Introducing GOG Connect

[+Asmodai MVC]

7 hours ago, Luc2k said:

I genuinely didn't know that you could use that search box look in the whole the store, and I've been using the client for a long time.

Well there you go!  Something good came from you taking the time to share your issues with me.

 

I still don't get your "No way to group games by tags. Sorting them by tags kind of do that but there's no separators in between." part but otherwise it was interesting to see a different perspective on the client.

 

Cleary you want it to be much more of a social network than I do and that's cool.  It's certainly not now but I'm not sure they even want it to be.  It will be interesting to see where things go moving forward. (I'm not OPPOSED to social network features, they're just not something I look for or use personally).

 

Putting links to the forum in the store, sorting reviews by rating, and an mods library would all be cool additions but for me they are pretty minor (well except mods... that would be HUGE... PLEASE merge with nexus, rofl) so it's interesting to me to see that these kinds of things are so critical to you.

[LaP]

56 minutes ago, Asmodai said:

Well there you go!  Something good came from you taking the time to share your issues with me.

 

I still don't get your "No way to group games by tags. Sorting them by tags kind of do that but there's no separators in between." part but otherwise it was interesting to see a different perspective on the client.

 

Cleary you want it to be much more of a social network than I do and that's cool.  It's certainly not now but I'm not sure they even want it to be.  It will be interesting to see where things go moving forward. (I'm not OPPOSED to social network features, they're just not something I look for or use personally).

 

Putting links to the forum in the store, sorting reviews by rating, and an mods library would all be cool additions but for me they are pretty minor (well except mods... that would be HUGE... PLEASE merge with nexus, rofl) so it's interesting to me to see that these kinds of things are so critical to you.

Honestly the last and only time i used that search box i swear it searched thru my library only. I would need to try it again.

 

Personally i use the forum and negative reviews to filter bad games or buggy games from good games. So far it served me very well. That's why i would like a forum link in the store page of a game. Would make it easier to go to the forum after reading the reviews. Like you said not a big deal but little things like that prevent me from making it my main hub to manage my games library.

 

I manage my Steam library like that. I have lot of hd space and i don't uninstall games because i want to keep them in my daily backup just in case GoG or Steam shut down one day. I have a couple of categories. "Finished", "Playing", "Backlog", "Abandoned". On steam games are regrouped by categories and i can fold categories like "Abandoned", "Backlog", "Finished" and keep only the "Playing" category expanded. On GoG i can create the same tags. But the only way to group games by tags is to sort them. But if i decide to show two tags then while they are sorted they are not grouped i.e. the last game of the first tag shown is right before the first game of the 2nd tag shown. Also as far as i know the only way to "fold" a tag is to filter it. But the filter is reset every time i close the client. So every time i open the client the "Abandoned", "Backlog" and "Finished" tags are shown again.  Maybe it's just me not figuring how to use the Gog Client i dunno.

 

GoG merging with Nexus would be awesome. Nexus Mod Manager is fine but that would be much better if it was integrated with GoG and would support more games. Would require lot of works though maybe CD Projekt Red doesn't have enough money or time for that.

 

It's not really that i love the social features. I barely used them on Steam. It's more that i hate having to use multiple services. Like if i want to share a screenshot or a video with a random person i currently play with on Steam or GoG i want to do it via Steam or GoG i don't want to have to share my Facebook or Discord with this person since i don't know him or her much. Again maybe it's just me not figuring how to use the GoG client but i did not see any way to share screenshots or videos on GoG or post on someone else profile. Like i have health issues right now and a guy i play games with posted on my profile on Steam asking if i was alright cause i did not log in the last 3 weeks. I think it's nice.

 

As for the achievements i'm not an achievements ###### by any means. If a game is less expensive on GoG i wont care about anything other than that. But at the same price it's a plus for me. I don't care too much about Steam DRM as long as it's the only DRM used. I'm fine with it and never had trouble with it. If Steam ever shut down i'm gonna hack it will be easy i'm sure of that. Every time i want to buy a new indie game on GoG i don't see any mention of it having achievements on the store page. I understand old games wont have achievements. But i would expect new indie games to have them. Maybe again it's just me not seeing where the info about achievements is located but i don't recall seeing any mention of achievements for any games other than The Witchers III on GoG. Dunno maybe i should spend more time with the client.

[Luc2k]

55 minutes ago, Asmodai said:

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It was LaP who made the original comment, not me . I was just surprised that I never pressed enter when searching in Galaxy.

 

Anyway, for me, a way to filter games that I already own and games that I'm not interested in would be the most welcome improvement, with review filters as a distant second.

[+Asmodai MVC]

2 minutes ago, Luc2k said:

It was LaP who made the original comment, not me . I was just surprised that I never pressed enter when searching in Galaxy.

 

Anyway, for me, a way to filter games that I already own and games that I'm not interested in would be the most welcome improvement, with review filters as a distant second.

ROFL, sorry about that!  I guess my brain just saw user name L... and kept on going.

[+Asmodai MVC]

5 minutes ago, LaP said:

Honestly the last and only time i used that search box i swear it searched thru my library only. I would need to try it again.

It searches your library as you type and right below the box is a link that say something like "Search for <whatever you have typed> in the store".  That's from memory (I'm at work atm) but I believe that's correct.

