The new GOG profile system is out, looks quite slick

Thanks, 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.

Well 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.


Last edited by bolokanar on 23 Apr 2018 at 7:34 pm UTC

Thanks, 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.

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.

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.

I 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


Last edited by Arehandoro on 24 Apr 2018 at 10:16 am UTC

Galaxy is something Steam users probably expect, but that's not what most GOG users care about. Personally, I'm not going to use their client even if they provide it, unless it will be open source or community will make an open source alternative.

This! Forever!

I have zero need for profiles. I have no idea why people would even be interested in what games I am playing for how long. But I guess we're living in a time when people post Facebook status updates like "9am: Went to the grocery and bought yogurt", and believe the rest of the world finds that somehow interesting, so it doesn't even surprise me.

On the other hand, I -could- appreciate Galaxy on Linux. While I agree with others that it's not strictly needed, I can at least see the value in an app that lets me organize and download my purchases in a convenient fashion.

A long time ago, I use to use Xfire profiles to coordinate games with friends and family to play UT99 online. It would show that I was online playing it and I would post the IP and/or server name, all from the browser. This was especially helpful for quick pick up games with my cousins who were in college at the time.

If any of us had downloaded any maps or mods, you could link it in the profiles so that you could download and install/configure them before joining the match.

I think I'll be using the GOG profile the same way.

Nothing 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...).

The low to nil involvement of GoG with Linux users

Not sure what you are talking about. GOG developers are quite actively helping Linux users, even with issues like this.

Just wanted to echo this.

GOG are very Linux friendly, they wouldn't throw us copies of games (even way before we were an affiliate) to help us cover stuff if they weren't.

Having one element of what they offer not on Linux sucks, sure, but it doesn't make them not friends of Linux gaming.

They make DRM-FREE Linux games. I buy DRM-FREE Linux games. /The End.

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I 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 :/).

That 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 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! -).


Last edited by x_wing on 24 Apr 2018 at 11:23 am UTC

My problem is that they don't help us to get new Linux users in our platform. I can teach my girlfriend of how to install games on Linux using Steam but trying to teach hear how to use Linux installers from GoG or how to install an Windows only game with wine it's out of question.

They can be very nice guys and help advanced users to workaround some problems, but they're not being helpful in order to improve our platform for gamers.

I 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.

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

A long time ago way before they came out with Galaxy, I made the same request and they remove over 100+ games many of which were Windows only games, I got over the years. I recently made another request since I had so many giveaway games that were Windows only, they gave me the same answer.

I 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).

That 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.


Last edited by Shmerl on 24 Apr 2018 at 12:40 pm UTC