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Posted September 02, 2022
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HunchBluntley: OP was just whining because one bed's too soft, and the other's too firm.
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bhrigu: The OP Has 697 hours of game time logged on GOG and 87 completed achievements on their GOG profile.

Which means...... the OP has used Galaxy for at least 697 hours.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Posted September 02, 2022
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bhrigu: The OP Has 697 hours of game time logged on GOG and 87 completed achievements on their GOG profile.

Which means...... the OP has used Galaxy for at least 697 hours.
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HunchBluntley: I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
I felt that for someone apparently so disapproving of Galaxy's features, they have used it a lot.

I personally have not used Galaxy in years (since they don't show any inclination to release a Linux version). It was a good enough app for downloading backup installers in my opinion.

Downloading through browsers works good enough for me.
Posted September 02, 2022
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zeroxxx: It's been years since it was first launched, either you accept or move on.
Why?
What's your reasoning?
Have you taken all facts into account and processed them with logic?

Give us a bit more than troll-like posts or someone who thinks they are wise and wonderful.
Posted September 02, 2022
Downlaoder be better deffinetly. No need to promore galaxy as better option for it. As for anyhitng else - no any issues with downloading and installing games outside of Galaxy (and even add it as galaxy build later).

Two optional and good enough ways to download. OP deffinetly know how to do it.
Post edited September 02, 2022 by QWEEDDYZ
Posted September 02, 2022
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MarkoH01: Great and completely unnecessary comment ... how about thinking next time if you have something constructive to add before typing things that are obviously just meant to provoke?
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zeroxxx: As if this thread has something constructive as a whole.

It's been years since it was first launched, either you accept or move on.
What you fail to realize is that this is NOT an anti Galaxy thread at all. What people are doing is called constructive criticism ... google it if you don't know what that is. And yes, we could all move on or we can talk - nobody gets hurt when people are discussing their opinions ... actually, that's what a forum is for. Provoking people just for the sake of it - not so much.

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bhrigu: I felt that for someone apparently so disapproving of Galaxy's features, they have used it a lot.
Read the OP again. The OP is missing a good option for downloading - it is not a rant about Galaxy it is more a complaint about the fact that the GOG Downloader has been abandoned which - as it has been explained - offered features so far no other client (not even Galaxy) or the browser is able to provide.
Post edited September 02, 2022 by MarkoH01
Posted September 03, 2022
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bhrigu: I felt that for someone apparently so disapproving of Galaxy's features, they have used it a lot.
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MarkoH01: Read the OP again. The OP is missing a good option for downloading - it is not a rant about Galaxy it is more a complaint about the fact that the GOG Downloader has been abandoned which - as it has been explained - offered features so far no other client (not even Galaxy) or the browser is able to provide.
On reading the OP again, I guess I may have misconstrued the OP's point somewhat.

Thank you for pointing it out, Marko.

At least windows User's have Galaxy to download. On Linux you either need to use third party clients, or browsers. I remember when they first released Galaxy, a Linux version was there on the roadmap.
Posted September 03, 2022
First there was GOG, then the GOG Downloader, then years later talk of Galaxy.
The Galaxy we have now I suspect, is not what was originally envisioned, which is a big part no doubt, of why there is no Linux version.

Everyone is entitled to a view about Galaxy, and especially those who were loyal GOG customers before Galaxy, or were happily using the GOG Downloader.

GOG have pushed Galaxy as a replacement for the GOG Downloader, but many customers feel it isn't, that it hasn't really lived up to that, that it has become something other than it should have been.

If for some of us, our experience with GOG has been diminished due to Galaxy and the loss of the GOG Downloader, then you cannot really argue with that. It is what it is.

So as I have said all along, the real issue I have with Galaxy, is it being GOG's main focus, that it takes priority. And it does so in a manner and degree, that almost makes it not optional. To opt out of Galaxy, those of us who do so, are now worse off, than when the GOG Downloader was still usable.

I don't begrudge other users wanting to have Galaxy, and in fact most newcomers to GOG expect that type of client in this era. So i know and understand why GOG have gone the Galaxy road, just that they have also chosen to ignore those of us that wanted something different, something better, at least to us.

