Damn, now that I have seen the supposed future Steam re-design, I don't even feel like complaining about the new GOG, because this is still leagues better than that overdesigned and busy UI that Steam is planning to go live with. What a shitshow on all (store)fronts.

I don't get it. Every store likes to overdesign and overcomplicate their stupid storefront and have all these OBNOXIOUS 'community features'. I just want to BUYYYYY the game. I don't want to have a picnic with 'fellow consumers', I am not hear to socialize, I am here to buy a game. I don't care that my friend is still playing Path of Exile, I don't care that xXGameGodXx is currently streaming Warframe, and I don't need half the screen taken up by a banner of the game that I could just peruse the screenshots of instead.

How about overdesigning the library instead, making it like a 3D VR shelf or something that my digital big box PC games are on, since digital games are technically literally worthless?

Nah, how about auto-playing YouTube trailers while I am just browsing the store. Genius, good job guys. Reminds me of how back in the day you'd go into a retail store and a flying monitor would swoosh by and show me a video of every game I show even a little interest in... No wait, that's not what it was like, it was just a bunch of boxes with names of the games, artwork and screenshots on them.

But of course, that's just too tame for 2019, how about we start playing those annoying YouTuber-like techno tracks whenever my mouse even slightly veers toward the game's thumbnail? Nah wait, that's still too quiet, we don't want people to fall asleep while shopping for video games, now do we?. How about we just have random Twitch streams open that show the game in action where some dude or dudette can't stop screaming while obnoxious techno tracks play over them.

Yeah that sounds much better than just having a store page have the "Name" "Release Date" "Description" "Buy" and "Reviews" on it. Glad we're innovating the concept of PURCHASING. A. PRODUCT. My God... Just take me back already when everything was more quiet.

I'll calm down now, sorry.

I see we still have no filters to clear up the clutter of DLC/Audio tracks/other not actual game stuff?

Sure GOG does not have that huge a library to browse, but why waste a potential purchasers time when they could be getting right to the things they might want to buy? Why carry on confusing them with near identical/identical thumbnails for things they have to click on to find out it is not what they want?

I really do not understand this refusal to even understand why this is bad practice.

Chiming in after a longer hiatus here (well, I'm purchasing the Warcraft games).

The over the top things of the initial 2nd redesign are toned down, but it is still really a chore to do some browsing.

Still no possibility to filter out my owned games, no possibility to sort by price (standard feature in other shops) and filter by discount. It is really telling that you are more or less forced to use sites like gg.deals in order to do such things.

I moved on, back to Steam with its community features. Valve treats you as a real customer there and there the page layout is not spiked with psychological tricks and intentional left out features to bait you into buying the same stuff again or to boost your web page tracking impressions.

Goddammit, didn't realize they actually got rid of that, this is so ugh.

I pretty much only buy older games here still; even if that's not their focus anymore, to remove that filter is just getting their system even less user-friendly.

At least going through my "good old games" bookmark still works for now (games released pre-2015):

https://www.gog.com/games?release=2000_2004,2005_2009,2010_2014,p2000&sort=date&page=1

Also, every time I go to the home page I check the "main event" and then scroll down through about 3 sections of bloated redundant recommendations until I reach the Now on Sale and Discover Games sections, which are still somewhat useful.

Wish it was streamlined without the bloat (see screenshot attached). Also the News section would be better in vertical, replacing the curator section in my opinion (which I don't care about).

So. where is the "Hide owned games", "show only discounted games" filter here, or the "sort by discount" one?

If you have 1600 games here, sifting through the store and NOT bumping in a discounted, not owned game gets a tad difficult now.

I for one feel like I am witnessing the slownigly decline of one of my favorite gaming / shopping sites .
There is somehow less useful information on the main page, these silly “curated collections that have been taking up space forever, and then having to scroll all the way down to the bottom for release info.

There were no updates for the spring sale, and I can’t find one for the weekend sale.
It’s like a personality is being sucked away from the site, and it’s becoming that “Not as good as Steam site”.

Which is just a shame.
I love the convenience of their drm free products, and theg used to have better deals.

But now, any game I purchase I have to make sure it will be supported here or else I may end up with another Armello situation.

I dunno. Unless they figure out what it is that made tge site unique,it’s only gonna gondownhill from here.
Copying your competition only gets you so far.

Front page, search button "Show more" it is LITERALLY next to the game on the left side
first chart, last point "REDUCED" aka "on DISCOUNT"

and all Games you already own are marked in the Page, yeah really really hard that they still show up as
"already Owned" yes

True it is different to STEAM, but i glady take those differences when i am allowed to OWN my fucking
games.

PS:
Oh and just saying, if you would filter for "new releases" or "coming soon" you would not even see your
games you already have. If you re searching for an OLDER game than i would advice you search it by
name anyway.

GOG's redesign is yet another illustration of the declining standards of web design (never great to begin with), and on some points crosses the line between "aesthetically questionable and annoying" to downright nonfunctional.

A few of my main complaints:

- Reviews are an utter mess. No line breaks (this is just absurd), ridiculous character limit, broken sorting and filtering (e.g.: my reviews disappear when choosing English language even though my GOG language is set to English) and no way for new reviews to climb to the top.

- The individual game pages now show gigantic banners on top of them which royally screw the layout. Not only they seem to display the ugliest artwork that can be found for each game, but they take an absurd amount of screen space, particularly on small resolutions or screens (mobile).

- Auto-play videos on mouse hover are pretty much the epitome of breach of web etiquette, barring auto-play on open (Steam, I'm looking at you). Whoever thought this was a good idea needs to have their head looked at.

- Search is extremely limited, missing the most useful filters (Genre and Release Date).
[EDIT]: as reported by GHOSTMD, not entirely true, as there's a Genre Dropdown, and you can sort by Date Added or Newest/Oldest. Still, there's no way I know of to filter by specific release dates.

- Layout is debatable, but news and sales should go to the top, or at least be more prominent.

- The screenshot gallery still has next screenshot arrows move with current picture size.

- "GOG Mixes", one of the few unique and attractive features of the site, were inexplicably removed. This was "compensated" by the addition of Curated Collections, a static, non-maintained and devoid of personality waste of page real-state.

- The account's "Activity Feed" now doesn't show the Reviews you write (its only previous useful function).

- Game classification sometimes uses an entirely different meaning for the genre titles that the rest of humanity (happens on Steam too, by the way). E.g., many RPGs and Action Games are classified as Adventure Games instead.

The web designers should get back to the drawing board ASAP because this is the kind of redesign that bleeds customers.

That said, if they do, please make sure they do not break the positive aspects of the current design. GOG's site even in its current diminished state is still cleaner, less cluttered and more focused than Steam (which makes finding a game among the deluge of crap social features and anime meme-games a real chore). The overall design doesn't need to go, just the bugs and questionable layout decisions mentioned above.

a litte correction to this paragraph
You literally have the Genres (sort) points in the drop down when you hover over "GAMES" button

in addition to this if you click on ALL GAMES, you have again the possibility via drop down Menu
to sort by genres (when you click again on all games next to your search bar.

For the release Date filter click on [Sort for: "favorised?"] drop down menu again
choose "Date added" or "newest first" there you have the sort by release date.

Hope that helps ;)

GOG has never been convenient, but indeed it somehow has just become less and less convenient.