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General discussionThe experimental update for GOG GALAXY is out!(136 posts)(136 posts)
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Posted March 29, 2022
In our first GOG 2022 update article, among many things we plan this year, we’ve mentioned we’ll keep on working to make the GOG GALAXY client more dynamic and interesting for users. Today we’d like to invite you to help us test the first update out of many, that we hope will help us achieve this goal.

With the Proteus update, you can feel like at home with the introduction of a new, experimental feature: customising the “Recent” view to your needs. Now you can add or remove widgets and move them around to your liking, and create a completely personalised experience that is tailor fit for you.

To get access to this update, first you need to go to your settings, enter the “General” section and tick the “Experimental features and updates” box.

It’s the first batch of the client customization options we have planned, so let us know how you like it!

To make it easier for you to share your opinions, and for us to listen and gather your comments about the features we’re testing, we’re introducing the experimental features feedback form. It will automatically show up triggered by actions you make in the client.

Once we test the performance of the new feature, gather feedback from you and apply needed fixes, we will release the Proteus update to all GOG GALAXY users.
Posted March 30, 2022
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GOG.com: In our first GOG 2022 update article, among many things we plan this year, we’ve mentioned we’ll keep on working to make the GOG GALAXY client more dynamic and interesting for users. Today we’d like to invite you to help us test the first update out of many, that we hope will help us achieve this goal.

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To make it easier for you to share your opinions, and for us to listen and gather your comments about the features we’re testing, we’re introducing the experimental features feedback form. It will automatically show up triggered by actions you make in the client.

Once we test the performance of the new feature, gather feedback from you and apply needed fixes, we will release the Proteus update to all GOG GALAXY users.
I have a question about this.

I was under the impression Galaxy was now being developed by CDPR, and as you made it so clear in the last update post, since your corporate re-organisation CDPR is just another partner with whom you do business and as such have no influence over the decisions they make - eg locking game features of their product (Cyberpunk) behind using their other product (Galaxy).

So why now with this particular product (Galaxy) do you suddenly have more influence over its features and utilisation?

Cant help but feel you are picking and choosing how to portray yourselves, GoG and CDPR, as together and apart depending on how it suits you.
Posted March 30, 2022
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GOG.com: In our first GOG 2022 update article, among many things we plan this year, we’ve mentioned we’ll keep on working to make the GOG GALAXY client more dynamic and interesting for users. Today we’d like to invite you to help us test the first update out of many, that we hope will help us achieve this goal.

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To make it easier for you to share your opinions, and for us to listen and gather your comments about the features we’re testing, we’re introducing the experimental features feedback form. It will automatically show up triggered by actions you make in the client.

Once we test the performance of the new feature, gather feedback from you and apply needed fixes, we will release the Proteus update to all GOG GALAXY users.
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MacCraigus: I have a question about this.

I was under the impression Galaxy was now being developed by CDPR, and as you made it so clear in the last update post, since your corporate re-organisation CDPR is just another partner with whom you do business and as such have no influence over the decisions they make - eg locking game features of their product (Cyberpunk) behind using their other product (Galaxy).

So why now with this particular product (Galaxy) do you suddenly have more influence over its features and utilisation?

Cant help but feel you are picking and choosing how to portray yourselves, GoG and CDPR, as together and apart depending on how it suits you.
GOG and CDPR are both subsidiaries of the same parent company. It's natural that they're going to have relational interactions here and there. Considering that Galaxy is still GOG Galaxy, meant primarily for our GOG library, there's no way that it will be 100% migrated over to CDPR, only that the bulk of its development is.
Posted March 30, 2022
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Techno_Tod: I'd love to try the update, but I can't figure out a way to get it to install the update despite checking off the paticipation in experimental builds.
After enabling the setting, I just quit GOG Galaxy from the system tray, then restarted. A few minutes later, the update prompt popped up.
Posted March 30, 2022
Meh. More info about customization of games on their page would be more useful to me.
Posted March 30, 2022
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Carradice: If only some features from the website worked in Galaxy.

Make the tags from the website appear in Galaxy.
Add an option to order by purchase date.
Make the existing order by release year work well.

