Didn't notice it updated to 2.0 either. There's absolutely nothing intuitive about the interface. It's crap.

For some reason the amount of games I have is 6 less in Galaxy than in the browser, 1 of which being my most recent purchase which apparently I now have to download through the browser and not Galaxy (I prefer the auto check). Weird enough the DLC for another game I bought in the same purchase is accessible through Galaxy and so is the invoice.
When it was browser only, https://gog.com/user/refresh would usually do the trick in the rare instances something was off. Galaxy doesn't seem to have a function to force a refresh or rebuild of the owned games.

Guess I'll go see if I still have the old installer somewhere.

I very much LIKE the look of 2.0, but it's distinctly lacking in functionality in areas that need to be working before they push it live to everyone like this. It's not ready to be out of beta, and if it's not out of beta, it shouldn't be forced on everyone.

A few people have posted links in several topics I've seen to the older launcher files, most notably found here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general_beta_gog_galaxy_2.0/will_we_still_be_able_to_download_use_galaxy_1x_afer_20_is_released

If there is an obvious way to access the forums in Galaxy 2, I don't see it. No community or forums button or anything. I had to post from browser.

not a fan of the 2.0. glad i saw how to stop the up date

EDIT: I stand corrected. See the post below mine. Convoluted and messy, but it technically works.

Navigate to a game store page from Galaxy 2 and enter forums from there. select the forum you like and make a bookmark of the page. Then you will have a shortcut to the forums. It will appear at the left bar under the store shortcuts.

I was skeptical but I have to say, it works fine. You really can ignore much of the new functionality and just treat it like the previous version of Galaxy. The UI is still good. Easy to access the game folder and extras. I'm ok with it.

Was essentially forced to update to the 2.0 beta. Took an hour to get hold of a recent 1.2x installer via forum posts, After another hour re-importing my games to the client, I now see that it has no clue which version of most of these games is actually installed anymore. So I now get to spend several weeks updating/reverting individual games to undo the damage. The only "feature" the Galaxy client ever provided that was not easily reproduced via another company's client or via the gog.com website was easy version control (of specific games). I homebrew a lot of mods for my games to compensate for a missing hand, so it is incredibly important to avoid wiping out a month's work with an automatic update. Given that many popular game mods (especially for older titles) are locked to outdated versions, I would think this might matter to other folks, too.

I joined Gog back when I had to pay a foreign currency conversion charge on every purchase (Mastercard felt the need to punish me for buying anything from Cyprus) because I had been watching Steam bypass the toilet and dive straight into the sewer (in customer convenience terms) and also because the DRM activation methods for games on cd/dvd (yes those, you whippersnappers) had become truly insane.

Gog remains one of those rare outfits that (mostly) remains true to its original mission, and I will continue to support the platform as long as I reasonably can, but it is a very troubling experience to watch platform after platform destroy themselves with these unforced errors. I probably won't be buying any more Gog games until some measure of stability reasserts itself.

I am posting this here because the Galaxy team doesn't want to read anything containing complete sentences or more than 3 lines of text. I doubt they'll have any interest in these forums, but at least I will have tried.

On a final, incendiary note (it is a forum, after all): When I say "forced update," I mean it in practical, not legal terms. I could theoretically have spent several extra minutes every 6 hours ensuring I wasn't updating to a public beta, but given that "beta participation" was unchecked and I was being hounded (think Erkel meets Sheldon meets your mother-in-law) to update, I gave up and hit the stupid button. To coin an analogy not unlike the old "if your friends jumped off a bridge.." line: I was considering launching an open beta for a new "we will cut your arm off and beat you over the head with it " service. Common sense and experience told me nobody would ever pay money for this, so I made it an optional upgrade. After launching a spam campaign that would dwarf the scamming efforts of China and India combined (the American ones aren't much better), I figured there would be a solid 300 desperate takers who simply clicked "upgrade." I never got to launch that "service." Gog made their Galaxy client into a test case, and we are seeing the results now. I just hope they sew some arms back on to the stupid client. It's getting way too crowded around here.

well said. it's a bit like a punch in the face from a loved one.

Could not have said it better myself. And it's not just the bookshelf, tags and sorted by purchase. I am also disappointed at the fact that I lost an attractive PROFILE PAGE + my WALLET FUNDS are buried deep out-of-sight behind all of this purple clutter + access to the COMMUNITY FORUMS has also been tucked away like some easter egg that I must hunt for.

Designing a new look. Fine.
Removing features that users love, that incite users to spend more money and that encourage community chitchats. A giant step back! :(

Yep - the biggest frustration for me is they took easy simple front and center features of frequent use, and buried them behide features, optional features, that it seems many on the forums have little to no intention of using.

Unless there is some data or survey captured somewhere where the vast amount of GOG users have said - yes I want more social integration and less easy access to my game details and extras - I just don't get the point of it.

i wouldn't call it good. it's missing several core features, like the game list on the legft, or they are spread out instead of consolidated on the game page. the spreading out makes them harder to find and access. plus the fact you can;t access the forum from the launcher. this is actually pretty big because 2.0 has a feature in the drop down "more" button on the games page that will put you on that games specific forum.



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actually this is a really good point. should have listened to the saying "to many cooks spoil the broth". in this case cooks are all the extra platforms they are trying to build for and it's spoiled their launcher. instead of just making versions for each platform they might be trying to make it an all in one. and that almost never works.

The forced Beta is horrible. It makes me wonder if the games I bought wil someday be unavailable. Can you still download via the website, or is Galaxy the only way? Other posts show how to disable the update by deleting files. This works as of right now. At some point, I assume GoG will make Galaxy 1.x not able to access the games.

The functionality (sorting options, links, etc) that is missing or is hidden or that doesn't save between sessions, is a big problem.

For me (and others it appears), I'm not interested in the social aspect. The UI design bangs social buttons cluttering up desk space with things I do not want, making it very undesireable. What Friends are playing, What friends are online, etc... is for the birds. The newer, younger, gen might think this is important stuff. It isn't to me.

It's like they took the Client I had, gimped/hidden its functionality, gimped its appearance, made things you change not save between sessions and added social stuff I'll never want to use or see, cluttering up the UI, and are forcing this change on me.

As far as tags, tags are OK. But even the current Galaxy (not the Beta Galaxy that is being forced) doesn't implement tags correctly. I've mentioned this before, but if I tag my games with Space Shooter RPG Adult Child Racer Horror etc etc and want to find something about Space for my kid to play, I filter using Space and Child... I get every space sim, space horror, space everything and I also get all the Child stuff like Child Animation Child whatevers. It doesn't really help that much. And it seems like it would be a simple fix to make an option for.

Improvements like that I could get behind. I don't see taking things away and changing things and adding things I don't want and forcing them as any kind of improvement. It's more a different software package entirely.

I was onboard when Galaxy became a thing. I thought it was great and I remember people not liking it. People don't like change all at once. I get that. But back then, it wasn't forced on you and you could still use the website if you wanted to opt out. I'm not aboard with Galaxy 2.0 at all. It's not improving, its taking leaps and bounds backwards. I'm not onboard with how its being shoved down my throat, at all.

Wow... Here's another shitty thing about Galaxy 2 I just discovered, thanks to you: I received NO NOTIFICATION that someone replied to my forum post!

In Galaxy 1, if someone responded to a post of mine, I would get a notification! A purple dot would appear.

No such thing in Galaxy 2. It was only by chance that I glanced this thread and noticed you had replied to me.

I think I'm going to cry now...