Playnite vs GOG Galaxy 2.0

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

[Plaid]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από JellyPuff:

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

still relevant. Galaxy hasn't made many strides since then anyway

[uuuhhhh-Ghostly]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από 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.

You may as well use Windows 10 now. It's pretty much the same... and it's free.

[Plaid]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από uuuhhhh-Ghostly:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από 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.

You may as well use Windows 10 now. It's pretty much the same... and it's free.

The restored Win7 support since then (due to complaints). I doubt it will last much longer, though.

[uuuhhhh-Ghostly]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Plaid:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από uuuhhhh-Ghostly:

You may as well use Windows 10 now. It's pretty much the same... and it's free.

The restored Win7 support since then (due to complaints). I doubt it will last much longer, though.

That's good. I held off for ages and now I use 10, it's so similar, with a few interface option changes, I can't tell the difference.

[Mr. Tex]

For me the GOG launcher worked well with GOG (obviously) and Steam, but not so well with the others, it reguarily lost the connection to them for some reason or other, so I don't use it anymore.

[gamerz31w]

I think annually digitally you have to pay 20$ for Game Launcher as far as I remember. Since Microsoft bought Bethesda and own Id Software so I guess for instance, as an example Doom videogame series should be on Microsoft Store before Epic Games Launcher/Store was created Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney started complaining something about Microsoft UWP.

[Captain Morgan]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από uuuhhhh-Ghostly:

You may as well use Windows 10 now. It's pretty much the same... and it's free.

No, i may not! I like the older games in my collection and i still use DVDs, thank you very much! Windows 10 are incompatible with a wide variety of games and some more, even have technical problems when run on them. Windows 11 are said to be more intrusive and lots of people are sceptic against them.

Besides, i had been one of GOG's old fanbase members, those who believed in them and gave them both money and trust. Back then, they were a niche company, centered around older games, their main focus being "updating them to run on modern systems", be a *completely* Drm-Free distributor and offer a special relationship (honesty, transparency, listen to the userbase) with specific perks (old policies, both unofficial ones and core ones) presented to their clientele (like fair pricing system, one among many self-cancelled edges over all other stores). I was with them from the beginning, only to watch them pathetically reduce themselves into a poor, sorry state of base cons, cheap poseurs and pretenders, as well as betrayers of their own former identity and modus operandi.

I wouldn't ditch my older games, not even in exchange with all moderns and AAAs that i could get! Windows 10 stink. And they stink badly.

And what is free, anyway? Free equals to a trap, most of the times! I don't mind paying, if what i pay for is actually well worth it. Voting with your wallet had been our main motto, over there. Same value applies everywhere, all the way to windows, gadgetry, or even other stuff. I would gladly pay even full price to get something, whenever the free or discounted equivalent sucks, or worse, restricts my rights to use it.

[gamerz31w]

If what I know we have too much game launchers. Anyway can you tell me how to make replica of Epic Games Launcher?

[uuuhhhh-Ghostly]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Captain Morgan:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από uuuhhhh-Ghostly:

You may as well use Windows 10 now. It's pretty much the same... and it's free.

No, i may not! I like the older games in my collection and i still use DVDs, thank you very much! Windows 10 are incompatible with a wide variety of games and some more, even have technical problems when run on them. Windows 11 are said to be more intrusive and lots of people are sceptic against them.....

Well... they're the same for me. There's nothing stopping you from playing the old games through other means; or through a Virtual Box or something. Hell, I had two PC's. One with Win 7 and a new one I built for Win 10. I kept XP around just in case, too.

One good way to do it, is to build a small form factor PC with older components, with Windows 7 on it. And you can have a main PC for newer titles and other things.

A Windows 7 PC will eventually stop working for lots of Software and maybe even for the Browsers and essential stuff.

