True, that would be a neat feature and there's really a need for that, hence gogrepo.

When it becomes mandatory,then I will stop depositing money in their coffers.

Exactly this.

I think GOG is trying to now fill the "niche" of being actual competition to Steam. Like others have said, I say Galaxy's okay until it becomes a mandatory download like Steam, and I think GOG realizes this would be business suicide (at least currently; we don't know what may happen in the future). I still don't really know what advantages the Downloader had over Galaxy - was the download speed any better? Was the Downloader just simpler to use? I've heard that Galaxy can be thought of as a glorified Downloader if need be.

If you're actually buying games here regularly, then you're a little more okay by my standards. :P (I'm probably alone in that thought, though.)

If you believe anything that dip shit posts then I have a bridge to sell you. :P

I'm coming at it from a different viewpoint than you (slightly open-minded), because I haven't needed to rumble with him yet.

Let him troll you for three years and you'll change your tone.

Also, he is good friends with some of the most notorious scammers here so on a serious note, I SERIOUSLY doubt he paid for anything he has.

NES probably gave him most of his games. That's why he praised him in his forum title for so long.

Hard to push what doesn't exist.

Especially seeing as I'm on Fedora 25.

To me, Galaxy is essentially an application that is a web browser for gog.com with some bonus features that aren't easily (or possible) to do from within a webpage (at this point in time, sol-date 20170428). IOW, I can use any web browser for viewing my account at GOG's website or I can use GOG's application that has a web browser builtin for viewing its website (and no other websites).

As such, I simply use the default web browser (Safari) that came with the computer because its accessibility features seem more, er, accessible than other web browsers, especially more so than GOG's specialized web browser (within Galaxy) for their website.

For now, I'm using Galaxy for the same reason I used to use iTunes: I don't like the Finder or any other tedious file management software. I liked iTunes because I could associate information with songs, movies, digital books, and so forth without having to create a new directory by hand and a new document with notes and name it all and keep track of it all myself. iTunes enabled all of that association with its own database and providing an interface for the data. It was definitely limited by what text fields it offered, yet for me it was a major step beyond the micromanagement required when using multiple applications such as the Finder and word processing applications for keeping notes (lyrics, dates, singers, writers, etc.) about everything. (Disclaimer: I don't use iTunes anymore because I've lost interest in those other mediums that it manages and don't keep such stuff anymore; it's probably been a couple years. As for general file management, I now tend to use emacs and its "dired" command, it feels so much more capable and much less effort than any drag-n-drop application.)

I don't know anything about Steam. The one time I had gotten something (for free from within another game) I decided not to use the Steam key because I read in Steam's documentation that their application had to be running at the same time as the games. To me that meant wasting computing resources that I didn't believe my computer had available at the time. Besides, running two applications for the sake of one of those applications seems like a terribly inefficient approach, especially when there already is one application always running: the operating system. Just yucky. After decades of computer use, I don't like complications when having to troubleshoot what goes wrong, and something always does. Same reason I don't use web browser plug-ins or extension, they just become one more thing to troubleshoot.

With iTunes it was an all-in-one application, and admittedly that in itself could be consider a conglomeration of complexities. The convenience was knowing it was that application rather than having to figure which application or add-on (or both) is the problem when troubleshooting.

I look forward to Galaxy becoming more like iTunes, especially along the lines of personalized database and searching. In iTunes, it was possible to declare a different name for a song (or any item) for use when sorting it. For example, if the title started with "the" and for some reason that was not desirable as the first word when sorting, then a different title could be declared for sorting it without having to change the actual title. On the other hand, that could be done for each item as desired so something like "A Boy and his Blob" could be left alone. No over-arching algorithm that had to please everyone, but instead a flexible means for adjustment that I could do for myself, and no one else had to agree with me.

Anyway, it's clear to me as long as GOG provides account access to the games files by the means of their website, then Galaxy will clearly be optional because Galaxy itself has a built-in web browser to access the website for that same purpose.

I prefer modifying my view of information from the World Wide Web (à la intent of CSS 2.x for accessibility), and I believe the web browser developers these past couple of decades (over 20 years!) should have been supporting such an approach by making it easier to annotate and associate (and usefully cache) webpages from the WWW. Instead, nothing from web browser developers but novelty and performance rather than at the very least something like iTunes, but preferably way beyond what mere iTunes has provided for personal files.

As such, I'm hoping Galaxy will be more useful at least along the lines of what I experienced with iTunes because for now Galaxy fails as a useful web browser more so than regular web browsers (all of which to me are failures for viewing the WWW). At least with Safari I can at least easily set a stylesheet for which I don't have to dig around within its application resources, unlike most other web browsers. (And no, extensions are like plug-ins, they aren't really forward compatible because their developers are third-party (which means: it gets done much later, if ever at all), especially because extensions/plug-ins/applications/etc. aren't possible for development by the individuals that use them without the individual having to become part computer engineer themselves.)

In Windows 7 with Firefox I can have 7 consecutive downloads simultaneously, I probably could get more with a config change somewhere.