It seems that you're using an outdated browser. Some things may not work as they should (or don't work at all).
We suggest you upgrade newer and better browser like: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera

×
Community
General discussionIs anyone not using Galaxy?(368 posts)(368 posts)
(368 posts)
Pages:
1
5
10
15
16
17
18
19
20
25
This is my favourite topic
Posted May 18, 2015
Won't hurt Steam to have a bit of healthy competition. F yeah I'm using it.
Posted May 18, 2015
Currently not using it. No valid reason, just lazy. I will eventually because it seems to me a small amount of work will allow me to be even lazier in the future!
Posted May 18, 2015
avatar
stryx: So for me there is no problem that needs solving through additional software.
avatar
OldFatGuy: Maybe for you there isn't, but for me there is. With the Downloader, it automatically put all of my downloads in the same place, GOG DOWNLOADS in My Documents. I could download 10 games at a time, and be done. Not so with the browser downloader. That automatically puts them in the Downloads directory unless each and every download I manually go in and select "Save as" or each and every time go into downloads and copy and paste them into the GOG Downloads directory.
But doesn't that clutter up your GOG DOWNLOADS folder? I have a general download folder, where my browser defaults to and in that I create separate folders for each game, where I then save the files in.
Posted May 18, 2015
avatar
skeletonbow: I really wish all the people who constantly bash GOG endlessly with all their distrust would just leave the site and never return sometimes because it is constantly draining.
Bear in mind that the OP asked a question in the thread title, and it would be reasonable to assume from that title that you're predominently going to hear the viewpoints of those opposed to or nervous about Galaxy.
Posted May 18, 2015
avatar
skeletonbow: I really wish all the people who constantly bash GOG endlessly with all their distrust would just leave the site and never return sometimes because it is constantly draining.
I hope they'll take the GOG Cultists with them on their exodus ;)
Posted May 18, 2015
avatar
A_Future_Pilot: I use Linux, so no Galaxy for me yet....
this
Posted May 18, 2015
I decided to stop using Galaxy after trying it out because I don't like the way it looks and it really doesn't offer much. Right now, it is inferior to Steam in almost every way. In the future, I might give it another chance if GOG decides to change it's look and add more features.
Posted May 18, 2015
nope
Posted May 18, 2015
avatar
agogfan: Bear in mind that the OP asked a question in the thread title, and it would be reasonable to assume from that title that you're predominently going to hear the viewpoints of those opposed to or nervous about Galaxy.
It's even reasonable to assume that there are quite a number of people not wanting the extra convenience of using the Galaxy client for whatever reasons. But that topic is just too boring. What people really interests is if GOG will be just like Steam or if it will be significantly better or worse? That is the million dollar question and nobody knows the answer.
Post edited May 18, 2015 by Trilarion
Posted May 18, 2015
avatar
skeletonbow: I favour both and I favour choices over someone making the choice for me, but I also recognize that an option existing for someone else doesn't mean I have to choose the option or vice versa.
Here here! many of those nervous of Galaxy aren't asking for Galaxy to die. They just want to have the choice to not potentially be inconvenienced by it. Wtih Galaxy being in beta, this is practically our only opportunuty to make GOG aware of our concerns.

If Galaxy is as convenient as the current GOG downloader and offers exactly the same way of obtaining a fully patched installer, most of us "doubters" would be very happy and won't have an issue using Galaxy. In my case I'd have to install Galaxy each time I want to download a game as I won't have a persistent install of Galaxy on my internet computer (and Galaxy would be 100% useless on the offline computer I use for gaming) so I just want to know that Galaxy will be quick to install, won't use bandwidth other than to download the games I want to download, and isn't going to cause me issues with settings because I keep reinstalling it - I assume my preferences would be stored on GOG's server and not some cache on my internet PC because that's going to get nuked every time I restore my notebook to its original installation from a backup image.