[gamerz31w]

Where exactly tech demo should be re-released on Steam or rather Epic Games Launcher Storefront?
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/jazz_jackrabbit_3
https://www.gog.com/forum/jazz_jackrabbit/jazz_jackrabbit_3_alphabeta
https://www.giantbomb.com/jazz-jackrabbit-3/3030-23497/

[Morkonan]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Plaid:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από uuuhhhh-Ghostly:

You may as well use Windows 10 now. It's pretty much the same... and it's free.

The restored Win7 support since then (due to complaints). I doubt it will last much longer, though.

Source?

Win 7, general, extended support's period is over. However, for some versions, like Win 7 Pro and certainly Enterprise versions, security support can still be in effect. (For instance, I still get critical security updates for Win 7 Pro on a machine I keep air-gapped. :) I just got a .Net secuirty update last week for that box.)

Enterprise editions, like what a large corporation or government might use, can have separate support licensing agreements. After all, some organizations still run Win 95... o.0 (I don't know they can even get "advice" from Micro$oft there, anymore. I guess some gov't and very large corps could with a licensed support program or something.)

Third-Party software may still continue to offer their support for older OS's as long as they wish. There are some that have very little differences at all between versions, like many browsers. Though, on OS's that aren't 64 bit, they won't reliably (or at all) run software designed for 64 bit and 32 bit apps are dying and 16 bit apps have coughed up blood for so long they're likely dead already...

[Plaid]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Morkonan:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Plaid:

The restored Win7 support since then (due to complaints). I doubt it will last much longer, though.

Source?

Win 7, general, extended support's period is over. However, for some versions, like Win 7 Pro and certainly Enterprise versions, security support can still be in effect. (For instance, I still get critical security updates for Win 7 Pro on a machine I keep air-gapped. :) I just got a .Net secuirty update last week for that box.)

Enterprise editions, like what a large corporation or government might use, can have separate support licensing agreements. After all, some organizations still run Win 95... o.0 (I don't know they can even get "advice" from Micro$oft there, anymore. I guess some gov't and very large corps could with a licensed support program or something.)

Third-Party software may still continue to offer their support for older OS's as long as they wish. There are some that have very little differences at all between versions, like many browsers. Though, on OS's that aren't 64 bit, they won't reliably (or at all) run software designed for 64 bit and 32 bit apps are dying and 16 bit apps have coughed up blood for so long they're likely dead already...

Go read their forums or install the client. I'm not doing the leg work for anyone

[gamerz31w]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Morkonan:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Plaid:

The restored Win7 support since then (due to complaints). I doubt it will last much longer, though.

Source?

Win 7, general, extended support's period is over. However, for some versions, like Win 7 Pro and certainly Enterprise versions, security support can still be in effect. (For instance, I still get critical security updates for Win 7 Pro on a machine I keep air-gapped. :) I just got a .Net secuirty update last week for that box.)

Enterprise editions, like what a large corporation or government might use, can have separate support licensing agreements. After all, some organizations still run Win 95... o.0 (I don't know they can even get "advice" from Micro$oft there, anymore. I guess some gov't and very large corps could with a licensed support program or something.)

Third-Party software may still continue to offer their support for older OS's as long as they wish. There are some that have very little differences at all between versions, like many browsers. Though, on OS's that aren't 64 bit, they won't reliably (or at all) run software designed for 64 bit and 32 bit apps are dying and 16 bit apps have coughed up blood for so long they're likely dead already...

For instance, as an example first these days, nowadays first I mean very old indie game one of them made by one of former Epic Games employees Clifford Bleszinski he made Palace of Deceit Dragon’s Plight and Dare to Dream I made my own online personal research you cannot even run it on PC DOSBOX not even on Virtual Box. Somehow I found Star Wars Episode I A Phantom Manace the videogame a 64-bit patch.

[iwem.xo]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από 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:

GOG Galaxy taking minutes to load and frequently losing library connections was a reason for me to stop using it too.
From launching Playnite to it being ready to use is about 15 seconds for me, with a library of about 5k games. No linux version though.

[gamerz31w]

Jazz Jackrabbit 3D is working great on Playnite.