To be fair, I’ve only seen it with the two more modern games I have on GOG and neither have multiplayer. All the actually old stuff doesn’t need Galaxy for squat. If you’re only using GOG for good old games, you may never have encountered it.
Which two? I buy modern games on GOG a lot these past two years.
EDIT: I think this might be a misunderstanding. If you go to your game library and try to download the game, “Download and Install Now” for GOG Galaxy is the first option, and the installer files may be collapsed by default. My understanding from looking through developer docs for GOG is that the DRM-free installer files are created for you automatically, so I don’t know how you would make a game require Galaxy.
Only for multiplayer, unless I missed something. It’s their biggest glaring omission, but Galaxy is always optional or else their business model falls apart, and I understand that letting the platform take care of the multiplayer was an olive branch developers had been begging for.
There are already a few games that REQUIRE galaxy to run, unfortunately.
See! I kept stating this! Nobody believed me.
To be fair, I’ve only seen it with the two more modern games I have on GOG and neither have multiplayer. All the actually old stuff doesn’t need Galaxy for squat. If you’re only using GOG for good old games, you may never have encountered it.
Which two? I buy modern games on GOG a lot these past two years.
EDIT: I think this might be a misunderstanding. If you go to your game library and try to download the game, “Download and Install Now” for GOG Galaxy is the first option, and the installer files may be collapsed by default. My understanding from looking through developer docs for GOG is that the DRM-free installer files are created for you automatically, so I don’t know how you would make a game require Galaxy.
Only for multiplayer, unless I missed something. It’s their biggest glaring omission, but Galaxy is always optional or else their business model falls apart, and I understand that letting the platform take care of the multiplayer was an olive branch developers had been begging for.