As far as I understand, drachehexe wanted to install Galaxy for the convenience of installing the game, all of its DLC and all patches with one single click. What drachehexe didn't want was a client that starts automatically when you try to launch the game with the desktop shortcut created during installation <- That's exactly how Galaxy works for all my GOG games. Witcher 3 seems to be a sad exception. But I think that's a decision they made because it's a brand new AAA game which attracts people who wouldn't get why they have to launch the client seperately (and thus would miss patches, the free DLC and all the achievement stuff, because they would never launch Galaxy).

I have to say that I like Galaxy so far. With DRM clients being the norm nowadays, I had four gaming related desktop icons: Steam, Origin, Uplay and a folder called "games" where I kept all the shortcuts to my GOG games. Galaxy replaced this folder now. It starts up pretty fast, doesn't care for my internet or GOG's servers, does updates for my games automatically (which is awesome, because with GOG's broken update notifications you can easily miss patches!!!) and doesn't annoy me with stuff I don't want. It's a bit "useless" compared to other clients, but that's exactly what I like about Galaxy ;P An uncomplicated auto-updater with shortcuts to your installed games and an overview of all the games you haven't installed (and tags to see your backlog, favorites, whatever).

Really? Because every time I play a game from Origin, from the shortcut provided on my desktop, it forces the Origin client open and even forces me to update it and login. Example Zumas Revenge.

Steam doesn't put icons on my desktop at all, so the only way the games natively start is through the use of the client.

It's amazing the amount of misinformation you seem to spread...any more wrong ideas you want to share? And by the way, deaf ears you definitely seem to have...

If Galaxy is the one client whose development runs in another direction, wouldn't that make it a "real geizterfahr"? :)

The community here can be a tad defensive due to well, forum drama.

Your later posts show you are smart enough so here's the deal on the thread:
1 - Your thread title is provocative despite, or maybe because of the question mark.
2 - Your very first sentence in the OP was likely taken to be rhetorical and therefore disingenuous.
3 - The sarcasm in the end of your first para was taken more as disapproval of GOG based on false facts rather than disapproval of DRM based on true experiences.

So you were taken for a troll pretty much... I guess most didn't even notice your join date. And by the way, your rep will probably go well into negative because most won't even get this many posts down, which will compound the impression that you're a troll. Plus you became (IMO somewhat justifiably) combative and that was seen as doubling down on the trolling. If you care about that, maybe edit your OP.

Overall you were clearly frustrated with the situation, and instead of help got a bit of abuse based on incomprehension. You seem thick skinned enough not to care much but I wanted to post in kind of support. For example, there was indeed somewhat of a backlash to the W3 exception in regards to the Galaxy defaults. At least I remember something... could be my imagination. Still my feeling is that there is a sense GOG is changing, and these signs are very minor but bring fear to many.

You kind of hit too close to the bone of a tension that's been in the community.
Unfortunate really... you're being made into a kind of scapegoat it seems...

Welcome to "Good Old Geizterfahrer" ;P

In my honest opinion this whole thread is nothing but time & byte wasting. OP has no problem with steam client, which is mandatory to install and play games and in the same time complains about totally optional galaxy client as drm.. DLC's as well as extras and languages are optional, not everyone wants them all and that's why they're come with separate installers/archives. Arguing about shortcut to the client doesn't help at all, people already asked several times how to recreate accidentally deleted The Witcher 3 shortcut to Galaxy.. Personally I got rid of all the shortcust on my desktop and using Galaxy to start games on one machine and not using it at all on another one. In both cases all my games works, online and offline.

I think you meant to reply to someone else?

I was pointing out that just using Galaxy doesn't mean people want a game client - it's the only supported downloader replacement. Your first sentence is only barely related, and the question that randomly brings in shortcuts for some reason is a complete non sequitur.

Yeah, only the first sentence was for you. Sorry!
My point was this: People who use Galaxy as downloader wouldn't complain about wrong desktop shortcuts. They would use the backup feature and install the game without Galaxy later (just as a "bigger" GOG Downloader). But as far as I see drachehexe don't want to use it as simple downloader. He wants the benefits of Galaxy to download and install the DLCs too (and the 59 other games he has :) ).

The second sentence was for drachehexe. Sorry again.