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Remove the so-called "optional" Galaxy client from any & all offline installers
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ValamirCleaver www.gog.com/forum/general/offline_installers_with_an_option_to_install_gog_galaxy/page1
JakobFel Oh brother, you don't have to install it. What is the problem with having the option to install it via the offline installers? You don't have to do it. The GOG community sure does love to whine about others having choices if it has to do with Galaxy, don't they?
fridgeband Wait, Galaxy is included in options I choose to download a game when I specifically DONT choose the gog galaxy version? What???
NovemberRain I haven't even started using GOG (no gift cards) and they're already going to crap. How long until games with DRM are allowed to be sold? They're trying to cater to the mass market, but those idiots won't leave steam for this site, so all they're doing is aggravating the users already here.
kdgog I don't use Galaxy at all, so I don't understand why you are adding it to standalone installers now. It's a pain to bloat files by over 100MB for customers who won't ever use Galaxy.
The default should be without - if people want Galaxy, they'll install it and manage games that way. Or at least give us a setting so we can choose our default.
Just have a note on the file download page - "if you want multiplayer, achievements, cloud saves, etc for this game, then install it with GOG Galaxy [link], otherwise those features won't be available." That would be an easy fix.
I should clarify - I don't play multiplayer games, I hate achievements, and I don't generally care about cloud saves. I play a game until I complete it or get bored, uninstall, then install a new game. That's why for people like me Galaxy is frustrating (it's bad enough using the cruddy Steam client for non-GOG games!)
PaladinWay Yeah, it's been sad to watch GOG's give-a-shitter about their users slowly getting weaker and weaker.
hollunder Yep, bundling galaxy with every game is just stupid. All that does is to provide us with hundreds of copies of outdated galaxy installers.
Makkenhoff I uninstalled Galaxy today - it added a game that I did not implicitly tell it to add to my Galaxy - it bugged me enough to uninstall and reconsider future purchases.
Jalister Whether GOG continues to support the classic installers will probably depend on how often the classic installer is downloaded instead of the bloated installed. I will always choose the classic installer, especially since I archive all my DRM free purchases for the long term... even if I end up using Galaxy.
With their plan to redesign the galaxy version to be smaller, and require an internet connection to download the rest of galaxy, maybe it will be a very minimal step to include or exclude that code to maintain both installers.
ValamirCleaver "GOG has decided to provide classic installers."
I have doubts that GOG will maintain completely up-to-date "classic" installers separate from the "new" installers for the longterm after GOG thinks this initial furor & uproar has died down. How long has the online browser web notifications been missing, supposedly GOG is still working on it? How often are there issues that games on GOG aren't promptly patched (by prompt I mean weeks or longer, not a few days or less)? Yet I'm supposed to believe that all of a sudden that GOG will be punctual in keeping "classic" installers updated?...
Jalister GOG has decided to provide classic installers.
www.gog.com/forum/general/offline_installers_with_an_option_to_install_gog_galaxy/post929
Vainamoinen Galaxy is a failed experiment.
Jalister I just learned about this today. I just wanted to be on the record and say I don't like it. I currently have 672 games in my library. I don't need the 'optional' Galaxy installer sitting on my hard drive and backups 672 times.
When I'm ready to try Galaxy, I'll know where to find the installer. Even if I was using Galaxy already, I don't need 672 copies of the Galaxy installer.
WvStolzing But why stop with a sneaky Galaxy installation? Throw in a few browser toolbars as well!
Crewman06 This is why I save all my installers after I buy a game and decide to update them or not. That being said, if "Bad clone of steam", or when, it is finally forced upon me just to play a GOOD old (or new) game, I am closing my account.
Lily Pad A client launching a game is an extra step I'd prefer to do without. The 150mb redundancy will also add up quick.
Happy to be on Linux right now (until the Linux Galaxy is out...).
Don't pull a Windows 10 Auto-Update.
ValamirCleaver I own 557 games. If each one of those offline installers was padded with 150mb of redundant Galaxy installer that would be over an extra 81.5gb of data, which is completely absurd & ridiculous. Even those who use & want Galaxy should be speaking up about this needless waste of bandwidth & hard drive space.
Rixasha Going by 150M of galaxy per installer times the 338 games that I have thats total of 50 gigabytes of Galaxy that I never wanted that I'll be downloading, storing and keeping up to date all over and over again.
Not exactly optional is it.
Aurelien92 I'm a galaxy user and i would like galaxy to improve and compete with Steam functionality wise BUT i really don't like where things are going with this last news.
I'm here because i have always thought gog team were doing everything with customer respect in mind... until i heard of those installers. That's clearly a step in the bad direction, there's plenty of way to advertise galaxy but enforce it's use for the "average" user (so 90% of the customers ?) is really not in your habits.
MarkoH01 No need to comment on this - there is enough comment in the threads about this latest GOG move which was just plain wrong.
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