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[–] atempuser23@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The launcher that they have is pretty rough. I downloaded it for Mac OS and it just wouldn’t run right. Kept closing down. If I could just download right from the website they’d have some money.

If they draw is drm free games why only allow purchase through a custom launcher like everything else?

[–] Don_alForno 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If I could just download right from the Website

You can.

[–] atempuser23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

They do not make that obvious. I downloaded the launcher and when it didn’t work I bailed. I’ll check closer

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't use their launcher at all.

It's kind of a convoluted process but you can definitely download every game you own through gog without it.

[–] atempuser23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Thanks for that, honestly if I didn’t know these were drm free I’d be worried about them closing shop

[–] Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 5 hours ago

Same, they should just never have made a launcher.

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah galaxy is sadly a bit of a mess. Back when i was still running windows it broke its own update capabilities once or twice.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 15 hours ago

It also has a bad habit of keeping a zombie process running after you fully close it

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you not download from the site on mac?

[–] atempuser23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I’ll have to check. It seemed like downloads had to happen from the app.