I don't want to sound harsh, but I do agree with a lot of others here : new design is kinda problematic for me.
Lot of others already explained well and in detail, but here are my main grips...
- First, main page doesn't works well now for me : things are missing/broken (I'm using latest version of Pale Moon). [see screenshot, where I'm at the very bottom of the page]
- Informations are a lot more difficult to see, browsing pages is such overflown by icons/images etc. In short, too much visuals and not enough emphasize on infos.
- On front page, the news (if I could see them) are almost hidden.
- Kind of the same for gamepages, so many space wasted (by big images, huge EMPTY SPACES everywhere), it's hard to really see quickly the infos you are looking for.
- And the reviews : you have again to scroll so much to reach them ! As often, information isn't easily reachable and readable.
- On gamepages, the small pics showing the game : it would be nice to be able to see bigger images when hovering with the mouse and not having to click.
- In the catalog, not showing name of games is really an issue, you have to mouse over the images who don't have titles or the ones who have the same image [see my screenshot from your "Jump around" curation list].
In very short, I find now that relevant informations are now a lot harder to find/read, and browsing asks now for a lot more scroll & mouse movement. Which is annoying...
Of course, fortunately, some things have improved (like the reviews where you can filter things and sort without needing a script) :)
Sure it is a lot of work doing this kind of redesign, so courage to you GOG, and I'm sure things can be improved to please a lot more people.. But please, don't forget computer players who browse the site... on a computer ;)
So I hope you'll hear us and will be able to improve this !
Certainly a "stupid" idea but... why not proposing the option to have a "compact"/PC version of the site (to the choice of the user), with, at least, less space wasted/misused and infos better presented ?
ReynardFox: This is an imbecillic design decision that seems to be happening everywhere, removing easy to skim text labels and clear information and replacing them with heiroglyphs and vague imagery. I have no idea why this has become the trendy way to style a program or website...
Tablet/smartphone design and endless scrolling are for me two real issues nowadays on the web. So many mess to browse some pages now (and even to understand
where you have to click sometimes) !