What's going on with Galaxy development? Seems like we haven't had an update in months.

I think it rhymes with butterskunk Bentley saintly cavern.

Lack of Galaxy 3.0 isn't a bad thing. At the very least it means GOG won't have to go through all 4,000 games and repackage everything yet again to upgrade all the older Galaxy.dll's for the "benefit" of people who don't want to use Galaxy anyway...

Hope they would improve it more.
Dunno why it drops linked accounts occasionally, especially steam.
Needs better tag system. Where I could make a list of tags and then just click on the tags for a game to set, no typing.
Maybe watch system for wishlisted games , even for other stores, I know this is probably too much to ask for.
and linux version for the hipsters

Galaxy dev posted this a few weeks ago...

"Next small, but requested feature is incoming in a matter of weeks, together with requested by community bugfixes and improvements. Stay tuned!

After that, we're focusing on potential improvements around integrations/plugins, download speeds, as well as wrapping up two big and shiny features - but they still need some more time to prepare."

https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/nkkika/development_of_gog_galaxy_20/gzf52k1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

good to hear
thx for the info

Aww, but I love redownloading 10’s gb’s of installers as there is no changelog, to get the latest version with galaxy requirements, breaking backwards compatability and creating a future where they may stop working altogether. That’s what offline installers are for! Currently developing drm free rootkit, to track cpu usage, so you can accurately check how much time you have played (and inject ads directly onto the motherboard). /exaggeration

You say that like it's a bad thing.

But no it isn't.

Galaxy updates are terrible. They totally ruined Galaxy with version 2.0.

The best thing they could possibly do would be to scrap Galaxy 2.0 entirely, and revert back to 1.2, then continue development on that.

There is no possible way to make Galaxy 2.0 good with further development, because it's rotten at its core.

I take it the Mantis tracker is no longer of use, and nobody ever found their internal git/svn repo?

They are using version control software, right?

Have you seen the state of game changelogs? I doubt they have even heard of source versioning.

Makes me wonder why the GOG Galaxy devs are posting on reddit but not a beep on GOG - their own store? Now they behave just like the devs who don't want to post here.

Look on the bright side at least it isn't reeeeeeeeeeeeeesetera.

what is that?

GOG and CDPR have very slowly learned (the hard way) over the years that publicly announcing what you're working on in terms of software, games, features, functionality in advance of having it done is a really bad idea because it sets up the public's expectations for you to deliver exactly what they think you meant by what you said and to do so on time and without problems. It's next to impossible to categorically meet hyped up expectations and so virtually every company eventually learns this and then silently shuts the hell up. :)

So I expect going forward that GOG is not going to publicly talk much at all about what they are currently working on with Galaxy or any other projects, and instead they'll most likely just go ahead and work on it and when it is eventually ready they will announce it either a few days ahead of time to get a small amount of hype going, or they'll just announce it as it is released so nobody has time to form expectations.

While there are pros and cons to this, I think the pros outweigh the cons even though I count myself among everyone else that likes to know about things ahead of time (it's human nature isn't it?).

The last real public information I remember hearing them talk about was how they're going to integrate Epic Games Store into Galaxy client. That will likely be the proof-of-concept test leading up to them incorporating Steam Store, Origin, Uplay, Microsoft Store, and then later on Amazon, Ebay, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist and Kijiji. "The Entire Galaxy of Online Shopping Options At Your Fingertips".

They will become the Amazon of Gaming. Remember, Amazon started out as a book store. GOG started out as a game store.

You heard it here first!

Small but requested feature must mean Linux support.