A few months later closed alpha testing GOG Galaxy – customer service digital distribution of games from GOG.com company GOG Ltd., owned by CD Projekt RED, – entered the stage of an open “beta”. Anyone can already leave the application to participate in testing on the official site. The client is available in versions for both Windows and Mac OS, and will soon appear for Linux.
Getting public testing is timed to enter the most ambitious games of the Polish studio – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, a world premiere which will take place on 19 May . “With GOG Galaxy we can start to offer major new games on GOG.com, – said Piotr Karwowski (Piotr Karwowski), vice president of online technology CD Projekt RED. – The first major release will be The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which will be available automatic updates, achievements and statistics. In the future, we are willing to produce and fully support other AAA games ».
As customers Steam, Origin, and other digital services, GOG Galaxy offers the ability to install games with one click, automatic updates (this is now feature supports over thousands of games sold on GOG.com), the system advances, statistics (including the expense of time in the game), a list of friends and chat system of selection matches. Users will be able to chat with each other, to form groups and to be aware of what their friends are playing. In addition, some games support cross-platform capabilities for users of Steam and GOG.com.
In a short time the client will overlay, allowing to receive pop-up messages, chat and view statistics without leaving the game. Also, developers are planning to introduce the ability to invite friends to your game and join their game and be notified of the reductions to the desired game from the list and invitations from other users. Much attention is given to optimization of the creators of the client: with each update it will require fewer CPU resources and memory.
As you know, GOG Galaxy relies on the complete absence of DRM-free, therefore, in contrast to the above examples, Galaxy – customer optional. Members fear that automatic updates harm games can turn them off (and if the trouble has already occurred – roll back to a previous version). As before, games and movies are distributed without any copy protection, and not tied to the account. With other features GOG Galaxy can be found in the section “Questions and Answers” on the official website.
«We believe that quality is more important than quantity, – said Karwowski. – We are considering every feature, we decide how to do everything better. We also understand that people love the freedom of choice, so all of the functionality GOG Galaxy is optional. Making optional features, we motivate ourselves to make them even better – so good that you yourself would like to use them ».
While the GOG Galaxy is available only in English, but in the future, CD Projekt RED promises localize it for different regions. Russia – an important market for the company: to GOG.com well established regional prices, and last month the launch of the Russian version of the store with a Russian-speaking technical support and popular payment methods in the country. With this catalog of games in Russian, then switched to 150 projects, added six more names, including “Behind Enemy Lines 2 Desert Fox” and “Age of Pirates. Curse of the distant seas. ” Read more about the plans to promote the service in the domestic market you can learn from our interview with the Development Director Oleg GOG.com Klapovsky.
GOG.com began life in 2008 as Good Old Games, and got its current name in March 2012. Initially, the store can be found only old games, but later in his catalog began to appear popular new items, from August of last year – and even movies. Download games and movies can be an unlimited number of times, and allowed to keep them in any convenient way. Like other online digital platforms, GOG.com allows you to return the money for the purchase of detection of significant technical problems (the guarantee is valid for 30 days).
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