I see: so this is a similar case to Gearbox screwing up Duke Nukem (that still makes my blood to boil. Lucky for abandonware pages who preserve it.)

I am glad to hear that they still offer all the old versions for Simon The Sorcerer, and to know it is not GOG's fault.

But still, nothing changes that the owner for the 25 th edition screwed up this. I actually own both games for mobile, but I don' t understand them on a proper computer!

And I am still jumpy by the fact that GOG stopped offering older games. I did like the fact that they offered newer games too, but the situation right now is totally unbalanced! Specially taking into account that since GOG appeared a lot of abandonware websites suffered or stipped offering games. If they dissapear and the internet archive closes it will be a very dire situation! I never expected GOG to stop increasing its classics library.

Kind of though I don't know if AdventureSoft still owns Simon or if MojoTouch brought it.

I actually said to MojoTouch on the Steam forums of the game (as they are active there compared to here) that they would of done better to just release the game on Steam as it was here (ScummVM, original) and keep that version here as well, than bothering with a 25th Anniversary version. That post got deleted though, and I got a temp ban in the end. (As I said alot to MojoTouch about their blatent cash-grab (I called it that to them as well.)) I just echoed what was said here when the game was released, by others and myself there, and how I felt after playing through it.

Also GOG havent stopped with the older games, sure I would like more as i'm not really intrested in all the indie or newer games here (I have Steam for that.) It can just take time. There is a load of older titles out there though, so they have no issues running out of games.

My only real complaint about newer design choices is the video previews. I want a quick description including genre(s). I don't want to wait for a video to load, then wait and watch through enough to get an idea of what kind of game it is.

it is good to have a redesign once in a blue moon to try something different people are starting to forget waht old websites look like a old website from 1996 that still works > https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

could you imagine trying to use a site like for today?? i don't like 100% of the redesign either but i'm glad there doing something at lest using all frames like this?

You use examples of bad design. It was already bad back in the days. Not because it old.
Good Old GOG site still looks good. But new design looks very appropriate... for porn site.

I feel like communication is non existing again, can we get an update please as to when more changes may roll out or what they might entail?

Reviews still haven't reinstated line breaks.

Someone from the community made a fix for this (among many other things) months ago. So it probably shouldn't be THAT hard to fix it. Am I to believe that gog simply doesn't care?

# of games owned is still displayed next to reviews, with no option to opt out unless you want to forego any and all community features other than the forum and chat. I get it: privacy is for squares. But I'm a square and I'd like to turn this nonsense off. How many games I own is nobody's business, least of all the business of strangers on the internet.

Have they gone back to using that nausea-inducing slow zoom of the top attraction on the front page? I'd thought they'd gotten rid of that shite.

I'm a long-time gamer (FPS included) and I don't get motion sickness... but that front page effect is making me want to hurl.

Dang, man. All the more reason for them to change. Less zoom, more search options on my part.

Oh man, that screen capture of GOG's original beta design just gave me a nostalgic rush.

It's funny, when I first joined GOG and saw that beta label under their logo, I thought they were actually pretty damn polished and the website felt tightly designed. It didn't feel like a beta, not to me. I know the team was no doubt smaller, but it just feels like as GOG grew more and more they slowly slipped back into beta.

(Flashbacks of checking GOG's news and forums constantly while replaying Blood, Phantasmagoria 2 and Beneath a Steel Sky thanks to them!)

The only major problem I have is with the auto-playing video, but they're not alone, every site with a video embedded in it uses that horrid auto-play feature and I wish they'd all stop for fuck's sake!

EDIT: Oh, wait; it only auto-plays when you're touching the banner...