Posted October 01, 2018
high rated
The "new and improived" site design looks like total a___.
A top banner, occupying 90% of screen estate with NOTHING? Excellent job! Dear GOG design team, if you wanted to send a message, that people without 4K screens aren't welcome here, you have accomplished that very well.
And did anyone mention the greatly improved screenshot gallery? The old one was a clunky Javascript-based mess. The new one does not even show up without Javascript, and it no longer can be scrolled by mouse at all. That's some *retro-design* for you! ("retro" as in "retrograde")
I also really like the way of thinking, that moves all unimportant stuff: ratings, user reivews etc. way below the REAL content — the "Buy now" button, system requirements and obnoxious "related games" advertisement (exactly in that order). Would it be possible to completely remove reviews from page? They don't really contribute to sales, and can even decrease them! Besides, increasingly more of GOG reviews are sponsored fluff, and why would anyone ever pay copywriters for that, when they can directly buy advertising from GOG Inc.?
In case anyone haven't detected sarcasm in above post, here is how one can improve a new site look: print contents of any game page on a roll of 2-mm thick draft paper. Roll it up. And shove it down the buttcrack of the person in charge of the designing this atrocity.
A top banner, occupying 90% of screen estate with NOTHING? Excellent job! Dear GOG design team, if you wanted to send a message, that people without 4K screens aren't welcome here, you have accomplished that very well.
And did anyone mention the greatly improved screenshot gallery? The old one was a clunky Javascript-based mess. The new one does not even show up without Javascript, and it no longer can be scrolled by mouse at all. That's some *retro-design* for you! ("retro" as in "retrograde")
I also really like the way of thinking, that moves all unimportant stuff: ratings, user reivews etc. way below the REAL content — the "Buy now" button, system requirements and obnoxious "related games" advertisement (exactly in that order). Would it be possible to completely remove reviews from page? They don't really contribute to sales, and can even decrease them! Besides, increasingly more of GOG reviews are sponsored fluff, and why would anyone ever pay copywriters for that, when they can directly buy advertising from GOG Inc.?
In case anyone haven't detected sarcasm in above post, here is how one can improve a new site look: print contents of any game page on a roll of 2-mm thick draft paper. Roll it up. And shove it down the buttcrack of the person in charge of the designing this atrocity.