I accept that I do things differently to the average PC user, but I don't just have games on my offline PC. I suppose if I just used a computer for gaming, and had unlimited internet, and didn't really want to keep any games for prosperity, then I'd have no issues using a persistent online client. But that's not me.
Posted May 18, 2015
nope
Posted May 18, 2015
avatar
agogfan: Bear in mind that the OP asked a question in the thread title, and it would be reasonable to assume from that title that you're predominently going to hear the viewpoints of those opposed to or nervous about Galaxy.
avatar
Trilarion: It's even reasonable to assume that there are quite a number of people not wanting the extra convenience of using the Galaxy client for whatever reasons. But that topic is just too boring. What people really interests is if GOG will be just like Steam or if it will be significantly better or worse? That is the million dollar question and nobody knows the answer.
I have zero fears that GOG will become Steam... because then it will BE Steam ;)

I do have fears that developers may be tempted to make online updates via Galaxy frequent, and take a looooooong time to push those updates out to offline installers. To be fair, maybe the developers will be happy to frequently publish versions that can be used to generate updated offline installers, but maybe GOG won't have the manpower to handle the QA - in which case, I'd like the developers to release patches than can be installed outside of Galaxy as well.
Posted May 18, 2015
I DO use it, and 90% of the reason is to manage my installs and updates.

avatar
JDelekto: It seems it is still using the OS selected Web browser internally
Unfortunately, no, it uses Chrome. I don't allow that browser anywhere near my computer (as a stand alone app, anyway), so definitely not my OS's default browser.

avatar
Ravenvolf: I don't like the fact that it is so difficult to download the installer separately.
If you don't mind my asking, what do you find difficult about it? It's 3 clicks. Click the Menu arrow, click Download Extras, click the installer (see 'backup' pic).

avatar
DreamedArtist: using it from alpha and it's a nice cleanup of icons from my desktop but HATE how every game takes forever to download on that thing so what I do is download straight from the site and put it into galaxy.
Try temporarily disabling your antivirus while it's downloading, works for me.

avatar
agogfan: If the rumours are true that GOG will eventually discard the GOG downloader
Depending on what you mean by 'discard', they already have. See question 8 in the FAQ. They haven't intentionally broken it, but they're no longer updating it, so changes behind the scene could potentially break it in the future.

avatar
Pheace: 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.
As far as I can recall, and rather inexplicably, there has never been a forum link on the store page. I don't get it either. This is one of the things that the water vapor service does right, but GOG, for some reason, hasn't done.

avatar
skeletonbow: - The integrated Steam overlay that works with most modern and many older games. SHIFT-TAB while gaming and the game is paused while the overlay pops up to chat with a friend, search for and read a game guide/walkthrough, surf google in the integrated web browser for how to fix one of the 10000 bugs in Skyrim, various other features.
This is, by far, the type of feature I wish for the most in Galaxy. I often end up launching non-Steam games in Steam so I can get the overlay so I can look up guides or something. Like in Legend of Grimrock 2, I was following a party build guide, so I ended up playing it through Steam to have the guide available with a quick shift-tab instead of having to alt-tab out all the time which often lead to instability.

avatar
Coelocanth: it seems to refuse to DL backups and extras to a different location that the default (and no, GOG, I DO NOT want all the DLs and installs to default to my C drive).
You can change where Galaxy installs stuff, and even set a different directory for Extras (which includes backup installers). See the 'downloads' pic.

Of course, this still puts all the extras, for example, in one place, so you can't have it automatically put Icewind Dale in C:\IWD_Installer\ and Baldur's Gate in D:\Backups\Gog_Games\ or whatever, but still. It also won't separate, say, soundtracks in to one folder and wallpapers in to another, which I think is a bit of a pain; everything goes in a folder named after the game/series.

-----

Hah, whoops, just realized I misread one of the posts I was responding to. Ignore that bit about memory if you saw it, skeletonbow :-)
Attachments:
backup.png (112 Kb)
downloads.png (67 Kb)
Post edited May 18, 2015 by Nesoo
Posted May 18, 2015
avatar
agogfan: If the rumours are true that GOG will eventually discard the GOG downloader
avatar
Nesoo: Depending on what you mean by 'discard', they already have. See question 8 in the FAQ. They haven't intentionally broken it, but they're no longer updating it, so changes behind the scene could potentially break it in the future.
OK, so I see in question 13 that downloading via the browser will be the only way to download games if you don't use Galaxy. I assume download links don't expire then because it can take me days to download some games depending on how my internet decides it's feeling that day.
Posted May 18, 2015
Looks like I'm late to this party. But no, not using it. Still going through the death-of-a-thousand-clicks to get the GOG Downloader links. I suppose I'll try Galaxy eventually just to see what it does, but I've not heard reassuring things yet.
Pages:
1
5
10
15
16
17
18
19
20
25
This is my favourite topic
Community
General discussionIs anyone not using Galaxy?(368 posts)(368 posts)
(368 posts)