What's the point of gog galaxy 2.0 ??? Should gog remove it?

Gog galaxy is abandoned and malfunctioning.

Gog seems to be going back to its roots and users who like social options no longer make sense on this platform (many of them have stopped buying here).

Cd project should remove it at once and focus on non-drm games without a launcher.

GOG should close their business so every cranky old man on this forum will finally be happy.

The "point" of Galaxy 2.0 was to bring in new customers from all the DRM stores, who GOG thought would flock to GOG due to their great desire to have all of their DRM'ed games in one place that isn't Steam.

Of course, in reality, that was always a horrible idea, which is why it failed epically.

As for "Should GOG remove it?" ...that depends on what you mean by "remove it."

If you mean, get rid of Galaxy entirely, then no, that would be a horrible idea. GOG customers need the functions it provides like Achievements, Cloud Saves, and game time tracking for those who want those things.

But on the other hand, if you mean "Should GOG remove Galaxy 2.0 and revert back to the far superior version, which is Galaxy 1.2?"...then yes, GOG absolutely should do that.

Fixed!

Yeah, Galaxy 2.0 looks...well, it's no Lutris. But in terms of function and form, 1.2 was better.

what does "alt right" and "crank" (in this context) mean?

the big point of this "buttf#ck the customer" practice that gog is pulling for years, is simple: sharholder profits and ceo bonuses, no matter how. they defalcated our money for all this bullsh#t, like profiles, galaxy and achievements, instead of fixing and maintaining the old games they are selling. old titles working out of the box on current pc's my ass!

No, because so many GOG games now have features which work only with Galaxy, like achievements, multiplayer etc.

Just removing Galaxy would mean removal of those extra features for existing customers. It would be similar, or maybe even worse, like if GOG started adding DRM retro-actively to their existing games, as many customers have specifically bought games from GOG due to not having DRM.

And I say this as a non-Galaxy GOG user. Just because I don't use it doesn't make me a heartless bitch.

Ancient-Red-Dragon explained the 'point' of Galaxy 2 in his first paragraph, it was meant to act as an unified platform. To me it serves no purpose, but I understand how other users might find it useful. Removing it altogether would probably not be the brightest idea. Maybe reverting to 1.2 and build from there would be better?
In regard to users who like social options...many of them have stopped buying here, do you have any concrete proof or is it just speculation?
I do agree that GOG's main focus should be DRM-free games moving forward. It's why I joined the platform in the first place.

Nowadays a company needs a client to be at the same level of Ubisoft, EA, Valve... If not you are a simple store. What they need is focus only on gog and bring us the best of 1.2 and 2.0. We still not have the profiles on galaxy for example.

Galaxt 2.0 will fail always because syncs. require a constant update when other stores update them.

Yep, the flood of new customers did come in, buy 1 maybe 2 games, then realised steam is better and went back there. Then those of us who brought here before galaxy were put off by the galaxy push, even adding requirements into old games, and changing non-galaxy installers, so we stopped buying. Raises the question who their target audience now is?

GOG can't remove it; a lot of multiplayer is tied through it now; shit would figuratively hit the fan.
Every game sold on GOG that used it for multiplayer would have to be patched around because it was a feature it was sold as having else under consumer law it would no longer be fit for purpose hence would have to be refunded.
Now GOG might hurt doing that wholesale, wouldn't even be surprised if it crippled them financially; but they could do it.
Would there be a class action against them for it? maybe.
Would the betrayal of customers be highly newsworthy for an extensive period of time? Yes.
Would their market share increase or decrease? It would decrease.
Would they be as attractive to new customers? No.
Have I made my point yet?!?

Fact is they can't drop it like a sack of wet turd even if it is; all they can do is make it function more in line with the reality of what is possible, in a way that firstly minimizes cost overhead for running it and secondly is acceptable to their niche client base.

It will 'never' compete with the steam digital platform, because steam will never agree to open up and allow parity features (a lot of which would no doubt be tied to steam developer tools and such).
If GOG won't fight the industry to treat customers as first class digital citizens, then they'll always have a second class service at best.

Listen to yourself, man. "Features which work only with Galaxy, [...] like multiplayer" = DRMed multiplayer. No need to analogize to it being like if DRM were part of games here; DRM already is here in such cases.
Patched, in other words, "actually made DRM-free." Your post makes a good case as to why Galaxy should have never come into existence in the first place, given the seemingly irreparable way we are now "stuck" with it.

That said, GOG has discontinued numerous features, campaigns, and promotions, and I do not think Galaxy should be exempt. It should be like how GOG Downloader was (prior to its inexplicable removal which was more Galaxy favortism): available for users who wanted it, but not promoted, not pushed, just a separate option for those in the know.

Also, in terms of advertising being misleading etc, the game pages on this store also say DRM-free, no internet connection required to play, yet this is patently false in the case of client-required multiplayer DRM (to be fair, the pages also note in a different spot that Galaxy is required for multiplayer).

doesnt matter as it was a joke based on the usual outraged suspects on here

GOG Galaxy, Steam, and programs like it are great for when you're online - you can do stat-checking, Achievement-tracking, and stuff of that sort.

Also, it's very handy to keep your game updated, for newer titles that likely will NEED the updates.

My problem w/ GOG Galaxy - is the lack of an offline mode and lack of an offline install mode for these games within Galaxy. While offline - If I have a folder say backed-up as is or the installers in a folder somewhere, I should be able to, while offline, point at the needed files and Galaxy does the install.

I liked w/ GOG Downloader, as I could do the download and install through there.

Yes, offline installer files are great and they ALWAYS should have those available - but I wouldn't mind ALSO being able to do this within Galaxy while offline too.