kinky bastards
i bet you dress up as mice too ;p

Personally, I think GOG is doing really fine: they are gathering plenty of new games, both new and old, they were able to take on board both Disney and Warner Bros (I know that they are not releasing anythign that wasn't DRM-free before, yet they could have gone full-Bethesda and started to impose that Steam exclusivity crap even on older titles), Galaxy is looking promising and in a few years it *might* give back a choice to PC gamers.

I cannot really complain about the slow release of new patches, mostly because that's the publisher/developer's fault; given GOG processing times it is obvious that they will always come later than on that other service, yet the biggest delays are not due to that.

My only real criticism is about the website: I think we all deduced that they are waiting for Galaxy to be complete before rewriting the code, but right now it is in a pitiful condition.

I don't really miss Nordic games: I understand their motivations, but I still find them a bit weak. Anyway, I'm pretty sure they will come back, especially since the Euro's value is falling. For what concern the other game losses, that was due mostly to the usual Steam willful slavery (see Bohemia and Fallout).

Also, about regional pricing... well... if the economy in the EU keeps on like this, it may actually turn to be a serious advantage! :(

For what concerns the Community I should better shut up. I like most people here, but there is also an increasing number of awful, pretentious, rude and arrogant ones, and they are not all new users -I'll say just that.

GOG's overall current "direction" (why is direction in "quotes"?) seems ok. Keep up the "boutique store" as opposed to Steam's "walmart". That's definately a good thing. The movies seem like a good idea. No need to go too mainstream. There must be millions (billions?) of people who haven't heard of GOG yet and would happily go beserk buying all their favorite Good Old Games. As for the layout, lets just say there's still some people who feel nostalgic for the old style. BTW now we know where the green GOG logo went. And that's a very nice slate floor in the foyer!

I have been digging gog for a few years. It has done some mighty great things.
But just like Pierce Hawthorne in Community, at some point you have to realize that there's a limit to how long you can ride on your old achievements. ;)

Movies and site redesign are crap IMO but as long as GoG remains true to the mission statement I'm happy.

Like: new publishers, Linux.

Don't care: movies, Witcher 3, Galaxy.

Annoyed by: website (unresponsive, notifications issues, advanced search / filtering isn't very good, game categories / tags could use some work, why does the search function bring me to a new page only to pop out a windows of its own there). Edit: I forgot about the passwords on installers and reverse engineering controversies. Putting it here because there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel, let's hope it's not the Shinkansen.

Unhappy with: regional pricing, slow updates, GOG getting borked releases (I don't think that's their fault, but it's still something to be unhappy about).

Verdict: Their aura burns bright, for they released Mortal Kombat last night. (Cautiously optimistic.)

I have been on here for around 6 months now and so only been around in the time period the OP stated, mid-2014 until now. I have never seen the old GOG so cannot compare, but as a 50-something nostalgic old gamer I was excited to find this site with lots of games that I still own on floppy disc available to download and own. I didn’t like the idea of Steam and don’t even visit their site never mind buy anything from them. I suppose that, like anything, once you are used to something and then it changes you will find fault with it somehow. Not everything changes for the better does it?
I have had reason to contact Support once and they sorted out my issue within a couple of days but even in my short time here I have noticed an increasing number of issues with the site and players accounts. It seems to me that as GOG has grown they have been unable to keep up with the pace they have set themselves but seem to be addressing this with the recruitment drive.
I will remain here regardless of minor issues as it meets my needs of obtaining my old games in a format that I can now play again.

I'm inclined to agree on this, but there are some definite gems in there; some documentaries, like State of Play are actually very engaging and entertaining. However, I do think that the movies selection series suffers from lacking some definite "Gotta have it" classic titles, or titles of note. For example, I'd really love to see movies like The Wizard or WarGames here.

Thinking about this, I wonder if GOG would have done better to have put up gaming-related books and comics on its store instead of movies. I feel like there's a lot more diversity and breadth of good quality titles out there that are very relevant to gaming (as seen in the many gaming bundles put up on StoryBundle). Yes, it would be really nice to get more exclusive games, or at least some more modern indies. World of Goo and Bastion are nice, but these are some of the most bundled indie games I know of. A DRM-free release of Transistor would have been much more compelling for me. The fact that we've seen some exclusive releases with the Disney/LA announcement gives me some hope, but I wonder if the dearth of games from other publishers is due in large part to technical/performance issues, or if it is because it's technically unfeasable to separate them from their DRM components.

I think the biggest problem facing GOG right now is that the website and forums are in need of a serious overhaul; the trouble is that I think these issues are still only apparent and being noted by people who try to use all of the site's features (as opposed to more casual users who buy games and do little else). The forums, GOGmixes, account refreshes -- it all feels like it's old and falling apart. On top of all of that are some deeply questionable design decisions like the new UI for promos, which even smack of dishonesty.

