By default, we have our Galaxy page open to our posts, which are as sweetly sublime as we are DDG.

Yeah, I remember the time they had that charity sale with like 1700 games or something, and I bought it, and then I had to figure out where they all went, as they weren't with my regular purchases. Figuring out their site is like a little game in itself!

EDIT: On the other hand, it turns out I was kind of glad they weren't just thrown in with my regular purchases, as I did want to keep those separate.
I know you weren't addressing me, but:
I'd like a darker theme available for nighttime viewing. Other than that, I really don't have a big problem with it other than maybe it's trying to do a little too much on that one page. That's a good point. GOG needs to keep in mind that there are always new young people getting into gaming that may not already know everything we old-timers take for granted.

There was a silly joke when I was learning English and it said that only members of the royal families and people with intestinal worms use the plural when talking about themselves. :)

I've always put any storefront in 'useless' category.

I head straight to 'new releases', or 'wishlist'. No idea why would bother with some pre-selected items on the store front, when can head to section I'm interested in and grab what I want. Much faster and cleaner solution! Only drawback I see, is total absent of titles I'm after in both sections... Oh well...

Oldie, but a goodie!

Good point!

I agree to the sentiments of disappointment voiced here to some extent.

First of all the new colour theme GOG is applying everywhere is not my cup of tea. The Grey, Green Yellow theme was better. But it's subjective.

The lack of a dark theme is a horrible thing.

The organization of the front page is so haphazard.

The screenshots viewer in the games' pages are clunky.

Visual elements appear to be a little to big on both mobile and desktop; but a little worse on the desktop.

That may be a misconception.

The majority of GOG's current customers might not even care about DRM-Free.

GOG of course, would know this better than we do, so we can only surmise or guess at the likely numbers.

It is certainly very evident, that they only push Galaxy and a certain usage of Galaxy, which is not at all DRM-Free concentric.

They talk about Game Preservation, but in reality it is only from their perspective. If they die, the true reality is that only those of us who downloaded the Offline Installers are the true preservers. GOG enabled that, but they don't encourage it, quite the opposite now.

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Eh ... if GOG's main selling point isn't DRM-free, I have no idea what it is then.

No that's silly, nobody would be here (except for the occasional GOG only release) if the games had DRM, it is and will always be their main selling point and difference compared to other, MUCH richer catalogue-wise stores

"Old games that run on modern systems, especially exclusives, and sometimes with modernized aspects included (like RE or Diablo or Dino Crisis" - something like that perhaps.

Of course I don't think gog should drop the installers, I just suspect a sizable amount of people, if not a majority, still shop here mainly for the "Good Old Games" and not so much for DRM-free. I believe a staff member mentioned a few years back that gog estimates only about 5% of people download the installers; that said I recognize that Galaxy is prominent with the big blue button and the installers are hidden away.

Gog might be kinda weaselly at times like Cyberpunk piggy map dlc, but they surely recognize - especially after Hitman goty - that explicitly dropping DRM-free / installers would be a massive pr nightmare.

Ultimately Gog is a company who of course wants to stay open, and not a non profit or similar.

You may say that our democracy is being tested, but you have mixed up the cardinal points.

It's also, on its own, not a unique selling point. Zoom-Platform has old games that run on modern systems, including exclusives (and in my experience are more active than GOG about updating them to make sure they continue to work, though that may have changed now on GOG with the Preservation Program improving several old titles' functioning...that said, I also read Preservation wasn't so helpful for Dragon Age: Origins).

Of course, "DRM-free" is not a unique selling point either, as several smaller stores are DRM-free. What's more, some of these stores are purely 100% DRM-free by my standards, whereas by contrast we have Galaxy requirements for multiplayer, Galaxy "MyRewards", Piggyback Interactive Online Map, et al, here. Some of those stores have DRM-free offline installers too; and, again, ones that are in my view superior since they have less "bloat" of Galaxy files.

I don't have a way to word it that isn't a tad clunky, but GOG's unique selling point has to be derived from a synthesis of these topics we are discussing so that it actually stands out and stands alone. Currently, GOG is the only place to get DRM-free offline installers of games that a large amount of people would agree are major releases (not a synonym for "AAA", but more in the sense of content-filled or instantly recognizable "must-buy" titles).

My personal taste is such that I would consider many releases on Zoom or JAST USA to be "major" too,:but in terms of defining it for GOG I am thinking more from a mainstream perspective. For example, Hardwar was perhaps a "major release" in the context of Zoom customers and some DRM-free enthusiasts, but it was not on the level of something like Resident Evil releasing here. That, Dino Crisis, Diablo, Warcraft, were major releases for GOG.

However it may be worded, I believe the front page should highlight that this is the only place to purchase what I just described. It would also be useful to revive the FCKDRM awareness campaign in conjunction with this strategy, to help explain to customers what DRM-free gaming is and why this is the best store for those who are interested in DRM-free versions of the most significant game releases.

Of course, and I know you are aware of this so I'm just pointing it out to others, Galaxy requirements (which infest countless games on this store) failed the "checklist" on the FCKDRM campaign page as to what is DRM-free and what is not, so I am not expecting the campaign to actually return.

Edit: clarified a definition

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