temps: CD Projekt should put a little more work into GOG Galaxy if they want it to come into mainstream use. I like the app, I like the idea of having this alternative to Steam, but I mean I just tried to post something a few times to a game forum, and when I click "post message" on the window it just indicates it is working...working...working...working... etc for an endless amount of time, then I have to control +alt+ delete to close the program and restart it, and the message ultimately does not seem to post.
This happened today. I suppose it works "most of the time" but really it should work reliably, not only "most of the time."
Hard for me to recommend this to friends if it doesn't work as reliably as Steam.
It's less of a problem with Galaxy client and more of a problem with their website backend hanging either due to having insufficient hardware or just buggy code or who knows. The forums are horribly outdated poor quality software at the best on a good day for half a decade or more now and are basically a write-off for them at this point IMHO.
They've indicated in the past that they have 10s of millions of customers, but if you look at the forums here and the number of posts per day total, and the number of people actually using the forums it numbers more in the hundreds on a given day and not in the thousands or millions.
That's kind of indicative that those of us who actually use the forums at all for anything are an extremely small minority and I think that is why the forum software has been basically abandoned as a really low priority, as it does not seem to have any effect good or bad on game sales. Naturally any company is going to allocate their finite resources to the most important biggest benefit to the company type projects when they have to choose between project A or project B or C, and the forum software seems to be priority minus 1000 in that manpower allocation year after year.
I think what is more likely to happen is that as the company grows it will eventually become easier for them to just acquire some other company that makes forum software that is great, and replace the current software with that of the company they acquire, rather than them trying to continue developing their own outdated archaic software themselves. It would even make more sense for them to do that.
They just gotta spend some of them big phat stacks of Eddies Cyberpunk brought in now. :)
