RWarehall: Quite frankly, this whole topic is full of it.
drachehexe: Quite frankly you're missing the whole of the complaint.
I just download Galaxy and start it up for the first time. Use it to install a game. Start the game and the Galaxy client unexpectedly opened up to the games library page. I then must click on "play" to get the game to launch.
Why is it "unexpectedly"? Because GOG throws about "DRM free" like a Catholic sinner throws about "Hail Mary" on a Sunday so it was surprising to me that product from a DRM free promising distributor pushed me through its client to get to the game. That's not DRM free if a client connected to the internet is required to play a game.
So it wasn't unreasonable for me to think that use of the client was required by games installed through the client as that is a standard practice. There really is no reason to think other games would not act like this game did after installing them (that is having to be pushed through the client to run). It was quite disturbing to think that a company that was dedicated to DRM free products would fall in line with the like of Steam and Uplay and Origin.
My reaction may have been a bit unreasonable but certainly not my conclusions even if they were a bit premature. Also, make no mistake; I don't care about DRM, but I do care about a company that promotes one thing and seemingly does another.
Either way I have been corrected, quite early on in the thread to be sure. Still, I surely won't be apologetic. I haven't been able to play The Witcher 2 since, oh, about 2012. Maybe I can now with the Galaxy installer, but that doesn't make up for the irritation of GOG not solving my problem way back when. It doesn't help that I mistakenly bought a GOG version of this game when I really wanted a Steam one.
Hell hath no fury as a dragon.
Seriously, how dense are you really?
You use a client to install a game and then you want to know why the game wants to open the CLIENT YOU INSTALLED IT WITH.
Frankly, some people would be disturbed if that client isn't opening and their game time and achievements aren't getting credited. That is a far more valid complaint than yours...
Now, for those of us using the actual DRM-free installers, it would be a thing if one of those opened up the Galaxy client.
But any reasonable person would expect, usea client then it opens a client. Don't use the client, it doesn't open the client.
Seems to be working perfectly...
Those who like clients and all that Steam achievement stuff...happy.
Those who really care about DRM-free...happy.