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Galaxy is a necessary convenience for them to compete with Steam tbh

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well they should make it at least slightly usable. people harp on epic launcher when this piece of shit barely functions 20% of the time. if you have a big library, it’s useless.

or it was, I stopped trying to make it with when i realized playnite exists.

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I have a large GOG library, I no longer use their launcher because I’m on Linux and use heroic. However their launcher always worked fine for me.

I don’t recall ever having an issue. Are you sure there wasn’t something underlying going on with your system?

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Eh, it’s literally there for games that need online access.

I use it for theme hospital and that’s it. Everything else i standalone

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They don’t really though. I haven’t been on GoG in a minute, but when I was looking for an offline installer (I think for Cyberpunk?), it was very easy to find it

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I had a situation with The Saboteur.

When installed manually with downloaded installers it had configuration issues, IIRC it was limited to 1280x720 and the in game option to modify it didn’t work.

But when installed with Galaxy it defaulted to 1920x1080 and the in game options worked.

At that point my game was working and I didn’t investigate further so I don’t know if it was downloading different installers, or performing post install tweaks to my game config, but from a functional perspective the game was broken when not using Galaxy. Ideally whatever the “magic” was it should be included in the standalone installers!

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Sounds like the work of saboteurs.

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Yeah they manage both distribution methods.

I’m just highlighting at least one example where they have regrettably left the standalone as a 2nd class option.

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