Are you thinking of the slight furor that erupted during the Disney/LA releases? I think that came out of the fact that many of those games were well known for having good quality classic Mac ports that were on-par if not superior to their original DOS/Windows releases. In other cases they had ports for modern Macs that were already released on other DD platforms. The trouble was, many forgot that either (a) those ports were for legacy Mac hardware and software and could never be reasonably made to work on newer Macs, and (b) Mac ports were under the control of a completely different company (Aspyr Media).

All in all, I'm happy with what GOG has been doing, but if they continue to neglect the myriad problems with the site and the forums, it's going to start to be a more significant issue for them in 2015.

Happy about:

- Game releases mostly. LucasArts and now this WB were great news, and I am quite happy even with quite many indie releases, they also nowadays seem much more interesting than "yet another puzzle platformer". Things on this front look now much brighter than back when e.g. Nordic Games pulled out of GOG (and even they had later one more sale).

- The development of Galaxy shows GOG means business and is ready to compete even with Valve/Steam, and is not ready to thrown the towel in.

Concerned about:

- I am expecting the support for DRM-free installers will get a second priority to Galaxy releases, mainly meaning that there probably won't be separate DRM-free patches anymore, and it will take longer for GOG to update their DRM-free installers to the same patch level that Galaxy users already have. Meaning, game updates come first to the Galaxy client version of the game, and only later at some point to installers.

I can live with this though, as long as GOG makes sure the DRM-free installers will be updated eventually. What I fear most that there will be cases where the installer version will never receive the latest patches, but will be available only through the Galaxy auto-updater.

This is something that I'll keep my eye on, that GOG will eventually provide latest updates also to the non-Galaxy installers. They don't have to arrive at the same time and some update versions can be skipped, but eventually they should be on the same level.

Mostly indifferent about:

- The movies. In general I like the idea of downloadable DRM-free HD-level movies, but so far they are mostly documentaries that I am not that interested to buy/watch. A couple of real (indie) movies have come though, like Ink.

- Regional pricing. Yeah in general I prefer same price all over the world, but I am ready to pay a higher regional price rather than not having the game at all (DRM-free). In the end what matters to me how much I have to pay for the game, not how much someone else in Russia or Brazil has to pay for it.

Happy with quite everything, no kiddin'.
Gog provides the best releases ever and on time. This way, you don't have to be contaminated with daily trash others are trying to sell to you. Especially happy with expanding Linux support (a plus for me, not an ideology thing, no), movies (would be nice to see more genres), overall site design, etc.
The GOG staff is always there for ya (and they're great, professional and fun) which is a major plus for me.

Here's something I can't complain: GOG can't "change" currencies around the globe that much, and that hurts wallets for 3rd world people like myself. Would be nice to have an option for "accumulated coins" from all of your past purchases or whatever. I've bought so many games here, and having payed sometimes way more than others, well, I think it's fair to have some kinda extra balance, so I can purchase/gift more.

I think that's quite te opposite of what GOG's been doing. They're trying, I suppose, to cover most countries/currencies they can.
And you only say that because you don't live in one of these countries, right?

Personally, love it. We have in the last month gained access to heaps of LucasArts games (or is it LucasFilms?), and a few of the Lego games as well. Galaxy looks good for an early stage product, and I do like how it is progressing.

I'm another of the ones who think the films are not really my thing - but I like that they are here because this gives a platform for other people who do want to get hold of them to buy and watch them.

My only real complaint is the structure and lack of moderation in the forums, but that is not exactly what gog is about at the core. I would like to know that there are plans to improve matters here, but am happy to wait.

I think gog is going 2 steps forward and 1 steps backward, but still net a positive direction.
Love all the new-old games, specially all those lucas arts games. (which I just started Fandango! yay)

Dislike, ninja nerfs to our accounts (taking away of games/soundtracks/etc.).
I understand them being removed for all future buyers, but all the past buyers should still have access to what was advertised on the games store page. (I'm hoping this is a gltich).

Sure, the sites searching feature is still broken, and I think the forum is a big mess.

It seems like gog wants to go in a more social direction (more exposure = more potential customers), yet gog has SO little social features at moment.
Gog should also look into getting a chatroom integrated into their site.

They could add user profiles (hidden/private by default) where we can edit our pages that people can see.
We can list/hide our owned games, show/hide our wishlists, link to all our forum posts, personal info fields (if we want to fill em out), etc. etc.

Maybe even look into developing their own flash game or something (hey, why not make a witcher flash game).

A final note about gifting, it is nice people can select a game from a gift code now, but people can still redeem more games then they agreed upon.
There can be many systems in place to prevent this.
1) split gift codes, that add an additional .xxxx to the code for each game.
2) allow us to directly send gifts through gog, totally avoiding the use of the key in the first place.

Pretty swell! I confess to not being all that much of a hard-core gamer, thus there are piles of games through-out I've not yet gotten, which makes GOG a partial gold-mine, as these games come DRM-free. So, as long as GOG keeps the influx of games coming in, stays DRM-Free (Most important), together with customer support, I believe things will sort itself out.

About what kind of compatibility are you talking about? I usually see the Linux users asking why the Linux version isn't on GOG, but still present on Steam.