Can anyone help me or have the ability to contact the European Union to report GOG for misuse of user internet connections?

This is very annoying, I limit my connection download to 500K on 3MB service and it appears that I have more information going out than coming in, thanks to GOG and their file sharing download system. They are running the risk of causing user to exceed their data limits and incur extra charges.

So we should petition the EU to have GOG correct such abuses of their users.

Whilst it is amusing that a US person complains of an EU company “abusing users” (read Google, Facebook etc., or in fact abusing whole countries by failing to pay tax, or follow rules in any country), you only have yourself to blame for installing galaxy. Game clients are the cancer of the game world and the best thing you can do is uninstall it, get rid of the data mining and whatnot.

Data limits are typically placed on download not upload, so having more information going out then in whould impact upload not download. Second, lowing your speed does not change the amount of data being used in either upload or download simply how fast it transfers.

If you are using Galaxy, is uses a very minimal amount of data outside of game updates and game downloads. All of which you are 100% control of. You can disable game updates.

What is your data limit? I suspect you are hitting it because of game downloads or patches... at either rate, this has nothing to do with GOG. Take it up with your ISP, nobody is forcing you to use GOG. You really need to find something better to do with your time then bash game clients and Galaxy... your "advice" is never good advice and simply your agenda that your trying to force onto others. There is nothing wrong with game clients... at all.

GOG doesn't have file sharing download system (which is a pity).

GOG does not have file sharing. However if you are using GOG Galaxy, you have the option to do things like have it backup save files, update your profile page if you earned an achievement or periodically with how much you've played that game, download updates and manually download extras.

If you find that you are regularly hitting your data limits, you need to consider what else you may be doing that uses data as just playing through GOG Galaxy alone shouldn't be doing it unless you are having marathon sessions of using online features every day. Do you stream anything at all? What else are you downloading? What else are you doing that uses data?

You may also need to talk to your ISP as the issue could be something like a neighbor tapping into your internet service.

You can literally download the game files straight from the website, Einstein.

It's strange to see someone call out people for pushing an agenda, not being impartial and all that (even if it is justified), and then in the very next sentence to go full out and commit to a decisive statement doing the exact same thing.

You might as well have ended it with "because I say so", for it has the same amount of truth in it as saying: "there is nothing wrong with cinnamon-spiced doughnuts". Needless to say some people just don't like cinnamon and to them it will never be right.

If you can't think of anything wrong with game clients, nothing "at all", let me refresh your memory about Galaxy in particular: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/telemetry_in_gog_galaxy_20

Clients in general obviously provide some clear benefits, but also raise valid concerns to some of their end users and potential end users. Being tone-def to them does not deny their existence, nor the existence of people who would much rather avoid using clients because of it. That, of course, has nothing to do with their intended functionality - as in it's fair to say "they work as intended". If that is what you meant, then fair enough, but that's not how I read it.

This entire argument is completely beside the point of this thread (which IMHO has no point anyway). OP is either throwing a fit or has eaten some bad psychedelic mushrooms.

I probably should have been a little less decisive yes, but in a general sense, there isn't. Clients or gaming clients are not inherently bad... some may have bad designs or include un-needed features, but there is nothing inherently bad about them and no two clients are made the same. One could argue there are specific reasons a specific client may be bad, but to make wide sweeping generalization's about them is inaccurate.

nightcraw1er.488 makes blanket statements like "game clients are cancer" because he personally dislikes them... it's an argument based on feelings not facts. Which is generally fine, but does not actually help users looking for help. It's misguided and helps nobody, it does serve a personal agenda though. The OP is no better off from this comment. I personally don't have a problem with any of that... some may, but it's pretty common for any software to collect data like this for marketing and/or technical feedback. To each their own. If the argument was I personally think using Galaxy may be bad because xyz, but I'm not telling you what to do... then okay.

That's not the argument though, the argument is "gaming clients are cancer" your an idiot for using it because I say so, which is non helpful. Correct and I really don't care who likes or dislikes Galaxy. The issue for me was never about disliking or liking Galaxy, rather the information that is being provided to users who are seeking legitimate help.

This is the dumbest thread I've read for a while. Thanks. I needed this refreshing idiocy.

Mr./Mrs. Could you please be more specific to whom and why?
As a poster I feel offended by you right now.

This has nothing to do with moderation at all. So being a moderator in this instance is irrelevant. This is me as a GOG forum user simply pointing out the fact that a user post the same type of response to any thread regarding Galaxy and not actually trying to be helpful to the user having the issue. But to each their own, I was reasonably polite in my response. You guys see the "moderator" tag and wrongly assume every post we make here is within the confines of being a moderator.

However, this is off topic... if you have an issue with anything I post my inbox is open or you can contact any GOG staffer. Threads are not the place to discuss this. Thanks.