rjbuffchix: Dude, there is nothing "big" about the button. Yes it is there for those who look. Sort of like the "uncheck" box every time Flash updates and wants you to install bloatware with it. It's there, but the intention is surely not for the customer to click on it. The default "best" way that GOG portrays is Galaxy.
By "big" I meant it's right there/decently sized, and not tucked away in the corner of the screen/page & smaller than one's mouse cursor. :)
Also I agree the offline installer option could be highlighted a bit better, but it's not like GOG is trying to hide it to an "extreme" level(like some sites/installers do with some options).
The button/option is right below the galaxy download button is decent sized font....so people should be able to find it(though again, yes, it could be made a bit more obvious).
rjbuffchix: Also, please let me know when there are "check out our offline installer" buttons plastered on EVERY page of the site.
That is the galaxy installer button(for just the galaxy installer).....also maybe they could write beneath it a line stating "check out our offline installers in your GOG game library!" as well.
rjbuffchix: Btw what's scary is that the Galaxy-pushing has clearly worked on influencing an audience. Across many topics, people are calling this store itself "GOG Galaxy".
It's likely because many use galaxy and that whole "band aid" effect is at play(i.e. people calling things by more well known terms than the right ones...like with people calling adhesive strips band aids).
rjbuffchix: There is no factual way to claim that Galaxy and offline installers receive equal treatment. And that's without even getting into how offline installers are out of date and iirc sometimes users have even had to nag GOG to get the offline installers updated, when Galaxy was up to date the whole way.
Agreed somewhat on this.....won't go much more into it atm as strapped for time(leaving home to shop in an hour or less) and I cannot think properly on some things currently, but agreed a bit on this.
(Essentially I cannot think of the right way to write a reply to this beyond what I just wrote)
rjbuffchix: You're right on at least the first part of that, though that's not really where I was going with that quote...what I'm saying is that once CDPR themselves made a DRMed game and the store here featured it, this definitively tells customers that DRM is okay here (at least conditionally). My point is that you can't put the genie back in the bottle, un-ring the bell, [insert cliche here].
Agreed.....I mainly said what I did as I usually don't like it when I see people doing what I consider "packing over very little/with little reason to".
(This is not to say the issues aren't worth discussing or important to some degree, though :)) rjbuffchix: Here is the thing, and I forget if I already made this point to you or a different user,
Anticonsumer practices tend to happen gradually. Accepting some light anticonsumer practices in the present, paves the way for worse anticonsumer practices in the future. The time to keep an eye is now. Nip anticonsumer practices in the bud now. Also, this is a big enough issue right now anyway, and I don't appreciate that being minimized. Due to everyone compromising so much already, the vast majority of games' multiplayers are DRMed. I want to buy DRM free multiplayer games, which used to exist btw, but thanks to such minimizing about DRMed multiplayer nowadays "it's not a big deal, it's small potatoes", I am not given that option.
Again, this is making assumptions(that worse WILL happen for certain).....given the good GOG has done I am willing to give them more benefit of the doubt until I see that "the sky is falling"(as the saying goes), but if I saw certain signs i'd likely be "in the trenches" right alongside you.
As for others disallowing you from certain options......to be fair you disallow yourself seemingly a good number of things in the world of gaming based mainly on moral stances that you could easily buy/play without said stances.....so it's not just other people's purchasing decisions/allowances of GOG/etc that affect what you can play/consume/etc.
(The above line is just a statement of how I see it and not meant to be a jab against you, btw...just making sure you know that. :))
