Odd. It sounds as if you want client-like features, but without a client. As if the web browser interface should run some (Java?) program which takes care of the installation and such, with one click of a button?

I see lots of possible problems with your suggestion, first being that then one would have to be logged in to the GOG account (through a web browser) not just to download, but also in order to install one's game. How do you consider that DRM-free?

If you were suggesting that GOG never delivers any separate update executables but only the game installer which is fully up to date, how about those who already have an earlier version of the game installed? Should they always have to redownload and reinstall the whole game in order to be up to date? These are the people who want separate update executables.

As for the various The Witcher 3 DLCs, are you suggesting they should all be included in that same base game installer, ie. you have no option to select which DLCs to install and which not? That doesn't work anyway for DLCs that you buy separately, those are better to be delivered separately anyway.

If you want client features, then use a client (Steam, Galaxy, Origin, UPlay, Windows Store, pick your poison). I think you are just confused when you claim that the "rest of the world" already does that same without any clients at all.

Most probably.
Galaxy alpha registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GOG.com\Galaxy
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\GOG.com\Galaxy

In alpha galaxy service wasn't properly uninstalled:

sc delete galaxyclientservice

Remember to make a backup (blah blah blah..) of your registry and don't do anything you don't feel safe ; )

The cubic one was obviously assimilated by the Borg.

Also:
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred-thousand lightyears side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen-thousand lightyears thick,
but out by us it's just threethousand lightyears wide.
We're thirty-thousand lightyears from galactic central point,
we go round every twohundred-million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
in this amazing and expanding universe!

...can we have your liver now?

Well, many other games I have I just have to log on to the site - of course, since I had to buy it there in the first place - and then click 'install."

It then installs, no dicking around, it just does it and leaves nothing resident on my computer.

I imagine it would not be difficult to have various versions available depending on what I have purchased, with perhaps some understandable labels.

I mean I don't really need to learn all the exe file names and what they contain in order to play what I bought. If others do thats fine I'm sure it can be accomplished.

I guess if you all think its fine the way it is, dandy, enjoy.

I'll come back and deal with it again when I'm forced to.

Yes, that's exactly the issue. source: experience.

1. Then stop it loading up at startup. Maybe it shouldn't be a default option, but it's not like you can't change it.

2. It's in beta. Updates are a good thing. Plus, it's a bit rich to complain about it being a mess then complain about it being updated.

3. Yes, it definitely needs a lot of work on layout (and many other areas). I'm personally hoping that a lot of the UI deficiencies are down to the fact that they're prioritising other things at the moment.

In summary, it's optional. Yes, it's not great at the moment and really it should only exist as a means for us to give GOG some feedback on its development. I agree that it shouldn't load with Windows by default. But other than that it's not exactly offensive, just unfinished.