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Posted May 22, 2019
There are two things that matter to all of us gamers: the games we play and the friends we play them with. But as more titles come with dedicated launchers and clients, our games and gaming buddies become scattered in between them. With GOG GALAXY 2.0, you’ll be able to combine multiple libraries into one and connect with your friends across all gaming platforms!

“As gamers, we need to juggle between multiple clients to access our games and see what our friends are playing,” says Piotr Karwowski, Managing Director at GOG. “We believe gamers deserve a better experience, and this became the driving force to redefine GOG GALAXY client,” Karwowski adds. “GOG GALAXY 2.0 is designed for all gamers and extends well beyond existing GOG.COM users, into both PC and console platforms.”

Once you connect GOG GALAXY 2.0 with other platforms, it will import all your games into one library. You will see your friends activities and online status across connected platforms. All new library and friends features apply to your GOG.COM games and enhance your experience. And it’s designed to protect your privacy – your data belongs to you and will never be shared with third parties. We see it as an all-in-one solution for the present-day gamer.

Experience GOG GALAXY 2.0 yourself — sign up for the closed beta at www.gogalaxy.com and be among the first to get access to it!

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Learn more about our vision.
Main features and what to expect once GOG GALAXY 2.0 officially launches.

Your Games.
Import all your games from PC and consoles, build and organize them into one master collection. Install and launch any PC game you own, no matter the platform.

Keep track of all your achievements, hours played and games owned.

Customize your library by filtering, sorting, tagging, and adding your own visuals like game backgrounds or covers.

Follow upcoming releases and discover games popular among your friends and the gaming community.

Your Friends.
Bring together your friends from all platforms and see their online status.

No matter on which platform your friends are, you can chat with them.

See your friends’ cross-platform achievements, game time milestones and recently played games.

See who’s the master collector, completionist or spends the most time playing.

Your Privacy.
Your personal data will never be shared with third parties.

We’re not spying on data from your computer.

With a single click, you can remove imported games and friends data from our servers.

Your GOG Client.
All new library management and friends features take your experience to the next level.

The best way to run and update your GOG games.

Use features like cloud saving, in-game overlay, multiplayer & matchmaking, rollbacks and more.

The client is not required to play your DRM-free GOG games.

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Connect more platforms and add new features with open-source integrations.

All customizations and changes to your library are saved in the cloud and synced between all your devices.

Save any view like a customized library or favorite games and friends to access them instantly.

GOG GALAXY 2.0 will be available for Windows and Mac for free.
Sign up now at www.gogalaxy.com for the closed beta access.
Post edited May 24, 2019 by elcook
Posted May 23, 2019
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Swedrami: Good for those that use Galaxy, I guess?

Galaxy being (and staying) optional is the only feature I care and will care about.
Agreed! While I am quite happy for those that use Galaxy, I still prefer it to be optional.
Posted May 23, 2019
Interesting, but no compact mode, no small mode, no library subsections or user-made categories...

There's not a chance in hell I could make any good use of 2.0 as a universal launcher without my own user-defined categories and a small library mode that Steam uses.

I mean, if you don't have many games, sure it works fine, but hitting close to 1000 games across all the digital store fronts means that 2.0 is just useless.

The GOG games library page is ... well... it's horrible to look at and navigate compared to any of it's contemporaries. Completely missing the overall layout and necessary core features to make it even remotely tenable.

In other words, yes, i'd be highly interested in the concept behind 2.0, but the client is so far removed from offering what it needs for the jobe. I might as well take a scooter on a cross country trip...
Posted May 23, 2019
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Waldschatten: I don't get people's obsession with clients in Linux.

Like people who love Steam for Linux.
Maybe it is not only about the client, but about the level of attention to the platform?
DRM or not, but Valve actually allows Linux users to feel themselves as a first-class citizens (unlike GOG, where even ordinary updates are almost always a week late), plus Valve is visibly investing into Linux ecosystem, whereas GOG is rigidly ignoring it (no "sky-blue" user ever even used the "Linux" word in this thread, nor even addressed the matter).
Posted May 23, 2019
Did you guys get a confirmation mail? Because didn´t???
Posted May 23, 2019
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Alm888: (unlike GOG, where even ordinary updates are almost always a week late)
To be fair that's with every platform here. But it's much worse for non-Windows users in general. For example OSX's version of ToME is known to miss whole major updates, and it's 100% not the dev's fault.
Posted May 23, 2019
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Waldschatten: I don't get people's obsession with clients in Linux.

