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[–] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We need a Linux GOG Galaxy, not another mod marketplace. This seems like it's in preparation for Skyblivion.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Heroic works better than Galaxy does in Windows. They should just pay the Heroic devs for their work and make that their official launcher.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Heroic works until it doesn't.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    So does Galaxy?

    Let's say I have not yet had to do a full reinstall of Heroic and multiple associated games because something got unfixably (for my level of understanding) borked during an update.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So does Galaxy?

    Heroic is a community "we hope it's useful but don't complain when it doesn't" product.

    With Galaxy you are a paying customer who has rights.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Galaxy is free and not required. If it doesn't work you can download games from the website (which I consider an important feature). I'm pretty sure you don't have any rights whatsoever.

    Buuut it also reinforces my point. The free open source solution works better than their in-house one.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Galaxy is free and not required.

    It's a product for paying customers of GOG games. You have rights you don't have with some open source hobby project.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I have lots of free games from GOG. You don't have to be a paying customer to use Galaxy.

    Which rights do you have?

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago*

    I'm definitively gonna keep a look on that. Hope it will work with Heroic and the Steam Deck.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So like the steam workshop? Cool.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I know for a fact whoever developed the GoG launcher isn't capable of adding this in.

    Source: half of the connectors to other game services don't work, and they haven't bothered to make their Mac app function in literally years (and if asked about this they tell you to "use the website").

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nice to see some competition in this space. Steam dropped the ball by not getting fallout London.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why not just cooperate with nexus mods? Their new app (yes, still a deep beta) works quite well

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Because nexus mods is woeful, and their gradual enshittification isn't a good sign

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What examples can you give of their enshittification?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Can’t download mods without logging in anymore

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Isn't this exactly like GOG Mods?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I can think of a few reasons as to why a website would run ads. I can think of a few reasons as to why a website would limit download speeds

    I cannot fathom for any non greed-ridden reason as to why a website would make you wait five seconds before downloading a mod. It's an inconvenience for the sake of an inconvenience, a problem they made to sell the solution

    Of course, we need to keep in mind that they don't make the mods, they merely host them. Compare the amount of bloat on their website to other, less funded ones such as lovers lab and gamebanana, and it becomes apparent that there's a money sink somewhere

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When did "modding a game" shift from "creating new mods" to "applying mods"?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I guess good thing, but what about improving GOG initially? There are many things to add and improve

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So they added one thing, but you're complaining they haven't added literally every other improvement you can imagine?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    It's not every other improvements, it's basic features requested for years.

    Dumb things like being able to edit your reviews or delete them without mailing the support. Having the ability to download old versions of offline installers instead of being forced to use their app...

    It's pretty obvious that I meant that this addition is welcome, but I critize their priorities.

    Even GOG Galaxy for Linux. Forgot this still wasn't added.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    While I appreciate increased visibility for such (often awesome) mods, I kind of doubt good guys at gog can manage to ship actual versions of them.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    Meh. Forces you to have the game on GOG. It's blocking mods behind a platform and account paywall, just like Steam Workshop

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