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I personally had 3 games disappear out of my gog library - two I could retrace from looking through my purchases and only got them back after writing to the support. the third I still don't know what it was.

Interesting - even more reason to save standalone installers instead of relying on Galaxy.

also, yes, the sole use I have for gog nowadays is to look at the section of newly released games. I don't follow any gaming websites, youtubers or anything. how else should I know what's being released?

From recommendations on prestigious internet forums. Or other places where you can interact with real human beings instead of algorithms and influencers. To be honest I don't really follow what is being released that much.

 

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Valve has also threatened me with unspecified account restrictions twice

How come?

One was when they tried to get away with refunding the steam dick deposit to my steam wallet instead of the original payment method and I told them that that would not fly.
The other one was for repeatedly filing refund requests for one game until someone with the authority do do anything other than reply with provably false scripted responses would look at it.
So not unprompted and also not entirely unexpected but still soured my opinion of Valve.

 

[Popot]

Useful tool to archive your GOG library:
https://github.com/Kalanyr/gogrepoc
Also if you have problems with Galaxy there's Heroic Game Launcher:
https://heroicgameslauncher.com/
Both projects are multiplatform.

 

[racofer]

One was when they tried to get away with refunding the steam dick deposit

And to think there are people complaining about hentai games on GOG.

 

[Alienman]

Valve has also threatened me with unspecified account restrictions twice

How come?

One was when they tried to get away with refunding the steam dick deposit to my steam wallet instead of the original payment method and I told them that that would not fly.
The other one was for repeatedly filing refund requests for one game until someone with the authority do do anything other than reply with provably false scripted responses would look at it.
So not unprompted and also not entirely unexpected but still soured my opinion of Valve.

I keep getting passive-aggressive lectures that refunds is not used to test games, lol.

 

[Bad Sector]

the downloads are divided into 4 gb parts, which is incredibly annoying for modern size games. for the entire game to download with one click you need gog galaxy or a third party browser application. in the past I used the gog downloader, but sadly it doesn't exist anymore. I just don't get chosing the gog galaxy client over the steam client, so I don't intend to use it.

The 4gb parts is a bit annoying though at least it does help with downloading games partially instead of in one go if you have a slower connection. Though IMO it is only a minor annoyance.

There is a tool to download your GOG library though, linked by Popot - assuming you don't mind installing Python and using the command line.

On the other hand I also don't get the bitching over what crap GOG/Steam push on their storefronts. Do people seriously use those for discovery? Why???

I use the Steam store for discovery because it has a lot of features for discovering games in the search page. Though i use it with the Augmented Steam addon which allows for further filtering than the functionality Steam itself has (but even that is way more functional than any other store). I've found many games i didn't knew about (mainly indie stuff) from that.

Though that is for discovering games, once i find a game i often check if it is on GOG (or Zoom Platform or itch.io) afterwards or there are plans for it to be released there. Depending on the game i might just buy it on Steam if there isn't a GOG release available or planned - indie games rarely have any DRM so while i do not get a fancy installer, i can just ZIP the game directory. Though i avoid that for new releases because unlike with GOG you don't know when patches/fixes/etc were made.