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Posted May 11, 2015
Big changes are here.

My Account is the heart of your GOG.com experience. It's the one place that's 100% yours, and the place you always go to download your games and manage the entire library.
Starting today, your My Account is completely new - remade and redesigned from scratch to better support our growing library of games and many of your biggest requests. Aside from every usability fix we could think of, we've also introduced brand new tools to keep your library organised, and new social features to stay in touch with your friends.

The list of new features is long, but you can see the whole thing on our forums. The most important highlights include:

--Support for friends lists and chat.
--Shared wishlists.
--Advanced filtering and custom tags for your library.
--A new, detailed order history.
--Accessible game changelogs.

We're sure that these new changes will greatly improve your overall user experience on GOG.com, and we can't wait to hear what you think on the wishlist and right here in the comments!
Posted May 11, 2015
Needs better backgrounds. I was using the dark one because there's just too much white on websites. It really hurts the eyes as it is so I go for things that are more easy on the eyes.
Posted May 11, 2015
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GOG has taken away the only ordering I ever used - Manual Ordering. Like others, I now find that my tedious reordering after their "unbundling" , has been useless. It seems that as "improvements" are made, options are being removed. I really don't like this.
Posted May 11, 2015
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genkicolleen: There are some fantastic changes, but... Where are all of my messages? I had some game codes stored in there. ^_^;
"fantastic" , well you gonna cry, because your pasts PMs are in timbo for the moment ...

the only thing saved are the gog gift codes, since they are in the orders & settings tab.
Post edited May 11, 2015 by DyNaer
Posted May 11, 2015
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Djaron: one thing that really puzzles me is the way the library is displayed:

the library and the store have same design... and it is rather confusing...

I would rather like a clearly distinct design or display of my account library compared to the store (yet not purchased) stuff...

Also the gog downloader links that still are there are rather unconvenient now:
* bugged for some of them (initializing forever)
* separate webpage in same window (means you have to hit "back" on browser and redo the same sorting or filtering you were doing earlier
* no way anymore to see if an installer is the same for every supported langages OR if two distinct installers (and game version / revision) exist for two different langages...

Seriously, i like gog dudes (tech support is just flawless so far, and such) but who is the monkey you just hired as PR ? what is this "optional-but-you-have-no-other-choice-left-so-bear-it-and-shut-up thing" ?
Is it the same guy that said "hey, lets compete with steam on the stupidity and lack of ergonomy department", now we are on par "same mess on both stores, no need to go steam we offer the same frustration here" ?

In my world, optional means you have choice "not to" use it
In my job, BETA means "not good enough yet for official launch" and implies the need to KEEP the prior-beta state or tool working as before.
+1 to everything!
Posted May 11, 2015
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jester59388: A question for those who have successfully used tagging as a proxy for the old manual sort:

What if I have my games all sorted in the order I want them. Then a new release in the series comes along -- say Monkey Island 3. I want this next to Monkey Island 2 and before Tales of Monkey Island for obvious reasons. Does this mean I now have to go back and re-tag EVERY game that comes after it on the shelf to keep them in proper order?
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Olauron: You can't sort your games by tags. You can only filter them, hiding those that have unchecked tags.
Thanks for the response!

So it's even WORSE than I thought .....
Posted May 11, 2015
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DyNaer: "fantastic" , well you gonna cry, because your pasts PMs are in timbo for the moment ...

the only thing saved are the gog gift codes, since they are in the orders & settings tab.
Ugh.
Posted May 11, 2015
Ok, I am posting this again. Already mentioned it in the General forums post on this topic and I am not the only one to say this so far, and I know it will come up a lot, but I miss manual sorting already. I had spend time organizing my old shelf the way I wanted it to be. It provided a familiarity and sense of "home" when I logged in that is now gone.

The tags and new filter options are great. They can provide a degree of manual sorting. But if you can sort by Title and by Purchase Date, why can't there still be a Manual Order sort option?

