If they make galaxy compulsory to download and update the games they will piss off a lot of customers even people like me who prefer galaxy over regular download.

i really doubt that will happen anytime soon.

Making a client mandatory is stupid and gog knows that. The moment Galaxy needs to be on for everything you do is the moment they loose the biggest major difference to steam. No "I'll wait till its on gog" anymore; no "I have it on steam but I'll get it drm-free here too" anymore. Its what their whole business and customer base it build upon; without that they would be just another steam (with a tiny selection of goods in comparison).

So yeah, they do not only want that to stay optional. Its their whole point of existence to have it optional.

I'd be ok with that.

Sadly companies, including GOG, all too often are tone-deaf to their customers wishes.

Already?
They did that at Galaxy's Beta launch, it's hardly a new thing.
They also said they'd not update it if it broke, but wouldn't intentionally break it.

I expect most who used the Downloader, have switched to Galaxy already, as you can pretty much use it as a simple downloader, by choosing the settings you want.

I also don't give a damn about what the wishlist says, I only care that I can manually download my games, and make my own filing structure, for both installers, and installed games.

I detest all online clients, but Galaxy is still optional.
Even for Multi-player, but there the option has always been for the games devs, to choose, not the user.

If a games got a multi-player, for me to even consider playing, it must be playable, without needing any store client.
If not, I don't play, and don't care if I never can, but that's the devs optional choice, not mine, or GOG's.

As long as I can still get a manual download of a games offline installer, Galaxy is optional, and that's all I care about. That's all they ever promised, and all this whining about, anything else is irrelevant.

I've seen these "the end is nigh" threads ever since Galaxy appeared, and nothings changed.
I don't care what GOG "Promise" they will do, I only care what they actually do.

I never came here for DRM free, though I still want it. I came here for the offline installers.
As long as I can still get the installers, without using any store client, I will remain a customer.
Nothing else matters, actions speak louder than any words.

I think I can say without any hesitation that that is not likely to happen. The downloader has essentially been built into Galaxy, and yes it's not perfect yet but supporting two pieces of software that essentially do the same thing waste resources, and doubles your work.

Also "I think that is what most people want right now" isn't really true. If you said "I think that is what most people on the forum want right now" then maybe you got a point. But most people that use GOG don't use the forum, and while we don't have hard evidence of course, considering over 700 thousand people played Witcher 3 via Galaxy, I think it's safe to assume most people are using Galaxy on GOG.

I actually don't mind it if we need Galaxy to download the games, but if any game should require Galaxy to run that is a big problem and I might as well just buy everything on Steam from then on out.

What exactly do you think DRM-free is? lol

Technically, the installer could work offline even if the game itself required authentication with a server.

And several games here do work that way for the multiplayer portion.

Offline installers are OFFLINE installers. If that isn't DRM-free, what is?

When neither the game nor the installer requires data or authentication from a central server.

Welcome to the wunnerful world of GOG offline installers! lol

Wasn't making any statements about what DRM is, or isn't.
Just saying, it wasn't the reason I originally discovered GOG.
That was getting a KOTOR version that actually ran on my PC, unlike Steam's releases. before Aspyr, updated them.

Updated offline installers, have always been my main reasons for preferring GOG releases, with the secondary bonus point of being DRM free.

It's online clients I dislike the most, whether they include DRM, or not. So that includes Galaxy.
I don't even like the GOG downloader, and the main reasons, are I want full control of where the files go (That means the downloads, as well as the installed game), and what they are named, which I can only do with offline installers.

As to what I do consider DRM, anything that restricts me playing offline, whether by keycode, or forced use of an online client. but I don't consider codes, and/or client logins, to access multi-player servers, DRM.
That's just likke signing in to post on a forum as far as I'm concerned.

I do expect such online clients to be part of the game, and not the store it's bought from.
I won't even play multiplayer that requires a store client. So hardly play any. due to that.

I also want games to be either a SPG, or a MPG, not both. I want the main part to be the only focus, and consider time spent on the secondary mode, as a wasted effort,. That's much better spent making the main game even better.
Take Mass Effect Andromeda, if it had no multi-player, they would have had more time to polish the main game.
Few games have equal focus, and rarely, if ever, does that result in equal greatness.

I know that. I'm just letting you know that every single GOG © offline installer comes with a DRM-free guarantee!

Multiplayer not so much. o.O

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Aren't those now called Fairfox messages? ;p