The new GOG profile system is out, looks quite slick

Quoting: obscurenforeignThanks, guess I'll try and figure out how then.

You need to contact support for that.

Well looks like I have a lot to look forward to if GOG Galaxy is ever released for Linux.

Quoting: UnshraWell looks like I have a lot to look forward to if GOG Galaxy is ever released for Linux.

Well they will… just don't expect it to be like this year. Maybe not even the other…

But to be realistic their client is nothing to wait for.
I would rather see Lutris integrate GOG support. Last I checked they were working on it, but were not completely ready at the time.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: obscurenforeignThanks, guess I'll try and figure out how then.

You need to contact support for that.

Thanks. In the intervening time since my last time I managed to figure it out, (my browser wasn't displaying the support pages right) contacted support and they already changed it for me. That's pretty nice! :)

Back in the day in my teenage years I used a software called Xfire which had a "gaming" profile showing the hours I poured into games. Back then I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Now I just feel old.

Quoting: LungDragoBack in the day in my teenage years I used a software called Xfire which had a "gaming" profile showing the hours I poured into games. Back then I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Now I just feel old.

there was no review bombing back then. Now that's a thing, you need to combat it.

I'm pretty much divided in 2 with GOG, on one side I love them, great people and great support for Linux games that make it to the store. On the other hand the lack of Galaxy on Linux is even affecting singleplayer games and that is what I'm not happy about.

Why should I even care about such nonsense? Another profile telling me how long I was active within a game? Not needed. Just something for the digital self-imagery and even though I think this is dangerous because we don't care about each other using more and more of such false "social media". Come on: A company telling us being friendly about that? They wouldn't even care, when most people wouldn't be that reactive and could be reduced to that data. Once it was fun hunting for a highscore in a game together, now it is also about hunting, but for own data being sold out, alone. :sick:

Quoting: x_wingI mean, it's just a game downloader launcher, there is no technical difficulty for doing so (well, at least if you don't start your project using .net technologies :/).

Nothing to do with .Net. .Net Core is fully supported by MS on Linux and is fast too.

Now that we are talking about GOG support. I contacted them to remove certain games from my account and the agent mainly told me that it was a difficult task for them to perform and didn't want to do it for me. They suggested then that I should hide the games and get on with it xD

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Quoting: ScattershotNothing to do with .Net. .Net Core is fully supported by MS on Linux and is fast too.

The core may not be a problem, but you will run in to big troubles if you use WPF for your GUI (for instance). Although Mono does a good job to run .net, I would really avoid that technology (unless you really do multiplatform QA since the start of the project). Anyway, no idea if that's the problem with GoG Galaxy, but I recall that this was a problem they have/will have with "Installation 01" launcher (if they ever want to make the port...).

Quoting: RafiLinuxGalaxy is meant to connect GOG games with their online games which is a different monsters then just download apps.

For me the Download apps capability is a big feature. It makes far easier to install games in your system, something is vital for Linux starters (we need to give an user experience as much similar we can to tthe Windows counterpart - in case the feature simplifies something, of course! -).

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Quoting: RafiLinuxI had the reverse happen. My wife hated Steam and Humble Bundle linux native games because 3 out of 5 games would not install or be missing executables and she had to file reports and/or file for refund.

With GOG, she right clicked and gave the .sh files permission and installed her games. The one game that did not work was Witcher 2 at the time and she got refunded same day. She never wants to mess with Wine unless it's already wrapper like the FlatOut series.

Same happens in GoG usually (She tried with Baldurs Gate). Anyway, my point is that Steam gives the same UI for installing games no matter if you're in Windows, Linux or Mac. GoG is not doing so, which means that the nontechnical users will get frustrated. Sounds stupid, but this little things sometimes makes them go back to the dark side (of course, I didn't let her doing so :D).

Quoting: RafiLinuxThat is not what Galaxy is, though. That is exactly what itch.io itch app is.

Galaxy is meant to connect GOG games with their online games which is a different monsters then just download apps.

Galaxy is an overloaded term, so it can get confusing. There are two distinct things here:

1. Galaxy Web API that GOG have, which allows Galaxy client(s) to authenticate and access account data. Such client can download games, incremental updates and so on and so forth. This API works over HTTP. GOG provide their own client to pair with that API, and hopefully community will be able to make an open source alternative to that.

2. GOG have various services like multiplayer features (similar to Steamworks), that they provide access to through UDP based API. For that they give developers a C++ library through which they can access it. It's a completely different beast from #1, but both are confusingly called Galaxy.

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So they decided to implement a profile system to a store that never had one before and make everything public by default. No warning beforehand either apart from an obscure forum post a few days before. Is this some desperate attempt to build a "community" by getting the users' "consent" just before the GDPR prevents these kinds of dirty tricks? I'm very disappointed and rather pissed at them now. Not like this Gog. Not like this.

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: RafiLinuxThat is not what Galaxy is, though. That is exactly what itch.io itch app is.

Galaxy is meant to connect GOG games with their online games which is a different monsters then just download apps.

Galaxy is an overloaded term, so it can get confusing. There are two distinct things here:

1. Galaxy Web API that GOG have, which allows Galaxy client(s) to authenticate and access account data. Such client can download games, incremental updates and so on and so forth. This API works over HTTP. GOG provide their own client to pair with that API, and hopefully community will be able to make an open source alternative to that.

I found this:

https://github.com/yancharkin/games_nebula

I may be trying this during the weekend (if ever get enough time :/)

Quoting: x_wingI found this:

https://github.com/yancharkin/games_nebula

I may be trying this during the weekend (if ever get enough time :/)

As far as I know, it's not using Galaxy API. If you want a well working downloader, try this: https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: x_wingI found this:

https://github.com/yancharkin/games_nebula

I may be trying this during the weekend (if ever get enough time :/)

As far as I know, it's not using Galaxy API. If you want a well working downloader, try this: https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

Looks like nebula is a GUI wrapper of lgogdownloader (is listed as mandatory dependency in the code). My idea is to give my girlfriend another games source, so having a GUI is mandatory in my case.

Ah, sounds good.

Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: x_wingI found this:

https://github.com/yancharkin/games_nebula

I may be trying this during the weekend (if ever get enough time :/)

As far as I know, it's not using Galaxy API. If you want a well working downloader, try this: https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

Looks like nebula is a GUI wrapper of lgogdownloader (is listed as mandatory dependency in the code). My idea is to give my girlfriend another games source, so having a GUI is mandatory in my case.

In fact I tried it and I have it still installed. But I prefer use the .sh files. (And it's the same with the itch.io app)