouldn't want that either... but auto-updates, achievements, these things will all be able to be disabled with a check box soon. I guess what I'm asking is if your only reason to use it would be for downloading installers for practical reasons what makes that any less of a valid reason than using the downloader when everything else it provides is optional?

I personally haven't seen yet how the website has become more complicated because of Galaxy, like I said... it was never the practical option nor will it ever be.

EDIT: Not to mention you want control... Galaxy gives you more control then the downloader ever did...

there is one massive issue with Galaxy that keeps me from using it 100% of the time..

It cannot check to see if you already downloaded a file or not. The GOG downloader has the ability to do a file check, Galaxy does not, it will download every extra and the installers without checking eating all your bandwidth.

I've been using/testing the GalaxyClient on my iMac running OS X Yosemite and the core functionality has been working fine here. I've encountered and reported some minor bugs but nothing show stopping.

I like it personally and look forward to seeing the rest of its planned functionality implemented. To that end I will participate in testing it carefully and providing bug reports as things come up along with any suggestions that come to mind from using it.

I personally like the feature to track time played in particular. It's just fun to me to see how long I spent with a game or how long it took to finish one, like maybe a long RPG or something. I am fine with people seeing what I play, how long i play it, etc. I don't know why I would want to hide that but to each their own.

Anyway, I give GOG a lot of credit with designing this such that users will have a lot of control over what functionality they want to enable and what they want disabled or if they want to use it at all. I plan to leave everything turned on other than to possibly and selectively control auto-updates in cases where i've applied mods to a game.

Rest assured that GOG has stated a multitude of times publicly in presentations, interviews, public comments all over the forums that GOG Galaxy will always be optional, and also that standalone installers/patches/updates/extras etc. will always be downloadable direct from the website without Galaxy.

People still won't be happy if their game is broken in some way or a quest is bugged, progress stuck or the like and the only way to get the newest update is Galaxy because the standalone patch/updates haven't been uploaded to the site yet.

People will find things to complain about. I have no doubt it's going to remain 'optional' to do so, but it's certainly going to be encouraged to use it, and unlike before, in some ways people who don't use it are now going to end up feeling like second class citizens, in part unfounded because they wouldve had to do it that way anyway if Galaxy hadn't been there, in part founded because of things like the downloader not being supported anymore forcing them to switch to Galaxy if they still want to use a 'downloader'.

On a side note, have i just been blind the last x times I looked at a storepage or is there simply no forum link on them? What's up with that? Going to the forum is literally the first thing I'd do if I was interested in a game.

It'd better be. Otherwise it's "goodbye GOG" for me and plenty of other users.