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I'm not at home now to look more closely to see if it left Galaxy 1 there or not. At least when I hit the Win key on my keyboard and typed 'GOG' it launched Galaxy 2.

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It appears to install over top of Galaxy. I'm only familiar with it because I used to run into that on occasion from using EMET when it was a standalone application.

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I wish Windows would log that shit though when a protection shuts things down like that. I may have my Exploit Protection settings turned up from the default. Sadly, for all the whinging about being anti-DRM, most people aren't willing to move en masse to another platform that guarantees no DRM (though the games that don't appear on GOG because of that stance does have an effect as well). Galaxy mostly just uses their web API for its features and the handful of things they've implemented for Galaxy (aside from the multiplayer features, that's a bit of engineering going on there) aren't much more than list management based features. I don't think Galaxy and its features have as much to do with that as the simple overhead of running a games store that doesn't get above a certain scale of purchases does.

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I'd rather they focus on what games they get for the DRM free store. GOG has tiny turnover vs Steam and all this effort to be more steamlike could be a lot of wasted resources. Still GOG has struggled over recent years and i'm sure part of the reason is it became obsessed to equal/beat Steam (which it was never going to do, Steam just had too big a head start) and i worry that this kind of offering is more of that same thinking. GameSpy was one of the last independent multiplayer connectivity libraries (ignoring GameSpy Arcade for the purposes of this conversation as that was a totally different animal) but even that was killed off in 2014.

Once upon a time there used to be a market for third-party libraries for matchmaking, server browsing, connectivity and friends management but that was effectively killed when SteamWorks took over that space on the PC. If you've done that work it's a ton of additional work to independently implement all of those features themselves for a non-Galaxy dependent version of the game. I would guess that the titles that require Galaxy implement all of their multiplayer features through the Galaxy provided libraries as games that offer multiplayer on Steam tend to do with SteamWorks (and for every console version). I haven't looked too closely at this myself since it doesn't really bother me, but couldn't you use something like Hamachi to play online? AFAIK, GoG isn't hooking into the LAN play aspect, only the Internet aspect. It's command line only still, last I checked. There's a community made Linux GOG client. So if you get a Linux title and it gets updated, you're downloading it again patching manually, like a damned savage.ДЄll that said, it's the only other storefront besides Steam that I've got installed, and it's perfectly fine for how I use it. If you're adhering to the strictest definitions of DRM, this may or may not be a good thing.ДЄlso there is currently no Linux version of Galaxy, which has been 'in the works' to various degrees since about 5 minutes after Galaxy's initial release except most everyone who was ever involved with linux-related projects are now gone. It isn't required to buy or play a game (which makes it effectively optional) but the link is a list of titles that require it for online MP. GOG Galaxy is optional, and it might help with the ridiculous out-of-control situation we have now with juggling multiple store fronts. I personally don't like clients and only use Steam as a necessary evil.

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