like really the program it self i have nothing against alto i find it a bit childish made with large icons makes me feel like "special in the wrong sense" don't know about you =)

but what rubes me really in the bad is the auto launch "feature" or say plague if i wanna play a game the shit thing comes forward like a cheap car sales man like i need it somehow...

so i no longer have galaxy installed and use the off installer if i play NMS i just edit the save game to add content i PAYED for in the game

*Found=find* those edit functions can be handy you know....

Good thing for offline installers then.

Why would you need to edit the NMS save? Last I read the online issue has been corrected so all content is available offline.

:D how else would they sell your telemetry ?

you need to have galaxy if you wanna farm nanite or get your name on the progress

Why I find Galaxy to be absolutely arse:

- Incredibly unintuitive UI.
- Yes, horrible those big icons, and it gets worse the bigger your collection is.
- Much much slower than Steam
- Adding yet another layer of problems when it comes troubleshooting. I've used Steam for around 16 years, and Galaxy for almost 2 months now due to CyberPlunked 2077, and I've had more trouble installing/updating in Galaxy in those 2 months than the entire 16 years I've used Steam.
- More running threads/exe files making it a mini-game just to whitelist them all (again, compared to Steam. Steam has just 2, Galaxy has 6)
- Even if you shut down Galaxy, galaxycommunication.exe will still linger in the background (again, Steam will shut down everything, as it should).
- If you manage to install Galaxy to a folder of your own choice, it's still going to install to \programdata\ (all of this reminds me too much of Windows itself).

As much as I love the d-arming of the DRM policy (yes, sarcasm), the person who's responsible for how Galaxy got designed gets an M-award for "Messed up"-effort. If GOG has people come and go like in CDPR without proper documentation, I can certainly understand how messed up their software engineering gets... :D

Honestly my vision for Galaxy would be user defined installation: So the user can decide what functionality they want on install. So if you want achievement tracking then install, you don't want the community portion - un-install.

This way if you just want an offline installer down-loader you can have the option to scale it all the way down to just that, user choice.

You can. All of those things can be enabled/disabled from the options

Regarding galaxycommunication.exe - for a few moments, yes, still lingers in there.

As for \programdata\ folder, that's actually funny, but true, roughly 360MB in size.

No you don't. How are you farming them that you need to use galaxy?

The icons can be resized, or even removed as the games are shown in list mode.

no i mean that other thing the shop on the starbase thing

The first reason why I do not like Galaxy:

The "X" icon DOES NOT CLOSE Galaxy, just minimize it to tray.

I really HATE that.

Even Battle.net client has that close on "X" as an option.

The first Galaxy had an option for that IIRC. Sad that they axed it. List view?
And with grid view you can scale the "boxes" to your liking, even for each list individually. I find that pretty neat.

:O

i didn't mind Galaxy 1 bar it being slow, but 2.0 feels like they couldn't pick between 3 styles, stuck em together than decided to make it look a little bit like a Sky TV guide


Some of the ideas are cool, just feels underbaked. Like my baking