Miljac: I love this site, I love it to a point that I bought my games almost exclusive through GOG in past 3 years. You continue to bring DRM free titles for us to purchase and that is awesome.
I am a relatively new guy around here. But the reason I chose GOG over Steam (which is the prevalent store in the market here) is because I found it to be operating on principles different to its competitors.
Miljac: Galaxy is an optional client I get that, I don't mind it, I am using it, but being optional is not good enough. With your last decision you will make it intrusive [
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusiveness], and intrusive is as bad as mandatory, and all that under some lame excuse that it is friendly to new customers. You have made galaxy a bloatware to anyone who regularly backs up their library and bloatware is not the term you want galaxy to be associated with.
Solution:
Being optional and non intrusive is the way to go. Some say you should leave checkbox to install it unchecked by default, and that would be much better. But even better (my personal opinion) would be if you only included download link to galaxy. That way, you will not bloat installer with galaxy client.
I also Use Galaxy, I find it useful for Some tasks. But then I would want it to be Optional in the true sense of the term, Optional as you promised. It already has a prominent banner and links on the home page. Anyone who wants it can grab it there. Why would you need to bundle it with OFFLINE installers. And as someone pointed it out in another thread most of those games bundled with Galaxy don't even support cloud saves and such. So what's the point.
Don't try to follow steam. You are a company founded upon different principles. Grow based on those principles.
Remember you have come this long way being what you are.
