Playnite vs GOG Galaxy 2.0

[Youtube: BoyDilly]

Which is the better universal game launcher in your opinion and why?

[Orilante]

Автор сообщения: linis

I treat all digital distribution services pretty much the same way I treat Steam, it's there to get games that you buy to you digitally. Since Steam already does the job and connects constantly to operate, I'll probably never use GOG Galaxy or whatever this Playnite is unless it becomes mandatory for a game I'm extremely interested in (Half Life 2 was the reason I installed Steam in the first place)

Things are constantly changing so I'm almost anticipating GOG's Galaxy client service to eventually become mandatory to obtain any games you've bought from their website. I'd say the same for this Playnite, should it ever gain enough traction in games distribution, like EPIC, GOG, Steam, Origin, UPlay, etc..

I tend to doubt it unless there is some sort of hostile takeover or a major change in the philosophy of GOG. The whole point is DRM-free. All of their games can be installed without their launcher and run with impunity. To make the launcher required would be against the primary value of the company.

[Watchful Liz]

Автор сообщения: Orilante

Автор сообщения: linis

I treat all digital distribution services pretty much the same way I treat Steam, it's there to get games that you buy to you digitally. Since Steam already does the job and connects constantly to operate, I'll probably never use GOG Galaxy or whatever this Playnite is unless it becomes mandatory for a game I'm extremely interested in (Half Life 2 was the reason I installed Steam in the first place)

Things are constantly changing so I'm almost anticipating GOG's Galaxy client service to eventually become mandatory to obtain any games you've bought from their website. I'd say the same for this Playnite, should it ever gain enough traction in games distribution, like EPIC, GOG, Steam, Origin, UPlay, etc..

I tend to doubt it unless there is some sort of hostile takeover or a major change in the philosophy of GOG. The whole point is DRM-free. All of their games can be installed without their launcher and run with impunity. To make the launcher required would be against the primary value of the company.

It was YOU! OooOOOooOOOooooOOO!!!
NECROMANCER!!!

[secuda]

Edit Ugh necros.

[Dj_Zorbas]

I hate that they force you to get into their launcher... I hate bloatware and I hate the other launchers If I could delete them all and use only steam I would...

Galaxy 2 seems promising but for me it lacks a very important feature, it is not able to update the games in the background or while you play an other game unless you manually start a game so if you have e.g 200 games and did not play some of them for a lot time and go back to them and launch them you have to wait for an update to finish...


which is a hustle and means I still have to open each launcher manually and run the inlauncher auto update process which defeats the purpose of gog galaxy



Other than that the cleaner your PC the better and for performance as well the less things run on the background the better

So a single global launcher is a must but it needs to get more involved that this in order to be a true solution and not just an other service burdening my pc in the background.

[KT Chong]

GOG Galaxy 2.0 SUCKS... actually, GOG Galaxy has always sucked, but 2.0 sucks more.

I recently bought a 1TB SSD that is dedicated to gaming. In a few days I migrated, downloaded and installed almost 160GB of games from Steam and Origin, and all the downloads went smooth without any problem. At night I just queued up the downloads on Steam or Origin, and in the morning the games had finished download and were ready.

With GOG Galaxy 2.0, the experience was... URRGGGHHHH.

GOG Galaxy 2.0 was not able to download anything over 700MB without failing and stopping. Whenever a download on GOG Galaxy 2.0 failed and stopped, it could NOT reconnect and continue. GOG Galaxy 2.0 would remove the download, so I had to start all over again. I queued up the downloads on GOG Galaxy and went to bed, and in the morning almost all of them had failed and stopped. I retried again, and they failed ans stopped again. The failures and interruptions were not due to any problem on my end--because I had not had any problem with downloading from Steam or Origin, and GOG Galaxy 2.0 actually displayed a message that said their server was having some problem.

In the end, I had to stop using GOG Galaxy and just download directly from the GOG website. So... what's the point of even having GOG Galaxy?

And I am not even gonna get into how GOG Galaxy still lacks so many basic and important features and functions, like I can't even create categories to organize my games on GOG.

P.S. Didn't know about Playnite, but I'll check it out.

[uuuhhhh-Ghostly]

Автор сообщения: KT Chong

GOG Galaxy 2.0 SUCKS... actually, GOG Galaxy has always sucked, but 2.0 sucks more.

I recently bought a 1TB SSD that is dedicated to gaming. In a few days I migrated, downloaded and installed almost 160GB of games from Steam and Origin, and all the downloads went smooth without any problem. At night I just queued up the downloads on Steam or Origin, and in the morning the games had finished download and were ready.

With GOG Galaxy 2.0, the experience was... URRGGGHHHH.

GOG Galaxy 2.0 was not able to download anything over 700MB without failing and stopping. Whenever a download on GOG Galaxy 2.0 failed and stopped, it could NOT reconnect and continue. GOG Galaxy 2.0 would remove the download, so I had to start all over again. I queued up the downloads on GOG Galaxy and went to bed, and in the morning almost all of them had failed and stopped. I retried again, and they failed ans stopped again. The failures and interruptions were not due to any problem on my end--because I had not had any problem with downloading from Steam or Origin, and GOG Galaxy 2.0 actually displayed a message that said their server was having some problem.

In the end, I had to stop using GOG Galaxy and just download directly from the GOG website. So... what's the point of even having GOG Galaxy?

And I am not even gonna get into how GOG Galaxy still lacks so many basic and important features and functions, like I can't even create categories to organize my games on GOG.

P.S. Didn't know about Playnite, but I'll check it out.

