GoG Galaxy Going Bye Bye ?

Dicehunter · 10 Feb 2023 at 02:21

According to 1 of the forum members over at GOG who was talking with a github dev that's worked on the game launcher integrations, Apparently CDPR/GOG may want to get rid of GOG Galaxy which would royally suck.

How much truth there is to this I don't know but it would be interesting to get some clarification from CDPR/GOG.

Source - https://www.gog.com/forum/general_beta_gog_galaxy_2.0/ubisoft_connect_connection_lost/post211

Malevolence · 10 Feb 2023 at 06:02

Tried it once, never saw the point in having two game launchers open rather than just one. Was deleted within an hour. Useless piece of software.

Chuk_Chuk · 10 Feb 2023 at 07:54

Dicehunter said:
According to 1 of the forum members over at GOG who was talking with a github dev that's worked on the game launcher integrations, Apparently CDPR/GOG may want to get rid of GOG Galaxy which would royally suck.

How much truth there is to this I don't know but it would be interesting to get some clarification from CDPR/GOG.

Source - https://www.gog.com/forum/general_beta_gog_galaxy_2.0/ubisoft_connect_connection_lost/post211

The quote is

The owner of the github for the ubisoft connect sent us all an e-mail last week saying he's abandoning the project since CDPR seemingly wants to kill GoG Galaxy.

This could also be a disgruntled dev, because just before he says GoG doesn't care.

GoG has been losing money, so it could be going away or it could be in the middle of being restructured. Hard to tell at the moment.

almoststew1990 · 10 Feb 2023 at 07:57

That would be pretty annoying as I have 100+ GOG games. Most of them are small enough that I can just download the game manually but my GOTY Witcher 3, Cyberpunk and a few others do really need the launcher - the non Galaxy versions are split into like 20 files.

ltron · 11 Feb 2023 at 12:04

Damn, that would be a great shame. I have tried to support GOG over Steam whenever I could due to their pro-consumer philosophy.

ltron · 11 Feb 2023 at 12:05

Malevolence said:
Tried it once, never saw the point in having two game launchers open rather than just one. Was deleted within an hour. Useless piece of software.

You can link other launchers to GOG so you only have to launch one manually.

Spacedeck · 11 Feb 2023 at 12:09

I used to use it but now I just download the files and install manually.

loftie · 11 Feb 2023 at 17:24

ltron said:
You can link other launchers to GOG so you only have to launch one manually.

^+1. Pretty much this tbh. Same Steam though, assuming adding a game exe manually works. Playnite is better at it IIRC, though I've just gone back to using the appropriate launcher because old habits die hard.

Iron Man · 11 Feb 2023 at 18:10

This is a good reminder to uninstall cog galaxy.

Meridian · 11 Feb 2023 at 21:33

I won't miss it - we need fewer launchers, not more. As long as we can still get the games from there I'm happy to do a proper install.

Tute · 25 Feb 2023 at 23:35

As a Linux gamer i've always held out hope that Galaxy would be the next launcher to embrace Proton and port over. Alas, despite some hollow semi-promises a while back nothing ever came of it so I just went back to buying everything on Steam.

I know they're not obligated to add support but I always thought that a company that loves open and DRM free software would at least make a minimum of effort to put it's client on Linux.

caff · 26 Feb 2023 at 00:21

I never really liked the UI. Too small fonts (on 4K screen), unpleasant way of browsing the library. I asked if they could add UI scaling, customisation, skins etc. But I never found anything that helped.