It's useless. I don't care what others play. Get rid of this crap, or give as the option to disable it. Do you want so desperadly be like Steam, GOG? Did you not learn, that forcing useless BS like this on your customer is wrong? Oh wait... you want to be like Steam.

Continue to be unimpressed with GOG''s ability to design any sort of useful client.

There is no straight-forward option to get to the forums
it forces dumb crap like "recently played by others" including non-GOG games the whole thing is a shell of an actual client meant to just bootstrap all the other clients out there together

its stupid. and you can't even get rid of the annoying parts

GOG doesn't listen to the forums and never will. How many topics are here about plugins not working, or features not working or the client not being good in any way? When the #1 topic here is how to download and keep Galaxy 1.2 without updating it to 2.0, says a lot.

I bet it is sponsored. I hope someone figures out a mod to remove it.

+1, I don't like having a section of the client devoted exclusively to advertising.

I don't mind it, it doesn't hurt me to see it. That said, I'm not against them adding the ability to toggle it on and off.

Besides not liking it myself, I am wondering about one other thing: WHO THE [...] APPROVED THIS FROM THE BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE???

I have clicked on one of these games only once (I've clicked right now a second time, but it was just to test if anything has changed, so it does not count).

One of the games has attracted my attention, so I thought: "Cool! They have it? I want one!". Guess what - the game was NOT available on GOG.

This little widget does a great job of taking the GOG customers away to other stores.

Whoever is (or feels) responsible for Galaxy: find the persons who designed and approved that feature, and have them screened for possible sabotage.

That's one. When you're done with the traitors, make this section optional and configurable. Or at least show me the games that I may *buy* *on* *your* *site*.

As many people posting before me, I also loved the design and clarity of the Galaxy 1 client. If the guy who designed it still lives, find him (or her), bring him (or her) back, find in the trash and clean his (or her) favourite coffee mug, offer your most sincere apologies, and ask the guy (or lady) to make Galaxy 2 into something good.

I do not know if your main source of income is still selling games (you may also be selling statistical data), but because of so many cases of poor programming around (bugs on forums, bugs with Galaxy, bugs with support system, and the most loud and recent - bugs in Cyberpunk) my will to buy any new games has been *extremely* reduced.

(I'm sorry for the harsh words, but what else can you do in the middle of the night, in the middle of the lockdown, if you want to have some resemblance of social life? You post some rant on Internet forums! That's it! ;)

When I saw many of those "movie games", I've instantly noticed that it is not "recently MOST played games", that single word means that they can put whatever game they want; cause at least one people in the world could been playing it recently. So it seems an AD.

The proof? There aren't all most played games there (There isn't Among Us for example), but, there are which have most marketing (casually), like "movie games" from consoles, which are the less played in comparison.

Maybe there are few of the most played, and that is even worst, cause it leaves a sensation, for example, that a console game, would be as popular as Minecraft, LoL, Counter, PUBG or WoW; which is statistical false.

Please, fix it: change the name to "Advertised games", or make appearing the most played games instead console movie games, but like is now it doesn't seems one nor other, just seems... weird.

+1 for an option to remove it!
And then please auto expand the "Recently played by me" list!

+1

'Recently played by others' is something that I might like to see in the social section of GOG Galaxy; but certainly not on my personal sections. The 'recent' tab should show what I've played recently, what I've added recently, and what games in my collection have updated recently. I should not show anything that is unrelated to my own games collection.

Generally speaking, when I own Galaxy, I want to look at my games collection. It's a personal space. I don't want to see anything that isn't directly related to what's in the games collection. I don't want suggestions or trends or anything like that.

If I look at the store section, or the friends section... *then* that's a good time to show what other people are doing. Because obviously the store and the friends sections are about what other people are doing. Those are not personal spaces.

+1

It just doesn't interest me. It even annoys me.
In fact, this is one of the reasons why I don't want to use GoG Galaxy 2.0. I think I'm just getting way too old for this social media bullshit, I personally don't feel like it anymore.

Yeah get give us a reason to get rid of it. I would rather see my own recent played across the whole area instead of my own recently played being smaller than something I give zero fucks about. Also add a way to get to the forums from my games because its annoying to go all the way to the store page to scroll down to the small forum button.

+1

It makes me as a customer less interested in browsing the store because it is trying to cram things in my face rather than offer me products I actually want.

I'd like at least an option in the settings to remove the "Recently played by others" section. I wouldn't mind it if it were "Recently played by your friends" but as of now I don't see the point of highlighting random games, many of them console exclusives, as if to... make me aware that they exist? That some people I don't know have been playing them? Why should I care?

This community wish could use your votes: A way to move/hide unwanted display features of Galaxy, such as 'played recently by others'.