I use Resilio Sync (to keep my machines in sync, not just for game saves) and it works incredibly well, keeps unlimited versions of saves every time it writes a new one, etc., but it just goes back to that frictionless experience... I know GOG is in an infant state compared to Steam, I don't hold it against GOG at all... I prefer the GOG client over Steam... Steam has started feeling bloated in the past few years (I'm sure that redesign that keeps popping up with breathe new life into it, though)... I respect the people asking for achievements as much as I do asking for better Cloud Save support... they're both extremely important to GOG because they're important to the customers and they recognize that or they wouldn't spend the time developing and implementing them

Ok, so how is the fps counter setting going along, then? :D

Many people asked quite often already, when we can enable it "permanently" just like on steam,uplay,origin until we disable it again and also asked for a setting that lets us decide in which color and corner the fps should be displayed.

Pressing a 2 key combo every time I restart any game, is not really a great user experience and I hope we don't have to wait for such an easy,small feature, as long as the linux people have to wait for their gog galaxy release?!

Good news for those using the client and this feature. But seeing how more and more games get client features, i.e. more and more games in our library will now default to the Galaxy-laden standalone installers, I have to ask - is anyone working on adding that promised setting to permanently switch to the Galaxy-free standalone installers? If so, when can we expect to see it? If not, can we get a ETA as to when the web-dev team is going to start working on it?



Are you passively working on the Linux version of the client?

And you are aware that it's important to your Linux users, yet have prioritised working on other great features over it? I'm sure that's very comforting to them.

Great news! play classics like Deus Ex or Legacy of Kain with cloud saves helps me a lot.

This is terrific news!

I purchased Dragon Age - Ultimate Edition this week, and simply cannot wait to play it again, also with the new Cloud Save in place.

Dragon Age is one of my favourite RPG's and it must be simply the best offer on GOG at the moment - I got this wonderful fantasy world treasure for only £3.79!

Thank you GOG! We love you guys!

Best

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When I bring this up I'm usually thinking of Populous 3, since it's not officially supported past Win7 yet is a top seller. I wonder if Arcanum could benefit too, since it's not officially supported past Win 8.

I second this request.

I also second this request.

As for the ETA: As it happens I'm sending a constant stream reports about bugs and accessibility issues to GOG's support team. I keep hearing that they are too busy to fix my bugs in the foreseeable future, so they've got to work on something to justify that. Judging from the severity of some of the stuff I write to them about they must be fixing something on a scale that could bankrupt GOG when people found out about it... -.-

Thanks for this! Esp for the old stuff but also for the new stuff! Had I known earlier I would've gotten some things here instead of steam! -_-

Just curious, since you're relatively new: are you here for the DRM-free or old games or both? And how did you find out about GOG?

[I'm leaving those broken links in. I'm not the one that broke them. Fix them yourself, GOG...]

Although I think certain types of games did age badly (King's Quest III or 3D games that went for realistic esthetics) I don't discriminate games based on their age. To name some games I enjoyed from the top of my head: Loom, The Dig, X-Com: UFO Defense, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, Edna & Harvey: The Breakout as well as Harvey's New Eyes, Dead Cells, Terraria, Morrowind, but I also look forward to playing a few games from my backlog. Some of which are games running on the Unity engine, which means doing some proper research on how to handle Unity's telemetry nonsense. But since I'm already good on gaming related work™ I'm playing my non-Unity games first, so games like West of Loathing and Dropsy will have to wait.
But yeah, as long as a game is good, it doesn't matter that it's old enough to drive a car. ;)

However I wouldn't have picked up a single one of those games with Steam-like DRM on them. I mean code-wheels and "type word X from page Y of the manual" were one thing, but I was honestly surprised to learn that the Steam store was even a popular thing. So for me it would be "either DRM-free or ♫Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free...♪" and quite frankly: I don't trust random strangers from the internet enough to download something that I would have to install.

How did you find out about GOG...? I knew about GOG for ages so I can't even remember where I heard about it first. Chances are TotalBiscuit, Jim Sterling, a friend or cultural osmosis (the culture in question being "the internet"). Always had trouble with the registration, though. There was some google scripting in the registration form (and probably still is), so that was a big no-go. In the end (and after several years of half-yearly emails to GOG, asking them to drop that s***) I was able to register using the Tor browser*. And now it's almost a year of me getting good deals on classic games but at the same time wondering how GOG can stay in business with a store page like that. ... I would insert a smiley here, but I'm too busy gurgling my own bile because GOG are inserting some CAPTCHAs (probably google?) into the login, making it impossible for me to log in - in irregular(?) intervals. During a sale. Smart...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Tor_Browser

Wow. Thanks for sharing. That's a new one: GOG's technical difficuulties are keeping potential customers out. Also interesting that even though you are relatively new you already got quite angry at GOG - especially at their many bugs and problems. Well, GOG - I guess this should be a sure sign for you to change priorities a bit.

What can I say? I didn't choose the name HeartsAndRainbows by accident. When I'm not breathing fire I try to contribute to communities a little: Adding some links to the Community Wishlist(s), adding GOGmixes to improve transparency, upvoting posts about solving technical problems with games... Stuff that makes a portal a better place for everyone... But eeevery step of the way is needles and pins:
- Make a comment on community wish? Links get broken, line breaks removed.
- Spending hours and hours looking up what games use the Unity engine all across the internet? That should be on the games' technical details to begin with! It's not like the developers and publishers would know...
- Heyy... Forums! :) That technology is around for decades. How could they mess that up? ... Oh wait... :/
Done reading that solution? Now where would they hide the option to upvote or downvote...? Clearly somewhere at the bottom, because you would have to read a post first before you cast a judgment. But why would you even have to read user posts about how to solve those issues? Clearly the people that took your money see an obligation to provide you with a workaround while they are working on a permanent solution in the background. After all it's only in their best interest to build up a reputation as a reliable source of games. I mean, people play games to unwind from their everyday stress, so you wouldn't want to increase their stress when they play your games. Oh wait... :/

And have I told you about the time I discovered that a "#" in an url can swallow up several lines of your post whilst breaking the link as well? Yeah... Haven't written to support about that one either, yet. Somehow I've gotten the feeling that I don't need to rush writing that report.

In short: The more site features I try to use the more bugs and accessibility issues I see. And when I try to contribute to make improvements I fall face first into another bug or accessibility issue. Funny how that works...

Why is this important? What about Unreal Engine, GameMaker, and other engines?

Also, you may want to just want to give up on some things; there's only so much we can control here. Perhaps put that energy to use elsewhere.