GOG investors

Please be aware that many customers do not click on advertisements in the installer because it opens internet explorer which is deprecated and thus potentially dangerous for the user.

This is bad for business as it leads to
1. less trust to the brand by your customers and
2. less purchases and that equals in

less MONEY

Two things:

1. GoG technically doesn't have investors - it's a wholly owned subsidiary of CD Projekt. CD Projekt is listed and does have investors.
2. Literally nobody has ever bought games based on adverts in the offline installers*.

To be honest, it surprised me that someone had even clicked the advert. In 12 years of being on GoG, I've never even considered clicking those ads.


* I'm aware that someone, somewhere may have bought a game by clicking through the installer, but I hardly think there's a tonne of cash sat out there with people going "oh, I really want to buy Gobliiins, but oh no, it loaded internet explorer and I can't be bothered to open a different browser"

Yep, it use Internet Explorer, not even Microsoft Edge, I don't know why to tell the truth is the first time I make click in an ad, often I just searf for the game manually of I see something I like it.

As was said way back when the OP made their post, this is amateur to the point of being b-grade.

It is a very simple thing to code for using the system default browser. In fact, it takes more effort to use something else. I can only imagine that whoever coded this behavior does not really understand what they are doing.

The only other excuse, would be one of extreme laziness. i.e. they tested only with IE and developed the page to look good in that only, never bothered with testing in other browsers and using browser detection code to adjust the look for each browser.

Probably another example of trying to be clever but ultimately being dumb.

So this must be the reason we do not have those ads in the Linux installers; IE being a Windows only browser.


EDIT: So this was wrong, sorry.

I know this is completely irrelevant to the discussion, but there have been IE versions for Mac and Unix as well.

Well, the IE thing is not a thing of GOG alone. We use PhotoScape in the company I work, and when I want to read the manual for it, which is only found online, it automatically opens the internet Explorer, although we use Firefox as standard web browser.
And this behavior is true for other programs as well. Even games do that.

Edit: corrected typos

No. It's because the linux ones gog had to code themselves, i assume. I've been told for a while now the Windows installers use Inno.

Except not quite.

GOG has happily been using the 2010 version of Mojo Setup for SOME REASON, without updating the installers in the slightest. Now with GTK4 on the horizon, those GTK2 widgets are starting to look hella outdated.

http://icculus.org/mojosetup/

(Addendum: Thanks GOG. Your reliance on BBcode made me edit this post four times to get it looking right.)

I can trump that one - the company I work for switched to electronic payslips a couple of years ago.

If you try these on Chrome, Edge, Firefox - you get an error message saying that you need to use a modern browser to access the payslips. Guess which is the only browser that works?

That's right - IE 11.

Even with this switch engaged?

Either way, it seems like fair reason to pass the concern to whatever middle manager made that decision or ate the vendor BS, cause IE 11 can't have long in support.

Learn something new every day.

Show them articles about IE 11's potential EOL. Remind them how they probably floundered when Flash got the axe. Tell them it'd be a lot more efficient in terms of long term savings and potential headache to switch and implement sooner than later.

Yes, GOG's windows installers do use Inno.