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Both the current site and the beta one show the games I have on Steam and GOG, but the launcher says that "We couldn't find any games associated with your account."

Why this difference? I tried both the stable version of the client - 2022.9 -, and the upcoming release, 2022.10-rc, and neither show my games in the client.

1. Should the GOG and Steam games show up in the client or not?
2. If not, why display them on the site at all?
 
You must have run the launcher from the desktop shortcut, which is a standalone mode for users who do not want to run Steam. It does need a separate game installation if used that way, and of your games showing here only Surviving Mars was ported to that platform. However if you are on Mac even that won't show as no Mac games have been ported.

GoG games will never show there as GoG do not provide any way of syncing game ownership to your Paradox account. The intent is you play them from Galaxy.
 
This should be made clear in the client - it's rather confusing. So is the client mandatory or not? I don't remember why I installed it in the first place - quite a while ago. I'm on Linux Mint.

By the way, I own Stellaris on GOG and it's displayed in the libraries of both the regular and beta version of the Parados website. That's because GOG offers a serial key that I used on the Paradox website to confirm my ownership.

P.S. Thanks for your answer. :)
 
The launcher is installed the first time you run any game from Stellaris onwards. All those games use the same launcher installation.

You can launch any PDS game without using the launcher, but you may lose MP and mod access depending on the game.

kneekoo said:
By the way, I own Stellaris on GOG and it's displayed in the libraries of both the regular and beta version of the Parados website. That's because GOG offers a serial key that I used on the Paradox website to confirm my ownership.
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That is the case, more or less by accident. But it does not work for all items, it depends on how those codes were generated - after all their only intent was to register games here on the forum. If you were to buy Overlord from GoG I don't think you'd see it there for instance.
 
That's really weird, to make the client be installed automatically while being mostly optional, but mandatory in various cases. If the launcher is that important, then the games from all the various platforms recognized by the website should just show up in there, installable and ready to run. Because why not?

By the way, is this just an informative discussion or is there any chance someone at Paradox takes a look at does something about it? It would be a shame for this to be a sterile conversation.
 
kneekoo said:
If the launcher is that important, then the games from all the various platforms recognized by the website should just show up in there, installable and ready to run. Because why not?
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Of all the purchase platforms only Paradox and Steam can sync game ownership to your Paradox account. Others like GoG and Epic provide no facility to do that.

The other point is that the launcher has two modes - standalone (when run from the desktop shortcut) which is intended for those who buy from our store and do not want to use Steam, and vendor-compatible when launcher from Steam, Galaxy, Epic etc.

In the standalone mode the launcher is also responsible for installation and patching; in the other mode it is not.

However run, the intent is you use the launcher so that you can do things like select mods, DLCs, some game settings, before starting the game. The alternative is either the way it used to be with each game having its own launcher, OR you do those things within the game so have to exit and rerun it each time you make such a change. Running directly from the executable is mainly for diagnostic purposes.


In general the launcher developers do read this forum. However Paradox have just started their annual summer break so probably not at present.
 
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