GOG to unite the gaming galaxy.

[Worgen]

One of the current problems with PC gaming is the fragmenting market with a number of new store fronts trying to take on Steam, including one piece of shit that's trying to take over by just buying all the games. Anyway, GOG has announced GOG Galaxy 2.0, which seeks to unite all the pc digital stores under one launcher which can integrate friends lists from any other platform and launch games/track time played/ and achievements. Apparently it even can track these from consoles, which seems like black magic to me.

Anyway, do you plan on checking out GOG Galaxy 2? It seems like a cool concept and GOG is a good storefront but I don't really use anything aside from steam so I get everything I need there, still, nice to have it around.

https://www.gogalaxy.com/en/

 

[votemarvel]

The friends list stuff is interesting. After all am I going to have all the launchers active for the function in Galaxy 2.0 to work?

If so why wouldn't I just add these games to Steam and answer Origin messages when they popup.

 

[Saelune]

I don't like it. I don't want everything together like that, I worry it will be invasive, even to people who don't opt in just because their friends opted in.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

 

[Squilookle]

The reason I like GOG is I buy a game, I get the download link, and then it is mine to own without any further interruption/logging in to/monitoring from the people I bought it from. Like it used to be. GOG Galaxy is just yet another launcher you have to fire up in order to play something. So I avoided it. GG 2.0 could integrate all your friends and games from all the launchers you have and I wouldn't care- I still wouldn't get it.

Just let me download the games and leave me be. That's all I want.

 

[Rangaman]

One of the current problems with PC gaming is the fragmenting market with a number of new store fronts trying to take on Steam, including one piece of shit that's trying to take over by just buying all the games. Anyway, GOG has announced GOG Galaxy 2.0, which seeks to unite all the pc digital stores under one launcher which can integrate friends lists from any other platform and launch games/track time played/ and achievements. Apparently it even can track these from consoles, which seems like black magic to me.

Anyway, do you plan on checking out GOG Galaxy 2? It seems like a cool concept and GOG is a good storefront but I don't really use anything aside from steam so I get everything I need there, still, nice to have it around.

https://www.gogalaxy.com/en/

I'm disappointed that they didn't name it GOG Universe.

But for real, what is the purpose of this? This pretty clearly isn't a storefront, CDProjeketRed haven't got enough money for that. It isn't a cloud-based service either, it only lets you play games that you've already downloaded. All this does is collect all your gaming data and chatlogs under one roof. Which is equivalent to bending over and asking advertisers and govt. agencies to be gentle.

EDIT: Grammar

 

[meiam]

I mean pretty much, beside discord could already do all that and more and see how effective that was at uniting.

It also doesn't help since we'll still have to register with other storefront and buy game trough them. If they go under we'll still lose all our games. If they get hacked we'll still have our credit card information at risk. If we lose the logging information we'll still lose everything. Until a storefront allow me to buy game trough them without registering with the other storefront that official carry the game, I don't see any of them uniting anything.

 

[Saelune]

The reason I like GOG is I buy a game, I get the download link, and then it is mine to own without any further interruption/logging in to/monitoring from the people I bought it from. Like it used to be. GOG Galaxy is just yet another launcher you have to fire up in order to play something. So I avoided it. GG 2.0 could integrate all your friends and games from all the launchers you have and I wouldn't care- I still wouldn't get it.

Just let me download the games and leave me be. That's all I want.

Isnt Galaxy optional? I like it cause its a place to organize all my GoG games. I want it for that. I don't want it invading my other stuff. I already got annoyed at Discord for doing that, and turning it all off was a pain. No, people on Discord don't need to know what I am playing.

 

[votemarvel]

GoG Galaxy is optional but if you install a game through it the shortcuts it creates automatically open it when launching a game.

You just need to create your own shortcut to stop that or download the installers from the website.

 

[Squilookle]

The reason I like GOG is I buy a game, I get the download link, and then it is mine to own without any further interruption/logging in to/monitoring from the people I bought it from. Like it used to be. GOG Galaxy is just yet another launcher you have to fire up in order to play something. So I avoided it. GG 2.0 could integrate all your friends and games from all the launchers you have and I wouldn't care- I still wouldn't get it.

Just let me download the games and leave me be. That's all I want.

Isnt Galaxy optional?

Yes, it is. That's why I don't use it.

 

[Trunkage]

I deliberately don't buy things on Steam. I think giving a monopoly to one company is a bad. This generally means I have a bunch of launchers.

I dont know if this will help with my problem of many platforms. But I'll investigate

 

[Worgen]

I deliberately don't buy things on Steam. I think giving a monopoly to one company is a bad. This generally means I have a bunch of launchers.

I dont know if this will help with my problem of many platforms. But I'll investigate

I can understand the worry but steam really hasn't enforced a monopoly at all. It requires no exclusivity and it allows most things on its platform, it really has a very hands off approach. We have seen smaller stores pull much shadier stuff.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

The reason I like GOG is I buy a game, I get the download link, and then it is mine to own without any further interruption/logging in to/monitoring from the people I bought it from. Like it used to be.

