Hi,

I've given the new UI a deeper look, and navigated the website a bit more.
First thing first: I don't expect GOG to change UI after my observations, but I think I have to make them.

Perceived philosophy behind the changes: The new UI, especially around the new games, is strongly inspired by Steam, along the new review filtering and sorting.
This is both good and bad.
The bottom line here is: do your own thinking and be critical.

NEW GAME SECTION

1) The moving/zooming images of the recently released games is ok.
1a) If you move the mouse over the headline, the first picture/video from game gallery is shown. I guess this is made, principally, to show a video.
1b) If the video games is old, the crap graphic will badly contrast with the nice Headline picture
1c) If the element of the gallery is a video, it is auto played.
Proposal: I would provide some clearly visible space, not cluttering the headline, where I can scroll the game gallery in preview.

2) Between the new releases and the "What's new" there are 4 games. What are they? New? Old? Middleaged?
2a) They manage to create a log of confusion on a page that should be clean.

3) What's new...? But wait... what are the games above? Old?
3a) That is absolutely confusing at what I'm looking at. Some of the "What's new" games looks old releases.
3b) Why Airships: Conquer the Skies is in this section? A new, major update have been released, so is warranted the "new state"? That badge it!

4) Pathfinder is at least in two sections, for example. Do I really need to have it all over the place?

5) Following "what's New" we have New (again) / Populare / For Me and Curate collaction
5a) The UI is too large and sparse. It is not clear what I'm looking at and, to me, I see repetitions.
5b) Curated collections? What it should mean? By who? By what? Who define sword and sorcery?
5c) Upcoming. Why Xenonauts-2 is the hedline, while all other "Upcoming" are not?

6) Many people are interested in sales. Where are they?

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I'll make a second post for the storage page.

No, they make me dizzy. I think I'll use my adblocker to get rid of them.

Uff, I thought only I felt dizzy when I watched the start page.

No it's not only you.

The first and most important rule of web design is: nothing on your page shall move, flicker or make sounds unless the user clicks on it. If your web designer doesn't know that, hire someone else.

This time Gog didn't screw up their pages as bad as some other times (or, more likely, I'm more jaded) so I'm not not as vocal against the new UI as I was a few other times. But this new layout is definitely worse. Everything is too big, you gotta scroll A LOT, and the news section is restricted to a handful of posts.

This last point is extra annoying to me. Sometimes I can't look into new releases too much during the week so I just ignore them until the weekend, when I check out the past few days' game cards and the release threads. Now that it's restricted to 12 entries I'm bound to lose stuff.
Thankfully Gog's forum software is very complete so I can just filter by type of thread: Blue(official) and sort by date of the first post, right?

Oh wait, no, I can't do any of that. Thank you Gog. You make it harder for me to keep up which means it's more likely I won't buy your stuff because either I won't see it or I'll decide it's not worth the annoyance of trying to find it.

Edit: Oh and I hadn't even looked at the game pages when I wrote this comment. I could probably fill 10 paragraphs more on that. But credit where credit is due, the new options for review filter and sort are a nice upgrade.

I wasn't yet succesful with it. When I inspect the element with Firefox I can easily delete it but only until I reload the page. When I try to select it via uBlock to ban it permanently I block half of the page with it. I'm not an expert on this, so i'll probably wait for the weekend to figure it out

I'm not entirely sure what kind of giddy people you are to just get dizzy over a series of shifting and zooming images. I'd actually suggest looking into therapy/treatment.

I suppose I should note, I'm probably cheating a little.

It's the same by me and Chrome. Maybe GOG fix this soon :).

Yet, still, there is no link to the forum from the game's store page!

Why GOG? Why cannot this thing exist?

I also dislike new UI, here are first impressions:
Fist there is a lot of unused space on game page and you need to scroll down to find every single thing the you want to read about a game.
Second when you check some of collections like these 3 collections for 10th anniversary you don't have any indication if you already have some of those games in library.
Third when you open game store all games are showed in a grid and there is no option like before to sort them in a List.
It's clear that this UI was work of some1 who newer buy games on GOG. If you want new UI at least hire some1 of your clients/gamers to design it.

New UI is bad, can we put it to a vote to bring back old GOG UI?

No way of easily seeing if you have purchased the game before, other than an BUY AS GIFT

If only such bold instructions existed for DOWNLOAD WITH TROJAN GALAXY I would probably be OK with it.

Also, as I have previously complained about, there does not seen to be any indication that the game actually exists (NO PREORDER WARNING)

This must just be me, but just to confirm. Does anyone else get a permanent "Add to cart" overlay that obscures the video? Can't find a way to remove it. Screenshot attached.

No, is for everyone.

Obviously GOG will not go back to previous UI, but they will improve this one.

I'm also aware the 1st never makes perfect, but is now a few iterations GOG makes rough updates to their intefaces.
I strongly hope they learn something new each time.
Unless, the people behind the UI design are always new, as the old one leaves.

Have you ever seen Memento?

GOG reminds me of Memento.

Now.. where was I?