Riku55: Sooo, manually added games can track time now but not those that use an integration for a platform that doesn't track time itself?
If yes, I hope that subject to change soon. I mean, I could technically add those games (at least PC games) manually and get the feature instead of using the integration.
MarkoH01: Third party platform games technically are not launched by Galaxy - Galaxy just launches their launcher which launches the game. That's probably the reason why those don't track time (if it's not a feature from the third party platform). Don't know if it is even possible to track playtime if the game is not started directly through Galaxy.
GOG Galaxy is able to detect when the games are open, even integration ones.
And it is also able to keep track of how long you have played for in manually added games in that very same way.
What he's saying is that GOG is technically able to keep track of any game's playtime, even if the integration doesn't allow for it, as proven by manually added games doing just that.
So that could be used for platforms such as Bethesda that do not track the game themselves, but Galaxy could.