The official posted reason for eliminating manual sorting was it being beyond their reach to implement to the quality they wanted. So GOG, if it is beyond your reach for now while adding other features that's one thing. Will it always be beyond your reach though? I would like to request it be re-implemented at some point once the newer features are stabilized. Maybe even just as an overall layout option? Not that I know anything about website development, but I could see a high degree of complexity perhaps in having manual drag and drop sorting inside every tag that people might make. But maybe it could still just be an option when looking at the entire collection layout? Like it was an option before?

It's seriously annoying to spend a bunch of time manually reordering titles just the way your want them to be only to have it all disappear. The tags and filters are great things to add but I had hoped they would compliment and add to, rather then totally replace, manual sorting. So please, if possible, give back manual sorting when you can.
Post edited May 11, 2015 by WalterwickJack
Posted May 11, 2015
Well, this is certainly a surprise. I don't log in for a couple weeks, returning to find pretty much everything has changed around here. And let me add a little bit of dissenting opinion; I actually quite like the new look of the account page. Although if I had to add a little bit of a complaint, it would be all the Galaxy stuff everywhere. I get you're trying to promote your new client application, but does it have to be so "in your face" all over the place? Also, the GOG Downloader functionality seems to be a bit broken for some games. Will that be fixed, or will the old downloader be phased out altogether over the next few weeks, in favor of Galaxy? And the update notification system is still as broken as ever, but that's hardly surprising, now is it.

Overall though, I see no reason why so many people are getting upset over these changes. They make sense to me. But then again, I didn't spend an ungodly amount of time manually sorting my game shelves. :-)

Remember, it's just video games, folks. Relax and have a good one.
Posted May 11, 2015
Really unhappy with the change. Managing my library of 1000+ games has become really cumbersome now. It's also really ugly in my opinion.

Appreciate the new sorting options, but I really I need an easily text-searchable option to see everything on one page, like the old list view.
Posted May 11, 2015
What's with this meaningless stuff about friend requests with no associated message?

I'd like to know why someone wanted me as their friend, and I'd also like the chance when I decline to say it's not them, it's me (I don't want any friends!).

Currently it all just seems so rude.
Posted May 11, 2015
anyway, one cant only rant all time, i also need to point out a few nice changes:

changelog for example, is a good idea

as a consequence for homogeneizing the design with the rest of website, and makes my account displays itself like "gog store", at least useful basic filters like langage, system compatibility and sich are available on my library... which is cool (now an ever more brilliant idea would be to create some generation/horsepower archetype machine based tags, based on the database of the system requirements)...

rollback (on galaxy, not on the website) is another good idea BUT then maybe making the previous versions available to download manually through the website without galaxy, using my account's new stuff...
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Posted May 11, 2015
Bulky and clunky as the rest of the site. I guess it has to be that ugly on the new GOG site.
But if it at least works stable I can live with it.

Some questions:
- Are the old conversations gone (without a forewarning as usual?!) or do you import them later?
- Is there an option to set the number of games / entries displayed per page? I would like to have them all in one page.
- Where's the gift list?
Posted May 11, 2015
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WalterwickJack: But seriously. Every privacy setting ever should default to the highest level of privacy at the start. Why wouldn't it be that way? Otherwise you are assuming I want to share my wishlist and chat with random people without actually asking me or getting my permission first. Don't do that. I do not want to do that. I want to have full control of privacy from the start.
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Martek: Fully agree.

If there's anything inevitable, it's that a website is going to mess up and change folks settings from the user-choice to the default (usually without a clue to the account holder that it happened).

So here on GOG when it inevitably messes up, it's going to be to a sucky less-private setting.

Thanks again GOG!
Yes! Social features are fine but don't assume everyone wants full access to themselves. Glad to hear someone else agrees with me. So many websites just assume privacy is not a big deal. Facebook is the worst example of course, they default everything to the most open it can be. Steam is bad too. They all have privacy settings but unless you preemptively check them you generally forget until you have a reason to wish you hadn't. It's disappointing to see GOG take this approach.
Posted May 11, 2015
Cool to see some changes in account system but can you please tell me where can I found former Messages? I used it as a reminder of usernames and some game-related information. Now I can't find it at all :(.

If I click on Chat, I get "You have no active conversations".
Post edited May 11, 2015 by Rinu
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