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General discussionIntroducing: GOG Galaxy, the DRM-Free online gaming platform(917 posts)(917 posts)
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Posted June 06, 2014
Freedom of choice. Optional client. Cross-play. Coming soon to all gamers!

Earlier today (or was it yesterday for you?), during the [url=http://www.gog.com/news/cd_projekt_red_gogcom_summer_conference]CD Projekt RED and GOG.com’s Summer Conference we dropped the news about our next big step forward! GOG.com has always been home to more and more of the the best games in history (for Windows and Mac), both classic and new. Differing in shapes, flavors, and sizes they had one thing in common: they were mostly single-player, and our focus was mainly on the experience of a singular gamer. If that's your thing, nothing really will change. You can always enjoy your favorite games 100% DRM-free on GOG.com, with no need to activate your game online or remain connected to play your single-player title. Just like GOG.com has always been about.. But what if you want to play with your friends?

Today we are excited to announce GOG Galaxy, a truly gamer-friendly, 100% DRM-free online gaming platform that will finally provide the GOG.com community with the easy option to play together online. GOG Galaxy will allow you to share your achievements, stay in touch with your pals and get the updates for your games automatically. We've developed this technology to improve your GOG.com experience. We think GOG Galaxy really deserves your attention and we hope many of you will give it a try! But, here's the great thing: it is totally optional, so it's all up to you! If you do not want to play online, or use our optional client to access these features, then no worries, you will always be able to play the single-player mode 100% DRM-free, and download manually the latest updated version of your favorite title from our website. Now, for one more feature we call cross-play. We always believed in an open world for gamers, with no obligation to be tied to a specific platform or client; and this is why GOG Galaxy will allow gamers to play with their buddies who use Steam, without any need to use any 3rd party client or account, nothing, nada. We’re taking care of connecting GOG.com and Steam players, so just sit back, relax and give it a try.

See the outtake from the CD Projekt RED & GOG.com Summer Conference

Talking of which, we are proud to announce the soon-to-come launch of the beta phase for The Witcher Adventure Game, a faithful adaptation of the board game of the same title. It allows up to 4 players to play together, whether they use Steam or GOG.com. Cross-play at its finest! If you wanna get the chance to try it out, please visit and sign up to get in the queue for your beta access key. You can also simply take advantage of our amazing [url=http://www.gog.com/tw3]pre-order offer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which includes 2 beta access keys for he Witcher Aventure Game, delivered to you as soon as we start handing them out to public.

We believe GOG Galaxy has the power to provide the best of both worlds. Playing the single player mode of your favorite game, 100% DRM-free, while still having the OPTION to use our soon-to-come client for an enhanced experience (auto-patching, achievements, and much more) or play online with other GOG.com (and Steam) players if you so wish.

There will be more GOG Galaxy titles coming up this year, so stay tuned for more news and get the word around!
Post edited June 06, 2014 by G-Doc
Posted June 25, 2014
It could, technically, be possible to read the save file of a game in order to figure out what "achievements" you've earned/are earning. Then they could just create some fun achievements for old games that would automatically be awarded with the Galaxy client reading the information from the save.

But the major problem with that would be that very few games (unless they're part of the same series or from the same developer) use the same save format, so GOG would have to write save reading routines for almost every individual game. That'd be a massive undertaking and not one I'd expect them to ever do. Best case scenario would be GOG providing an API for achievements and developers would add them to their games like they do for their Steam builds. They could even use the exact same achievements, so all they'd have to change between builds would be which achievement API to use.

What I could see them doing for old games, however, is a coming up with a list of challenges. You won't really get to show it off when you complete a challenge, but you'd have the personal satisfaction of having done it.
Posted June 25, 2014
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darkwolf777: It could, technically, be possible to read the save file of a game in order to figure out what "achievements" you've earned/are earning. Then they could just create some fun achievements for old games that would automatically be awarded with the Galaxy client reading the information from the save.

But the major problem with that would be that very few games (unless they're part of the same series or from the same developer) use the same save format, so GOG would have to write save reading routines for almost every individual game. That'd be a massive undertaking and not one I'd expect them to ever do. Best case scenario would be GOG providing an API for achievements and developers would add them to their games like they do for their Steam builds. They could even use the exact same achievements, so all they'd have to change between builds would be which achievement API to use.

What I could see them doing for old games, however, is a coming up with a list of challenges. You won't really get to show it off when you complete a challenge, but you'd have the personal satisfaction of having done it.
Funny you say that, because Julie Urhman, the Ouya founder said that save files will be used to earn achievements for Ouya once the system is perfected. :P
Basically it will scan your save file and give you achievements based on certain code strings.
Post edited June 25, 2014 by cameroncr95
Posted June 26, 2014
When you download a game using the Client, does anybody know if it will be an installer as now, or the game itself?
I ask because I pretty much make a backup on DVD of all my purchases on GOG. I know I will be able to still download manually, but since I use the GOG download program for larger files,and It seems as though Galaxy is going to replace the Gog downloader, The ability to stop and resume downloads for huge files is important to me.
Posted June 26, 2014
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dudalb: When you download a game using the Client, does anybody know if it will be an installer as now, or the game itself?
No solid answer yet. I believe that there will be an option that tells the client whether you want to download installers or game files, but that remains to be seen.
Posted June 27, 2014
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dudalb: When you download a game using the Client, does anybody know if it will be an installer as now, or the game itself?
I'm hoping there are "download installer+extras" and "install game+download installer+extras" options in Galaxy. I like the ability to have a one-click backup of everything related to a game that I can then burn to a CD/DVD, but it'd also be nice to have a one-click install (like with Steam) that will also grab the installer and extras for backing up to CD/DVD at the same time.
Posted June 27, 2014
I could be mistaken, but I think I saw on gog.com/galaxy something like: coming this summer.

