Well, I will not suffer it, as my " good PC" is pretty far away from me in this moment, so I guess in some months I could buy and play a better version.

I admit I have only occasionally skimmed through the reviews. I mostly downvote (as not helpful) those who are very short or unbalanced or offtopic. I also do not look beyond the first three pages (first 10 reviews maybe). One could improve it (to a level similar to amazon maybe) but I do not see this as high priority. Anyway I suspect that a considerable fraction of the reviews if forged by the companies (paid appraisal) and therefore worthless. I do not believe too much in reviews. Only if most of the reviews are bad this is an unmistakable sign that the game is indeed bad.

What I need is mostly a good organzation of my library, easy and reliable download of the installers and patches, easy and reliable synchronization of the my archive of downloaded installers and patches, support in case something does not work (game specific subforums or GOG support if it answers fast). Also I'm always interested in finding good prices for my games - thank god there is isthereanydeal.com which works like a charm. For some time I feared I would have to wait until GOG implements such a service.

GOG offers some tools (the old downloader, the new client, a changelog now), but is far from perfection. For years the update notifications are wreaking havoc. I was always very annoyed by this and wished for a working, functional update history and notification system. This is bad but nothing I can change anyway. I just include it in my goodwill for buying much on GOG.

So, now you know mine. I was just curious what you meant. Vague criticism is always a bit unsatisfying, of course totally ok but I prefer concrete examples.
If they would get the old MP modes of some strategy games again to work I would consider using it. Imperialism for example. Probably they won't bother anyway.

Virtual LAN for old (including Dos) games on multiple operating systems was what I thought about when (formerly) Good old Games introduced Galaxy and this would be awesome. Online multiplayer for former shared screen games similar to ZSnes online function that sends controller commands would be possible too (with a few simple security measures). I've looked into it, but this Steam copy client with achievements and integration of single player games makes no real sense to me yet.

Maybe at some point in the future the actual multiplayer part will become more important, at least there's AvP for Windows users atm.

So, I guess this shows how the list of wanted features can and will be a long one -

I'd never heard of isthereanydeal.com, so I am going to check it out... Thx!

I just uninstalled Galaxy after I saw Witcher 3 showing my GOG account name in the main menu. Why would it even do that? I didn't use Galaxy to install it. There is no need to connect these two without asking me. *wink wink*

Wait until it greets you with your full name and asks you what exactly you, your relatives and your friends are doing. ;)

On a serious note:
I'm uneasy with stuff like this too, it always includes a little spying.

That's what took them so long. Witcher and Galaxy would have come out in 2014 without this "feature".

This is really not understandable. A game is a game and a client is a client. The game really doesn't automatically need to know who you are, especially a single player game. One can see that CDP is using the same strategies as anyone else.

Not to mention as soon as I fired up Galaxy yesterday it suddenly downloaded an update for Witcher 3 although it was the most recent version already. (pre-load + release patch) I still don't know what this was about.
IMHO the game shouldn't even be recognized by Galaxy when you install it from the regular installer. I also love that the auto-update setting is "on" by default.

And the share your wishlist with your friends privacy setting is also on by default.

Right now, a good advice is actually not to fire up the Galaxy client. Saves quite some trouble.

Why right now? Better never start this thing.

And anyone telling me that the open beta of Steam 0.0.1 (aka Galaxy) and the release of Witcher 3 are a pure coincidence, is a liar to me.

You don't even want to try to get me started with how violently I hate GAG Vapor = Steam = DRM. That will end up as such a violently toxic rant that the entire forum would need to be sterilized with a plasma torch.

I will say this though: there is absolutely no doubt that there will now be games that will be impossible to install without gagging on vapor. There will also be more DRM in the future. I want heads to roll when that happens and that will happen, because they will see that people will accept it, because the new "customers" are spineless sheep and will accept anything if they just can get their achievements, forced game updates, friends lists, notifications popping up during the game and all that steamy shit along with the actually rather irrelevant secondary feature (= the actual game).

When GOG went through the 'regional pricing' thing (that IIRC was 'rolled back' but now is 'there' although maybe not as 'blatantly'), I didn't care because it didn't affect me.

Those that cared warned that it would be a matter of time before we'd see the same re. DRM. I scoffed (yeah right - slippery slope argument..)

Now, I'm not so sure anymore.

And when they do drop DRM-free, there will no one will be left to stand up for us..

If they drop DRM - Free, I'm hoisting the Jolly Roger.

Are you sure that it didn't just use your Windows user name or something?

The name was gone as soon as Galaxy was uninstalled. I also don't use my GOG username on my Windows account.

Obviously this game has a galaxy.dll whether you actually use GOG Galaxy or not.... But why would the game then hook itself into Galaxy (or rather its saved [local] files because it wasn't running at the same time) and get my username just to display it in the menu? It serves no purpose and I think this is just one of the many "optional" and "as requested by many users though there is no wishlist entry or any other proof for this statement" features we will see in the near future. :)