I've always used several different computers for games; is that still going to be possible with Galaxy phoning back to the mothership?

To make matters worse I've been buying games for my wife and son on my account, it never seemed to matter before.
But even if Galaxy would work on all of our computers, I wouldn't want them logged in and socialing as me. Is there some way create accounts for them and transfer their games? Or to have a family group of accounts that shares a pool of games?

I couldn't find anyone else discussing these problems, maybe I'm the only one?

John

I assume that if you want them socializing under their own identities then they need to have their own identities or, in this case, accounts. As far as using games you bought, I would think you could run the manual installer and attach the install to whatever client instance they are using. In that case the games aren't going to follow them around from install to install. The only way to do that is to track the user. The only way to track the user is for them to have their own identity - their own account with their own games in it.

Of course you don't have to use it; in which case everything you are currently doing will continue to work the way it does now, or still be "possible." If you want Galaxy's features then it will probably need to know more about your situation beyond John bought a game, which probably means everyone gets their own account. Then going forward you can buy and gift the games to your family instead of just handing them an installer from something in yours.

I don't know how well it handles multiple users on a single machine, like if you were to have a family windows profile and just sign onto Galaxy as different users. There are some interesting questions around juggling shared resources in a family. Gog probably has to look at them all differently due to the DRM-free stance. Like what would happen if users could only play games on their account even though there were other games installed for another user? On one hand the one user has one set of games and the other a different set. On the other hand Gog isn't really supposed to be about enforcing restrictions.

Then what if you wanted everyone to have their own accounts for all the identity based features, but didn't want your kids to be able to buy games directly? Could you one day associate an account that isn't allowed to purchase games but only activate codes? What happens when they grow up and they need to take full ownership and rights over it?

Same sort of question - but even Steam lets you share games across accounts with family. ie'; my son and husband have separate Steam accounts and I can play the games on their account from my own.
Or can you have multiple copies of Galaxy running at the same time?

Out of the EULA:

1.4.
If you're over 18, then welcome to GOG.com! If you're between 13 and 18 (or whatever is the age of adulthood in your country),............Legally, children below 13 cannot have a GOG account (but their parents/guardians are welcome to sign up themselves)

Is your kid below 13?

But I think the best you can do, contact support, as this is not really handled in the EULA anyway, so I don't think anyone can give you really any hint ;)

I would suggest via

https://www.gog.com/support/contact

option ->Problems with website and user accounts and GOG Galaxy

and account creation problem? (maybe?)

And normally you can not transfer any downloaded game, but your case is not a normal one , but I don't think that under those circumstances that they will not do it ;)

Always awesome to get our daily dose of stale threads that are a year old being necro-reopened.

I presume you're being sarcastic but in many forums it is actually encouraged to dig up related ancient threads over creating new ones and in this case it was actually justified by that logic.

Steam allows you to time share an account, not the games. HAve 100 games, play 1 and the other 99 are locked and unplayable. Steam and its supposed Family sharing is an abomination.

Any way to answer your question.

If you have multiple gog accounts and using galaxy, the online galaxy functions of any game will only work if that account has the game.

For example if Wife logs into my machine wife her Galaxy account, 8-Bit armies online multiplayer won't work, but she can launch it and play it offline.

However unlike Steam, galaxy will never boot you or family members out of a game when you play an completely different game (or even the same game) from the same account. The problem is GoodAltGamer replied to the OP, not the necromancer that had a similar issue.

press on the wrong post, and didn't feel like changing ;)

I figured he replied in kind without noticing - which happens to me and others at times. Then some time afterword you either realize yourself or someone points out that you replied to something ancient without realizing it, and the only reason you did it is because someone necroed an old post and you didn't notice when replying. Double facepalm.

:)

Yeah, keeps happening to me all the time.