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General discussionYa'lls GOG galaxy client is awful(42 posts)(42 posts)
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Posted October 01, 2023
I'm a new customer to GOG wanted blood omen since its not on steam. Gotta say no wonder steam/valve is so powerful your gog galaxy is absolutely awful. I have limited high speed burning and you wanted me to download a 300 mb client THAT WON'T LOGIN! I tried over and over, oops somethings wrong. DO NOT DL THEIR CLIENT!

If you are a new patron just get the backup offline file and do not mess with this client, it won't even let you in. What a waste of time, steam, even epic never refused me at the gate this is dumb as hell. Being a new user who is only buying one game anyway, I could care less if your moderators get mad at me. I won't be using your crap client anyway gonna uninstall it since it won't let me frickin in, thanks for the 300 mb burn wow... Terrible client fucking awful.

I had no idea buying one classic dollar game would be such a headache.
Post edited October 01, 2023 by Unseen39
Posted October 01, 2023
Genreal Galaxy ranting goes to this forum.



... and if you get your act together and manage to ask in a civiliced way, maybe someone may even be able to help you with your problem.

ps: You're not the only one hating galaxy, that's not something special. Offline installers are the reason why many of us are here.
Post edited October 01, 2023 by neumi5694
Posted October 01, 2023
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Unseen39: I'm a new customer to GOG wanted blood omen since its not on steam. Gotta say no wonder steam/valve is so powerful your gog galaxy is absolutely awful. I have limited high speed burning and you wanted me to download a 300 mb client THAT WON'T LOGIN! I tried over and over, oops somethings wrong. DO NOT DL THEIR CLIENT!

If you are a new patron just get the backup offline file and do not mess with this client, it won't even let you in. What a waste of time, steam, even epic never refused me at the gate this is dumb as hell. Being a new user who is only buying one game anyway, I could care less if your moderators get mad at me. I won't be using your crap client anyway gonna uninstall it since it won't let me frickin in, thanks for the 300 mb burn wow... Terrible client fucking awful.

I had no idea buying one classic dollar game would be such a headache.
Boohoo


I don't use steam for the client because that is retarded, I use steam to play games that aren't available on gog. Gog gives us DRM free downloads meaning you actually own the game, unlike steam.

In order to login you enter your username and password, hope this helps
Posted October 01, 2023
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Isn't being awful the point of a client?
Posted October 01, 2023
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Breja: Isn't being awful the point of a client?
client
/ˈklʌɪənt/
noun
1.
a software interface, person or organization which tests ones ability to contain and not act upon their intrusive thoughts.
Post edited October 01, 2023 by funnyonion
Posted October 01, 2023
Yes that is why I have not used the GOG Galaxy client since gog.com first announced in what way back in 2014?
Posted October 01, 2023
Certainly the GOG Galaxy client is not perfect and Galaxy 2.0 is indeed awful.

No way the Steam and/or EGS clients are perfect either though, even though OP makes it sound like they are.

Steam and EGS clients, for example, often make the user re-enter their password for no good reason, even when they have their settings set automatically to enter their password, and even when the password has been saved & entered correctly.
Post edited October 01, 2023 by Ancient-Red-Dragon
Posted October 01, 2023
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Certainly the GOG Galaxy client is not perfect and Galaxy 2.0 is indeed awful.

No way the Steam and/or EGS clients are perfect either though, even though OP makes it sound like they are.

Steam and EGS clients, for example, often make the user re-enter their password for no good reason, even when they have their settings set automatically to enter their password, and even when the password has been saved & entered correctly.
If you're on Windows I can recommend Playnite, I only use GOG and Steam which it works perfectly for. For Linux there really isn't anything that is comparable. Sure you can use Lutris or Heroic but neither offer the same level of functionality.

The Steam client is a broken mess
Posted October 01, 2023
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Unseen39: I'm a new customer to GOG wanted blood omen since its not on steam. Gotta say no wonder steam/valve is so powerful your gog galaxy is absolutely awful. I have limited high speed burning and you wanted me to download a 300 mb client THAT WON'T LOGIN! I tried over and over, oops somethings wrong. DO NOT DL THEIR CLIENT!

If you are a new patron just get the backup offline file and do not mess with this client, it won't even let you in. What a waste of time, steam, even epic never refused me at the gate this is dumb as hell. Being a new user who is only buying one game anyway, I could care less if your moderators get mad at me. I won't be using your crap client anyway gonna uninstall it since it won't let me frickin in, thanks for the 300 mb burn wow... Terrible client fucking awful.

I had no idea buying one classic dollar game would be such a headache.
Steam client is not good, it's bloated and slow with outdated UI.
Posted October 01, 2023
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Yes, the galaxy client is awful. It's stupid and unnecessary. So just don't use it.

Use the normal game installers instead, and forget about the client. You've done it already, and you can do it for any future games you buy. You don't need the client
Posted October 01, 2023
I use Galaxy 2.0 since it left the alpha and yes, it can be really buggy and flawed but it works for the most part. I have about 200 games installed and I really don't want all those shortcuts on my desktop so Galaxy is a good help with the organization of my games.
Steam is even worse, I still haven't found out how to download bonus material that I've paid money for. I tried for half an hour with no success,

Galaxy just really needs a bugfixing overhaul, that's it.
Post edited October 01, 2023 by Atreyu666
Posted October 01, 2023
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HELP ME! I entered the wrong username/password and am so stupid I'm blaming the client.

Also for some reason I have high speed burning...which sounds bad.
Post edited October 01, 2023 by EverNightX
Posted October 01, 2023
I tried the Galaxy interface a few years ago then uninstalled it again. As others have noted it's not really necessary.

If you polled the regulars I'd imagined "Galaxy fixes" comes a distant third behind "fixes to the storefront" and "dear god the forums need an overhaul" in terms of issues needing attention.

Actually, probably fourth behind curation, though people don't tend to agree on what exactly that would include / leave out.
Posted October 01, 2023
Old client was bad, yet GoG made it even worse. It's pretty amazing how this keeps happening

That said, you should've just asked around, jeez.
Post edited October 01, 2023 by Knightspace
Posted October 01, 2023
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bler144: If you polled the regulars I'd imagined "Galaxy fixes" comes a distant third behind "fixes to the storefront" and "dear god the forums need an overhaul" in terms of issues needing attention.
A-fucking-men.

Actually my first would be "make the 'backup installers' the actual game again".
Post edited October 01, 2023 by Vainamoinen
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