Coelocanth: While I can understand why GOG wanted to have at least a beta version of Galaxy available when they released The Witcher 3, I personally think it was a huge mistake. I think they're going to drive away more people from Galaxy than entice people to use it due to its bugginess. People are excited to play Witcher 3 and don't want to have a crappy install/play experience due to buggy software. It's a shame, as they should have just kept Galaxy back in closed beta for as long as it took to get its functionality cleaned up.[..]
True, rushing the open beta just damaged both Galaxy and TW3.
There were already many known problems with the client.
Ideally, GOG should have finished Galaxy before TW3, but at this point they should have waited more.
Johnathanamz: So was it not wise when VALVe released Steam to the public to download with Half-Life 2 back in 2004? Half-Life 2 I have no idea how expensive it was to develop, but it is a popular video game.
It's not the same situation.
GOG nowadays is competing with a fully functional widespread client.
Some users will revert immediately to Steam at the minimum annoyance.