This site/launcher fricking sucks...
>no profile
>achievements are lmao jokes
>games are behind steam updated versions
>multiplayer games have no crossplay
>steam integration for galaxy is outdated
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It does have the superior HoMM 3, so it's good in my book.
Kek he wants meaningless achievements, fricking child needs his gold sticker.
kys kys kys
so why even have a launcher? it does nothing other than get in the way.
You dont need a launcher for GOG games. They simply include it for convenience and a way to combine all you libraries to see all the games you own
It's so that people coming from Steam feel at home.
The launcher does enable achievements, and they'e the same as on Steam. They're as meaningless or meaningful as you deem them. Are you complaining that no-one's going to see them because nobody uses the launcher? Because that'd mean you're close to understanding what achievements are actually worth.
>or meaningful as you deem them
they're not meaningful at all. if you need to rely on a corporate suit to tell you how to have fun playing video games, something is seriously wrong with your life.
Please reflect for a moment what the author meant to say when they used the phrasing "as meaningless or meaningfull as you deem them" and ponder whether your reply actually makes sense or if you simply restated their point. Take also into account the picture posted with the author's reply.
>it's subjective no one's right or wrong
your logic doesn't follow because morons still insist they're worth something regardless of whether they're displayed.
I just saw a Youtube commenter complaining that Epic freebies aren't good because most of them don't have achievements. What's happening with younger generations? It wasn't like this.
People like different things, the thing about these "features" isn't that they appeal to everyone, but appeal to more types of people thus being a positive.
Frankly a lot of it doesn't mean shit to me so if your going to have them allow them to be as unobtrusive as possible.
yeah man those zoomers invented completionist autism, arcade game high scores and speed running mental illness!!
>uh, blame the junkies, not the dealers!
sure
Yes I know it's DRM free and all, but
>MUH CHEEEEEVOS
It has profiles.
Achievements are literally the same as steam.
Out of date games are the devs fault, blame them.
Why are you buying games on GOG for multiplayer?
There is a working steam plugin for Galaxy
integration for galaxy is outdated
But I don't care for steam.
games have no crossplay
That's true for the Steam versions too though.
are behind steam updated versions
Only when the devs are shit.
are lmao jokes
As much as they are on steam. And why do you even care about cheevos? Lmao.
>>no profile
GOG has profiles. They just aren't vidyaFacebook.
Obvious troll post but
>Multiplayer games have no crossplay
Is just a straight fricking lie. I play BG3 on a weekly basis with my GoG copy alongside friends on Steam. If there's any cross play issues with certain games, that's the devs fault not GoG.
Now go back to sucking gabens dick or whatever you were doing before making your post.
bg3 doesn't use steamworks is why. You could play co-op with a pirated copy.
>giving a frick about achievements ever
OP is a joke
gog games use the absolute worst hacked solutions to get their games running and half the time are missing things like music or shit. They also use dogshit versions like the blue and purple garbage ega for Kings Quest
Serotonin addict lmao. Just use their offline installer like any sane person would.
yes goyim that's right
DRM (steam) is your friend. you NEED your achievements, right??? lmfaoing@gogers!!!!
praise gaben!!! frick competition, frick gog, frick pirates, only buy your games on our platform.
https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
Actually quite a lot of games on steam are DRM free, if more people pushed for it I could see even more games ending up drm free as well.
The only gate then between your games and you is the steam client, and even that can be bypassed with the depot downloader.
That doesn't count since it goes against my narrative.
That stupid launcher keeps inexplicably breaking after updates and i have to reinstall. Truly baffling.
>launcher
Don't tell me you actually use galaxy instead of the standalone "offline" ""backups""
>Don't tell me you actually use galaxy instead of the standalone "offline" ""backups""
...yes?
I use the launcher to download the standalone offline backups.
You can download them directly from your browser.
Honestly as much as I like that you dont need a launcher to play gog games I dislike that you can only download the game in 4gb pieces
Id love if you could download all the files in a single torrent file using qbittorrent.
just use gogrepoc
honestly nowadays I just use lutris.
Downloads the game files, installs it for me and also tweaks the files so it could run on linux.
>I dislike that you can only download the game in 4gb pieces
Blame the FAT32 file size limit.
Where is FAT32 even used these days? USB sticks?
Only for Paradox games. Makes it easier to update the gazillion DLC when they shart out a new patch.
>bu...but the games are... are drm free!
What difference does that make?
>I- I don't know but people tell me it's better
>>What difference does that make?
>no online only bullshit
>can have my installers to install offline and play offline
>don't have to log in anywhere to play my games
>can have windows 7 without losing access to my windows 7 games
>no denuvo to increase my loading times and depending on the game, lose frames
dont forget
you can give game installer files to a friend so he could play it. Just like in the old days with CDs.
