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Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by super256 on Monday December 29, 2025 @12:59PM (#46423320)
I bought from GOG once, and downloaded their launcher. Then, I started the game, played for maybe an hour, put my PC to sleep and went to bed. Then, the next next day, I resumed my PC from sleep, closed the game, and because I didn't like it, decided a few days later to request a refund.

The game had 26 hours or so logged, because Galaxy has a poor way to log hours. Apparently the interval between game start and game end is the time you played the game.

The support declined my refund request, I tried to explain that I didn't even get the achievements of after the tutorial and that I could impossibly have played that many hours because I was simply not on my PC.

The gist is: If you buy a game from GOG which you might won't like: NEVER download galaxy, only the offline installers! I didn't do that because it was too convenient to download their launcher, as the offline installer of the game I played (Baldurs Gate 3) was split into many, many files, which I would have to download one by one and install them all by hand.

Still sour to this day that I have not gotten my 50€ back. Steam never had such issues for me, and even if you can at least ask their support to escalate the ticket so someone from L2/L3 or even engineering looks at your ticket.

Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by d-lisp on Monday December 29, 2025 @03:51PM (#46425486)
You do put your PC to sleep without closing your programs !?
Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by super256 on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @01:09AM (#46430098)
Yes! That's exactly what the sleep mode is for.
Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by d-lisp on Thursday January 01, 2026 @07:12PM (#46459742)
I am not an anxious person. But that thing, "waking up sleeping computer with programs freezed in it", makes me anxious.

I just can't...

Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by super256 on Thursday January 01, 2026 @08:20PM (#46460278)
You better not buy mobile devices a la steam deck or laptops then.
Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by d-lisp on Friday January 02, 2026 @07:45AM (#46464227)
You're right, I

    sudo shutdown now

Every time before closing the lid of my laptop...
Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by super256 on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:35AM (#46466478)
Is there a rationale behind it, or do you just feel that way? I have never run into issues with this, and real coding bugs like the one in GOG Galaxy, where play time =time_process_end - time_process_start instead of continously sending heartbeats like steam, are probably a bigger issue.
Re:GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What ... by d-lisp on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:52PM (#46469842)
I think I fear system instability and its consequent (probable) problems.

Sleep does a lot of things, a lot I don't necessarily understand, all the OS layers are stressed at once, and with them a whole lot of other things, bith software and hardware related. Are all the drivers of your system trustworthy, are all the running applications trustworthy ? Are we sure no data loss will occur ? Will you lose audio, wifi, display or excessive battery because of a race condition or an error of some sort in an element of the whole involved stack ?

Most of the time everything is fine, or is it ? Maybe your computer will hit kernel panic after two hours or so, and you will have hard time figuring the real cause and origin.

tldr; I think it scares me because it increase the probability for the system to surprise crash at a very crucial time (while compiling something, in between two saves of a text buffer, during a write to disk...)