Why can we still not just have the option to HIDE the games we already own from the list of games on sale?
FFS, you are just losing business this way.

For me,it is useful.

Please explain how not having the option to hide the games we already have on a sale is useful to you. I am very curious.

Don't know if it's possible/impossible but I assume it saves buying the owned game again.

I beg your pardon? Which part of my answers is TROLLING? Maybe,we could ask chandra to explain it as I am completely dumb founded by your accusation.

OP is most definitely a Steam user and incapable of basic reading skills. GOG lets you know if you already own a game because they label each game that you own "IN LIBRARY" while scrolling past everything in the store.

It could still be more visible though. It's not like it really stands out and as crap as the new interface is it makes quickly skimming the sales listings more of a headache.

It's just good interface design to have that stuff be easily visible at a glance.

I agree... Hate the new layout more than i did the crappy halloween sale.

First of all, do any other digital gaming stores have such option? Can you completely hide games that you already have on Steam or Origin sales, for example? GOG at least marks clearly which games you already have in your account, and that is good enough for me.

Thinking logically, a couple of potential reasons for not hiding them:

1. People still might want to buy them as gifts, but they don't see the games as they have enabled the hiding feature. Then they bitch to everyone how they wanted to buy a certain game to their friend but they were unaware it was on sale because they didn't see the sale at all.

2. Not sure how complicated it is technically to make. Does it break the web page view if you have games hidden here and there that others see?


Anyway, the main point I guess is that unlike what you claim, GOG doesn't really have anything to gain by introducing such a feature. You claim lacking such feature makes GOG "lose its business", but to me that sounds highly unlikely. At least to me the idea of:

"GOG doesn't hide the games on its frontpage that I already own?!? That's it, I am not buying anymore games from GOG! I'll buy them from Steam instead even though they don't hide the games either."

just doesn't sound very plausible. If anything, GOG might lose some business by introducing such a feature, see point #1 above.

My question to you is, why isn't it enough to you that GOG simply marks which games you have on your library already?

In the old interface, you had all owned games, clearly grayed out and separated byt an header:

* Games you own

In the post apocalyttic era, you got a miserable "in library" tag, with the same background as the tlies, that is barely visible, and make the whole game list a mash that you can't really understand.

This, discount the fact that now DLC and main games all looks similar. This way the barely visible tag is even more confusing: of these three titles, I own, one.... guess what ore the other two?

Is not a matter of "hide" owned game, but get them out of the way to focus on what new games I potentlally want to buy.
Is not a difficult concept.

What they could gain/not lose?
In may case, I stopped shopping at GOG, waiting for them to make some sense of their business.
If that will ever happen.

Worse, there's still no option to sort games by price. I've mostly stopped fuzzing over these things, as it's just not worth the trouble; GOG doesn't really listen to the users' wishes and complaints. With each new overhaul I get the feeling they just like to toy around with graphical designs, without really caring for functionality and what would be useful from the perspective of the customers. There are so many things that are sub-par or broken, but instead of trying to fix them, GOG just gives the site a new coat of (garishly ugly) paint from time to time.

So did you stop buying digital PC games full stop, or does some other store handle it better?

Quickly what I checked on Steam, in the search list view the already-owned games are not differentiated, but they have a small "in account"-icon in them, somewhat like the current GOG design. They don't differentiate the already-owned games in any other way.

I agree though that the old way of greying out the owned games and separating them in the bundle view was better than the current way. Then again I thought the OP was complaining how they are shown on the main page, but not sure. He seemed to indicate it has never worked well on GOG, so I presume he was not happy with the old way either.

Anyway, the most important to me is that the already owned games are marked somehow so I don't have to trying to remember them by heart or check them elsewhere.
I've had a completely opposite experience. For instance the "Galaxy embedded to game installers", which they first "fixed" by offering two sets of installers (one without the Galaxy installers, which was enough for me), and later completely getting rid of the embedded Galaxy installers, like people suggested in the beginning. I also complained about that but I did feel they listened to people's complaints, instead of e.g. saying "sorry but this is how it is from now on, deal with it".

Sure they haven't responded to and complied to each and every complaint or wish someone might have had, but then many of them aren't necessarily worth the effort. Like, the original suggestion in this thread. If they started fulfilling each and every user wish (regarding the web page and store design), many of which are contradicting, then this place would really be a mess.

To me, the first litmus test to all these complaints and wishes is, how have other digital stores (like Steam) handled them. If they don't have a similar feature, then maybe, just maybe, there is some real reason NOT to implement such a feature.

Putting aside whether it is easy or difficult to implement this feature (and whether other stores have it or not), GOG has a lot to gain by introducing a feature that will hide game already owned elsewhere from the front page, the sales page or anywhere else.

There are only so many items that fit on screen at a time. During a sale, which is more beneficial to GOG: having 6 out of 10 that I already own and 2 that I'm not interested in, or having all 10 that I'm potentially willing to buy because I've hidden then ones I don't want.

It's like in a physical store, the shop would be most happy if all items on prominent display are those that a customer might potentially buy; not something they already have. Only with a digital store it should be technically possible to tailor it to each individual customer.

As OldOldGamer said above "Is not a matter of "hide" owned game, but get them out of the way to focus on what new games I potentlally want to buy."

Was that what the OP was asking for? I thought he was asking to hide those items in sales which you own on GOG already.

If the question was about GOG hiding items you have already on e.g. Steam, Origin, UPlay etc... then that makes even less sense from GOG's point of view. Again, Steam, Origin or others would NEVER implement such a feature either, for obvious reasons. E.g. Origin hiding the games you already have on Steam, or GOG for that matter.