>Just like in the old days with CDs.
Why do you think DRM became so prevalent in the first place? Also devs have been trying different things to prevent people from sharing copies for ages including puzzles that require you to consult the manual to get past, CD-keys, dongles, and anti-piracy rap videos
>no denuvo to increase my loading times and depending on the game, lose frames
Except that's an issue with the developers/publishers, not the store platform
tolerating some DRM opens the door for big DRM like denovu and always online shit.
Sure but at this point the only real solution to the problem is to have a platform that exercises exclusivity in this regard. Just saying "umm hey developers/publishers, cood u wemove dee arr emm??? :3" doesn't work 99% of the time.
GOG is useful for piracy, as they cryptographically sign their installers.
I'm not buying games from there, but who buys games anyway.
Who cares, the games are free.
None of this is important for its original purpose and half of it is something what only zoomer care about
>"bro I use GOG because of no DRM"
>*launches GOG Galaxy*
>here, now you can play games without drm
>"where's my launcher though???"
>sigh, ok we made a launcher for you
so, nothing changed?
>sigh, ok we made a launcher for you
Except they push Galaxy pretty hard and actively try to hide the offline installers.
>try to hide offline installers
Are you sure that'st he line you want to use?
>and actively try to hide the offline installers
But they're not hidden at all. Be it on the website or through Galaxy.
I could've been buying games on gog if my region had regional pricing. I'm stuck with pirating while riskin shit.
Reminder
completely irrelevant
I have an .exe file
it's mine
your argument is invalid
They would be in legal trouble for piracy if they didn't include those kind of things anon. They're included so that they can ban violating accounts(lol) instead of getting sued.
Physical media says the same on the box. That's just how intellectual property works.
>he thought DRM-free = right to give games to friends
lol
lmao even
>zoomer repellent
Perfect
>multiplayer games have no crossplay
lol you need to lie to have a reason to hate GOG
Imagine using the exe to give you a loader rather than mounting the original .iso file.
i love gog they give me free games
The whole point is you just buy games and get them bullshit-free. You don't even need to use Galaxy.
My only problem is the GOG versions tend to not updated to the latest patch, seemingly abandoned by the devs.
>can own the real versions of infinity engine games instead of beamdog slop
this alone makes them better than steam for my purposes
>no profile
why are you a homosexual?
>The site sucks
Yes. It's a typically designed website, with a carousel and many different sections.
All I care about is a list of the latest additions so I know which games I can now pirate.
>I need a profile to play games
Do troons really?
>everytime theres epic shill threads there's also gog hate threads
mmm how interesting yes.....
>epic shill threads
on Ganker? you're kidding, right? meanwhile you're much more likely to see like 2 steam shill threads at any point
found one already, if you tried the same thing for GOG you'd get a billion steamshills telling you to pirate instead
it's not just epic, steamdrones come in GOG threads too
ahem
DRM (DENUVO) BAD
DRM (UPLAY/BATTLENET/GOG/EAPLAY) BAD
DRM (STEAM) GOOD
FORCED UPDATE (WINDOWS) BAD
FORCED UPDATE (STEAM GAMES) GOOD
SPYING (CHINA) BAD
SPYING (USA/STEAM) GOOD
this is your mind on steam
Steam simply offers value over other platforms and if you're not interested in that value you might as well pirate. It's that simple.
It's the fricking best. Just the fact that they work with developers to add patched/modded versions of old games that work on modern hardware is amazing.
I always buy a given game on GoG if available, there's literally no reason not to.
Alright, there is one reason, some games don't have crossplay with steam, but that's not even all of them.
who the frick is buying games on gog? pirates get the same experience for free LOL
All of this is true. GOG basically fricked up not being a niche "good OLD games" site where they took and updated or tested older titles for compatibility. Trying to be a general games site they had potential but lost SO MUCH TIME AND MONEY doing stupid stuff . OP mentioned some of it but
>no Linux client
>Started Galaxy, instead of contributing to Playnite or a frickload of other existing open source launchers
>Stopped the program where you used to get a copy on Steam and GOG interoperability if the game's publisher let it
>No FOSS project contributions or development the way Valve does
>Lack of features compared to Steam, community and otherwise
>A frickload of other things
They're not the worst, they are not like Epic Store who actively make PC gaming worse, but they just don't make it better and it becomes a less desirable place to get games than Steam. These days, Itch took over their niche and actually does it better by being good for indie titles, has an optional FOSS launcher, and can even get Steam keys as well on Itch too.
