Not good. Initially, i was tempted to use it. Because the things i hate in other services (tracking, automatic updates, cloud saves and always open client), are optional here and controllable through settings... Well, at least, for the time being, that is.

I started having problem, ever since the trolling with classic installers and reversions back and forth came around (two times already). And when profiles and feed came. All the things i hate in other services, that is and one of the pack of reasons, that i jumped on gog.

I don't like being force-fed with something. And everybody can see that the excuse is invalid (look, some single digit groups of people started posting on GOG one day out of the blue, demanding clients, achievements, social features, or else they won't buy our games)! I call BS. Cheap theatrics, poor excuses, doing the wrong thing and for all the wrong reasons, too.

I am very much troubled by all that. Should sheet keep piling up over time and major wishlist entries keep being ignored, this won't be good for anybody. GOG's major principles are already taken down, or heavily altered; as one stroll through youtube broadcasts of the glorious past, unveils.

I haven't tried it yet. Maybe I should... just a quickly one.

But my main problem is the fact that it is binary only. I just can't find any reason as to why GOG doesn't allow it to be an open source collaborative effort between them and their users... other than it's the game devs that actually demands it and/or it would actually divulge some secret(s).

Gotta disagree. As long as they continue to offer DRM-free games and don't screw over EU customers, GOG will always have more value to me than Steam. I use Galaxy to play the games because I want the profile, cloud saving and achievs, but if they made it mandatory I would consider it a worse Steam with a smaller library and would shop here way less.

GOG has intrinsically more value because you know that years or decades into the future, when Steam is replaced with swarm virtual reality or whatever garbage entertainment trend comes next, you'll be able to load up your old computer and run your DRM-free installers without having to connect to a dead service. And more immediately, I get wallet funds back when I buy stuff in Euros, so that's good too.

I have no opinion about the status of Galaxy because it isn't available on Linux.

Or, I guess my opinion of Galaxy is that it really sucks on Linux.

Either way, I probably wouldn't use it even it were available. lgogdownloader + some python scripts give me a far more flexible update management system than any client ever could.

I feel like a lot of people are quite naive and unreasonable towards gog's efforts towards galaxy. Everyone in the "drm hurr durr galaxy destroying my world" club, whose life so far remains unaffected by it, as they don't use it, is missing the major point. By building Galaxy GOG actually libareted many games from the clutches of DRM. Every game on GOG that uses Galaxy for any online funcionality wouldn't be here at all if it wasn't for Galaxy. Let's take for example Tooth & Tail (or any other game) that has Galaxy based multiplayer. If Galaxy didn't exist the game would only be available on Steam with Steam Client and Steam DRM. Thanks to Galaxy if you don't want online multiplayer you can still download offline installer from GOG and enjoy the game DRM free. Of course you could say that developers shouldn't use Steam or Galaxy for multiplayer, and every game should have it's own solution, but that just not gonna happen, as most likely it wouldn't make financial sense for developers.

Tooth and Tail is a great example. See, because GOG has done nothing for Galaxy on Linux, the Linux port of Tooth and Tail isn't available on GOG, despite the fact there is a single player game.

So thanks to a lack of Galaxy on Linux I can't buy a game that I'd like DRM free.

I installed it last fall to give it a try. It works great as a game launcher for me, and is good to keep games updated quickly (instead of having to wait for the 'classic' installers to either be updated or a patch created for them). But I can't really comment on the other features, as I just don't use them. As far as Galaxy causing issues when it's uninstalled, I can't comment, as I've not uninstalled it yet. I've had no issues when the client itself updates. But I can say that I've not used it for a while, but rather started some of my GOG games up via the desktop launcher. Galaxy doesn't interfere with that at all and it doesn't fire up when I do it either.

So, I've had no real issues with it whatsoever. I used it for a while, then didn't after firing up a Steam-saddled game - Fallout 4 - and playing that for weeks, and when I fired up one of my GOG games, I didn't use Galaxy but the launcher instead. No issues.

While that point is valid... Galaxy/client luring publishers and developers to un-DRM their games and offer them here... GOG is majorly set-back in its main purpose. Which is not getting latest Multiplayer titles, but Good Old Games.

There is a disturbing and noticeable lack of those, lately, pretty much. There is a ton of iconic titles of the past, like DOS games, that need to be here. Instead of whatever random latest release.

No, it's not. Hence the fact they stated GOG no longer stands for 'good old games'.

If you check JMich's thread that tracks the releases of games here, you'll likely find that's just perception and not the actual case. Not sure if it's up to date yet though.

good as a downloader/updater
lack of other features

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Do you have to get cancer to say it is bad?

Wow... THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for the replies. LOL, went to bed last night with only a couple of replies.... go out today for health care (most of the day gone for that) and come back home and fire up my puter and see all of these replies.... thank you.

All of the games I had to give away in this thread are now taken (sorry if you were too late but I still have more codes to give away in the future so maybe you'll get one of them). And I'm just going to pick a random number at random. org to "award" the 5 rep points because the discussion in here was quite good and every response deserves a chance at the "solution."

I think I've decided to wait a while longer before stroking my curiosity and installing it just to look at it. As I said above, I have zero plans to actually use it or keep it installed (plans can change though I guess... for example if downloading my installers becomes an issue I could foresee the day when I keep Galaxy installed just for downloading the same way I used to keep the Gog Downloader installed for that). But I do want to at least "see" it because I am such a big fan of Gog and am just curious how they did with this. And THANK YOU GOG for keeping it OPTIONAL. The way a client should be.

Thanks again to all.

ADDED: Random number = 16

So in short you're not better Galaxy or not. Without galaxy T&T wouldn't be on GOG at all, and with it it's only available on Win & Mac.

So as much you're right about Linux, the rest of us on win or mac are still better off.

What are you missing specifically?