Posted January 03, 2015
I definitely want more games to work over LAN.
I don't think that Galaxy will make that any better. Galaxy seems to me to be specifically designed to present a nice storefront for people used to a client and to allow people to do multiplayer with Steam owners to remove a barrier to buying from GOG. Somehow including LAN play would be great, but I think most businesses wouldn't do it.
And as Elenarie said - GOG's devs can barely manage to keep the site running most of the time. I shudder at the thought of their networking code in a client. I fully expect Galaxy to be hilariously unusable for several months at least. I might be surprised - the alpha is a good sign - but I'm not really expecting to be.
I don't think that Galaxy will make that any better. Galaxy seems to me to be specifically designed to present a nice storefront for people used to a client and to allow people to do multiplayer with Steam owners to remove a barrier to buying from GOG. Somehow including LAN play would be great, but I think most businesses wouldn't do it.
And as Elenarie said - GOG's devs can barely manage to keep the site running most of the time. I shudder at the thought of their networking code in a client. I fully expect Galaxy to be hilariously unusable for several months at least. I might be surprised - the alpha is a good sign - but I'm not really expecting to be.