MikeHattsu
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Nah, detected all mine, even ones I've not played/installed at all yet.
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Starting today you can import some of your Steam games into your GOG library
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Nah, detected all mine, even ones I've not played/installed at all yet.
Funyarinpa
Member
I think it might be that your profile is set to Private, I suppose that's why it gave me an error. I know account net value calculator websites and such need your profile to be public to see a list of your games, perhaps GOG uses a similar method.
Regginator
Member
sigh i still get the same error, but this time it says no eligible games are found but i do have shadowrun returns, vvvvv, saints row 2, and to the moon in my steam library, and my profile is set on public.
first it says it's searching for them:
but after waiting a minute or two it says:
first it says it's searching for them:
but after waiting a minute or two it says:
Stevey
Member
But what if GOG goes down?
Still gotta download them off the server, and Steams offline mode works fine.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
tioslash
Member
Don´t think that´s the case. At least not here. My Steam profile is set to Public and I have several games eligible on my library, yet GOG says "No eligible games found".
You can keep the GOG installers. Save them to discs or something if you don't have room on hard drive. Plus the versions on torrent sites are 1:1 to the versions on GOG for extreme cases. It's more future proof than Steam.
Dream_Journey
Member
I need to make this for Witcher 3 so I can buy season pass with much less price, please CDPR.
Lister
Banned
THIS! Surprised this isn't the case.
Regginator
Member
fuck it, i'm not even gonna try anymore today. i'll be back whenever
Coreda
Member
It's not analogous. Steam's offline mode only works once you've downloaded the game. If you've already downloaded the game from GOG you have it forever and don't need GOG for anything past that point.
The Galaxy client is purely optional. I'm starting to buy all my new purchases from GOG for the reason that it's mine to do with as I like and I can control the updates (and rollback), unlike Steam which doesn't even give the user the option with it's 'update or you can't play the game' attitude.
MrCunningham
Member
Same here. I take it that GOG's servers might be a little overloaded right now.
The same is true for any of the DRM-free games released on Steam though.
Pheace
Member
From what I remember you're still better off using the Gentlemen of the Row mod than use GOG's 'fixed' version as it still had issues. Think it works on both though.
I'm getting that as well.
ShadowOwl
Member
This is an amazing service but I really hope that it turns out way more successful than the Reclaim function on GOG: https://www.gog.com/reclaim
Not a single game has been added since its introduction which was over a year ago.
Not a single game has been added since its introduction which was over a year ago.
Coreda
Member
In those cases it's up to the individual. On the GOG side: control of updates, installers, rollback, extras; while on Steam: community, existing library, cloud saves, pretty much.
DownGrader
Member
And I realised I have more games on GOG than on Steam... Well, at least I can transfer Bit.Trip Runner once the service becomes functional for me.
With GOG, you don't need a client for that (you don't really need it for anything but online multiplayer in very selected games) - all installation files can be downloaded straight from the web site.
With GOG, you don't need a client for that (you don't really need it for anything but online multiplayer in very selected games) - all installation files can be downloaded straight from the web site.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
this is cool, but GOG needs cloud saves more than anything. I still weep for my witcher 3 save
runnin_blue
Banned
I don't think it's on GoG's end. It keeps saying that it can't connect to Steam's servers right now, try again later. Seems like it's either Steam itself blocking the request or whatever script page thingy GoG is going through to connect to Steam is going down.
DeviantBoi
Member
Added 7 games to my GOG Library.
Cool.
Cool.
MrCunningham
Member
Makes sense.
Englebert3rd
Unconfirmed Member
Hit the nail! It is basically like owning the game rather than having a license.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Was hoping Witcher 3 would have made it, like the first 2 games.
Oh weird, they already anticipated people buy games on Steam, linking on GOG and then refunding on Steam. lol
Oh weird, they already anticipated people buy games on Steam, linking on GOG and then refunding on Steam. lol
CrunchyFrog
Member
Hopefully it's a quick fix in the steam api because this will DEFINITELY be abused.
Can't get the accounts to sync either, can't reach steam servers. Doesn't show my steam account either, avatar is blank and still has the sign in through steam bit even though it says they are connected. I'm on mobile though
Funyarinpa
Member
Hopefully it will be something like Steam not showing the game as available to GOG until it is no longer refundable.
sixteen-bit
Member
Cool beans.
CrunchyFrog
Member
Thing is that the refund period is 2 weeks if you haven't played it, and from this thread it looks like most games are only redeemable for a few days.
Regginator
Member
they can delete it from your account and thus restrict you from downloading it again through gog servers. but the damage would probably be already done at that point, you'd have a "free" game. buying it from steam, use this gog connect to claim a drm-free version, refund it from steam.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Why would Valve fix something that benefits GOG though?
hemo memo
Gold Member
Me too.
Why do you think that? If you wanted to steal the games, I'm sure you can find them on file sharing sites fairly easily. It's more trouble to pay for a game, unlock it, and then refund it than it is to just go download it from somewhere.
GrantDaNasty
Member
Not bad.
Trying it at the moment, it seems to keep failing out but I'll keep trying, if only to get the working copy of SR2 (the GOG-updated version is still not available from Steam, right?)
Trying it at the moment, it seems to keep failing out but I'll keep trying, if only to get the working copy of SR2 (the GOG-updated version is still not available from Steam, right?)
Unaha-Closp
Member
I'm in the endless refresh loop - technology is a tricky mistress 