Lars42: Ok so i bought the game yesterday and when i came home i started to install it.However i have now un-installed it....re-installed it several times and i still can not play (I did install the patches btw).All i get is "play" (as i can not use) "more" (as i have used several times) AND "waiting for release" (not a clue what that is for unless the game is not released yet? or if the game is down for patching (is it?) any ideas people? (i am not a computer nerd so dont come with ideas that tells me to program the damn game myself lol ). Hope for a quick respond thank you :)

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Emachine9643: Huh sounds like the problem I had with Majesty, ok so when you press play does it just stay there like its about to boot but doesnt? and have you tried launching the game with the game icon on your desktop?

Lars42: the witcher wild hunt.....sorry forgot

Lars42: Not able to push play...i can push the button "more" thats all (and beside it....it says "waiting for release" but i thought the game has been out since mai right? and its not down for a patch right?)

Emachine9643: Here check it out, someone is having the same problem.

Edit- This one too

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groze: I know this suggestion is probably irrelevant, especially for a new GOG customer/user, but have you tried downloading and installing Witcher 3 the "classic" way? -- i.e., not via the Galaxy client, but manually.

Galaxy is still in beta and it has been known to cause some issues with games, particularly when verifying they're indeed installed on your computer. You could always submit a trouble ticket to GOG Support about this, but I think it's faster to just go to your GOG library via browser and download the game (either downloading it directly or using the official GOG Downloader).

groze: Well, at least you solved part of your problem. As for the rest, I'm afraid I can't help you, as I don't own The Witcher 3. As someone said before, you are better off just taking this discussion to The Witcher 3 subforum, because most, if not all of the people there actually have the game and are more likely to help you with this. You're posting this on the General Forum, and a lot of users here plain and simple don't own Wild Hunt (TW3), so it's harder for us to help you. Plus, we know nothing about your system's specs, maybe your machine simply doesn't meet the minimum requirements in order to run the game? We can't say.

What I'm about to say sounds like I'm a pretentious elitist snob, and I apologize in advance, but I honestly think a lot of new users migrating from Steam don't know how to live without clients anymore, and they think GOG Galaxy is mandatory, like the Steam client. It isn't. You can download, install and launch every GOG game the old fashioned way, like we used to do before digital distribution of games and had to install them from physical media. I understand GOG wants/needs to push Galaxy further, but I sincerely advise every one to wait for Galaxy to leave beta and, then, install it and use it. As it stands now, it tends to create more problems than the ones it was created to solve.

I don't think playing games without using Galaxy involves "programming nerd-like skills". It's actually quite simple: open your internet browser (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, heck, even Microsoft's own Internet Explorer -- you know?, the program you use to access the internet on your computer), type 'www.gog.com' in the address bar, log in, click the big 'ACCOUNT' in the top right of the GOG site (next to 'SUPPORT' and 'Search') and that should take you to your GOG Library (your collection of GOG games). From there, look for the game you wish to download (in your case, that would be The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt), click on the game's icon and you should get a drop down menu with links to download the game (which, in Witcher 3's case, I would assume are A LOT of links). Download *everything* to the same location/folder, then run the only *.exe, and install the game. After having installed it, simply run the *.exe of the game, the Start Menu shortcut, or the desktop shortcut. And, voilá!, it's done. Definitely more troublesome than doing it using the client, but at least you get to control more what you're doing and it doesn't suffer from the problems some games are known to suffer when trying to launch and play them using GOG Galaxy.

groze: Well, at least you solved part of your problem. As for the rest, I'm afraid I can't help you, as I don't own The Witcher 3. As someone said before, you are better off just taking this discussion to The Witcher 3 subforum, because most, if not all of the people there actually have the game and are more likely to help you with this. You're posting this on the General Forum, and a lot of users here plain and simple don't own Wild Hunt (TW3), so it's harder for us to help you. Plus, we know nothing about your system's specs, maybe your machine simply doesn't meet the minimum requirements in order to run the game? We can't say.

What I'm about to say sounds like I'm a pretentious elitist snob, and I apologize in advance, but I honestly think a lot of new users migrating from Steam don't know how to live without clients anymore, and they think GOG Galaxy is mandatory, like the Steam client. It isn't. You can download, install and launch every GOG game the old fashioned way, like we used to do before digital distribution of games and had to install them from physical media. I understand GOG wants/needs to push Galaxy further, but I sincerely advise every one to wait for Galaxy to leave beta and, then, install it and use it. As it stands now, it tends to create more problems than the ones it was created to solve.

I don't think playing games without using Galaxy involves "programming nerd-like skills". It's actually quite simple: open your internet browser (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, heck, even Microsoft's own Internet Explorer -- you know?, the program you use to access the internet on your computer), type 'www.gog.com' in the address bar, log in, click the big 'ACCOUNT' in the top right of the GOG site (next to 'SUPPORT' and 'Search') and that should take you to your GOG Library (your collection of GOG games). From there, look for the game you wish to download (in your case, that would be The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt), click on the game's icon and you should get a drop down menu with links to download the game (which, in Witcher 3's case, I would assume are A LOT of links). Download *everything* to the same location/folder, then run the only *.exe, and install the game. After having installed it, simply run the *.exe of the game, the Start Menu shortcut, or the desktop shortcut. And, voilá!, it's done. Definitely more troublesome than doing it using the client, but at least you get to control more what you're doing and it doesn't suffer from the problems some games are known to suffer when trying to launch and play them using GOG Galaxy.

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