I just accepted his. :P Never seen him before either. Oh well.

Well, I wasn't aware you already had a jaded opinion of using beta software. I just think you don't have anything to lose beta testing new software, especially if you frequent gog.com.

However, you know best, so I'll leave it at that.

Not going to argue, to each his own...

All I did was explain why I found it funny which was a reference to my original point, you seemed to want to sell me your credentials like that somehow also made your opinion more valid... just saying.

Again to each his own, my experience downloading via the client has been just as easy as the downloader. My speed has been the same, and it's been quicker because I no longer have to launch a web browser, go gog.com, log in, go to account, hit download.... A few clicks in the client and I'm there. I don't know what hoops your referring too honestly.

So in my view it's just as practical.

"Piratical"? I shouldn't hope so...

I blame spell check... :P

What, Obama not good enough for you?

No... not at all. xD

Thanks, Obama!

Thanks; I wasn't sure about that.

WOW!! This is well said and summarizes everything nicely. Bottom line, if GOG ever decides to force Galaxy on its Customers, I will become GOG free. Either find another company that offers games without a client, and if none exist, keep replaying my games until another company fills that market space.

why is so important to not use a client? just wondering.

I'm not.

I'll have to take your word for it. I have no plans to install the much-larger Galaxy just to then deselect all of the other (unwanted, in my case) things it does in order to strip it down to what is essentially the current, functional, and much smaller Downloader.

Mine is more of a what-if? position. Let's face it, while it's optional, I'm fairly certain they would rather we used Galaxy. And because of this, I can see some website features - in time - getting short shrift as attention shifts to Galaxy development. It ~could~ get bad enough that the optional client essentially becomes all-but-mandatory if the file management side of the site becomes - because of site updates that may or may not happen as a result of Galaxy - a chore to use. For now, the site is fine for me. Generally has been all along. But it wouldn't surprise me if that changes sometime down the road. Wouldn't surprise me if the functionality stays the same, either. Could go either way. My hope is that those of us who opt out of the client do not find the site more and more difficult to use over time.

As in my first reply, I'll have to take your word for it. If it can somehow improve on me downloading when and what I feel like, saving the data wherever I want, installing it when and where I feel like, and organizing the launchers and manuals in my own way, then maybe I'll give it a shot. But then again, I already have all of that stuff so, again, Galaxy is simply a waste of space if I'm going to use it only as a substitute for the smaller and simpler Downloader that I already have now.



I get that some people like it. More power to 'em. For my purposes, as things stand now, Galaxy seems pointless. As it evolves, I can reevaluate.

Big argument! LOL
Is not important, is just convenient to some of us. Less resources used for nothing we are interested in, like achievements or ¨gaming social networking¨ I just play BF online and I got enough... the rest of my free time is to play ALONE, no client=more privacy, no client=+ security, clients are also always even if not mandatory, some kind of DRM that at least control clearly what users are doing, and with time, pushes them to use to client through several "advantages" (if they are not at the price of the non-client, welcome, but as long as we seen, Galaxy is changing the whole non-Galaxy GOG experience), very convenient to farm data, I understand this, is business, but is not what I am searching for when I decided to start to buy some games here instead of STEAM.

I am also a console gamer, and most part of my online gaming time is used on Xbox or Playstation, so I do not care at all about Online PC Gaming (I was interested to play some "good old games" online with Galaxy, that was the main major feature I was looking forward in the client because not easy to play good online games out there, but not anymore) or social features when I come back to my laptop or my desktop. Is time for ME, and not for playing with others, or "chat", I never cared about achievements in consoles, and I care even less about them on PC gaming, not talking about "trading cards", that soon or later maybe will appear here too.