No one, specifically the long time users of this site, wanted GOG Galaxy at all.

Who was this marketed towards, why was this needed, how is this making more profit for GOG than what we had before?

If GOG Galaxy was inevitably gonna lead to this current predicement and future potential fears, why was Galaxy not killed in its crib?Where was the massive backlash against GOG Galaxy when it was first revealed?

Test bump, why is it that every time I make a thread I don't see it on the forums?

Invisible ink?

No. The recent controversy about installers haveing Galaxy showcases this: GOG has absolutely no clue what "optional" means.

Deleter's are getting faster with their new script.

No. The recent controversy about installers haveing Galaxy showcases this: GOG knows perfectly well what "optional" means. Which is why they are trying to circoumvent it any way they can, untill it becomes a purely academic metter and the pretense can be dropped altogether.

I had absolutely no problem with them having a client. As long as it was completely optional and stayed out of the way of the manual installers. But now they're trying to have the client encroach on the installers and it's irking me.

No one. That's kind of the point: they're not marketing it at anyone so much as banking on people lazily clicking "next" without thinking and ending up with Galaxy installed. Then they can point and talk about how great its attach rate is, presumably while snorting a mountain of DRM-free cocaine and recreationally drowning a bag of kittens.

(That's admittedly assuming that their motives here are less than pure, but I think the past half-decade of good news™ has more or less borne out that they very rarely are.)

Really you say? Facts don't support that... Those people above? The 300,000 people who watched this video and loved the idea. The nearly 700,000 people who played the Witcher 3 on Galaxy? Because people actually wanted it? It been a huge success for GOG? You really don't understand the current video game climate we live in. I get some people dislike the idea of Galaxy, but those people truly are the minority and those in the minority typically are the loudest voices.

But yea GOG is indeed making a dumb move with this installer drama... nice concept, poor communication and execution.

I'll play devil's advocate. I don't use Galaxy but I understand why they want it. A lot of it is to entice devs. Devs want easy online play and the Galaxy client provides that. It also provides easy online play for customers as well. Achievements also help devs entice customers who have an eye for that sort of thing. There's also data that devs might find useful like hours played and such - should they be given access to such data.

There's also stuff like cloud saving and rollback patches - stuff that offers convenience for customers. It was supposed to offer the benefits of Steam without the DRM.

As for why it wasn't killed early - it's supposed to be completely optional. Up until recently it was. Now it becomes more mandatory every day :(

isnt the presence of galaxy client files just there so when/if you do install galaxy, it makes transitioning to a galaxy install easier? you know, smooths out the process?

This goes beyond simply extra files…

i'm a long time user, and I wanted Galaxy...

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The forum is usually the minority opinion, not the majority. Because the majority absolutely love the thing. Unlike what you might be led to believe if you're extremely tech-savvy and spend your time around tech-savvy people, most folks are morons and need a client to do the handholding for them in terms of installation, plus it makes them feel comfortable as something recognizable and adds some (albeit limited) features on top of that.
Galaxy is actually very profitable and is a good move for GOG. Forcing it, no, but having it? Most definitely.

1. Galaxy.dll is no way going to harm your computer, I have ran Galaxy.dll containing games on PC's without internet and galaxy and have encountered no problems.

I am not going to worry about galaxy being bundled with installers.