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GOG: When we said we let you ‘own’ your games, we meant that no matter what happens you’ll still be able to play them thanks to our offline installers. (x.com)

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[+] x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Galaxy is a necessary convenience for them to compete with Steam tbh

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

well they should make it at least slightly usable. people harp on epic launcher when this piece of shit barely functions 20% of the time. if you have a big library, it's useless.

or it was, I stopped trying to make it with when i realized playnite exists.

[–] skizzles@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a large GOG library, I no longer use their launcher because I'm on Linux and use heroic. However their launcher always worked fine for me.

I don't recall ever having an issue. Are you sure there wasn't something underlying going on with your system?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

yes. I'm talking about library including integration, which is the only reason I wanted to use galaxy to begin with. it fucks up all the time, losing games, not updating, logging out ... not to mention its generally slow and clunky. playnite doesn't look as nice but it's 100x better in every other way.

[–] skizzles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Strange, I guess to be fair I haven't used their launcher in at least a year or two. Good that you found a solution that works better for you though.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Eh, it's literally there for games that need online access.

I use it for theme hospital and that's it. Everything else i standalone

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I had a situation with The Saboteur.

When installed manually with downloaded installers it had configuration issues, IIRC it was limited to 1280x720 and the in game option to modify it didn't work.

But when installed with Galaxy it defaulted to 1920x1080 and the in game options worked.

At that point my game was working and I didn't investigate further so I don't know if it was downloading different installers, or performing post install tweaks to my game config, but from a functional perspective the game was broken when not using Galaxy. Ideally whatever the "magic" was it should be included in the standalone installers!

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

Sounds like the work of saboteurs.