One thing that does annoy me about GOG is the misrepresentation of DRM ; not often directly by GOG themselves but they do nothing to correct stupids and it benefits them i not doing so. GOG simply doesn't offer games that support DRM. Steam does. However, a game that is on both GOG and Steam without DRM (Denuvo or safedisc or whatever the frick else that is listed when on Steam etc) is exactly the fricking same. Hell, many games on Steam you can launch from the executable after install if you desire, work just fine in offline mode, or can even copy and paste the install directory if you wish totally independent of Steam itself.
>The ones that you can't have DRM!
No, this is the primary stupid. There's a difference between "DRM" and "Expects a launcher or network for services". The latter can easily be disabled by changing a 0 to a 1 in an .ini, setting a client to offline, or more. Out of room,but that's not DRM.
Steamworks DRM is still DRM even if it's unintrusive and very permissive. It can't be "disabled by a .ini" and Steam's offline tokens expire every now and then and require a connection before being able to play protected games again. There ARE plenty of games on Steam that don't use it (especially old and indie games) and it's true that GOG benefit from that fact not being well-known. But games don't need garbage like Denuvo and the likes to have DRM on Steam, the platform itself offers a solution which most games use.
I can't remember the last game that actually used "Steamworks DRM module" as opposed to "Steamworks" other features. The former is absolutely DRM though it is a more permissible and less pain in the ass version, but its use seems to have gone out of favor in the last decade or so. There are lots of games that expect Steamworks to be there to handle profiles, multiplayer, community features.and will complain if you try to launch it manually from the executable about not being able to connnect, but you can easily disable that by going into the steamapi ini and usually there's a "offline mode = 0" that can be turned to "1", ensuring that the game won't go looking for Steamworks asset connection any longer. Sometimes if the ini isn't already created you can create it, provided youknow the game's proper Steam ID, parse the client arguments the game expects (ieif it expects a name or save directory from Steamworks account, you put in something akin to Name=Anon in the proper syntax ) and all thatsort of thing.. This is how you can also enable DLC (if you know the package IDs) and is probably how stuff like CreamAPI/CreamInstaller works it least in part last I checked. I grant that there are times when its more complex when the old actual Steamworks DRM module was in use where you needed to provide a separate DLL too, but its been awhile since I've seen that be necessary.
>no Linux client
>No FOSS project contributions or development the way Valve does
>Lack of features compared to Steam, community and otherwise
The curse of being a publicly traded company. At Valve, ol' Gay Ben can just say
>Microsoft might frick over our business 15 years down the line so let's sink hundreds of millions into making Linux a viable gaming platform.
Meanwhile at GOG, all that matters to the shareholders is
>How expensive would it be to make a Linux client, and how much money would it make by next quarter?
Another reason to support Gaben,but I see your point.
However, the issue was GOG could have not overtextended in the first place. Moreover, they could have , instead of building an entirely ground up Galaxy client( which they did and even doing so, did it stupidly without Linux support. It would have cost very little to add Linux support to it), they could have spawned FOSS APIs and modules for current and future launchers to interact with GOG's site, and/or spend some time helping to improve something/contribute to Playnite (probably the best candidate at t he time), Lutris (great especially before Valve came up with Proton, but Linux only) or Heroic Games Launcher . There are lots of other ways they could have gotten things together too. They could have become a patron for an existing FOSS project like that and everyone would benefit.
>if the game's publisher let it
It was DOA
>can refund any game after 30 days with supposedly no strings attached
Why don't people bring this up more often? Most sites wouldn't even begin to consider doing this.
POST YOUR INSTALLED GAMES
>Cave Story+
>Infinifactory
>TIS-100
>Trüberbrook
>Relicta
No screenshot because I got these games illegally.
Picrel.
>TIS-100
Based fellow brain Chad.
I haven't played TIS-100 yet though. I'm playing the Zachtronics games in order of release.
SpaceChem and Infinifactory haven't been very difficult, but I didn't finish all levels because they started taking too long to complete.
It's more about experiencing the systems this Zach guy built.
Traditional puzzle games (such as Snakebird or Altered) tend to get more difficult faster.
>installed
Here are mine(mostly)
Few are from steem and/or neither.
I don't know why they did the whole launcher thing, the appeal of the site and what differentiated it from Steam was that it didn't need any of that shit, you just downloaded a game and played
Most people are technologically illiterate and would probably have a panic attack if they were forced to use a basic multi-part installer, you need a launcher that does the whole process for them if you want to grow your customer base.
