GOG Galaxy lets you ditch online activation
Good Old Games has unveiled GOG Galaxy, a new client that will allow users to embrace a number of online features, like Steam cross-play. It will also give you the option to opt out, without preventing you from playing your games offline.
After CD Projekt RED wrapped up their presentation for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Good Old Games took the stage to announce a new version of their online platform. The system, dubbed GOG Galaxy, introduces the idea of an optional client, allowing players to utilize as many or as few online features as they want. Regardless, users will not be required to activate their product online.
GOG Galaxy will feature conventional client features, like game updating and a friend system. However, users will not be required to use any of these features to jump into their game. The client will also feature cross-play capabilities, in case other friends are on different avenues like Steam.
For more information, check out the video below.
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Good Old Games has unveiled GOG Galaxy, a new client that will allow users to embrace a number of online features, like Steam cross-play. It will also give you the option to opt out, without preventing you from playing your games offline.-
The announcement is cool I think, but the entire time I watched that I couldn't stop thinking about how awesome that dude's voice was.
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Interesting idea. Other companies have tried similar things - Raptr and Xfire spring to mind - but they've always had ulterior motives or have done it kind of badly. An established company like GOG doing it though... that'll be interesting to see. Pretty much everything they've done in the past has been mondo consumer friendly.
I'm particularly interested in how the updates will work, since GOG mostly caters to older games. Will this be a way to push out community updates for older games in the wake of things like the GameSpy shutdown? Lots of potential.-
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I dunno, GOG's whole selling point is that they don't provide DRM. I can't see them rolling back on that, because then they'd be yet another company trying to do exactly what Steam does, and let's be honest, nobody really has been able to compete with Steam on that playing field. GOG's success is largely due to them not doing any sort of DRM.
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Wishing it was out now. Pretty exciting.
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