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Posted August 07, 2020
Today we have a special treat for you - a free wallpaper artwork from the excellent artist Morano, famous for his Magic: The Gathering illustrations, can be yours. Along with it, you’ll get a chance to take part in a cool contest and win a game with a small help from your GOG GALAXY 2.0 app.

How to get all this? First, log in to GOG GALAXY 2.0 (you can install it from here, if you haven’t already). Once you’re on the “Recent” screen, click on the “Share stats” button at the top - you’ll get redirected to a page with your gaming stats and the option to download Morano’s set of wallpapers. While admiring its neat style, you can also check on this unique artist’s profile we've also published today.

OK, now that you’re looking at your gaming stats from GOG GALAXY - here comes the fun part! If you want to join our contest and win 1 out of 100 games like Blade Runner, DUSK, Dragon Age: Origins or GreedFall, just share your gaming stats using GOG GALAXY 2.0 on one of the available social media channels (FB, Twitter, VK). To qualify for our contest, the post must include a short, witty description of your gaming profile, based on the stats you share, and a hashtag #GOGALAXYstats. We promise to check all the answers and award the most creative ones with games!

Take the chance to show the world what kind of gamer you really are! The “share your stats” contest will last from 7th August 2020, 1 PM UTC, until 14th August 2020, 1 PM UTC. Terms and conditions apply. You can check them in the first comment on the forum.
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1. Organiser: GOG sp z o.o., ul. Jagiellońska 74, 03-301 Warsaw, Poland (referred to throughout this terms as the “Organiser”, “we”, “us” and “our”).
2. Competition Description. You may enter the competition by sharing your GOG GALAXY 2.0 gaming stats (by using "Share stats" functionality in GOG GALAXY 2.0 application) on Facebook or Twitter with #GOGALAXYstats hashtag and creatively answering the following challenge: "Describe your gaming profile based on the stats you share". This has to be an original text entry on your own Facebook or Twitter account. We will pick 100 most interesting and creative entries and reward them.
3. Prize. 100 GOG.COM games from a pool of titles like: Dragon Age Origins, Greedfall, NeverwinterNights Complete, DUSK, Stoneshard, Tropico 6, Knights & Bikes, Night in the Woods, Blade Runner, My Time at Portia. The prizes are funded and delivered by GOG sp z o.o. via a game code to redeem on GOG.COM.
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11. Data protection: By entering this competition, you agree that any personal information provided by you with the competition entry will be held and used by GOG sp. z o.o. based in Poland (ul. Jagiellońska 74, 03-301 Warsaw). We will use this data only for the purpose of administering this competition - i.e. contacting you, assessing your submissions, awarding and delivering prizes, and announcing the results as well as for the purposes of meeting any applicable legal or tax reporting requirements. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. Submission of personal data is voluntary, however necessary for participation in the Competition. We respect your privacy rights i.e. the right to access, correct, and delete information about you or the right to limit processing only to certain operations. You may also ask us to transfer your data or tell us you do not want us to process it at all. More details may be found in GOG.com Privacy Policy.
12. Tax: If necessary under applicable laws, the Prizes may be supplemented with cash prize equal to the tax due on the prize. In such a case, the cash prize will be deducted and paid as tax due under the applicable laws. In some cases, the winner may be obliged to pay taxes on the prize under local regulations of the country the winner is a resident of. We are not be obliged to provide guidance in this respect.
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Posted August 09, 2020
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GOG.com: Today we have a special treat for you - a free wallpaper artwork from the excellent artist Morano, famous for his Magic: The Gathering illustrations, can be yours. Along with it, you’ll get a chance to take part in a cool contest and win a game with a small help from your GOG GALAXY 2.0 app.

How to get all this? First, log in to GOG GALAXY 2.0 (you can install it from , if you haven&rsquo;t already). Once you&rsquo;re on the &ldquo;Recent&rdquo; screen, click on the &ldquo;Share stats&rdquo; button at the top - you&rsquo;ll get redirected to a page with your gaming stats and the option to download Morano&rsquo;s set of wallpapers.</span> While admiring its neat style, you can also check on this unique [url=https://www.gog.com/news/meet_the_artist_known_as_morano_and_snag_his_unique_gog_galaxy_20_wallpapers]artist&rsquo;s profile we've also published today.

OK, now that you’re looking at your gaming stats from GOG GALAXY - here comes the fun part! If you want to join our contest and win 1 out of 100 games like Blade Runner, DUSK, Dragon Age: Origins or GreedFall, just share your gaming stats using GOG GALAXY 2.0 on one of the available social media channels (FB, Twitter, VK). To qualify for our contest, the post must include a short, witty description of your gaming profile, based on the stats you share, and a hashtag #GOGALAXYstats. We promise to check all the answers and award the most creative ones with games!