I don't think that is the case. Launchers are simply convenient, can automatically update and also sync saves and other files. Hell, Itch has an optional launcher you don't need to use (and is even open source) but many do because its more convenient than simply having to manually install another executable for every update and not having any of the other functionality . Even on GOG you can just use a self extracting installer if you really want but a lot of people understandably like the additional features. Its not like its a particularly technically adept thing to download the game's install files and run the GUI installer, then do the same thing for each patch, then decide which you want to keep locally - its just tedious.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zjwUN1mtJdCkgtTDRB2IoFp7PP41fraY-oFNY00fEkI/edit?usp=sharing
>achievements are lmao jokes
Game dev's fault, not GOG's. Why do you care about achievements anyway?
>games are behind steam updated versions
Game dev's fault, not GOG's. Paradox games, for example, are always on the same version.
>multiplayer games have no crossplay
Game dev's fault, not GOG's. Do you expect CD Projekt to micromanage the multiplayer for every single game in existence, even the ones not made by them?
Why would I ever buy from gog when their versions of modern games are often inferior?
>muh drm
If you can't crack steam drm you're a moron.
I want to make GOG my primary platform or even just pirate their titles more, but I care about my Steam profile and achievements. I know it's gay and cringe, but I do.
You know you are a zoom if the first 2 reasons honestly bother you.
>NOOOOO THE PROFILE NEEDS TO BE FACEBERG LITE JUST LIKE STEAM
Do steamies really?
I just bought Baldur's Gate 3 on GOG. Seethe and cope OP.
its drm free, not reading your shit thread, chud. Imagine not having to pay for a product and genuinely complaining about it.
You haven't mentioned the biggest problem
That they replace the game's original icon with that disgusting rounded abomination
I have to change it back every time I install a game
>muh achievements and social media aspect
Absolute state of the pc "master" race
Imagine achievements being the prime reason you play games instead of, you know, fun.
>Yes, I do care about achievements, how did you know?
>trannies getting filtered
Sounds great to me.
shit taste
I uninstalled this garbage after they forced exit to minimize instead of exit and removed the option to change it
that'll teach 'em
>it doesn't have social network cancer therefore it sucks
ZOOM ZOOM
>no profile
You literally need to make an account that gives you a public facing profile just to buy games.
>achievements are lmao jokes
They're identical to any other platform's since GOG doesn't have unique ones and also
>PC achievements.
>Unironically taking PC achievements seriously in any way.
lol lmao
>games are behind steam updated versions
That's the fault of the devs.
>multiplayer games have no crossplay
Why the hell are you buying multiplayer games on GOG? The entire point of the site is to have offline DRM-free backups of games.
>You literally need to make an account that gives you a public facing profile just to buy games.
You can turn it off.
Sure, but it's still made for you when you make your account.
I am confident the account is on by default.
Most people never going to do this.
I will compare this to making your steam account private and complaining that you cant have a profile on steam
>nooooo why won't the platform let me stalk others and ghost them
you're mentally ill
Someone cares about achivements?
I do. I've actually bought games on Steam I had already played the gog version of, in order to get achievements.
It's similar to missions in open world games such as GTA. You kill the specific person or whatever, and then it says "good job, mission passed".
To each their own, but I think you're dumb as frick for that.
We're all dumb as frick for paying for pixels on a screen that change when you press buttons. Different degrees or whatever.
Fair enough, I can't debate a truth like that.
Steam has some benefits over GOG, mainly better deals and key sites.
Don't ever buy multiplayer games on GoG. Simple as. Tim isn't stupid enough to make that mistake at least so EGS games are required to have cross play. Idk why GoG didn't create a similar policy.
Also achievements and profiles work fine idk what the frick you're talking about.
Why are there so many threads that just straight up lies about GOG and Galaxy?
Steamies. They are a religious cult.
Fanboys of Steam or other clients, trolls, discord types, shills.
I was a full blown achievement gay back in the day, still am in some cases. I can't blame that guy for it but buying games just for achievements is too far.
Less people use it, no one bothers to do a single bit of research and as
points out, people spewing up shit for no practical reason
Some polack just wanted to save old games from becoming abandonware originally. It's literally called Good Old Games.
People easily forget the bad times where you had to either pay 100 bucks for a copy of a game like System Shock 2 or download a sketchy copy online with questionable compatibility.
>morrowind gog installer: 2gb
>morrowind game folder: under 1gb
what the actual frick they are doing?
Includes patches as they were released
so?
My biggest problem with the GOG launcher is that it's processes don't fully close when you close the application
>using a launcher to play gog games
The frick is wrong with you.
he has a bad case of zoomeritis
>I HATE FREE GAMES
why?
The whole point of GOG is that you don't need to use the launcher or site to play the games.
You don't even need an internet connection.
Crazy I know.
>I NEED MY DRM AND SOCIAL FEATURES WAAAHHHHHH!!!!
Just have a nice day zoomie