5 minutes ago, LaP said:

Personally i use the forum and negative reviews to filter bad games or buggy games from good games. So far it served me very well. That's why i would like a forum link in the store page of a game. Would make it easier to go to the forum after reading the reviews. Like you said not a big deal but little things like that prevent me from making it my main hub to manage my games library.

I'm with you one these.  I think a link from the store to the game forum and the ability to sort the reviews by rating would be good additions, I just think they're very minor and wouldn't pick one client over another based on them.

5 minutes ago, LaP said:

I manage my Steam library like that. I have lot of hd space and i don't uninstall games because i want to keep them in my daily backup just in case GoG or Steam shut down on day. I have a couple of categories. "Finished", "Playing", "Backlog", "Abandoned". On steam games are regrouped by categories and i can fold categories like "Abandoned", "Backlog", "Finished" and keep only the "Playing" category expanded. On GoG i can create the same tags. But then only way to group games by tags is to sort them. But if i decide to show two tags then while they are sorted they are not grouped i.e. the last game of the first tag shown is right before the first game of the 2nd tag shown. Also as far as i know the only way to "fold" a tag is to filter it. But the filter is reset every time i close the client. So every time i open the client the "Abandoned", "Backlog" and "Finished" tags are shown again.  Maybe it's just me not figuring how to use the Gog Client i dunno.

No, I gotcha now.  I honestly didn't understand what you were saying before but I think I got you now.  You want the installed games list on the left side of the clients to be in collapsable groups.  I can see that, I don't keep that many games installed at once but I can absolutely see how it would be an issue if you had a ton installed.  Thanks for clarifying.

5 minutes ago, LaP said:

GoG merging with Nexus would be awesome. Nexus Mod Manager is fine but that would be much better if it was integrated with GoG and would support more games. Would require lot of works though maybe CD Projekt Red doesn't have enough money or time for that.

Yeah, as I said it's a dream of mine... I don't think it would actually happen but at the same time I don't think CD Projekt Red wants to build something new that rivals Nexus and other mod communities.  So as much as I'd like mod support in the client I really don't think it's going to happen.

5 minutes ago, LaP said:

It's not really that i love the social features. I barely used them on Steam. It's more that i hate having to use multiple services. Like if i want to share a screenshot or a video with a random person i currently play with on Steam or GoG i want to do it via Steam or GoG i don't want to have to share my Facebook or Discord with this person since i don't know him or her much. Again maybe it's just me not figuring how to use the GoG client but i did not see any way to share screenshots or videos on GoG or post on someone else profile. Like i have health issues right now and i guy i play games with posted on my profile on Steam asking if i was alright cause i did not log in the last 3 weeks. I think it's nice.

I'm not trying to belittle social features.  I'm not interested in them personally but I totally understand that others are and there's nothing wrong with that.  I since I have no use for them personally I haven't really looked into it but as far as I know you are correct, there is no way to share videos or pictures with other Galaxy users (that I know of).

5 minutes ago, LaP said:

As for the achievements i'm not an achievements ###### by any means. If a game is less expensive on GoG i wont care about anything other than that. But at the same price it's a plus for me. I don't care too much about Steam DRM as long as it's the only DRM used. I'm fine with it and never had trouble with it. If Steam ever shut down i'm gonna hack it will be easy i'm sure of that. Every time i want to buy a new indie game on GoG i don't see any mention of it having achievements on the store page. I understand old games wont have achievements. But i would expect new indie games to have them. Maybe again it's just me not seeing where the info about achievements is located but i don't recall seeing any mention of achievements for any games other than The Witchers III on GoG. Dunno maybe i should spend more time with the client.

Likewise I'm not trying to belittle achievements.  They ARE there in Galaxy though if the developer chooses to support them.  About half the games I have installed right now have them and most of the ones that don't are older games.  Gog has clearly provided the necessary tools for developers to use them it just seems that the developers of the games you play have elected not to support them.  I'm not sure there is anything gog.com can do about that.  Unless maybe it's unnecessarily hard to add them and they could make it easier or something but they aren't going to go through other companies games and make achievements for them.  They've provided the tools I don't know if you can fault them for developers not using them.

[Cnónna]

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[Cnónna]

https://www.gog.com/game/jotun

 

Free for another 20 hours odd GOG.com

 

also free on Steam http://store.steampowered.com/app/323580/Jotun_Valhalla_Edition/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1

[dragontology]

They still doing GOG Connect? I got some game for free recently (not Neverwinter, it was another one) and I went looking for it. Couldn't find a mention of it anywhere on the site. I like to check it about once a month or so, or just generally whenever I get on GOG, which isn't much.

[Bamsebjørn]

The page still exists (here: https://www.gog.com/connect), I check it every day, just in case, but it hardly ever has any games.

[Cnónna]

Stronghold HD + A.D. 2044 free 48 hours on GOG

 

https://www.gog.com/game/polish_giveaway_pack

 

Description

Stronghold HD
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[Argi]

Thanks for the tip on this - just saw it now.  Picked up 4 copies.

[Luc2k]

Syberia 1 & 2 are on connect. Syberia 1 can be claimed as freebies by itself.

[Cnónna]

new GOG connect titles added.

 

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

New additions:

 

[Louisifer]

It doesn't see The Sexy Brutale in my library, I guess its slow to do checks internally.