Take the chance to show the world what kind of gamer you really are! The “share your stats” contest will last from 7th August 2020, 1 PM UTC, until 14th August 2020, 1 PM UTC. Terms and conditions apply. You can check them in the first comment on the forum.
I am here for offline installers. A very thing, that made you stand out and preferred by people over Steam or Origin in the first place. On top of treating people like me as second class citizens, you also left out Linux users, you know, people using OS which has grown into one with considerable market share in past 10 years.

Your actions in recent years (such as firing employee who shared pic from Postal 2 on gog's social media account, offline installers being outdated in comparison to their Galaxy counterparts, killing gog downloader without offering proper alternative, ect) doesn't bode well.

P.S. Was there some undisclosed deal during which China purchased gog? Asking because all this free games, profiles and social media non sense push, makes it look that way. Almost like EpicGamesStore.

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SylvanFae: Guys, you don't have to participate in this giveaway if you won't. Only people really shafted here are Linux users, which is shame.

Think of this as opportunity to bring more facebook and twitter gamers to GOG? Wouldn't that be fine?
If you want more toxicity, fighting, politics, doxxing and other bad things, then yes, that would be fine.
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Posted August 09, 2020
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SylvanFae: Think of this as opportunity to bring more facebook and twitter gamers to GOG? Wouldn't that be fine?
Oh yeah, I just can't wait to see what catering to an influx of these people would do to this place.
Posted August 09, 2020
I wish GOG would instead make a page that better supports the existing clients instead, which accomplish their jobs better than Galaxy. Make a single page With the current version numbers and URLs of all our games in either plaintext, html, or XML format. Should be relatively easy for gog, and it would make it easier for things like gogrepo.

But if you really want achievements and such, post the docs and we'll make our own. It seems the community is more competent than the dev team and it's not paid to do the job. Put those devs to work somewhere else in the company. Give the community a license to make Galaxy and we'll have one that competes with steam's client in under a year without requiring any money from GOG.
Posted August 09, 2020
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SylvanFae: Think of this as opportunity to bring more facebook and twitter gamers to GOG? Wouldn't that be fine?
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Breja: Oh yeah, I just can't wait to see what catering to an influx of these people would do to this place.
Are you implying facebook and twitter users are inferior to us? Because I strongly disagree in any way to that notion.
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kohlrak: I wish GOG would instead make a page that better supports the existing clients instead, which accomplish their jobs better than Galaxy. Make a single page With the current version numbers and URLs of all our games in either plaintext, html, or XML format. Should be relatively easy for gog, and it would make it easier for things like gogrepo.

But if you really want achievements and such, post the docs and we'll make our own. It seems the community is more competent than the dev team and it's not paid to do the job. Put those devs to work somewhere else in the company. Give the community a license to make Galaxy and we'll have one that competes with steam's client in under a year without requiring any money from GOG.
I agree GOG staff may be lost, lost indeed... I'm certain they lost their niche, both in drm-free and client-free userbase and in oldtimers userbase. Problem is that they seems to fail attracting new customers.
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Posted August 09, 2020
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Breja: Oh yeah, I just can't wait to see what catering to an influx of these people would do to this place.
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SylvanFae: Are you implying facebook and twitter users are inferior to us? Because I strongly disagree in any way to that notion.
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kohlrak: I wish GOG would instead make a page that better supports the existing clients instead, which accomplish their jobs better than Galaxy. Make a single page With the current version numbers and URLs of all our games in either plaintext, html, or XML format. Should be relatively easy for gog, and it would make it easier for things like gogrepo.

But if you really want achievements and such, post the docs and we'll make our own. It seems the community is more competent than the dev team and it's not paid to do the job. Put those devs to work somewhere else in the company. Give the community a license to make Galaxy and we'll have one that competes with steam's client in under a year without requiring any money from GOG.
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SylvanFae: I agree GOG staff may be lost, lost indeed... I'm certain they lost their niche, both in drm-free and client-free userbase and in oldtimers userbase. Problem is that they seems to fail attracting new customers.
Fundamenally, it's the age old problem that anything that gets big has: they have their utopian vision of where things could be, and their dystopian vision of what things will be if they don't get there, and they fail to understand how people could reject their utopian vision without supporting their dystopian vision (much, much like politics). They fail to understand how people see things diffrently from them, yet somehow come to similar conclusions. GOG Staff is likely viewing this as a post that came under attack by mostly trolls, not customers who aim for DRM free. The problem with utopian visions is that they rarely come to be, and we often loose sight of that fact and make plans where we make sacrifices that we shouldn't because we deem them necessary for achieving that utopian vision. Greatest example is communism: on paper it's beautiful, but to get there you need to get everyone on the same page, which requires a dictator who will do the job of filtering "bad thoughts" out of existance. They, however, fail to understand that they will not only loose control of their trusted dictator (who will never step down since his job is impossible to finish, and we assume the power won't go to his head) but also the people who supported the endevor due to all the beautiful promises of the Utopia. The dictator in this case is the social media giants, or maybe Galaxy itself depending on the angle you want to take. If they think they can sacrifice DRM-free to take on all the big companies and win, they'll try it, with the promise that things will change "when we win," which we won't 'cause GOG will tumble the moment it alienated it's entire base with the DRM. The trick to any utopian goal is to make sure each step of the goal can still be an acceptable improvement without the promise of the next step working as a result of the previous step. This client is justified as pulling more people in, which it might not do, so we have to ask if this client is simply better than not having one, without looking at "the next step." GOG got power in it's head, so instead of making the case, they decided they were going to do what they thought was best for DRM-Free without seeking the opinion of the DRM-Free crowd. Tools that are offered but are not mandatory, provided by the community, is far, far more justifiable. The features the client has will depend on what the developers in the community actually value (which, we see, is the automatic updating of games, and that's about it, based on the existence of gogrepo).


