GOG Galaxy is like Steam but for GOG games, in case anyone else was wondering.
Its a bit better than that, its a bit closer to an all in one launcher
/downloaderclient for all your games from (steam)/gog/epic/etcI think Heroic basically already does that though
It does. More options aren’t bad.
It’s a launcher for other game launchers, but it doesn’t provide downloads for other launchers.
Oh it doesn’t? Been a long time since I used galaxy/windows, so that’s my bad
I think it also has integrations for some other things too, so you can use it to launch all your games from various launchers instead of remembering which games are on which launchers and opening each one to search for the game you want to play. It centralized your games into one spot which can be nice.
Like the other comment says, it’s closer to Heroic Launcher. It is owned by GoG, but it also interfaces with other stores. Valve will/would never do this.
will it have ss symbols too?
Only occasionally and they will say ‘sorry’.
That is how people tend to apologize
Can someone give me context to this reply? I have no clue, but based on the up-downvotes involved, it sounds important.
As someone from Germany, this would freak the hell out of me. Looks like a mistake, not something intentionally crafted. Whatever the real reason is (companies rarely say the truth), I understand the issue now. Thanks for the link.
Maybe some Celtic crosses and totenkopfs too
What do Celtic crosses have to do with anything?
Year of the Linux desktop year
I don’t know what they could put on the table except for something like Big Picture, which is not nearly as fleshed out on Heroic.
And even then, Big Picture is already available for most gamers, because Steam is already installed.
I think it would’ve been a better use of resources to just officially support Heroic. GOG support exists because of their open distribution system. So why make use of that software?
Heroic is ultimately outside of GOG’s sphere of influence. If you decide to officially lean on them and they decide to drop GOG or Herioc development entirely they’d have to scramble for a replacement.
And honestly I only use Herioc to interface with GOG, i’d probably prefer use the official application if there was any.
Yeah I get from a user’s perspective why they would like an official client. But I personally don’t believe it would attract enough new users to make maintaining a Linux version worthwhile from the firms perspective.
Especially managing game compatibility on Linux seems like a nightmare.(I take this back, I was thinking about it and I haven’t had any issues with Proton for a while now.) But hey, their board probably already weighted this out before making the decision so I might just be underestimating the crowd it would attractLinux gaming has been in the lift for a good while now and is getting increasingly difficult write off as insignificant, I’m not sure the intent here is to attract users as much as to just service those the made the switch.
Could also be long game. Ideally this keeps growing and everyone (including the anti-cheat developers that are the sole reason some games still don’t work) are giong to have to take this seriously.
And we don’t know how much actual additional work there is here, it could be relatively trivial to get the client working on Linux.
Idk, some user here who otherwise is supremely anti-corporation, anti-DRM and anti-closed source said they absolutely can NOT use GOG over Steam because there’s no native Linux client. Apparently that’s a complete showstopper for some people, despite the existence of Heroic and many other tools you could use. “The games just don’t work”
I can think of a couple of valid reasons someone would like to use an officially supported client, like inherent trust, ease of use, and a soft guarantee for support. But for people you’re calling supremely anti-corporation and anti-closed source it doesn’t make sense to use either. Both are owned by firms and are closed source. And if you count Steam games requiring the Steam client to run, then Steam also has DRM on all games
Using GOG Galaxy also won’t fix the game related issues people have with Heroic. Heroic pulls the same files Galaxy on Linux would. Hence if game doesn’t work, it would likely be a Wine or Proton specific issue. Heroic also automatically applies known fixes to games using Proton. So I don’t know what Galaxy could do to provide a more stable experience.
Edit: missing word (use)
Yeah this must be it. I have a hard time wrapping my head around it, but there seem to be a lot of people who find downloading a file with the installer and running it to be a problem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Activities. My “friends” can’t see what and how much I play. My only entry there is from testing Amazon Luna.
That’s fair
Heroic exists independently of GOG, which limits them to the decision of an independent developer. Essentially, they are at the mercy of Heroic dev to support GOG.
Porting their own application ensures they maintain control over software stack and also get improved security.
I used to run GOG Galaxy through Lutris to play Cyberpunk 2077 to use cloud saves.
Other than that, yeah, Lutris and Heroic are probably a better experience if you just need an installer and you don’t want to download dozens of packages through their website.
Oh yeah that makes sense. I completely forgot about cloud saves. I only game on a single device so I didn’t think about that.
Inb4 some damn electron app
probably proprietary too 💔
deleted by creator
Oh no a multiplatform app that just works, I would 200 percent prefer to have a native all that will instill the Lord’s fear into the heart of several un(der)paid interns. Blood and bones I say , blood and bones
You, you get the sarcasm :) Yeah, I’d love a platform specific version so I don’t have to rely on terrible JS, but alas, here we are.
Now if they would stop being so selective about what they allow on their platform. There is a wide array of popular games available on Steam and DRM-free on Itch but for some reason they aren’t available on GOG.
I get that some people have been loudly calling for curation on Steam, but curation is a terrible thing. The customer should be the one to decide what they buy (provided the developer isn’t mass-producing asset flips). If they want a middle-ground they can just not promote any unendorsed games.
But letting anyone in is also a security risk. Steam has the capacity to check everything, and still some virus and other pass on.
(provided the developer isn’t mass-producing asset flips).
This reminds me: Still wondering why the heck Whalerock games are still on GoG…
It’s about damn time.
deleted by creator
Will it too be 100x heavier than needed?
And completely redundant because there are already FOSS game managers that support GoG they could contribute to?
Next step is adding a decent spanish translation to the website.
Why ? We already have heroic launcher.
Heck yeah!
