![]() ![]() That said, there are 2 MASSIVE points in GOG's favour which make this far less of an issue than Steam's problems. I've had plenty of issues with GOG as well, and most of them revolve around the horrific mess that is Galaxy 2.0 and their refusal to provide support for the objsectively-better (by which I mean actually functional) 1.2 version. In fact and as I see it, Steam might not be the best thing that ever happened to gaming, but at least it offers great functionality, an overall good support and, most important, decent download rates - all things that I can't say about GOG and Galaxy anymore for a looong time now. When I catch myself time and again that I not play a game because it's connected with GOG and the Galaxy client, something is very, VERY wrong and messed up. By now, all of this has changed quite dramatically. GOG once was the underdog that convinced with fair pricing, easy to install games that would /not/ require a bloated, disfunctional mess of a client, a support that cared and overall good value. And having to go to Github and download and install repositories myself in order to correctly connect my Steam account, because the files GOG provides with its updates are /still/ outdated, is a bloody joke of its own.Īll while GOG is perfectly aware of all of this, all while people complain about the Galyxy client, its many problems and abysmal download rates time and again /for years/. It is slow, it is wonky, it hogs resources for no reason whatsoever. The only thing that differs is that my DL rates on Steam, which are more than decent at my place already, actually exploded due to him having an internet connection five times as fast as mine.Īnd the Galaxy client itself is a bloody joke, it's more a nuisance than anything else, let alone that it would deliver any aditional value. And every now and then, the download completely stops for several minutes without any indication why.Īnd no one can tell me that this is a problem of my internet provider or of some wonky internet node - I've visited my best friend last week, who is living 800 km away from me, and I've actually toted my rig to his place just to test this, with pretty much the same results. And I am talking about a completely new rig, direct connection to my router without using Wlan and a clean install of Windows and Galaxy. Download rates constantly jump up and down, they've reached 14Mb/s for some seconds, only to fall back to 1.5 Mb/s and since then, they fluctuate between 1 and 3 Mb/s. Right now I am trying to download CP 2077 and my overall download speed is about 1 to 2 Mb/s on average. Galaxy is a hot mess in more than one regard and I've actually have caught myself not playing games simply because of this dumbster fire. ![]() GOG and Galaxy on the other hand have increasingly shown to be a bloody joke over the last years. I really can't see any abuse here, but maybe you want to elaborate. ![]() Also, so far I never had problems with the support, which was always and actually, you know, supportiv. The client allows me to download my games at an actually decent speed, also, it runs stable, shows no crashes and does not hog lots of CPU power and memory just by running in the background doing nothing. The client actually works, it has a lot of functions that are actually useful or which I can at least hide or ignore. Obliviondoll: Not quite Valve level of abusive After 19 years of using Steam and still having many gripes with Valve/Steam, I could at least kinda make my peace with them. ![]()
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