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General discussionPCGamer says 'GOG Galaxy is a necessary break from Steam's feature creep'(94 posts)(94 posts)
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Posted July 14, 2015
There's a nice article about GOG Galaxy on PCGamer site.
I think many of you can be interested.

http://www.pcgamer.com/gog-galaxy-is-a-necessary-break-from-steams-feature-creep/
Posted July 14, 2015
I think they exagerate a bit. Last time I tried Galaxy, it wanted to update Imperialism, a game which hasn't seen a patch for at least 10 years.

All the little things are surely important, and improving them is also important (like Galaxy has no global default setting for automatic updates, you have to do it each time manually, also it cannot start minimized on Windows startup - a thing Steam surely can) but they are not as important as the number of games offered or the features or the prices.

Having a smart sorting option is nice but not in the same league as a two hours free testing. And also I wonder how good the overview in Galaxy would be with 500 games? I guess terrible. Already now I feel like I have not much overview. Basically what I would need are custom game shelves, i.e. a completely custom one level deep hierachical ordering. Afaik Galaxy cannot do that.
Post edited July 14, 2015 by Trilarion
Posted July 14, 2015
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Trilarion: I think they exagerate a bit. Last time I tried Galaxy, it wanted to update Imperialism, a game which hasn't seen a patch for at least 10 years.

All the little things are surely important, and improving them is also important (like Galaxy has no global default setting for automatic updates, you have to do it each time manually, also it cannot start minimized on Windows startup - a thing Steam surely can) but they are not as important as the number of games offered or the features or the prices.

Having a smart sorting option is nice but not in the same league as a two hours free testing. And also I wonder how good the overview in Galaxy would be with 500 games? I guess terrible. Already now I feel like I have not much overview. Basically what I would need are custom game shelves, i.e. a completely custom one level deep hierachical ordering. Afaik Galaxy cannot do that.
They've also devoted an entire paragraph to a feature that hasn't been implemented yet.
Also I don't know if you've noticed, but all Galaxy does is run the installers quietly so every DLC gets an entry in the add/remove programs. Which with the 16 tiny DLCs from The Witcher 3 is a bit cluttering as well.
And the interface is definitely not 'easy on the eye'.
Posted July 14, 2015
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Trilarion: I think they exagerate a bit. Last time I tried Galaxy, it wanted to update Imperialism, a game which hasn't seen a patch for at least 10 years.
It shows that Galaxy is on the cutting edge of technology. It anticipates updates! ;)
Posted July 14, 2015
Nice article, even if a bit too positive about Galaxy for the moment :P
Anyway, Gog's biggest problem is not even Steam itself, but its massive adoption since many years. User libraries are too full to abandon them.
Post edited July 14, 2015 by phaolo
Posted July 14, 2015
har har har. that would make sense if GOG Galazy wasn't blatantly trying to look like a steam client.
Posted July 14, 2015
Good article, it introduces GOG to more gamers. I hope we have new comers cause of GOG Galaxy. :)
Posted July 14, 2015
Uh.. however, from the comments, I've learnt about Steam Trading Cards.
My Gog, that feature seems to attract the worst kind of people.. some said they play titles without interest, just to sell the cards and obtain real money :\
Post edited July 14, 2015 by phaolo
Posted July 14, 2015
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Trilarion: (...) but they are not as important as the number of games offered or the features or the prices.
I think it all counts. Better client -> more gamers -> more games , etc. It's all connected.
Posted July 14, 2015
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phaolo: Uh.. however, from the comments, I've learnt about Steam Trading Cards.
My Gog, that feature seems to attract the worst kind of people.. some said they play titles without interest, just to sell the cards and obtain real money :\
Heh, why do you think that the scammers/leechers appear on gog, especially on the usual threads (ex ninja giveaway). But the system is cool, i've made enough money with it (including the tf2 and csgo stuff) to buy new games...

And you don't need to play those games, you can use software made to simulate that you're playing them.
Posted July 14, 2015
Yeah, that is quite a bit too positive, given Galaxy's current state, but I do like that last line "... the vinyl record player of game clients" That is exactly what I see Galaxy becoming, if it stabilizes and gets its full feature set.
Posted July 14, 2015
Uh... it doesn't necessarily do GOG much favours. There is such a thing as being too positive. Especially considering the state of the client. This fellow is jumping on the Anti-DRM band wagon and that's that. All power to him but this could generate a lot of people being disappointed by looking for a Steam Alternative.
Posted July 14, 2015
I disagree with the premises : clients for digital distribution platforms are not 'necessary'.


Edit : but it's a nicely featured article nonetheless.
Post edited July 14, 2015 by Potzato
Posted July 14, 2015
I wonder how much did GOG pay PCGamer for this article? :D

If Galaxy was really that good there wouldn't be new complaints about bugs and errors in the forums every day.
Posted July 14, 2015
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phaolo: Uh.. however, from the comments, I've learnt about Steam Trading Cards.
My Gog, that feature seems to attract the worst kind of people.. some said they play titles without interest, just to sell the cards and obtain real money :\
This is why I hate the Steam Market and hope gog.com never introduces a marketplace like that ever.

I'm very happy that Evan Lahti hates that crap.

The PC gamers purchasing video games that have support for Steam Trading Cards just to sell to purchase video games piss me off and earn VAVLVe a lot of money. While I have to work my ass off and save money to purchase video games.

I will never participate in Steam's Market.

I'm very happy I switched to gog.com permanently in 2012. May 2011 is when I first started using gog.com.
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