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General discussionAnyone disliking the 'new' GOG ?(1532 posts)(1532 posts)
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Posted October 06, 2018
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torham: The site is just not ready, on top of being ugly and slow many aspects are just plain broken on Firefox ESR. What I don't understand is why it was pushed out in a half completed form, what possibly could have been the rush?
Well you have to arrange yourself to the new page layout; since the last overhaul (release of Witcher 3 and GOG Galaxy) they don't care much about user feedback.

I also used to look at the news section every lunch, guess I have to come only for bait sale promotions ("weekend sale: wowza up to 90% discount (for one shitty game everyone already has, the rest is mostly marked down about 20-30%"); but even these I wont care anymore.
Post edited October 06, 2018 by coffeecup
Posted October 06, 2018
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Cavalary: There are 50 / page, so at 3 / row you're left with 2 on the last.
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djoxyk: maybe because of the filter? when you have in on/off it uses different number of items per row
Ah ok. So I suggest they take 48 games on one page, that fits for 3 or 4 columns. Im just intuitive used to think a page is the last page if last row is not completely filled.
Posted October 06, 2018
Is there a userscript that let you hide the " Curated collections " from the front page ?
Posted October 06, 2018
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djoxyk: maybe because of the filter? when you have in on/off it uses different number of items per row
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surfersurfer: Ah ok. So I suggest they take 48 games on one page, that fits for 3 or 4 columns. Im just intuitive used to think a page is the last page if last row is not completely filled.
perfectionist in me also displeased by that empty spot :)
Posted October 06, 2018
I guess it looks more 'modern' and I'm not used to that yet.
There are plenty of things I could nit-pick on, but I won't.

But I think it's a shame they failed to actually improve things while they were at re-designing the site.

- At least for now the news are hidden at the bottom of a very long page.

- There is still no filter for owned games.

- While they added a drop-down for various editions they still show up separately in searches. The more editions and DLCs there are, the more 'shelf-space' the game will get.
Posted October 06, 2018
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surfersurfer: Ah ok. So I suggest they take 48 games on one page, that fits for 3 or 4 columns. Im just intuitive used to think a page is the last page if last row is not completely filled.
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djoxyk: perfectionist in me also displeased by that empty spot :)
the gap makes me nervous ^^
Posted October 06, 2018
Without manual sorting, I'm very sad that I'DONT SEE longer the games in the same series (on the right), the series members release date in sort, etc. This is a joke or truly make the creators of GOG the site to a digital labyrinth?! (and the main title video; lot of scrolling, unnecessary big pictures/letters... ehhhh :( Words to the waste... )
Posted October 06, 2018
As I mentioned a few times before, I used to love staring at game pages, read about them. Now, the new game pages give me a headache. Literally. I realized I can't look at a game page for more than 2 minutes anymore.

Also, I sadly noticed that GOG no longer stands for Good old Games. They clearly stated that in both the GOG 10-year history and the front page. This was what we had feared when classic games like Baldur's Gate and Planescape Torment left the store but we had hope. Sigh.
Posted October 06, 2018
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Engerek01: Also, I sadly noticed that GOG no longer stands for Good old Games.
I understand this to be the case now, but I'm curious: What does everyone else call it? I pronounced 'GOG' as 'Good Old Games'. Do some people read it as /gee oh gee/ or perhaps /gawg/?
Posted October 06, 2018
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Engerek01: Also, I sadly noticed that GOG no longer stands for Good old Games.
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Dryspace: I understand this to be the case now, but I'm curious: What does everyone else call it? I pronounced 'GOG' as 'Good Old Games'. Do some people read it as /gee oh gee/ or perhaps /gawg/?
They haven't stood for that since March 2012, spelled out clearly then and since. And they seem to pronounce it gee oh gee, yeah.
Posted October 06, 2018
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Engerek01: Also, I sadly noticed that GOG no longer stands for Good old Games.
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Dryspace: I understand this to be the case now, but I'm curious: What does everyone else call it? I pronounced 'GOG' as 'Good Old Games'. Do some people read it as /gee oh gee/ or perhaps /gawg/?
Well it can stay the same GOG can also mean Good ( Great) Other Games: thats also GOG and maybe more variations are possible.



about the current WIP:

im not against any design ( i am against the extremely bad STEAM client that has updated to become a bloated overweight client instead of a simple fast user frienly client and it only gets worse)

Back to the layout :

It takes time to get used to the new ( partially finished) layout , i do feel its 'crowed' its very colourful and you get lost easily in all the DIV elements cause there are too many of them.

Anyway i am not a designer but the layout needs lots and lots of work to make it really fast, accesable and userfriendly.
Posted October 06, 2018
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ZMacZ: Sorry to say this, but what I just experienced on GOG.com
is just about the same thing as on Outlook.com..

A 'new and improved' version, which takes much longer to load, and even at times
doesn't even follow up on a click..

This is NOT good, and this is not GOG..

GOG is supposed to be and STAY a simple site that sells software..

No long load times, no bells no whistles...

or at least make the bells and whistles optional..

I liked the fact that when I click a picture it took less than 0.1 sec for me to get an enlargement.

Now it's 1-10-never seconds.

A simple description of the game shouldn't take 10 seconds..
It should take 1 second tops..
And that was what was, but not what is..

Really ???

If you guys oughta know by now, some people don't look for change...
Like me, faster is better, and that's just about the only better we like..
More bells and whistles ? No-effin-TY...

Plz, make the new thing go away, or make it part of the client..
Don't crap up ur site like so many others..

- unhappeh bunneh..
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Yes, agreed... it's turned corporate UGLY style in your face slowwwwww crap,
Posted October 07, 2018
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i_hope_you_rot: Is there a userscript that let you hide the " Curated collections " from the front page ?
For all their other mistakes and bad decisions, the Curated Collections sidebar is structurally correct, so it's actually easy to hide. You can use a single CSS rule to hide it, or use a userscript to add that CSS rule. The rule you want is:

.container--two-columns__child--curated-collection{display:none !important;}

As a user script, it is a bit complicated because of a bizarre decision to use an iframe for their own content, so the style needs to be set inside the iframe, not on the main document. This works for me at the Firefox console when viewing the root page:

{ var d = document.getElementById('js-promo-iframe').contentDocument; var h = d.createElement('style'); h.textContent = '.container--two-columns__child--curated-collection{display:none !important;}'; d.body.appendChild(h); }

It should also work as a user script.
Posted October 07, 2018
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Is there no way to get the store page as a simple text listing anymore? Really hard to browse a lengthy list of games in grid view, made even worse by the puzzling decision to display the actual names of the games only on mouseover (to say nothing of the autoplaying videos upon doing that).
Posted October 07, 2018
I like the timer for the sale ticking down high up on the front page. Clear and easy to see :)

News would be nice to have higher up on the page though.


And please remove the number next to my reviews, showing people how many games I have. I have my settings set to a combination of "only me" and "friends only", and strangers shouldn't be getting that information.
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