Just let me download the games and leave me be. That's all I want.

Pretty much this, I don't know why the "Master Race" of gamers basically gave Steam a monopoly thereby making it so they have less ownership over their games than console users but yet call them "peasants". Well, at least I can sell my games.

 

[Worgen]

The reason I like GOG is I buy a game, I get the download link, and then it is mine to own without any further interruption/logging in to/monitoring from the people I bought it from. Like it used to be.

Just let me download the games and leave me be. That's all I want.

Pretty much this, I don't know why the "Master Race" of gamers basically gave Steam a monopoly thereby making it so they have less ownership over their games than console users but yet call them "peasants". Well, at least I can sell my games.

Well, there is the convenience angle, but mostly it was just because it got harder and harder to find physical copies of pc games. Retailers didn't like to carry them, gamestop wouldn't take used ones and steam offered a better shopping/social experience then any other place. Being able to sell your games was the one thing that consoles had over pc gaming but we are seeing that start to go away now.

 

[Elfgore]

I guess GOG needs to do something to make an actual profit and bring people to their storefront and pandering to gaMerZ has always been their thing. We'll have to see how it compares to Playnite, maybe with them being a credible company can mean fewer hoops to connecting your libraries. Probably won't be able to provide emulator support though.

 

[Dalisclock]

I'm waiting to see exactly what they plan to do with it or how they plan to achieve it before getting excited in any form.

I'm also curious how people who don't like having numerous different launchers (Steam/Origin/Uplay/EGS/Battlenet/etc) on their PC feel about this, since I remember in the EGS threads there were a couple of people complaining they didn't want to have to use yet another launcher to play their games.

 

[Saelune]

I deliberately don't buy things on Steam. I think giving a monopoly to one company is a bad. This generally means I have a bunch of launchers.

I dont know if this will help with my problem of many platforms. But I'll investigate

I can understand the worry but steam really hasn't enforced a monopoly at all. It requires no exclusivity and it allows most things on its platform, it really has a very hands off approach. We have seen smaller stores pull much shadier stuff.

Epic has only made me realize Steam is better than I thought. Steam's biggest problem is being TOO liberal with what they let on their platform. You want adult games on there? Fine. But could ya do some quality control maybe?

 

[Worgen]

I deliberately don't buy things on Steam. I think giving a monopoly to one company is a bad. This generally means I have a bunch of launchers.

I dont know if this will help with my problem of many platforms. But I'll investigate

I can understand the worry but steam really hasn't enforced a monopoly at all. It requires no exclusivity and it allows most things on its platform, it really has a very hands off approach. We have seen smaller stores pull much shadier stuff.

Epic has only made me realize Steam is better than I thought. Steam's biggest problem is being TOO liberal with what they let on their platform. You want adult games on there? Fine. But could ya do some quality control maybe?

Yeah, if there is one criticism you could lodge against steam, its that they let almost anything on there. But, their bots are quite good at keeping most of the games you aren't interested from clogging up your store.

 

[Dalisclock]

I deliberately don't buy things on Steam. I think giving a monopoly to one company is a bad. This generally means I have a bunch of launchers.

I dont know if this will help with my problem of many platforms. But I'll investigate

I can understand the worry but steam really hasn't enforced a monopoly at all. It requires no exclusivity and it allows most things on its platform, it really has a very hands off approach. We have seen smaller stores pull much shadier stuff.

Epic has only made me realize Steam is better than I thought. Steam's biggest problem is being TOO liberal with what they let on their platform. You want adult games on there? Fine. But could ya do some quality control maybe?

That's what a lot of us were annoyed at Steam at to begin with. The idea that curating their own storefront wasn't their problem, apparently and hoping that EGS would kick their ass into actually trying to fix themselves, regardless of how we felt about the EGS.

I'm fine with STEAM in general but they need to admit they have issues that need to be addressed and actually address them. Same with the EGS, just in case people think I'm letting them off easy(Seriously, months and still no shopping cart?).

 

[Saelune]

I deliberately don't buy things on Steam. I think giving a monopoly to one company is a bad. This generally means I have a bunch of launchers.

I dont know if this will help with my problem of many platforms. But I'll investigate

I can understand the worry but steam really hasn't enforced a monopoly at all. It requires no exclusivity and it allows most things on its platform, it really has a very hands off approach. We have seen smaller stores pull much shadier stuff.

Epic has only made me realize Steam is better than I thought. Steam's biggest problem is being TOO liberal with what they let on their platform. You want adult games on there? Fine. But could ya do some quality control maybe?

That's what a lot of us were annoyed at Steam at to begin with. The idea that curating their own storefront wasn't their problem, apparently and hoping that EGS would kick their ass into actually trying to fix themselves, regardless of how we felt about the EGS.

I'm fine with STEAM in general but they need to admit they have issues that need to be addressed and actually address them. Same with the EGS, just in case people think I'm letting them off easy(Seriously, months and still no shopping cart?).

Supporting EPIC's shitty practices is not the solution though.