If your internet plan has a data cap on it, you need to find a new plan or possibly even a new ISP. The only data caps that have any justification in this day and age are those for mobile service providers and even that is a stretch.

There's no abuse here. It's not GOG's fault that you're running with an outdated ISP/plan. Just look into getting something different, I swear it's worth it.

Well, threatening to drag GOG before the EU over a matter of which they have very little control over does rank high on the list of rather silly things I've read.

Same back to you Mr jump in on every thread pushing your game client, even back in the early days. Difference is you have the nice gold moniker to show for it…

its actually very easy to have large uploads with Galaxy because game saves can be synced... however sending a twit to Trump is prob a small over reaction

I would be really upset if someone touched my internet , no wonder you are pissed off.
Do you have that new Musk satellite net?

There's not much more to say in this thread, as BKGaming covered quite a lot of it (despite a little clumsy wording), as have other users.

All I would say is that if you're worried about the amount of outbound data caused by the GoG Galaxy client, then don't use the client. According to users of the client, it's not a great deal of outbound data (I can't validate it as I refuse to use a client unless I have to).

However, the problem goes away if you just use the offline installers - and then firewall the outbound connections of installed games.

Quite frankly, if you're wanting to set the European Commission on someone, GoG is the wrong target - the client is optional, and I don't believe it uses P2P downloading. Go after Valve, EA, Ubisoft or Epic Megagames instead if you really want to push this.

This thread is a MISUSE of the word ABUSE and an ABUSE for this forums :P

While there are benefits with game clients especially for online multiplayer games and games needing constant updates, there are drawbacks as well:

1. For single-player games that don't benefit much or at all from a gaming client, it is just an extra hurdle to run the game. It is similar if my car always demanded that I must log into my Facebook account with my phone whenever I want to drive my car, and I would be like why the heck does it require that.

"But that doesn't matter because the gaming client can run and log in automatically whenever you boot Windows!", which brings us to the next point:

2. It seems every publisher nowadays wants to have their own gaming service client, even for games that they sell on competing services (e.g. many games sold on Steam or EGS also want to install and run a third-party client like Rockstar or EA Origin or UPlay). It simply becomes messy for the end-user when they start accumulating gaming clients over gaming clients on their OS. How many installed gaming clients is too much? A dozen? A hundred? No upper limit?

3. The gaming client is yet another thing that can break game compatibility. For instance, if you have an older game that requires a gaming client to work, you might end up in a situation that you can't play the game at all anymore, on any system:

- the game does not run well or at all on the newest Windows version, so you'd like to run it on your older PC which has an older Windows version running.

- but at the same time, the client has stopped supporting that old Windows version and refuses to run on it, hence you can't play the game there either.

That is what happened to me already years ago with Steam, when Valve just suddenly decided that sorry, Windows 2000 is not supported anymore, and the Steam client suddenly just refused to run on it (it would just present a message that Windows 2000 is not supported anymore by Steam). The games I had for Steam would have otherwise still run fine on it, if only the client had not decided that "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that".

4. Gaming clients, like any additional online software, can introduce more security risks and attack vectors to your PC. Both Steam and Galaxy have had quite serious security holes at least in the past.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/08/09/critical-steam-security-warning-issued-for-72-million-windows-10-gamers/?sh=43486d8e35e1

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/pressure-grows-on-valve-to-unplug-steam-gaming-platform-vulnerabilities

https://cyware.com/news/gog-galaxy-riddled-with-multilple-security-vulnerabilities-859d95fd

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-19693/product_id-52428/GOG-Galaxy.html

So, while I feel quite secure to install e.g. a single-player GOG game from an offline installer to my work PC, I wouldn't really want to install lots of gaming clients on it, for the aforementioned reason.

There are other things as well, but those just off the top of my head.

People have the right to be cautious about this. Installers for what should be reputable programs installed some akami technology that was using peoples internet connection like it was part of their network services.

Essentially it was acting like a secret torrent running in the background.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-437650.html