rjbuffchix: Has the new and improved* catalog search had any effect on anyone's boycott? I do not recall off-hand if anyone had been boycotting due to the old style catalog.
I used to be annoyed that I had to re-select "Date Added" in the sort setting every time I browsed (as I had gone through the whole catalog and was keeping track of the point up to which I had checked which games I was interested in so far). That's no longer the case because that setting was removed.
Instead I'm rather apathetic to the whole thing since I can't trust the sort order if I sort by "Release Date" (which is the closest match I can find) and thus would have to go through the whole thing again to make sure I don't miss something I really like. Maybe at some point I'll do that so I can get back to seeing if anything new should be added to my wishlist. In the meantime, while it alone would not have been enough to put GOG on my list of boycott-worthies, it has the same effect in practical terms, at least until I gather enough momentum to make the effort and resolve it.
But now it seems like the site at least remembers my sort choice. EDIT: Never mind that last sentence. It seems I was mistaken. It remembers my choice if I refresh the browsing page, but not if I close and reopen it.
At least they got rid of those annoying auto-playing videos. Those made me avoid the GOG store page almost entirely and only occasionally check back out of curiosity to see if that train wreck had crashed yet.
Vendor-Lazarus: Possible reasons for boycotting and customer protest: ...
Any I missed? Yes. Even if all of those issues and others mentioned here were resolved (and that's not to say all of them are necessarily things I care a lot about), if at that point GOG were still not communicating openly with their customer base I'd still be boycotting.