Like people who love Steam for Linux.
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Alm888: Maybe it is not only about the client, but about the level of attention to the platform?
DRM or not, but Valve actually allows Linux users to feel themselves as a first-class citizens (unlike GOG, where even ordinary updates are almost always a week late), plus Valve is visibly investing into Linux ecosystem, whereas GOG is rigidly ignoring it (no "sky-blue" user ever even used the "Linux" word in this thread, nor even addressed the matter).
Also gog doesn't even offer patches for Linux games, just full downloads of Linux games whenever a game gets update. Not even basic level of support is there.
Posted May 23, 2019
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Matruchus: Also gog doesn't even offer patches for Linux games, just full downloads of Linux games whenever a game gets update. Not even basic level of support is there.
Personally I call this "Zero Effort Support".
GOG does support Linux (it has Linux-related tech-support service after all, however useless it might be, and is sells some Linux versions of the games), but only up to the point it starts cost more money than GOG perceives it will net them.
Posted May 23, 2019
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Sometimes I think I'm the only gamer in the world who uses games to get away from my friends / family etc.

Still, this sounds pretty neat in concept. If it works in practice that would be most delightful.
Posted May 23, 2019
I won't participate in this beta, will wait till it replaces current version. there's nothing useful for me, Linux user. I'm not going to centralize my gaming library from wine wrapper which can break any moment. Kudos to gog team for efforts to improve user experience, too bad it is not for everyone.

It would be great if gog admins can release some kind of statement regarding Linux support. so far it does not looks like they're planning any.
Posted May 23, 2019
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valgaav: Adamhm is making AMAZING Wine wrappers right here
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faroot: Where?

I'm in-between Linux installs but I want to stay current on the good stuff meanwhile.
Here you go:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/adamhms_linux_wine_wrappers_news_faq_discussion/page1
Posted May 23, 2019
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faroot: Where?

I'm in-between Linux installs but I want to stay current on the good stuff meanwhile.
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valgaav: Here you go:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/adamhms_linux_wine_wrappers_news_faq_discussion/page1
Thanks!
Posted May 23, 2019
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Alm888: Maybe it is not only about the client, but about the level of attention to the platform?
DRM or not, but Valve actually allows Linux users to feel themselves as a first-class citizens (unlike GOG, where even ordinary updates are almost always a week late), plus Valve is visibly investing into Linux ecosystem, whereas GOG is rigidly ignoring it (no "sky-blue" user ever even used the "Linux" word in this thread, nor even addressed the matter).
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Matruchus: Also gog doesn't even offer patches for Linux games, just full downloads of Linux games whenever a game gets update. Not even basic level of support is there.
This is not true.
I used linux patches for Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and BG2: EE.

Maybe it depends on publisher's will.
Posted May 23, 2019
""Yes, our goal is to provide you with the most options possible to customize your games library. In GOG GALAXY 2.0, you’ll be able to create your own views based on different filters available in the app, tags that you’ll create on your own, and search queries you’ll come up with. Mix and match all of those options to create countless library views. Once you do, save them for quick access and automatic synchronization. On top of that, you can also manually edit the metadata of every game in your master games collection.""""

Oh my!!! Finally. I hope that by creating tags that help means that they actually have a way to filter them properly. Like Space + RPG showing only those that meet BOTH criteria being filtered. Or Space + Flight SIM showing only those that meet both. A way to sort OUT a tag as well, like ADULT.

Currently it is hard coded to show Everything. So Space + RPG would give you Balders Gate and Stellaris and FTL etc. Almost useless.

Here is hoping this will be addressed.
Posted May 23, 2019
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So, when is Linux support coming, in Galaxy 10? It's unprofessional to not even being able to provide an ETA for it. It looks more like upper GOG / CDP management have no clue when they'll even start working on it.
Post edited May 23, 2019 by shmerl
Posted May 23, 2019
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usePowerToolz: Interesting, but no compact mode, no small mode, no library subsections or user-made categories...

I mean, if you don't have many games, sure it works fine, but hitting close to 1000 games across all the digital store fronts means that 2.0 is just useless.

The GOG games library page is ... well... it's horrible to look at and navigate compared to any of it's contemporaries. Completely missing the overall layout and necessary core features to make it even remotely tenable.
I've been begging for tags to be addressed in the Wishlist. It has been asked for long before I got into GoG and I have asked and asked for it to become a feature that is useful. Check out the Wishlist and you will find others more elequant than I showing how useful it could be.

And so simple to implement I would have thought.

Here is hoping that the Library controls, in particular tags, are given some love, so that sorting games is possible.
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