blotunga: I really don't like this sales format. It's chaotic. Most picks have the same things. Then some have weird things like Don't Starve and the DLCs separately, but not don't starve together. One I saw with Men of War Assault Squad, a different one with the GoTY version... and most lists togheter cover about 10-20% of all discounted games. I don't even bother to check for games which aren't on the wishlist (but might buy them even so if the price is right), to much of a chore. I wish GOG would have a proper long list with all the games which could be then sorted by discount percentage and maybe some other additional filters like a price range which is more complex than under $5.
I like the website layout and most of the features of the newer promos, but I have to agree with you concerning having 75000 lists of games by various curators etc. which mostly overlap each other with the exact same games. It wastes time to go through so many lists to essentially see the exact same sale items over and over again. For me at least, the random curator's names mean almost nothing to me as I don't know any of them from a hole in the ground, so it is just random lists of some random person's favourite games no different to me than a random forum member.
As a result, I didn't want to wade through how many ever collections are shown just to see if there is anything good as the categorization by "recommender" is useless to me personally, and I have only bought one game in the sale (for someone else as a gift) and got the free Rebel Galaxy.
At the present time there is no easy way for me to navigate the 1500 games on sale in the GOG sale so I probably wont be buying any unless I randomly happen to see one pop up on the front page in eyeshot that I want and like the price of.
Everyone shops differently, but if GOG would like to encourage me personally to spend more money during big sales like I used to do in the past, they need to provide a way to find the games I want to own without having to inconveniently navigate 900 pages of uninteresting stuff. One feature that I've requested previously (along with many other people) that would go a great way to helping me find games on sale that I actually want, is to encourage me to spend whimsically by providing a "sort by price" feature on every page on the site where there is a sort function, and to have it have filters to remove DLC, movies to just see games.
Steam has features like this and it makes it a breeze to navigate one of their sales, go to browse, choose games-only on the right side, sort by price low to high, then skim through N pages that fall within that "MUST BUY AT THIS PRICE OMG!" price range. Then I take a hop over to my wishlist and sort it by price also to see if any wishlisted games are on sale price low to high. Then I buy what I want and the whole adventure takes only a few minutes.
The lack of sorting by price on GOG is a serious detriment to my time. The money is here, it wants to leave my wallet but time is money and while I don't mind parting with the money, I do mind parting with the time. :)
I'm sure they'll implement price sort some time in the future, like maybe in 2024 or something though and I'm a "patientgamer" so I'll sweat it out with my backlog for now. :)
As for the inevitable "You can do that with Magog though...", yeah... I just have no incentive to do so. That's a pull action, I want push - I want it built into the GOG website and easy to use by clicking a single button, not on a 3rd party site I have to go to and muck around to figure out the right syntax to make the right database query and hope I got it right. In other words, just to be clear - I'm not having a problem that I'm seeking helpful answers to find an alternative way to get what I want - I know already what is available. Rather, I am saying the above to inform GOG that they can make their website more user friendly to people like me who want to spend money but want to not have to seek out a needle in a haystack to find what I want - in hopes their developers are listening and taking notes. :)