That would be great to see.
One thing I hoped for since forever is being able to import the tags, it just makes so much sense (I am not going to maintain 2 sets of tags or manually flag hundreds of games a second time). As it is, I keep using the website version to browse my library. It's not bad by any means, but it shouldn't be this way.
Posted March 30, 2022
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whats up with ubisoft disconnect all the time?
Posted March 30, 2022
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SCPM: In case anyone's curious I've attached a few pics of the new interface and some customization. I like being able to cut the social stuff out and just see what I recently added to my library and what I recently played. My main complaint is the New to Library section used to show more, and it cannot be customized any further as far as I can see.
Thanks for the pics.

Someone was saying in a thread earlier (https://www.gog.com/forum/general/downloads_tab_missing_on_gog_galaxy_launcher), that their Downloads tab disappeared from Galaxy. I noticed that it's also missing in your pics. Did the update remove it? Or does it only show up when something is actively downloading?
Post edited March 30, 2022 by idbeholdME
Posted March 30, 2022
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idbeholdME: Or does it only show up when something is actively downloading?
It appears only when something is downloading.
Posted March 30, 2022
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idbeholdME: Thanks for the pics.

Someone was saying in a thread earlier (https://www.gog.com/forum/general/downloads_tab_missing_on_gog_galaxy_launcher), that their Downloads tab disappeared from Galaxy. I noticed that it's also missing in your pics. Did the update remove it? Or does it only show up when something is actively downloading?
It only shows up when downloading something, and it only goes away if you clear all the downloaded files. I always prefer to clear it.
Posted March 30, 2022
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MacCraigus: I was under the impression Galaxy was now being developed by CDPR,
No, they only talked about Gwent related developments that were going to move back CDPR instead of being handled by Gog, they never mentioned anything about Galaxy.
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Lexor: The expected behavior of Windows app is to close it after clicking the "X".
Some applications have additional buttons to minimize them to tray icon.
To be honest plenty of software, including several from Microsoft, just minimize when you click on the "X" instead of quitting. I would say that one any "communicator" or "client" software it's kind of the expected behavior
Post edited March 30, 2022 by Gersen
Posted March 30, 2022
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As an exclusively Linux user, I want to like GOG Galaxy, and I liked it in the days of yore when I still had Windows two computers ago, I'm afraid until GOG Galaxy runs on Linux, I can't use it. I'm sorry.

Incidentally, the reason GOG is my platform of choice is because it gives me control of my games: i can download the installers directly, back them up, have them forever, and not have to worry about some big corporation trying to monkey with my games after I own them. The reason I use Linux is so I control my OS and I don't have to worry about big corporations messing about with my OS after I installed it. You can see the connection, I expect. I feel like the two are a match made in heaven.

I have Lutris, of course, which is perfectly fine and works great. I play GOG games all the time on Linux. I just wish GOG Galaxy releases were more relevant to me.
Posted March 30, 2022
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rjbuffchix: I'm not trying to single you out in particular but I must say I really don't understand this overlap of Linux users who are for open-source and DRM-free, but want Galaxy, a closed-source client which in many cases functions as DRM in such that it gates content/features behind using the client.
To be fair, there have been plenty of cases where a game that has native Linux versions elsewhere comes here without them and the excuse is the lack of a Galaxy client to provide the same features (like multiplayer) or "features" (like achievements) that the Windows version has.

So I've seen several posts by Linux users in the past that didn't care about Galaxy itself but wanted to stop the native Linux versions from being kept away. Can't say I don't understand them.
Posted March 30, 2022
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maachubo: Does the Proteus update include dark mode?

No?

Then I'm good, thanks.
not sure what you mean, Galaxy has dark mode all the time, and only that I believe.
Posted March 30, 2022
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cmclout: Here's what I would like for an improvement to Galaxy -- make it NOT take 6-10 minutes to start up. Yes, I know I'm still using a HDD instead of an SSD, but that shouldn't matter.
6-10 minutes to start up?? I've never heard of this problem.
Galaxy takes seconds for me.. maybe try to reinstall?
Posted March 30, 2022
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Techno_Tod: I'd love to try the update, but I can't figure out a way to get it to install the update despite checking off the paticipation in experimental builds.
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Ice_Mage: After enabling the setting, I just quit GOG Galaxy from the system tray, then restarted. A few minutes later, the update prompt popped up.
No luck. Tried that on both of my machines as well.
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