If you look at the screenshot, there are some things going on that don't make sense. The screenshot is of my game page, and it is page ONE lest anyone think otherwise, I just don't know how to make a screenshot that shows the whole page and thus you could see the page number at the bottom.

But I choose OLDEST FIRST to sort by, and lo and behold one of the first games listed, IN THE VERY FIRST ROW, is Cyberpunk 2077. I circled the number of games just to point our that there is no way on this green earth that Cyberpunk 2077 is anywhere near the oldest, neither in terms of the game itself (which would be when it was released right?) nor in terms of when I purchased it. In fact, though I'm not 100% certain of this, in terms of release date Cyberpunk 2077 may be, and likely is, the NEWEST game I own and thus should be absolutely last, on the very last page, not the first.

I've tried sorting by all of the options and it appears to me that none of them are accurate. Okay, so gog's website can be a bit of a mess and I think we all knew that. But sorting, it seems to me, should be an easy task for a computer to handle. Is this the best gog can do after all of these years? Or would there answer be that well if you buy 1500 plus games you'll just have to deal with it.... which would seem incredibly shortsighted it seems to me. I would think they would WANT lots of people to own thousands of games. WTF is going on?

Also note the purple dot. Now this did in fact use to work properly. The purple dot would be there when in fact I did have an unseen forum replay. But that purple dot is now there ALL THE TIME. I mean jeez... instead of things improving it gets worse?

Come on gog, up your game a bit. I've been here since almost the beginning and it's been and remains my favorite place to buy games. DRM Free should be an industry wide standard and not just a policy by one web store selling games. But even though we support you. believe deeply in DRM Free, and may own many, many games, you WILL lose current and potential customers if you don't improve things. And I hate that. I just don't understand why any for profit company would be so cavalier in the quality of the product they put before the buying public.

I write all of this to, ONCE AGAIN (I've posted similar threads in the past) plead with you to once and for all make a choice.... decide whether you want to operate a web store or you don't. And if you do, then do what any other for profit business in the world would do, and put forth the absolute best product that you can before the buying public. I'm no programmer or IT guy in any way, but I am a consumer with lots of experience with web stores selling products and I know in my heart that you can do better than this. So either decide you want to have a web store and make it the best you can possible make it... or just close the damn thing down. Because even though I've posted threads like this before, this will be the last one. If things don't improve, then you are going to lose at least one very good customer who has supported you for almost the entire time you've been here.\\

Thanks for all the good times and great games, but it's time to pick up your game.

The only thing that disturbs me is that you haven't downloaded patches for 555 of your games. You're free to not download them, of course, but I download them all so I can choose the best version to play. It's not always the most current. Depends on the game.

Most, in fact a vast majority, of those 555 are not patches to games. They are new offline installers. They change them from to time because they show ads for games they sell while you are installing the game and they change them to include ads for newer games that gog has for sale and just to change them up. If you look at the screenshot below where it shows only the "updated" games, and almost every one of those games in the screenshot haven't had patches in years and won't be getting any new ones. Very few of the 555 are actually patches for the games.

ADDED: See second screenshot. I clicked on Dragon Wars as an example, as you can see in this example the update was not a patch for the game but it added the ability to have cloud saves (for those using the Galaxy client I would imagine as I doubt that cloud saves work when playing a game outside of Galaxy). I clicked on another game and there was no changelog at all, which is an indication that it was one of those "updates" I cited above, just changed the offline installer.

You can't always go by that. There are a lot of games we don't get change logs for, even though they've received patches. I could give you several examples. A recent one would be Airships: Conquer the Skies. Check here for updates to see if any games have changed or not:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread_part_2_the_search_for_more_updates

That one was started not too long ago because the original was becoming too large but you can see it here for any older updates:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread

We're supposed to download all those blue dots?

Why did nobody ever tell me?

They already have your money. I hate to be the one to point out this ugly fact, but it could be that they don't care about old customers like you. You are now dead weight for them, just clogging their bandwidth.

I'm joking of course, but there may be a grain of truth to what I wrote.

Oh FFS!

https://www.gogdb.org/product/1423049311#details

It doesn't have a release date internally. Although the package
https://www.gogdb.org/product/2093619782
does. Adalia Fundamentals helps with that.

Do you know if this is true for all games? It's difficult for me to understand why, if you don't include release dates in your internal database, that you would then decide to include a sort option based on.... release date.

This is precisely the kind of thing I'm talking about. You don't want to include release dates in your database but then decide to have a sort option for just that. It's like one hand not communicating with the other. Or, is this maybe new, and maybe when gog was first founded , release dates were included but at some point prior to Cyberpunk 2077's release they decided not to include them then if you change that "policy" then you need to change your sort options... sort of like if a restaurant decides to offer different entrees, then they change their website's (or internal paper) menus to reflect that.

I mean I've tried many of the sort options and it appears that almost none are accurate, except for maybe the sort option based on purchase date. That one does seem to be accurate, at least at a quick glance. And it seems to me it would be a wiser business decision to just eliminate those sort options that can't work properly due to what may be missing internally than to have them there and they don't work. This gives off a vibe to customers/potential customers that either you're running an incompetent business or you no longer have the resources to maintain a properly functioning webstore, either of which is, well, bad for business.

Many have release dates. In Cyberpunk's case, they added the release date only to the store package so it doesn't work with the search function even though it's listed in the store.

GOG keeps punishing their loyal customers and pushes us out.
That was why I stopped to spend any money here after I owned thousands of GOG games.
GOG hates us.

I think you are proving the OPs point here.

In general, no changelog, no update for me.

If it was an update you thought people would appreciate it, you would have advertised the fact.

If you update wiithout releasing information, I'm assuming it's advertising or telemetry in the short term.

Queen died in Balmora on the island of Vvardenfell in the province of Morrowind. RIP