Yeah, unfortunately Galaxy 2.0 has been a bit of a bust. I was on the Beta and when they released it to all of us, the Beta didn't have the ability to update. So I had to manually download the new one and uninstall the old. Luckily I am good with computers so I managed to save most of my settings and sorting/categorising work I had done.

It also loses access to Steam and other platforms on a regular basis. Isn't as easy to use as it should be and the development of it seems to have pretty much stopped. There are so many problems reported on their forums, that it feels like Playnite is the way to go.

[gamerz31w]

Maybe including Fortnite unofficial,opensource level editor speaking of Epic Games Launcher Digital Cybershop Storefront maybe not exactly in traditional way,but maybe more like it. Maybe I would add more playable characters in Space Jam A New Legacy The Videogame Fifi La Fume,Pepe Le Pew,Bimbette the Skunk,Babs Bunny,Shirley McLoon,Elmyra Duff,Plucky Duck,Buster Bunny,Hello Nurse,Minerva Mink…etc.
Game Launcher Creator Reddit brought me to here I mean to be aware of Playnite especially during cross-play platforming era.

[Gus the Crocodile]

Not sure what the point of a “universal launcher” is. That’s… Windows.

[gamerz31w]

I saw some comments of YouTube section below user BlazeHedgehog playing Jazz Jackrabbit 3D some people suggested to release and finish it on Epic Games Launcher Storefront-it’s a great idea same for creating GOG.com I have nothing against it)as exclusive. But I cannot understand AAA corporate companies CCP,Tencent,People Can Fly and Epic Games some videogames are re-released on PC Steam and GOG.com, but they are still wanting be release their exclusives from their point of view it seems they don’t care anymore no more after mainstream media hype popular fashionable trendy brand new indie game Fortnite Battle Royale about them those that they created from in the past,present and future. Speaking of of their classic IP titles.

[gugnihr]

The only launcher I accept is Steam.
To have games withlout any launcher and without the need of updates would be a dream, but in reality things are different. WIth games that can be updated several times and sometime for important reasons too having a launcher can be convenient, and so far Steam has been a very good one for me so I accept it, but other ones no thanks.

[gamerz31w]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZN-8VyUFPo
https://i.imgur.com/Ky5SdPR.png
Here's a proof more prooves even multiple ones than each single of them.
https://i.imgur.com/GQp8C79.png
https://www.jazz2online.com/jcf/showthread.php?t=19325
https://i.imgur.com/J4ffXR6.png
https://i.imgur.com/kJIzcWR.png
Any ideas how to make a replica of Epic Games Launcher Storefront? Because for instance,as an example alternatives such as Rare and Legendary won’t allow me to import some games such as Unreal 1995 Tech Demo,Jazz Jackrabbit 3D,Jazz Jackrabbit iOS Kismet Tutorial,Unreal Tournament 3,Unreal Engine 1(final build),Unreal Engine 2,Unreal Engine 3/Unreal Development Kit…etc. I guess Paragon,Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo,Unreal Tournament 4,Unreal Engine/Editor 4 is already on Epic Games Launcher. I guess I’m afraid cross-play platforming era wouldn’t solve the problem.
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/127975-creating-digital-videogames-launcher/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5IxyZ_hj54

[Captain Morgan]

Gog has cut off compatibility with windows 7, despite having been established as "good old gaming" (acronym), before. They are so low crooks and pretenders, that you insult your IQ by having dealings with them, as they are right now.

[gamerz31w]

I thought it standed for Good Old Games.

Автор сообщения: Gus the Crocodile

Not sure what the point of a “universal launcher” is. That’s… Windows.

Well it’s more like manual than automatical game launcher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv3GkzM-K5A

[JellyPuff]

Neither. I thought, it would be more convenient, but it turns out, that adding another launcher on top of other launchers, that have games that may also require additional launchers (got all that?) just makes it even worse. Like with EA or Abusisoft titles sold on Steam. I find even just things, like Steam+Origin less convenient than just Origin.

Not sure, how it's with Playnite, but the final nail in the coffin for Galaxy 2.0, is having a big library across all platforms. For my games library, it takes minutes to load the launcher properly EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. And that's on a SSD, because the reason is the platform sync. Not sure, why it's not cached and done silently in the background.

Galaxy 2.0 in terms of features is actually pretty neat. Definitely the best, after Steam. I'm just so perplexed by their decision, not to make a Linux version, despite selling games with native Linux-versions. And Linux-users love their frontends, so that's a huge wasted opportunity, to give it a legitimate use-case, by having one program to manage your non-Steam Windows-games, that you wanna play via Wine/Proton.

Edit: Would you look at the date on this thread.

[gamerz31w]

Автор сообщения: JellyPuff

Neither. I thought, it would be more convenient, but it turns out, that adding another launcher on top of other launchers, that have games that may also require additional launchers (got all that?) just makes it even worse. Like with EA or Abusisoft titles sold on Steam. I find even just things, like Steam+Origin less convenient than just Origin.

Not sure, how it's with Playnite, but the final nail in the coffin for Galaxy 2.0, is having a big library across all platforms. For my games library, it takes minutes to load the launcher properly EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. And that's on a SSD, because the reason is the platform sync. Not sure, why it's not cached and done silently in the background.

Galaxy 2.0 in terms of features is actually pretty neat. Definitely the best, after Steam. I'm just so perplexed by their decision, not to make a Linux version, despite selling games with native Linux-versions. And Linux-users love their frontends, so that's a huge wasted opportunity, to give it a legitimate use-case, by having one program to manage your non-Steam Windows-games, that you wanna play via Wine/Proton.

Edit: Would you look at the date on this thread. :stimulation:

Well yeah it’s almost 3 years old.
Anyway Playnite is free alternative of Game Launcher Creator.