This is a valid point. If devs are releasing the game on GoG, they should keep people who don’t play with achivements in mind. That’s a game design failure I understand.
Achivements should be just a social layer, something you share about your progress, that was the point. If they are important for progression/gameplay, and you’re releasing on GoG, you should include it in game.
Because their LLMs suck, and they still want their devs to be productive, while watching their usage to train the internal models.
They give you a choice, and no one is using the internal models.
As a game developer, I kind of understand it. But, from desogn standpoint and if you’re releasing on GoG, you should keep people who play without galaxy in mind.
I’ve been kind of forced to use AI for my work, and since I had an unlimited access to whatever model I needed, I figured “why not try”. I was able to find my workflow that works, use it to explain the architecture of the code surrounding my bugfix/feature (I work in gamedev, on a project I’m only a contractor for, so I don’t know the codebase too well), make me a documentation, then draft a plan how to implement it. Implement it, then I just look through it for ideas, combine it with my domain knowlege to see if it missed any obvious things or solutions (which it usually does in a larger projects), and then build my own solution from scratch based on what I know, and what it suggested.
The part where it explains the architecture and data/systems flow is invaluable and it does make ot faster than I could have parsed through unknown code, while being verifiable enough to be trustworthy. It’s a good kickstarting process. Do I need it? Not really, but it would take me longer.
But. It eats tokens like hell. My average monthly token usage is around 800m tokens.
I’ve been told I’m not using the AI enough in my workflow, because I write my PR comments and don’t use AI for code reviews.
I’m seriously considering just leaving IT altogether. It’s just eroding my reverse engineering / codebase orientation skill, while I’m replacing it with something that costs the same amount as my sallary for doing it slightly faster/more easier, and the price will only get a lot worse. I don’t get it. How can’t they see it?? How can they look at “Oh, he’s costing us 2000$ a month in AI use [at current prices], but solves 3 instead of 2 tasks a week, while slowly loosing vital skills”, and say “that’s worth it! But he could use it more.”
I hate it. Fuck managment.
But in that case you don’t need the adittional layer of your platform supporting it, no?
The way I understand it, achievements are mostly a social thing, something you can just pop on to your gaming social profile that you’ve achieved. This is difficult/impossible to do without having the centralized profile in the first place, hence why it’s tied to Galaxy in the first place.
The games that want to use achievements as challenges within the game usually have a separate achivement menu/system inside them for that purpose, so they are tied in the game properly.
Achivements are features of the launcher, and not the game. How would it work in case of GoG games without galaxy? Where would you look them up? They could in theory just ship the achivement unlocking api with the base game, but then you don’t have a way how to view them.
My issue is mostly with their claim “we want and have the service we provide energy neutral”, vs " oh and we also use AI from companies that are using the power equivalent of a large city to power them".
Any enviromentaly conscious person should be against AI.
This is very similar to my experience.
I was a Kagi user for around 3 years, didn’t really ran into issues looking up stuff, but also never really had to compare it with other search engines. I found answers to what I needed, and it was a passable answer. Don’t need much else from a search engine.
I left when they started investing my money into muddying search with AI. Yes, you can turn it off. But that still means I get way less worth for what I pay, because instead of focusing the respurces on making a better search engine, they are focusing on AI.
I found out I’m ok with just using DDG or recently Ecosia. Both have AI, I can turn it off, but at least I’m not paying for it so IDC. In the case of Ecosia, at least they have a greenwashing twist as a bonus so I can feel better about myself, lol.
EDIT: Just to make it clear, I kind of trust Ecosia in their mission and I respect what their goal is, but I’m having a hard time trusting a company that adds an OpenAI-based chatbot to their site. They might’ve already changed it, but when they rolled it out and I saw the sentence “Ask our Ecosiabot about how to be more enviromental friendly” literally right under “This chat is subjected to OpenAI privacy policy” is so extremely ironic I lost a lot of trust in them. But still, at least they are trying to greenwash a bit.
Meta was spending ~300 MILLION dollars per MONTH on tokens around a month ago.
I know they are using Claude, so the price estimation of 5$ per 1M tokens is kind of true, more or less.
Tell me how is this sustainable in the long term?
In a 30-day period, total employee usage on the dashboard exceeded 60 trillion tokens, and the highest-ranked individual user averaged 281 billion tokens. Using the least expensive version of Claude Opus 4.6, which costs $5 for every million tokens, that one user alone could have cost Meta more than $1.4 million.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/09/meta-killed-employee-ai-token-dashboard/
Of course it will lead to reduced crime, and allow them to solve more of them. That’s kind of expected, when you can find and track where is anyone 24/7.
But then you inevitably get a far-right governemt, because that’s the rapidly rising trend all over the world, and suddenly ‘crime’ also means being trans, or feeding homeless, or not being far-right enough, or speaking up about how maybe we shouldn’t jail trans people.
10+ years ago, facial regonition like this would still be controversial, but you could maybe kind of have a benefit of the doubt that it might be worth the extremely reduced crime rate.
Now, when democracies are falling left and right and it’s only a matter of time when your country starts their own version of concentration camps, it’s a really stupid fucking idea.
So, fuck this bullshit propaganda piece.
Yeah, that was my point. There’s a whole part about them “taking privacy concerns seriously, but… [A lot of reasons why it’s actually good]”.
It doesn’t adress the issues I’ve highlited, and downplays them, and the general vibe of the article is " look, it helps solve crime, this is actually good"