EDIT: Lemme clarify a little by answering the issue at hand that GOG is solving wrongly with an example: My girlfriend.

She's a bit of a normy, likes facebook, liked gaming clients, totally willing to pay microtransactions in games if "they're reasonable." Oh, she "liked" clients. What happened was saimple: she is a nurse, full time. She likes to play games in her spare time when we aren't doing things together. OR also play games with me. She had a long playthrough of a game completely ruined by the steam client. She has not been able to touch the game since, and she has GOG Galaxy running in the background (so every game i play when i play on her computer ['cause it's way better than mine] will award her GOG account achievements and play time for games she doesn't have in her account, incase anyone wanted to know how to cheat "by accident"). She's probably not even aware the thing is still on her computer, but she chewed me out one time for deleting it so i haven't deleted it since she reinstalled it. She's come to the conclusion, from bad experiences, that if she can get it on gog, it's better, but she'll still buy from steam if it's on steam and she wants to play it.

Therefore, the practical outlook for gog to get more customers would be to pass the client off to the community since it's a wasted investment that can alienate both the existing userbase as well as those trying to get the hell away from clients. Instead, if GOG focused on getting games here in the first place (which they also say they need the client to do, which is bunk if they opened up about what they needed and let the community make it), people could buy them here instead of steam and the userbase would slowly increase. I keep hearing more and more people say they won't buy from GOG 'cause they're sick of looking to see if it's on gog and finding out that what they're looking for isn't. Cyberpunk 2077 needs to associate itself strongly with DRM-Free: everyone's already looking at the game, fairly interested. At the end of the videos they should say "buy on gog.com to get it DRM-free," and maybe where in trailers people tend to flash "fast paced action" and "engaging story" or whatever BS they throw, "DRM-Free" should be one of the talking points. This is CDP's chance to drive the point home. Final Fantasy XV got away with shilling for Cup Noodle, Coleman, and more, and no one complains when there's in-house product shilling like when a game promote's the companie's other games. Put witcher adverts in, feature prominantly the gog logo. Make GOG an in game reference and meme, one that breaks the fourth wall. Doing that alone will attract a ton of people, especially for the witcher since there's apparently now people who have not heard of the games but have watched the netflix show. Just don't scare people away with "Galaxy Client" when hardly anyone likes it.
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Breja: Oh yeah, I just can't wait to see what catering to an influx of these people would do to this place.
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SylvanFae: Are you implying facebook and twitter users are inferior to us? Because I strongly disagree in any way to that notion.
I refer you to my previous "global brainless mob" statement.

Anyway, regardless of my general opinion of them, I'm pretty sure that what social media users want from a store like this, and from gaming in general, is most certainly not what I want.
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SylvanFae: I agree GOG staff may be lost, lost indeed... I'm certain they lost their niche, both in drm-free and client-free userbase and in oldtimers userbase. Problem is that they seems to fail attracting new customers.
That's my concern too. I get that this isn't aimed at offline installer users and that they're obviously trying to bring in new people. The problem is, GOG's % of sales or profits never seem to go up with these gimmicks regardless of how much they push Galaxy suggesting that most who enjoy a "Steam-like experience" just continue to use Steam (which is understandable given those who want to brag about achievements usually want the largest audience to brag to).

And that ignores the pointlessness of things like measuring gameplay time of old games that long predate the client doing the measuring (ie, what's the point of me playing Doom on Galaxy for 50hrs to "show the world" when the +1,000 gameplay hours of the disc versions + countless community mods I must have racked up over 27 years will never be counted). Even on Steam, many people have also long figured out that Steam Achievement Bragging is pointless itself when software like Steam Achievement Manager can "cheat unlock" the whole lot. Or that leaving a game idling overnight artificially inflates playtime, etc.

