PasteurisedChrome: @MarkoH01
Thanks for the clarification on the offline installers.
Yes, Galaxy certainly is optional, but it forces GOG into a 2 tier service, because of the delay in producing the offline installers. Like the NHS, GOG doesn't seem to work on the weekend either. ;)
You should not forget that without Galaxy the general update (only offline installer) would probably arrive much later because the devs could not upload the updates themselves. One reason why GOG invented Galaxy is to help devs update their game. They always made the offline installers manually but in pre Galaxy days they even had to wait longer for the files to make them.
PasteurisedChrome: When I played the Gwent beta last year (Galaxy being
compulsory for that),
Yes, GWENT MP is the only game that actually requires Galaxy to be played at all, that's true (one reason why they invented Thronebreaker SP afterwards which does not require Galaxy). However I wopuld hardly say that GOG is forcing people to use Galaxy because one game (yes, I know that some few games also require Galaxy for MP but those were at least playable in SP mode).
PasteurisedChrome: it was interesting to note, that my wife's offline installers and my own installers (separate Windows accounts, but installed on a common games partition) were ALL picked up by Galaxy, even though they were supposed to be 'offline'.
They are offline but whenever you install or start Galaxy it automatically searches the specified games folder (which you can change in Galaxy settings) to see if it finds any GOG games. Galaxy does not need to be online to do this at all - and the games don't need to be online for this as well.
PasteurisedChrome: What the 'phone home' made of that, I have no idea, but the point is, it's an intrusive, nosy, and annoying piece of DRM, and ....uninstalled now anyway for a long time since. :)
Which is your right to do but it still isn't DRM at all. You don't NEED it for your games to be played (with GWENT being the exception) so it is no DRM (again - with GWENT being the exception there's no argueing about the fact that GWENT is DRM'd).
PasteurisedChrome: The dev said the game would be kept up to date on GOG, and that's ALL that quote said. He didn't say
how long that process would take. Maybe he might answer that ambiguity, or we'll just see what happens in practice.
You forget the thing I tried to answer with that quote which was:
"The only thing that prevents me from buying your game is support.
It would not be the first game on GOG that is abandoned "only for Gog version". And the warning on the game page does not help much either."
My quote only referred to the fact that the game won't get abandoned - or that this at least is not intended. I never said or wanted to say anything about the update speed but this also never was the question as well.
