paladin181: No, because Galaxy is still totally optional, even for games installed through it. Galaxy also functions completely offline and with games that you may have acquired through less-than-legal means. It doesn't function as DRM for entire games except in the case of online only games (Gwent) and in the case of individual items or multiplayer modes.
Timboli: You are missing my point.
I never said Galaxy wasn't optional or that you couldn't use it in a DRM-Free manner, it is and you can.
What is important to what I said though, is how you use Galaxy.
If you never download Offline Installers, either with Galaxy or your browser or some other downloader, then at best you are only getting a DRM-Free Lite version of a GOG game, and that is only if you backup the install folder to another physical drive. That last is vitally important, as a drive can die anytime, so you need at least two separate physical drive copies ... one can be your PC, if you have the room. You can certainly see a cloud backup as another additional one, but not one to deliberately count on.
And any games in your online GOG library that you haven't downloaded, aren't any kind of DRM-Free at all. If you are continually reliant on a web connection to get your games, then you are not doing the DRM-Free thing. Sure, you have to use the web connection to GOG to download your game once, but if you aren't doing that soon after purchase, then you really aren't doing the DRM-Free thing. Any scenario where you are reliant on a source outside of yourself, such as a store web connection, means you are not doing DRM-free.
Gudadantza: If Galaxy were the only way to install the game I would partially agree with you and would call it "DRM lite/Client only based install" (if you can run the game without the client) after installation
But it is not the case because we have both. A glorified browser speciallized to run, install and manage games and your common browser to download them. You choose what you want.
Timboli: I think this is another case of me not being understood.
The issue is not about Galaxy, but how you use Galaxy.
And I fail to see the sense in downloading your game twice from GOG, once with Galaxy as a download & install all-in-one process, and then another download, either via the Extras option in Galaxy for Offline Installers, or via browser links or some other downloader.
Why wouldn't you just download the Offline Installers for a game, install that, and then use Galaxy with that install?
You essentially achieve the same thing, but with only one download instance, not two. You obviously then backup your Offline Installers to another drive or two etc, to be sure you are DRM-Free.
Yes, perfectly valid, but it use to be longer because not always the installer needs to be backuped for different reasons, at least not right now, but next month, etc. It will be our business, habits and practices
What I mean is that if you want to use Galaxy for your games the install in one pass will be shorter than download installer ( 5/10 mins) and install it (5/10 mins) backup the installer in a different drive (5 mins aprox)
I mean very big games. in older smaller ones I consider it irrelevant. Install it via installer or Galaxy