I don't know if there's a Galaxy equivalent of SAM or the fact there isn't is because hardly anyone's interested, but given how GOG have recently packaged new games to reuse Steam achievements and simply have Galaxy "hook" into them (because hardly any developer wants to recode them as 'proper' Galaxy achievements), that in theory means Galaxy achievements in newer games may be prone to the same fake unlocks via SAM as Steam ones. Either way, I'll never understand those who want to brag about easily fake-able metrics as their "gamer identity".
Posted August 09, 2020
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SylvanFae: Guys, you don't have to participate in this giveaway if you won't. Only people really shafted here are Linux users, which is shame.

Think of this as opportunity to bring more facebook and twitter gamers to GOG? Wouldn't that be fine?
No it wouldnt , why would I want more people if that means this changes to a social media site?
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SylvanFae: Guys, you don't have to participate in this giveaway if you won't. Only people really shafted here are Linux users, which is shame.

Think of this as opportunity to bring more facebook and twitter gamers to GOG? Wouldn't that be fine?
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Orkhepaj: No it wouldnt , why would I want more people if that means this changes to a social media site?
more people, more gamer friends from facebook doesn't mean this site will turn into social media site.
Posted August 09, 2020
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SylvanFae: Guys, you don't have to participate in this giveaway if you won't. Only people really shafted here are Linux users, which is shame.

Think of this as opportunity to bring more facebook and twitter gamers to GOG? Wouldn't that be fine?
honestly, I don't care where do new goglodytes come from. as long as they're adequate and nice.
but yeah, I find it amusing in a bad way that DRM-free store makes its optional client mandatory to participate in its own giveaway and thus deliberately excludes the linux users.
(the title also seems funny for me. couldn't explain why, sorry.)
Posted August 09, 2020
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GOG: "We want to bring more users to GOG Galaxy."
Also GOG: *ignores all the requests for linux port of the client*
Posted August 09, 2020
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maskedbeast1: GOG: "We want to bring more users to GOG Galaxy."
Also GOG: *ignores all the requests for linux port of the client*
Agreed on this. The Linux version of the client should be released. Many DRM-free gamers are using this OS. I don't know what's the exact percentage of Linux users among GOG clients, but I presume it's a lot higher than in average of all gamers.
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Breja: I hate clients. I hate the "clicking on .exe is too hard", "your friendly corporate overlords will manage your games for you" mentality they create. I hate social media. I hate the global brainless mob they create. I hate the "no privacy, share everything, please take all my information" mentality both clients and social media create. Hell, many people don't even understand the concept of privacy anymore, so normal all this shit has become to them.

So when I see a contests that promotes all this crap, run by a store I originally joined because it was a holdout of old-school mentality counter to all this, I'm gonna bitch about it to my heart's content, and enjoy seeing others do the same.
I disagree on some points, but I respect your opinion. It's important that GOG stays DRM-free. I may be using GOG Galaxy, but it's comforting to know that I can always backup my games on some external drive and play without the need of installation of any client. I hope it stays this way!
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Loger13: So you don't understand (like the people in GOG who started this):
It's not about what they offered, but the very fact that they are offering it. In their relation to users.
It's as if someone came up to you on the street and offered to eat dog poop. Nobody forces you, you can just refuse and go further, but ... in itself, this offer and the attitude towards you caused you unpleasant sensations and you would not want to receive such offers.
This "event" (contest) could have been carried out much better: only by slightly reducing its effectiveness (if the result obtained can now be generally described as "efficiency"), but not causing all this wave of negativity.
Remember that dog poop is widely recognized as disgusting. There's literally no one who likes to eat it. Now you're comparing GOG Galaxy to dog poop. Keep in mind that some people like to use it because it's quite comfortable, especially if someone has a bunch of other game launchers. I treat people who don't like GOG Galaxy with respect (the offline installers brought me here in the first place) and I appeal to treat with respect those who like to use it.
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One hundred games.

Do you know that your customer by the name Doc0075 gave out 201 games last month alone?
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SylvanFae: Are you implying facebook and twitter users are inferior to us? Because I strongly disagree in any way to that notion.
I think the concern is an "Eternal September" falling on us.

A lot of core GOG users are old school gamers, even though we still buy new games and don't just stick to the classics, and as such we remember things like the internet before AOL/Compuserve when it wasn't all ad spam and trolls.

Sure, it was all text delivered over a modem with its speed measured in baud, and I had to dial in to a University and bridge to the internet from there in order to access it...

...but it had all the information and very little BS.

Although that may have had something to do with how long it took to post something. If you were going to troll it had to be well though, unique, and hillarious in order to be worth bothering with at all. It also needed to be respectful, because most people were accessing through an institution since there wasn't affordable home service, and if they got too nasty they could end up without internet access at all or being forced to go through a provider that catered to them and was potentially blocked from using the better forums.
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