Nevermind, I just downloaded them manually.
Whats the point of galaxy?....

A very good question. Nothing, unless you think achievements are worthwhile or play multiplayer.

Yeh seems about right, thanks for the reply :)

Aside from mentioned there, auto-update, especially if you have many games, is a must!

Oh yes, autoupdate breaking your game and your mods...

I use Galaxy to download and install big games. Latest was Metro: Exodus. It's much easier than to work with several offline installers. Other than that I don't have a clue, I rarely use Galaxy to run small games and almost never for big demanding games since the client eats quite a lot of system resources for some reason.

Well the only reason I used it was I have alot of games on gog and only recently have I been able to afford a new PC after my last went kaput a few years ago.
Up until then I always used individual installers as Galaxy wasnt really a thing back then.

I thought it would be useful to use it annd just leave it running aand download a bunch of games, but I see that it seems to have certain limitations compared to other clients.
Its no big deal, I have the games, theyre all old and wont be getting any more updates methinks :)

That's not true. Galaxy also has a number of other useful features which non-Galaxy-users don't have access to with their GOG games, i.e:

- game-time tracking

- Cloud Saves

- having all your games organized into one place for neat & easy access (pre-2.0 versions of Galaxy are much better at this than 2.0 is, though)

- you can rollback to an earlier version of your games, at least to some extent, rather than only having access to the latest patched version solely & exclusively

- you don't have to re-download the whole entire game every time there is a patch update for it

etc.

- game time tracking, show how much of your life you wasted on it, what a great feature.
- cloud saves, for those who can’t copy paste or symlink let someone else digitally manage your files, what a great feature
- have all your games in one place, what you mean like having a simple non proprietary database you manage yourself, how you want, build your own, open source, or just some closed proprietary system which will eventually stop working, what a great feature
- you can rollback, and why is the not an option for all users to be able to download any released patch or version of game eg. https://www.gog.com/forum/general/provide_a_full_and_complete_changelogged_download_system
Nope, help create a two tier user system, what a great feature.
- as above, should be provided to all uses, not just those who don’t use the optional client!

Galaxy is a sad attempt to make GOG be more steam like, creating a sub class of customers, hiding simple features behind proprietary software and booing users onto such things which will one day lead to much more control over them than simple drm, THQ is how steam built up. Add to that gogs inability to make anything work properly and you have a right embarrassing doodoo pile.

Won’t be long before the offline installer is nothing more than a shell script to install galaxy, heck game already contains galaxy components, and installer is setup to be galaxy focused.

That means, if you have many games installed at the same time. Naturally if you install a new GOG game, you usually get the newest version which is available at that time.

I guess autoupdate is important for:

1. Games that get new important fixes frequently, like in-dev games.

2. Online multiplayer games, so that all players are on the same patch level.

Useless for games which get updates very rarely or not at all anymore.

Plus, not all updates are that important anyway, the current version you are already playing may be totally fine, even if there is some update available. If I am already playing a single-player game and have no issues with it, I rather not update it while I am still playing the game, just so that I don't have any issues with the update (like that it is not compatible with my savegames, or it radically changes the gameplay to something I don't like, or even introduces new problems of its own). And like someone mentioned, if I have modded the game and the updates screw up the mods.

You can, simply, turn off the update for any game on your Galaxy.

You can uninstall galaxy, then update, install, uninstall, copy installs, mod, backup modded, all completely under your control and not liable to a third party FCKIng it all up.
Another win for not using galaxy, they just keep on coming!

:D the main question of this decade

I'm not trying to prove a point here, I don't play such games.

I'm simply saying why I find Galaxy useful to me at times.

cheers!

If you REALLY want to feel like you're using Steam but aren't using steam...

i think....

I always hated the steam client to begin with, so i don't use.