Now it says: More news in 2014. zZz
Posted June 28, 2014
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darkwolf777: I'm hoping there are "download installer+extras" and "install game+download installer+extras" options in Galaxy. I like the ability to have a one-click backup of everything related to a game that I can then burn to a CD/DVD, but it'd also be nice to have a one-click install (like with Steam) that will also grab the installer and extras for backing up to CD/DVD at the same time.
I think most people want those options.
Posted June 28, 2014
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Senteria: I could be mistaken, but I think I saw on gog.com/galaxy something like: coming this summer.

Now it says: More news in 2014. zZz
No, I'm pretty sure that's what it always said. The first TWAG beta keys are supposed to be sent out soon, though, and that will involve testing some of the Galaxy functionality.
Posted June 28, 2014
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Senteria: I could be mistaken, but I think I saw on gog.com/galaxy something like: coming this summer.

Now it says: More news in 2014. zZz
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VanishedOne: No, I'm pretty sure that's what it always said. The first TWAG beta keys are supposed to be sent out soon, though, and that will involve testing some of the Galaxy functionality.
I can't wait!
Posted June 29, 2014
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Kolto66: First: great addition! even if many people won't use your new client, it is a good option to offer.

two things:

1. Does connecting with Steam (a competitor) mean you have to make a deal with them? If so, then please try hard not to get eaten by Steam/Valve!

2. Achievements: Please please please please please say that you can get achievements OFFLINE also, with sharing them later when going online. This would be "freedom of choice".

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3. Am i going to be able to play old games via galaxy, too? Say for example Age of Wonders Shadow Magic with other gog users?
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JudasIscariot: 1. No deal is being made, instead we're giving you the chance to play with others like it used to be before digital distribution :) Remember when you popped in a multiplayer game like Quake and then just surfed the servers without a third party app? Galaxy is kind of like that :)
It would be REALLY neat if GOG Galaxy also would do some "cross client integration" in the form of having one big game list with all your GOG games, Steam Games and Desura games. This could be done with parsing the public game lists of a steam profile and Desura game profiles.

Launching steam/desura games from GOG Galaxy would suffice, though. For further stuff like installing and managing the games, the GOG Galaxy client just would switch to the respective clients (running in the background, obviously).

Another request for the game list - integration or not:
PLEASE PLEASE allow a category tree in your client, not just flat tags. I like the steam client, but this is the most hated misfeature of it and having more than a dozen games is really painful with flat categories ;(
Posted June 30, 2014
Ooooooooooh man! I really really want to have GOG Galaxy if it is like Steam, but then DRM free!
The single most important reason I don't buy from GOG currently is because I like how Steam manages my games.

If GOG Galaxy resembles the workings of Steam, I'm going to switch to GOG.

Here's hoping for the best!
Posted June 30, 2014
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/coming_soon_divinity_original_sin/post59
Yes! I edited this post so many times that somehow the expected date for the launch (a Galaxy-supported launch, mind you), that is August 31, somehow got lost. Sorry about that.
GOG Galaxy launch confirmed before August 31st it looks like? :)
Posted June 30, 2014
Can't wait. Hopefully it has even more features than steam.
Post edited June 30, 2014 by Gamer1371
Posted June 30, 2014
I look forward to be able to play Flatout 2 online without much hassle. :)
Posted June 30, 2014
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JudasIscariot: 1. No deal is being made, instead we're giving you the chance to play with others like it used to be before digital distribution :) Remember when you popped in a multiplayer game like Quake and then just surfed the servers without a third party app? Galaxy is kind of like that :)
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coffeecup: It would be REALLY neat if GOG Galaxy also would do some "cross client integration" in the form of having one big game list with all your GOG games, Steam Games and Desura games. This could be done with parsing the public game lists of a steam profile and Desura game profiles.

Launching steam/desura games from GOG Galaxy would suffice, though. For further stuff like installing and managing the games, the GOG Galaxy client just would switch to the respective clients (running in the background, obviously).

Another request for the game list - integration or not:
PLEASE PLEASE allow a category tree in your client, not just flat tags. I like the steam client, but this is the most hated misfeature of it and having more than a dozen games is really painful with flat categories ;(
In addition to allowing categorization of games, I hope that it allows for more than one category per game. Whether they do that in a manner of creating arbitrary group labels to then include games in, where a game can belong to more than one group, or they do it by letting you flag games with one or more private or public tags, and then allow viewing all games with a given tag. Personally I hope they provide both options as they both have differing but mutually beneficial semantics.

Steam allows for tags in-store but not in-library, and categories in-library but a game can only be put into a single category bin. So I can't for example have a "GFWL hell" category and put GTA IV in it, and also have GTA IV in a custom "Current games I care about" category. Their "Recently played" and similar meta-categories are nice but don't always allow me the game list view I want to see. When you have 50 or less games it isn't a big deal, but as someone gets 200/300/500 etc. games, the ability to make fine grained categories, tags and other methods of classification and organization become incredibly more important IMHO to avoid just seeing an opaque abyss of endless random game names.

I'd like to see grouping, tagging, filtering and sorting mechanisms in the client which are as extensive as possible, even if they pare it down to a set of "basic" settings for the average person by default and have some kind of optional "advanced" interface for us power-gamers. Even better if they make the client moddable with some form of embedded sripting language (probably javascript, or LUA or something), so that what they don't provide themselves - people like me in the community might take a shot at modding and enhancing.

Would be pretty cool anyway!
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