Aside from the rather noticeable increase of load times, I'm being more and more annoyed by several specific issues:
1. The images for games listed in the "Discover Games" (the element that was, on the old page, nicely balanced by news section right next to it) are too damn big, and take far more space than the "old" listing. GOG might as well hire Limp Bizkit to produce its own theme song: "Keep scrollin' scrollin' scrollin'". What's ironic is that all this white space is not even utilized properly in case of longer text, which is simply cut off, rather than continued underneath. There's plenty of white space there.
2. News section being dumped all the way down, and changed into pictorials. I get that the newer generation can't be bothered with words much, but the old approach allowed maximum information within the same page element boundary. Also, personally I find the side-scrolling annoying as hell, but that's just a very personal gripe. The side-scrolling doesn't exactly provide an immediate indication of time progression the way the old stacked design did, either.
3. Curated collections - not something I used even on the old page, but there it took nowhere near the same amount of page space. Moreover, it did not subordinate anything of value (to me) in the old design, meanwhile pushing News all the way to the bottom in the new one. Not to mention that it was not so aggressively "in your face!" graphically presented, either. FFS, I don't need half the screen of a banner for somebody's "curated" advertisement.
4. Beyond the main page - the game pages are also mis-designed now. Whereas the old design was very compact, and allowed immediate access to all desired information (screenshots, system requirements, partial overview of the game, and REVIEWS all within the same screen range), now it takes scrollin' scrollin' scrollin' to see either system requirements or, heavens forbid, reviews.
Honestly, GOG, fire whomever was responsible for this part of your re-design (if not all of it). While the main store page has serious issues, the games' pages have been outright broken by somebody apparently unaware of basic design principles taught in Layout 101. What's more absurd is that they had a perfect template present in the old version.
Lastly, the whole "mobile" look of things is just plain ugly.
Post edited October 06, 2018 by Lukaszmik