Totally the same, I don't care either about this in general, having my internet line "always online" but I can understand for certain game & using certain mods, like Morrowind, Deus Ex, Vampire Bloodlines. unofficial mods needing the blocking of updates..

However, these are old games with likely no upcoming patch at all by 99% probabilities, and the mods are usually built on the latest official one, some specifically for Steam versions.

A sort of non issue, as I said, childish to make such a tantrum to block updates as a whole when it's a major feature of the thing.

+1 for the return of that blocking option though, as this change came from this last week or so, I am sure of it.

I think it would be a mistake to not provide an automatic installer. Since the entire thing is optional, you could still install the old way. They could avoid doubling their packaging effort by using the same installer but with command line options for silent installs.

I hope that it won't push me further ( i say further, because it's already partially under way, given the changes operated this year ) towards total disinterest towards Gog.com. I don't care much for a client, and I'm curious to see how downloads / updates will be managed.

I really hate achievements system. Because some achievements are not accomplished, it makes me I have not really finished a game even I actually finished a game. And if I play game for not main-plot-related achievements like 'shooting 50 enemies with a shotgun' or 'shoot the bad guy's left leg', I used to lose concentration to a main story. And about Steam's trading cards system, it's a f**king Valve's deceptive sales gimmick. Players can't complete useless cards through only playing games, but they need dollars! I understand companies can make this system for extra earnings, but it's more useless than achievements system.
To arrange my thoughts, achievements should focus on a main story or side quests players can easily miss when if they follow only on a main story, and trading cards system we don't need if we have achievement system.

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Plus, I don't know what the feature's called but the way Steam downloads things directly to being istalled rather than having to download an installer and then install it so you need twice the hard drive space to install than the installed game needs - that would be nice
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I don't hate them, I just disregard them. When I see them on Steam games, many of them seem quite factitious, like "kill all enemies only with your knife" or "never use the run option". They sound about as much fun to me as if I made up my own factitious goals for the gameplay, like "play the game only with the keyboard without using the mouse" or "control the gamepad with your feet only". I'm not into that kind of artificial ways of making the game harder.

I like ingame achievements though which are integrated to the gameplay, and reward you somehow inside the game. Like in GTA3, if you find enough hidden packages, you get unlimited extra weapons to your home. Or in some RTS games, if you perform secondary objectives, you might get extra goodies and more soldiers. Or in classic RPGs, performing subquests grants you extra goodies and powers too.

However, why I am suggesting them to the GOG client is because apparently they matter to some people, so at least they couldn't use that as an excuse anymore when choosing to buy a game from Steam instead of GOG. How many times have we e.g. heard the argument that GOG should offer also Steam keys for their games because of achievements and trading cards? Well then, if GOG had similar options, there goes that argument.

I hope we really have the option to remain as for now. I mean, if I want to use to download my game only, I don't want small script "buts", like in: yes, you don't need it, but... or no game shall require it mandatory, but.

Yes, and good riddance.

As long as I can take screenshots and upload them here directly, and as long as it tracks game play time, I'm happy.

Good thing it will be optional for gog.com and hopefully for GoG Galaxy, gog.com beats Steam in every way.

Same. It's even worse if the achievements are multiplayer related, because that depends on the game having a multiplayer community. Which is not always the case.

Having an auto-execute-file function is not what I was referring to, that would be fine. What I do not want is when you click on a game to download, and the client just downloads files into a folder, and that is your game. Leaving the user to do the work of compressing and moving the files if they wish to back them up. If Galaxy functions like a download manager with the option to auto-execute after downloading (like the current GOGDownloader), then I will be fine with that.

I hope it's really lightweight. I hate bloated apps. Less is more for me.

Usually a late-adopter on these sorts of things, so my big hope is that the customers who DON'T go the Galaxy route have the same accessibility to downloads / patches / whatever else as today's gOg. Essentially I hope it doesn't eventually lead to a Steam-like existence, where you're often forced into things like updates. If it works for Steam users then that's great, but I'd like to retain access to the hands-on / more-control approach that we have on gOg now.

I hope I will never ever need to pay any attention to it whatsover. I hope GOG will not try to push it to hard on those who don't want anything to do with stuff like that.