I really miss having GOG as an everyday stop. How many months has it been now? For any of the countless reasons listed in this thread, what used to work great on my chosen gaming OS and browser no longer works much at all. Half the panels are blank; news is utterly missing; list changers are non-functional, etc... I can't even browse on my phone because: laggy touch interface + giant panels that launch links due to aforementioned laggy interface +extremely long load times = massive frustration rage-exit. It all kinda gets in the way of spending money, y'know, GOG?

How much, I wonder, have they lost in sales as a direct result of breaking the website? If Amazon made such a blunder, they'd have the site fixed within two hours. This remains a massive WTF.

It is months now. Why no genre? Why during sale "on sale" page is empty time to time? News still on bottom of page? Can this poor excuse for new design crawl somewhere and die, please? We are customers, not beta testers. Can you please unleash you creativity on them? They surely can feedback you about news on bottom at alpha stage.

This so called new design oriented on mindless click-happy teen buyers. It is abuse to loyal GOG customers and sabotage to GOG site functionality.

Bring back Good Old Games. Stop trying to be Steam. When I come to GOG I want to party like its 1995.

That's true but by far not the only possible explanation why GOG is so slow in changing things. For example, it could also be that they are loosing customers but just are a bit incompetent. Not saying they are, just saying that they could be.

The mindless masses will always massively outnumber an intelligent, discriminating crowd. That's not a problem as long as the target is a niche market and a stable, loyal audience, and of course definitely not when it's a matter of values and not profits and growth above all. But when the parent company demands you cover not just your but also their expenses, shareholders just look at the bottom line and you decide to ditch any niches and stability and aim to become the main competitor of the biggest general-appeal force in your industry...
The incompetence is rather a staple though, guess something does remain stable. But if back in the day it was more forgiving and perhaps even somewhat endearing, making them more... human, now it just adds to the frustration, or downright anger.

I don't understand the difference between the sort options "newest first" and "date added". They give different results, but semantically date added and newest first sound identical.

The New Releases tab with sort order newest first has a Larry game on top, Brothers in Arms at place 5, Cultist Simulator at place 7 and Atom RPG at place 12.

The same tab with sort order date added gives Cultist Simulator at place 1, Atom RPG at place 2, Brothers in Arms somewhere at place 13-15 and Larry nowhere to be seen.

The newsfeed which is hidden somewhere at the bottom of the main GOG page that kind of also informs of new releases seems to indicate that the date added order is actually what I want. I want to have a list of the latest and newest games.

Actually I want to have a list of full games recently released in release order only and would like to filter OSTs or DLCs away. It seems like there is no way to achieve that.

I'd assume that date added refers to date added on GOG and newest first refers to release date... if it'd work.

Nice to see they still haven't fixed the broken frontpage when a sale is going on.

Nice, I still have to login using my laptop to access the giveaway.

GOG, your site is the only one I have encountered to date that actually breaks on this browser, the only one. I'm not giving up my Firefox ESR with all its myriad of plugin features that no modern shit-ass, Chrome brown nosing browser supports just for GOG.

Your people need to just admit that they are completely incompetent at web design.

I agree with you both and I think that is what always happens, when I small company has "big players" within their management who think they are destined to become the ruler of all game selling companies. And I'm sure on top of that GOG eomployed the most cheap workforce there is. What will you get from them? Incompetence and straight up lies like "we are working on it". If they work even slower, they might go back in time.

That might not be a bad thing :))

Good Old GOG .... (GOGOG.com)

Actually I just found something worrying, even if happened time ago.

After formatting my computer I wanted to reinstall Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2 and by mistake (happens a lot after redesign) it went into the shop page.

Not only it prompted me to the crappy 25 year edition, but I noticed they DELETED the original game, leaving the "remastered" editions as the only choice.

The old games seems to be on the extras, but gone are the Linux and Mac versions, leaving only the windows version for this very inferior port designed for mobile phones!

Not only they screwed the website, stopped adding old games, but they are also killing support for other platforms and replacing classic games with other versions.

This really sucks. I wish GOG never sold out to those idiots. If they wanted to do such a platform why they wouldn't start a new project and stop messing with the previously perfect GOG?

If you had the original versions (got them before they got removed) then they should be in your library still as seperate games. (And the OSX and Linux installers are still there.)

If you own the 25th then the originals are avaliable as downloads for OSX & Linux. (They are under extras for the 25th Anniversary editons.) But the 25th is Windows only, blame that on the developer not GOG.

As for deleting the game, GOG had no choice. Its upto whoever owns the rights to Simon, if they want the original gone GOG has to remove it. (A bad move, as the 25th sucks anyway.)