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General discussionWhen will "GOG Galaxy" be released?(178 posts)(178 posts)
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Posted November 15, 2014
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Irderion: Still ongoing, Guillaume Rambourg talked about it on French TV today. It will offer :
- optional client for auto-updating/auto-patching
- multiplayer support for old and new games, and multiplayer crossplay between games purchased on Steam and GOG.
You don't happen to have a video of it, with English subtitles?
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Irderion: - multiplayer support for old [...] games
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Pheace: This will be interesting to see if it turns out to be the case. The way they talk tends to make things sound a certain way when it doesn't have to be the case. Surely it'll support old games, if they're redone to work with Galaxy for instance. If that's the case it'll be of lesser value. If on the other hand they have made some kind of network (LAN?) or direct connection thing between Galaxy players that even older games can easily make use of, that would be of good value.
Have Galaxy act as a VPN client (and have some translation of IPX to TCP or UDP - I believe modern Windows versions no longer have IPX support, do they?), and suddenly every Galaxy user is on the same network and can play games as if it was a LAN of Windows 98 boxes with modern stability - with no change to the games themselves.
Post edited November 15, 2014 by Maighstir
Posted November 16, 2014
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Irderion: Still ongoing, Guillaume Rambourg talked about it on French TV today. It will offer :
- optional client for auto-updating/auto-patching
- multiplayer support for old and new games, and multiplayer crossplay between games purchased on Steam and GOG.
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Maighstir: You don't happen to have a video of it, with English subtitles?
The video is available only to the subscribers of the channel's VOD service, here, but there is no English subtitles. : http://noco.tv/emission/15647/nolife/extra-life/165-good-old-games-gog-se-lance-en-france

There is a slight possibility that it is put on free acess for a week at some point.

The show is discussed in this topic of the French forum : http://www.gog.com/forum/general_fr/gog_la_tl_ce_samedi_13h30_sur_nolife
Posted November 16, 2014
Axl Rose's definition of "soon".
Posted November 17, 2014
So will Galaxy "act like Steam" in a non-DRM way? I really just want an easy way to launch my GOG games from a central location. Achievements and communities are an added bonus.
Posted November 17, 2014
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BoogerMac: So will Galaxy "act like Steam" in a non-DRM way? I really just want an easy way to launch my GOG games from a central location. Achievements and communities are an added bonus.
Don't be a troll. Steam=DRM. You won't need galaxy to install or run a game, or any conectivity at all, after having downloaded and backed up your game ONCE.

Galaxy YES, it is going to be DRM-FREE. And completely OPTIONAL.
Post edited November 17, 2014 by KiNgBrAdLeY7
Posted November 17, 2014
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: You won't need galaxy to install or run a game, or any conectivity at all, after having downloaded and backed up your game ONCE.
An unfortunate definition to use as there are games on Steam where you can do this exact thing as well. Steam can be used as DRM, but not all games use it.

@Boogermac. Galaxy should be perfect for that, a central place to launch your games from. You're certainly not the first to want this.
Post edited November 17, 2014 by Pheace
Posted November 17, 2014
I didn't see anything wrong with BoogerMac's question, certainly not a troll. He was asking whether galaxy will have a similar feature set to steam minus drm obviously.
Posted November 17, 2014
Sorry if I came off as a troll, that was not my intent. I mentioned Steam for comparison reasons. I wanted to know a little more about Galaxy since all I've seen is the 2-min intro video.

Thanks for clarifying everything.
Post edited November 17, 2014 by BoogerMac
Posted November 17, 2014
I just want to be able to update my installed game without having to check my program list to make sure I have the game installed through gog.com
Posted November 17, 2014
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BoogerMac: Sorry if I came off as a troll, that was not my intent.
Don't worry, you didn't. Clearly KiNgBrAdLeY7 didn't think before he replied. :P
Posted November 17, 2014
It will be buggy as shit on release.
Posted November 17, 2014
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BoogerMac: Sorry if I came off as a troll, that was not my intent.
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F4LL0UT: Don't worry, you didn't. Clearly KiNgBrAdLeY7 didn't think before he replied. :P
...im soo tempted to say something now

but silence is golden and all that

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Crosmando: It will be buggy as shit on release.
name me one piece fo software that wasnt !
Post edited November 17, 2014 by snowkatt
Posted November 17, 2014
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Crosmando: It will be buggy as shit on release.
Have you had a chance to try the beta yet? I didn't get in (neither into the Witcher Adventure Game beta nor did I get my free Aliens versus Predator) and have no idea about its current state.
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snowkatt: ...im soo tempted to say something now
but silence is golden and all that
I thought only Germans did this.
Post edited November 17, 2014 by F4LL0UT
Posted November 17, 2014
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Crosmando: It will be buggy as shit on release.
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F4LL0UT: Have you had a chance to try the beta yet? I didn't get in (neither into the Witcher Adventure Game beta nor did I get my free Aliens versus Predator) and have no idea about its current state.
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snowkatt: ...im soo tempted to say something now
but silence is golden and all that
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F4LL0UT: I thought only Germans did this.
did what ?
Posted November 17, 2014
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snowkatt: did what ?
Coming up with a nasty comment, proclaming that they've come up with it with a sentence like "I could say something now" but ultimately keeping it to themselves for some reason.
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