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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 June 28, 2019
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TerriblePurpose: Did they even guarantee that everyone that signed up would get access?
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Erynar: No. They said "first come first served," which does not necessarily mean "all served." Also, depending on how they're doing the beta, there's a decent chance that they'll add people in waves as they have updates. Certainly, while they're going to want to get it used by a lot of people to catch more problems, they're also are going to want to limit the number on some level, or they risk having too many bug reports to deal with (many of which would probably be for the same issues). And of course, they haven't said when GoG Galaxy 2.0 is actually being released, since that depends on how the beta goes. So, the beta could go on for a while, with people being added over several weeks or even months. All we can do is wait until we actually get an e-mail giving us beta access or until it exits beta and becomes available to everyone. The later you were to sign up, the longer you're going to have to wait, and the more likely it is that you won't actually get beta access - though depending on how many people signed up and how long the beta goes, it _might_ be the case that everyone who signed up gets beta access eventually. I wouldn't bet on it though.
Yeah, that's what I thought. I signed up right away and got access, but with all the concern/complaints, i was wondering if i missed some kind of announcement where they guaranteed if you sign up you'll get access.
Posted June 28, 2019
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Erynar: No. They said "first come first served," which does not necessarily mean "all served." Also, depending on how they're doing the beta, there's a decent chance that they'll add people in waves as they have updates. Certainly, while they're going to want to get it used by a lot of people to catch more problems, they're also are going to want to limit the number on some level, or they risk having too many bug reports to deal with (many of which would probably be for the same issues). And of course, they haven't said when GoG Galaxy 2.0 is actually being released, since that depends on how the beta goes. So, the beta could go on for a while, with people being added over several weeks or even months. All we can do is wait until we actually get an e-mail giving us beta access or until it exits beta and becomes available to everyone. The later you were to sign up, the longer you're going to have to wait, and the more likely it is that you won't actually get beta access - though depending on how many people signed up and how long the beta goes, it _might_ be the case that everyone who signed up gets beta access eventually. I wouldn't bet on it though.
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TerriblePurpose: Yeah, that's what I thought. I signed up right away and got access, but with all the concern/complaints, i was wondering if i missed some kind of announcement where they guaranteed if you sign up you'll get access.
I believe they said everyone that signed up will eventually. In fact they plan to have the beta open eventually.
Posted June 28, 2019
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.Ra: Steam has the worst UI out of any client, origin, Even Microsoft,etc. It looks like from the 90's.
It's pretty bad, and uses custom controls for everything; the file browser is particularly horrific. At least Galaxy uses the native OS file browser.

One thing Steam does right, though, is update in the background. I rarely use Galaxy, so every time I do, it wants to update before I can use it. It should always just launch right away.
Post edited June 28, 2019 by eric5h5
Posted June 28, 2019
Do not be excited so much, it is just a library of your games from all gaming clients.
You still need to have launched client for the game you want to play.
But as I understand from options in Settings it will not be necessary later.
Post edited June 28, 2019 by nemamkedy
Posted June 28, 2019
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.Ra: Steam has the worst UI out of any client, origin, Even Microsoft,etc. It looks like from the 90's.
To me it's much better than the ugly Win10 UI for some things.
Posted July 05, 2019
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shojodagger: lol. pointless.
Steam already has ability to add non-Steam programs & Steam overlay works on imported non-Steam games. And by overlay I specifically mean it takes screenshots with a hotkey & displays FPS.
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Bluddy: There's also a free software called Playnite that actually does what Galaxy 2.0 is supposed to do. And it functions well!

I've observed GOG's programming ability for a long time. As I've stated before, they can't even be bothered to fix the price filtering options on their site to account for sale prices i.e. they can't be bothered to change 10 or so lines of code even though it's costing them thousands of dollars in sales, so why should I believe in their ability to create something better than Playnite?
Because playnite is shit.
Posted July 05, 2019
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Bluddy: I've observed GOG's programming ability for a long time. As I've stated before, they can't even be bothered to fix the price filtering options on their site to account for sale prices i.e. they can't be bothered to change 10 or so lines of code even though it's costing them thousands of dollars in sales, so why should I believe in their ability to create something better than Playnite?
How does Playnite relate to store functionality?
Posted July 05, 2019
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TerriblePurpose: Did they even guarantee that everyone that signed up would get access?
Eventually everyone that signed up will get the access. :)
Posted July 05, 2019
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TerriblePurpose: Did they even guarantee that everyone that signed up would get access?
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Johny.: Eventually everyone that signed up will get the access. :)
Thank you, good sir!
Posted July 06, 2019
When will I ever get this? Still no e-mail for me.
Posted July 06, 2019
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TerriblePurpose: Did they even guarantee that everyone that signed up would get access?
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Johny.: Eventually everyone that signed up will get the access. :)
Eventually the Final 2.0 will be released ;)
Posted July 06, 2019
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Johny.: Eventually everyone that signed up will get the access. :)
Is "eventually" measured over the span of years or decades? ;-)
Posted July 06, 2019
Will they have cloud saves for all GOG games?
Posted July 06, 2019
Import all your games from PC

So, when are going to be able to add non-platform(GOG, Steam, Uplay etc.) games?
Compared to hooking into other launchers libraries this seems like it would be much easier to do.
Posted July 06, 2019
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ChadeEverdark: Import all your games from PC

So, when are going to be able to add non-platform(GOG, Steam, Uplay etc.) games?
Compared to hooking into other launchers libraries this seems like it would be much easier to do.
I wonder if GOG will collect this info or use it somehow. :\
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