I dont know why but ever since they started pushing out galaxy and modern games on gog , i have kept away from the site more and more , you see i feel the place and the experience is no longer unique because , what they are doing already exists checkout gamersgate its pretty much what gog will be turning into soon.

Its pretty sad , i started using all of the three gog , gamersgate and steam around the same time way back , gog was always unique due to the good old games only feel and the community , now it just feels like those yearly call of duty releases.

https://www.gamersgate.com/

certainly havent bought anything since ages , i doubt i will seeing how this is going....

I just built my doomsday GOG backup, and the backup of the backup.
2.35 TiB for English, Japanese, and Chinese installers, all bonus/goodies included.

I still want to believe. Please keep my eyes shut.

Once again, I'm a Galaxy lover because I do not care about the sort-of DRM it makes as long as I do not throw money to digital-and-online only things. After 5 years 2011 - 2015 of fighting everything digital, I now have Steam just to redeem the keys of the boxed games, and GOG for everything else (i.e. digital only but online on-demand). The pessimism of you guys makes me really sad and fearful. I really hope we all misread something here and I do not give all the money for nothing.

And I'm still secretly wanting to apply at GOG at some point, so I'd better stay optimistic ! :D

I agree completely with you. GOG is throwing everything away that they stood for and they DO want to go DRM route. This has been hinted for a while now.
If this happens then GOG dead to me and there is no need to buy from GOG anymore if they are DRM as well.
I will then stay on Steam then, Steam offers way way way more than GOG when it comes to online.

I chose GOG first because my games were offline and no DRM. Now GOG will soon be a memory for me.

That box is meant for the incompetent GOG customers, as they put it. It's everyone else that needs to always remember to uncheck that box.

You're confusing loyal with servile, m8.

1. He said it had been hinted "for a while now", so he apparently has more reasons than just the box.
2. The problem here, as has been stated elsewhere in the thread, is NOT the convenience of the box itself. It's just a simple box and it's not that much effort to take one click and untick it. The problem here, the whole reason everybody is getting upset, is the way in which GOG decided to do this. Instead of adding more advertisement, which they do all the time for Galaxy, they decided that the average user is too stupid to see the big blue "TRY GOG GALAXY" button on every game and instead sneak Galaxy into the installer, something you would have had to purposefully avoid that button just to get to. Perhaps their average customer really IS oblivious of the button, but why this? Why make it opt-out instead of opt-in? Why not instead add advertisement on the installer or maybe a big banner ad on the front page?

Now, is it necessarily a sign that GOG is going down the tubes, a doom herald that they'll infest us all with the hated DRM? No. But it's slightly unnerving to see a company that many of us (myself admittedly not included) have come to look at as a "trusted" sort of place making such a move. Yes, I know, no corporations should be seen as your friend and their goal is to make money just like every other business, but many here saw it, however naively you may view it, as almost like a friend, which is why so many are getting so upset.

This sums it. Anyone wanting galaxy will probably install it right away after visiting GOG.

Anyway, why checkbox? Why not two big buttons, one with "install game with GOG galaxy" vs "Install game without some features"? People do tend to read two buttons, while they tend to ignore checkboxes...

I, as an linux user, certainly don't want to try to install galaxy by accident, in every wine prefix (as I keep every windows game in separated virtual machine), at least not until galaxy is officially supported under wine with some recommended settings (then I may reconsider about creating single wine prefix for galaxy + win-only games with similar wine requirements ... it would very likely not work for every game, but I can imagine 80%+ working under it, so the galaxy would actually make sense in such setup).

Reading all this gives me a bad feeling of GOG's future direction and I'm glad I backed my whole library of non-galaxy installers, phew. Go and put your client-code in all the good old games that existed long before Galaxy and even GOG existed and be happy - I for my part then will use GOG no more. All what's left then is a hard disk full of TRUE drm-free games and good memories of a, then gone, great games seller and it's even greater, then also gone, community.
Poor GOG customers of the future who will think they just discovered a great store where they can "join the DRM-free revolution" ......

PS: I can hardly remember a thread where I wanted to +1 and quote almost every post! :)


Edit: adding PS

The birth of the new installers. Let's speculate a little bit. What were they thinking? Evil plot? Strike of genius (that we don't get)? Fun at the office? Trolling?

Here's what trolling would look like:
https://s26.postimg.org/5oqy52hex/devtalk-at-gog.jpg

Very nice but are both pictures supposed the same?

Yes. The first post didn't show up and I thought it was too short, so I posted another one with more text. I assume they were merged by a moderator. I edited the post to make more sense. :P

I'm afraid that the DRM-free revolution started dying a slow and agonising death with the departure of The Enigmatic T.

Fuck Galaxy!