So the problem is not Galaxy itself, but GOG's favored bias toward it, at a real cost to many of us.
Posted September 03, 2022
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Timboli: First there was GOG, then the GOG Downloader, then years later talk of Galaxy.
The Galaxy we have now I suspect, is not what was originally envisioned, which is a big part no doubt, of why there is no Linux version.

Everyone is entitled to a view about Galaxy, and especially those who were loyal GOG customers before Galaxy, or were happily using the GOG Downloader.

GOG have pushed Galaxy as a replacement for the GOG Downloader, but many customers feel it isn't, that it hasn't really lived up to that, that it has become something other than it should have been.

If for some of us, our experience with GOG has been diminished due to Galaxy and the loss of the GOG Downloader, then you cannot really argue with that. It is what it is.

So as I have said all along, the real issue I have with Galaxy, is it being GOG's main focus, that it takes priority. And it does so in a manner and degree, that almost makes it not optional. To opt out of Galaxy, those of us who do so, are now worse off, than when the GOG Downloader was still usable.

I don't begrudge other users wanting to have Galaxy, and in fact most newcomers to GOG expect that type of client in this era. So i know and understand why GOG have gone the Galaxy road, just that they have also chosen to ignore those of us that wanted something different, something better, at least to us.

So the problem is not Galaxy itself, but GOG's favored bias toward it, at a real cost to many of us.
I was here for long time and the mainteinance of the offline installers has always been the same. Or are you telling me that pre Galaxy every GOG installer was up to date or was updated faster than today? Not my impression.

I suspect that the confussion comes with the nature of the games. In the past there were not so many AAA titles in GOG or newer games as today, to be potentially outdated at least temporaly.

What I mean is that it is just a perception.
Also, any work on Galaxy is perceived as the abandoning of offline installers. And we contnue with the same song nearly seven years after. Appaently Offline installers were abandoned and were in danger yet seven years ago.

Nothing new on the horizon.
Posted September 03, 2022
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Dischord: Is that Galaxy crap now necessary?
From what i've seen, only Gwent requires Galaxy to work.
Posted September 03, 2022
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Gudadantza: I was here for long time and the mainteinance of the offline installers has always been the same. Or are you telling me that pre Galaxy every GOG installer was up to date or was updated faster than today? Not my impression.

I suspect that the confussion comes with the nature of the games. In the past there were not so many AAA titles in GOG or newer games as today, to be potentially outdated at least temporaly.

What I mean is that it is just a perception.
Also, any work on Galaxy is perceived as the abandoning of offline installers. And we contnue with the same song nearly seven years after. Appaently Offline installers were abandoned and were in danger yet seven years ago.

Nothing new on the horizon.
For some reason you are discussing offline installers in a reply to my post, where there was no mention of them.

Galaxy also downloads offline installers.

I think you need to reread what I wrote, because you have come away with the wrong interpretation.

And just for the record, I am not disputing what you say, just that it has no bearing on what I wrote. In other words I am not talking about how often offline installers are or were updated, that is another issue.
Posted September 04, 2022
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Timboli: gogrepo.py (this requires you also install Python 3 and some additional libraries).
Its Gogrepoc.py now that's the maintained, it can handle the new XML issue unlike the older version.
Posted September 04, 2022
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Starkrun: Its Gogrepoc.py now that's the maintained, it can handle the new XML issue unlike the older version.
As I mentioned recently in the gogrepo.py thread, the original gogrepo.py has been updated recently to cater with the XML issues.

So choose whichever one suits best. I was never able to use gogrepoc.py for downloading, without issue. As Kalanyr and I were able to determine, best guess anyway, that was likely due to my PC and version of Windows, and the different method he uses with Python for downloading. The original gogrepo.py worked fine for me, and probably still does, though I use gogcli.exe now mostly ... the exception being my GOGRepo Simple GUI program, which doesn't do game file downloading and can use either the original gogrepo.py or latest gogrepoc.py for manifest data and or verifying.
Post edited September 04, 2022 by Timboli
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