None of that should be relevant to the problems you encountered. It's not your fault at all whatsoever. If the potential options and how to use them (or not) were made clear by the relevant interfaces - as they easily could be made - then no one would run into the kinds of problems that you did. Yet you did, and many other customers experience the same exact problems and post about it on these boards often.

That indicates a problem on GOG's end that requires a solution on their part. If their end users are not understanding what's going on, then it's because they failed to communicate what is going on in a clear way.

But I suspect that GOG leaves these things unclear deliberately as a covert means to push the Galaxy client onto as many of their customers as possible...because many customers don't understand that it's not needed nor how to avoid using it; therefore they use it, even though a lot them really don't want to, and wouldn't have, if given a clearly informed choice.

For a long time, many people have posted that GOG should make these things more clear, yet they never do.

Yep, Two exclusive skins for your mechs...that get deleted/'dummied out' when you're logged off. *facepalm*

And the Master of Orion remake requires a Wargaming.net account for multi-player. Unless the company has updated their (reportedly oppressive) policies/EULA, I don't think I'll be purchasing that game anytime soon. -_-U

*Hopes zlaywal is still enjoying his gift* ^_^

Let's see what happens from here. ^_^

When companies like EA, Activision and even Sega realize the folly of punishing their paying customers via 'copy protection' schemes like Starforce, SecuROM and Denuvo (plus no shortage of unnecessary censorship), sales of their games will, no doubt, improve.

Until then, I will continue to purchase my games through GOG (or even Steam, once I've checked for extra/unnecessary 'protection').

May the DRuMs of War, one day, fall silent for they have long been wearing thin.

It really is something GOG should fix, considering they still tout DRM as free as a selling point. It would be easy to have two clearly labeled download links with the Galaxy one clearly saying "our DRM free client!" or whatever.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of easy things GOG chooses not to do, and suffers as a result of. Yet we get new features no one asked for periodically, instead.

While I agree with your first statement, I would be cautious about the latter. I assume you talk about user profiles, which have received a fair share of criticism from the forum. However, we forum users don't really the community as a whole that well. If you look at the community wishlist, there was a real demand for user profiles.

And related to that, and back on topic, I wonder how many of the newer customers still come looking for DRM-free games, or because of some of those new features.

Fair enough.

Do you want a store that thinks Steam users are the ideal customer?

I want a store that sells DRM-free games.

However, some people are expecting certain features and have expressed so in the forums (the client is an example, another is achievements... And the profiles as well). I was merely curious if new customers still seek GOG for the DRM-free games or if they have learned about it and consider it an alternative to Steam's "monopoly", but have different priorities.

Thread summary: User error leads user to think Galaxy is required. It obviously is not required.

Debate follows.

Well, thank God that the galaxy client is NOT required, but exists to satisfy those users that prefer client-driven management. Thank God that download file links are still posted.

I will control my own installs and downloads, thank you. I will control when my games download or update, since I have limited storage space and want no unplanned interruptions. I have no interest in online gaming, either, no time or money for that model. Prefer to use all my limited gaming money for single player, and drm-free gaming, and my precious library of creative gems in gaming. Erratic free time chunks are not conducive for online gaming schedule, and I hte to spend my own money on access to assets I can nevr run on my own system, and at will any time... No need for cloud backup either, I just backup my save folders.

Need to define dependencies...

Third party software
CD Keys entered
Logging onto an account and 24/7 internet connection
Having the government comb through your email
Giving a urine and stool sample...

Oh don't worry these are just dependencies.. not DRM...

Now the added dependencies say i have to give blood and sign away the rights to my first born... thankfully it's not DRM...

Define "define".

Is it like, something is fine, but if you don't want it to be fine anymore but total crap, you de-fine it?

Then you change your mind again, so you re-fine it so that it is fine again?

To reinforce and add: the installers are under "Offline Backup Game Installers" or alternatively, you can download the GOGdownloader and click on the GOGdownloader links. The GOGdownloader links should be for the offline installers, but GOGdownloader itself is no longer officially supported.

It's when you win an appeal for a fine and the council has to pay you back.