I don't receive a ton of marketing emails from them, but this one definitely caught my eye.

Unsubscribe: done and done. :)

well banished is like 40mb or something, not gonna take a large bite out of your space. :p

My 1TB external drive is no longer enough, gonna have to bump it up to a 3 too. DAMN YOU INSOMNIA AND SUMMER SALES!!

I got 14tb and still not enough. :p

HI hows you my friend? hope your well. im ok thanks, id rather it go to someone who would love it as its not really my cup of tea, if you dont mind? mega thanks for the offer though!

So you're the guy in charge of mirroring The Pirate Bay. ;)
I'm good Chezy, hope you've been well too. Nae worries about the game, I can hold onto it for the next giveaway. Just wanted to give you first crack at it. :)

It never is. You always need more and more, until one day you wake up from your desk with a vicious hangover, surrounded by cheap whisky bottles after having spent a drunken night trying to individually line up bits of data on a hubcap with a fridge magnet.

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I don't think Steam distribution is analogous to OpenGL. Glide, possibly.

I think what I learned from this thread that if we are deciding what people want more, convenience vs. taking a stand against THE MAN (DRM-FREE), convenience wins by such a large margin that it's not even fair. I'm glad people have strong morals and convictions in what they believe in (it's why this site exists) but it doesn't make your 'message' that much effective when you criticize the opposing view.

Simply because the opposing view wants convenience and wants to play games like Skyrim or Borderlands or Civ V or take your pick of any AAA game that has been released.

The distinction here is that I, and others, are critiquing. That is, trying to provide a balanced analysis of the competing stratagems. Not simply saying "DRM lovers are dumb".

The issue is not whether convenience trumps ideology, because I find GOG entirely convenient for my needs. I do not find forced clients and always-on internet requirement convenient. So it's a straw man as to whether one service is more convenient than the other, because the definition of convenience varies by user.

What is not in question is that DRM is more convenient for vendors and publishers. And since they want it, they prefer marketing channels that support it. Thus you see them going to extra efforts to try to ensure that those market channels have more product, and they use what measures they can to make it more attractive to consumers, even though in the end their product is engineered for themselves first, and the consumer second.

This isn't opinion, this isn't conspiracy, it's simply business. It's not just in games that these marketing forces are in play, but across the board. As an example, consider breakfast cereals. The ones that are actually worth eating are relegated to the sides, whereas the ones which aren't very good for you (but which make more money) are front-and-center, with the bigger advertising budgets and free achievements (I mean prizes) inside. This is because the crap that makes them money is the stuff they are more interested in selling than the stuff with your best interests at heart.

You want to support that, go ahead. You don't need to justify your choices to us. Just as we don't need to validate your choices in return.

Actually as "one of those 80s/90s greybeards and a power user and tech geek" having the Galaxy use a One Dosbox to rule them all approach is one of the main reasons I look forward to it, especially in terms of Multiplayer support for Good Old Games... You say I should restrain my hopes? :(

HASSLE?!? Really? I'm only 30, which I didn't think was that old. By many estimates, I'm part of the millennial generation (although I identify with gen x). Steam is by far more hassle when I have to find cracks for the games to disable the steam integration, otherwise be forced to deal with cycles being wasted running useless software in the background, not to mention having to manually tell steam for every single game I own to DO NOT auto-update or my hacks and mods will be broken. Then the client software itself sometimes auto-updates and resets all of my individual game settings, turning things like online save-game backup (which has corrupted my Skyrim saves multiple times) and auto-update. Also, you are INCREDIBLY restricted where you can install your games to as well.

No Kayla, GOG is not more hassle, it's less, and that is partially because it does not have a client. That said, GOG Galaxy might have some nice features, however I doubt I'll ever use it. GOG has made it very simple and hassle free for you to save the installers using whatever organizational structure you like, run them when you want, update your game or not (choice!), and install wherever, whenever you want.

I think the problem is not with GOG's lack of of a client, but your lack of knowledge.

[EDIT] (Sorry for this being uncharacteristically harsh from me, somehow reading a lot of these opinions has stepped up my emotional level, because I have been very emotionally invested, like so many of you here, in gaming for my whole life)

Is that confirmed? Galaxy will let you plug in the directory of your DOSBOX and then just install games, with updated configs to match your DOSBOX?

3x 2TB here + 120GB SSD I just finished finally downloading all of my Summer Promo score after spending days freeing up space and am now full again. :)

My local GOG backup consists of GOG downloader downloads of the English Windows installer, plus all patches and extras for each game and totals in right now for 303 games at: 429GB Which is not too shabby overall. Much of my space is consumed by other media and data, plus 100+ games that are actually installed which I need to finish and cross off the list and uninstall one of these days ... ;)

I stopped buying from steam a while ago. Only games I'd consider buying from them are online games, where you have to be online anyways (CS, L4D, etc...)
If possible, I re-buy games I bought on steam here. I am 100% against DRM in games that dont need internet as a core function. Also, I only buy games digitally that aren't sold on retail or if its a game I dont really care and it is heavily discounted. For example, I never knew anything about the witcher games way back then and when I bought them both, I did it when they were on sale on steam. Liked them so much that it would never cross my mind to buy them digitally, so I pre-ordered the CE on amazon.
I dont need achievements and all the shebang steam offers. All I want is to own my game and have the data available to me, being able to do with it what I want.
Thats why I go GOG all the way now