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The goal behind GOG GALAXY 2.0 is to bring all your games and friends together in one place. Today, a new partner joins us and takes us another step closer to achieving it.

We’re happy to add to GOG GALAXY 2.0 the official integration with Epic Games Store, which is the second most connected external platform in the app, says Oleg Klapovsky, SVP at GOG. Together with GOG.COM and Xbox Live, those official integrations are bringing a more seamless and reliable experience to gamers.

We’re excited that Epic Games Store integration has come to GOG GALAXY 2.0, said Steve Allison, General Manager of the Epic Games Store. It’s an important step towards breaking down walls between PC stores, as it enables a unified experience for players to manage their PC games library independent of where their games were purchased.

The new official integration is the latest addition to GOG GALAXY 2.0, which we’re constantly improving with features requested by gamers. One of the recently added was the ability to see all your gaming subscriptions in one place. It helps gamers to conveniently browse, install, and launch games from an overwhelming amount of titles available on each subscription.
Post edited July 22, 2020 by elcook
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smuggly: Now that games I launched from the shortcut or folder open galaxy anyway where is the difference from other launchers?
I use and like Galaxy. Isn't it just another drm launcher now though?
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It's not really DRM, though, because you still have the ability to install and launch games without ever having the Galaxy client on your system.
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smuggly: Now that games I launched from the shortcut or folder open galaxy anyway where is the difference from other launchers?
I use and like Galaxy. Isn't it just another drm launcher now though?
Thanks
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obliviondoll: It's not really DRM, though, because you still have the ability to install and launch games without ever having the Galaxy client on your system.
True.
Well, that's an interesting development.
Here is a suggestion or idea for GOG and Epic, since they are now officially connected: Let Epic spend some of theirs sweet exclusivity money to get some year long exclusive games only on GOG and EGS. That would, probably, make some people here quite happy. Not me, I don't care.
And no, I want ask any copyright for this great idea. It's a freebie, for you GOG. We were friends, once!
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smuggly: Now that games I launched from the shortcut or folder open galaxy anyway where is the difference from other launchers?
I use and like Galaxy. Isn't it just another drm launcher now though?
Thanks
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obliviondoll: It's not really DRM, though, because you still have the ability to install and launch games without ever having the Galaxy client on your system.
but in some cases galaxy installs game version that wont run from game executable directly, it will call galaxy instead.
if you want to be sure all of your installed games are DRM free (not dependent on gog launcher) you'll need to install it from offline installers. otherwise there's a chance some games won't run without client.
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obliviondoll: It's not really DRM, though, because you still have the ability to install and launch games without ever having the Galaxy client on your system.
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djoxyk: but in some cases galaxy installs game version that wont run from game executable directly, it will call galaxy instead.
if you want to be sure all of your installed games are DRM free (not dependent on gog launcher) you'll need to install it from offline installers. otherwise there's a chance some games won't run without client.
Really? running the game shortcut in the folder? And what about running the exe directly? Is the exe hacked or something to run Galaxy?

Honestly with no examples I have my doubts about that.
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djoxyk: but in some cases galaxy installs game version that wont run from game executable directly, it will call galaxy instead.
if you want to be sure all of your installed games are DRM free (not dependent on gog launcher) you'll need to install it from offline installers. otherwise there's a chance some games won't run without client.
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Gudadantza: Really? running the game shortcut in the folder? And what about running the exe directly? Is the exe hacked or something to run Galaxy?

Honestly with no examples I have my doubts about that.
game executable as I said. you can have all doubts you want. I had an issue with couple of games that refused to start without galaxy. never used galaxy to download games since then. I can't give more details because it happened 2 years ago, I just can't recall which games I had installed at that time.
Post edited August 05, 2020 by djoxyk
Quick question: if I integrate my Epic account with GOG, the games that are in my Epic will be add to my GOG library?
Example: I have Little Nightmares on Epic but doesn't have it on GOG, after the integration the game will be added to the GOG too?
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Dr_Green: Quick question: if I integrate my Epic account with GOG, the games that are in my Epic will be add to my GOG library?
Example: I have Little Nightmares on Epic but doesn't have it on GOG, after the integration the game will be added to the GOG too?
no one will give you games for free.
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Dr_Green: Quick question: if I integrate my Epic account with GOG, the games that are in my Epic will be add to my GOG library?
Example: I have Little Nightmares on Epic but doesn't have it on GOG, after the integration the game will be added to the GOG too?
Galaxy integrations have nothing to do with GOG (store) library. It doesn't work they way GOG Connect do https://www.gog.com/connect

The games will be added to your Galaxy library as owned on Epic.
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obliviondoll: It's not really DRM, though, because you still have the ability to install and launch games without ever having the Galaxy client on your system.
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djoxyk: but in some cases galaxy installs game version that wont run from game executable directly, it will call galaxy instead.
if you want to be sure all of your installed games are DRM free (not dependent on gog launcher) you'll need to install it from offline installers. otherwise there's a chance some games won't run without client.
You can download an offline installer through Galaxy which lets you launch the game without needing to use Galaxy like DRM. And the point I had been making, in response to a claim that Galaxy was DRM, is that even without Galaxy installed, you can download the games directly from the GOG website, and when doing that without Galaxy, accessing the offline installer is easier than it is in the client.

So... no?
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djoxyk: but in some cases galaxy installs game version that wont run from game executable directly, it will call galaxy instead.
if you want to be sure all of your installed games are DRM free (not dependent on gog launcher) you'll need to install it from offline installers. otherwise there's a chance some games won't run without client.
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obliviondoll: You can download an offline installer through Galaxy which lets you launch the game without needing to use Galaxy like DRM. And the point I had been making, in response to a claim that Galaxy was DRM, is that even without Galaxy installed, you can download the games directly from the GOG website, and when doing that without Galaxy, accessing the offline installer is easier than it is in the client.

So... no?
"no" only in case of offline installers. "yes" in case of using galaxy to manage your games.
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obliviondoll: You can download an offline installer through Galaxy which lets you launch the game without needing to use Galaxy like DRM. And the point I had been making, in response to a claim that Galaxy was DRM, is that even without Galaxy installed, you can download the games directly from the GOG website, and when doing that without Galaxy, accessing the offline installer is easier than it is in the client.

So... no?
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djoxyk: "no" only in case of offline installers. "yes" in case of using galaxy to manage your games.
Or more accurately, "no" only in the case of the context of the conversation, "yes" if you ignore what was actually being discussed at the time.
Great, can you please do a Steam integration that actually works. Relying on a community integration makes Gog Galaxy pretty much useless as it breaks all the time.
What in the world happened here? I've been organizing my Epic Games library (which has gotten pretty large with all the great giveaways and deep sales) via GoG Galaxy as long as I've had an EGS account, way before July 20. The "official" integration that supposedly took place with this update has made that much worse somehow. Why does it take so long after this update to launch an EGS game? It used to be 10 seconds, now I'm waiting at least 1 minute or 2 for a game to launch, and sometimes it never launches. Please get rid of this "official" intergration and go back to whatever it was before that actually worked perfectly.
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OHMYGODJCABOMB: Yeah, this one is definitely much more important than solving problems with missing GOG games and stuck downloads.

Do you even look into your bug tracker?
I dunno mate, i like being able to launch all those freebies from Epig more easily. Why ya have to complain