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General discussionAppeal for some focus on non-galaxy.(3 posts)(3 posts)
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Posted November 09, 2015
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Breja: Becasue there is a much bigger customer base out there that loves clients, and GOG wants them more then they want us apparently.
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jamyskis: Indeed. The customer base isn't made up mostly of people who don't like clients - the customer base is made up mostly of people who don't like being tethered to an online service even when the games are stored locally. There's a difference.

That being said, GOG fails on both terms here, because you apparently cannot download a standalone copy of the DLC anyway.
This is NOT intended and will be fixed but I have no ETA as to when that will happen.
Posted November 09, 2015
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garvanell: I want to appeal to the GOG team to put some more focus on non-galaxy use cases.

Since GOG is THE go-to solution for DRM free games, I feel it is slipping a bit at the moment.

Without Galaxy, I recently had experiences of games not running (Rebel Galaxy), or missing features (Dungeons 2 - DLC) as well as 404's trying to download files and the solution was to "use galaxy!".

Please do not let this be a solution permanently.

Thank you.
Neither of those issues were intended and no, we are not trying to force anyone to use Galaxy. If you choose to not use Galaxy and the game acts like it requires Galaxy , then please let us know.

Also, I believe Rebel Galaxy has been fixed so it should play nicely without Galaxy. I know because I ran it under Wine where I have no traces of Galaxy since it's not out for Linux yet.
Post edited November 09, 2015 by JudasIscariot
Posted November 10, 2015
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JudasIscariot: Neither of those issues were intended and no, we are not trying to force anyone to use Galaxy. If you choose to not use Galaxy and the game acts like it requires Galaxy , then please let us know.

Also, I believe Rebel Galaxy has been fixed so it should play nicely without Galaxy. I know because I ran it under Wine where I have no traces of Galaxy since it's not out for Linux yet.
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wpegg: The question / issue here wasn't on requirements, it was on focus. These games were clearly signed off on Galaxy, but not working without.

That's dangerously close to an implicit DRM client.
It usually occurs with systems that have had an older version of Galaxy back when it was still just the launcher. Emphasis on "usually". Again, it is not intended to be so and no one is trying to force anyone to use Galaxy if they have no wish to do so.
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