GOG Galaxy 2.0 - One Launcher to rule them all?

Malf on 5/9/2019 at 22:05

Nevermind, sorted it. For some reason, my Steam and Uplay accounts had unlinked from Galaxy, so I just had to connect them again. And now I can see all the games I have installed across all platforms.

Nameless Voice on 5/9/2019 at 23:10

I suspect that due to the hackery they use to scrape Steam, it will end up getting logged out frequently and requiring a re-connect.

icemann on 6/9/2019 at 03:30

Yeah. I'd suspect valve of putting in things to discourage people from using it.

Nameless Voice on 6/9/2019 at 12:40

Valve have official APIs that allow other sites to access your data, if you grant them permission.

The GOG Steam integration just doesn't use them, instead opening a web browser and scraping the site. It's always going to be buggy until they tear it up and rebuild the solution to properly use the APIs.

Tomi on 9/9/2019 at 10:33

Is Galaxy 2.0 tracking "playtime" for games on the Epic platform for anyone? I recently started playing Abzu and played it for an hour or two, but according to Galaxy I still haven't played it at all. Then again I can't find a way to see how long I've played some game even on the Epic Launcher itself, so perhaps Epic just doesn't track playtime at this stage.

Nameless Voice on 9/9/2019 at 12:23

Yeah, Epic doesn't track play time yet (it's in their "coming soon" list, IIRC), so GOG has no data to go on.

I think GOG are planning to do their own playtime tracking as well, but that's also not currently implemented.

Malf on 9/9/2019 at 15:24

I'm not sure how GOG exactly scrapes info from the other stores, but there's a Github project for adding other libraries, such as battle.net and Oculus:
(https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/cc5axb/how_to_add_battlenet/etl2u3a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) Click Me (Reddit Link)

icemann on 15/9/2019 at 04:27

[video=youtube_share;p8cy8U3z4qs]https://youtu.be/p8cy8U3z4qs[/video]

Video detailing the atlas update.

This is looking really good.

twisty on 18/9/2019 at 09:44

Good grief, even Rockstar are at it now with their own launcher: (https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/17/rockstar-games-launcher-pc/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=internal&utm_source=dl)

While I don't really care if it's just another client, I sincerely hope they don't start pushing exclusives (i.e. Epic, as well the new range of upcoming streaming platforms) leading to greater fragmentation.

icemann on 18/9/2019 at 22:48

Be just another plugin we'll have to get for the GOG launcher.