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New features, local currency option, new payment methods, store credit, and an updated look for GOG.com!

For almost six years now we strive to bring you not only the best in DRM-Free gaming, but also to give you the greatest experience possible. To that end we're always looking for ways to improve our site and service. Today, we're rolling out a vastly updated version of our store with an improved interface, sleek new look, and lots of handy new features. Let's take a quick tour, shall we?

Video: Welcome to the fresher, better GOG.com!

First of all we are giving you more DRM-free content: movies! We are starting with 20 documentaries about internet and gaming culture but we aim high! You can find more on this in the appropriate newspost, so let's focus on the other features we're rolling out.

We wanted to give you more choice as to how you pay for things on GOG.com. Now it's up to you if you want to pay in US Dollars, or in the currency primarily used in your country, whether it's the Euro, Pounds Sterling, Australian Dollars, or Russian Roubles. That's four new currencies supported by GOG.com for your convenience. Still - the choice is yours, so if you want to stick to US dollars, just switch to it - you find this option at the bottom of each page. To make buying things at GOG.com an even more flexible process, we're introducing some new payment methods: Sofort, Giropay, Webmoney, and Yandex.

All this also means that users for whom the local currency pricing has been enabled will have an option to select one of two different prices for each game in our catalog. Of course, we stand by the simple truth that $1 does not equal 1€, so a game with a $5.99 price tag will cost 4.49 Euro, 3.69 British Pounds, 6.49 Australian Dollars, and 219 Roubles respectively. $9.99 translates to 7.49 Euro, 5.99 Pounds Sterling, 10.89 Australian Dollars, and 359 Roubles. In a perfect world we would apply the same method of pricing to all of the games we offer. However, things are a little bit more complicated, and there are some games in our catalog that follow a different region-based pricing scheme. However, we wouldn't be GOG.com if we didn't find a way to make right by the users who end up paying relatively more for such titles. Here's where the Fair Price Package comes in!

The Fair Price Package applies to all of the titles which we couldn't include in our standard pricing scheme. If you end up paying more for a game than its standard US Dollar price, we'll refund you the difference out of our own pocket. The refunded value will be added to your account in Store Credit in the currency of your purchase. That's right, no more gift codes, you'll be getting Store Credit that you can use to purchase anything on GOG.com or partially pay for an item that's more expensive. More choice, ease of use, and less limitations!

Finally, the GOG.com store has gotten itself a substantial visual revamp. We went for a fresh, mobile-friendly design that should make it even easier to find the games you want, notice the hot promos, and see what's new. The main page, catalog view, product pages, and checkout have been updated and also lay the groundwork for even more overhaul, coming within the next few months together with many of the GOG Galaxy features. We hope you like it!

PS. Unfortunately, we need to drop some titles from our classic catalog. In such cases, we always do our best to give you an advance warning and a last chance to purchase such games - preferably with a considerable discount. Check this news post to find out which titles are being removed from our catalog, when will it happen, and what parting discounts for them do we currently offer.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by G-Doc
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ChristerDoo: HAAAAAAAAAAATE the 'new and improved' GOG... which now must stand for Grey On Grey....
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jefequeso: Well, we know it doesn't stand for "Good Old Games," since they sell Postal 2, they sell new games, and they sell movies.

My guess is that it stands for "Groundhog Orifice Generator."
As Judas made clear, it stood for grumpy old gamers but now it seems to have changed to grey old ghouls or glory of grey.

The notification system worked exactly once since the horrible site overhaul, there was one time when a new thing in my account was displayed as a hideos grey 1 in the bar besides the area where something was new, all the other times the bar stays bleak and I have to guess and search what might be new (reply? message? game update?)...
Post edited August 28, 2014 by Klumpen0815
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..eve.: What a shame. GOG is getting slick, cold, mainstream like all the others. What so many people here have listed, I completely agree. Also the pricing went back to different prices for different countries dispite the recent shitstorm bout this decision. All prices are shown in Euros now. Sure, they offer a discount for my next buy. I still don't like this.

I miss the old GOG already :'(
You know you can still select USD from the currency selection unless it's a regional priced title right? Not that it makes much difference in the price. They have to adapt to the market if they want to survive. As long as they stay true to their principles it's fine.
Post edited August 28, 2014 by MrAlphaNumeric
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I know it is frustrating to work so hard for so long and have people complain. That is not fun and I understand. I am sorry, but I have to make some small complaints:
-Movies are not to be sold here please. This is GOG.com, not 'New movies'.com. Use a sister service, sister website site and cross login credentials, but please, don't spam us with movies. It's like going to the pet store and now they sell garden equipment and guns.
-The interface got worse. It was clean before, and much of the cleanliness was kept, but the game pages look poor and the main page is a sea of advertising and is very hard to navigate. Absolutely everything is designed to capture the eye, instead of flowing nicely as a good UI should. The PSN store is atrocious, don't copy them.
-The idea to make a website specialising in older games compatible with phones and tablets is mind boggling. It's all spaced out, ugly, and clearly copying inferior services like the PSN and Google Play. You're better than them, don't try and be like them. We come here because we love YOU for YOU.

Please allow us the option of user skins so we can do away with all the formatting changes. Very rarely does anything like changes they didn't ask for, and it's always crummy to have something you know and trust change without notice nor need.

Thank you for existing. You're wonderful, please do listen to your userbase. I would hate to see this hostile UI design lose you customers.
Post edited August 28, 2014 by Achaern
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Good old games is now sleek new crap.

Disappointed. The style and feel of the site no longer matches the content. Looks like it was made by some uni graduate with a fetish for social networks and mobile devices.
Johnny no like.

Dare I say it... even less than Slashdot beta...... *gasp*

Change for changes sake because someone has to justify their existence^^^^^^salary.

There was nothing wrong with the old gog, it was one of my favourite sites to swing by each day, easy and confortable to find stuff, easy to see updates without anything other than a glance at the right spot... now it's just hard work.... scroll here, expand there, massive blocks of wasted space.... clincal, dull, and sadly I already know I'll be dropping by less often = less purchases.... if it ain't broke, don't f*** it up needlessly /sigh
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I guess it looks just fine on a black and white screen.

Glory to Arstotzka!
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Achaern: Good stuff
Like the post, solid stuff there.
I was surprised that some games had to be removed, this was a worry. Still we received notification about it so we can still pick them up.

I think a main concern is the fact that some games will be geolocked so if you are in a specific region you can only download THAT particular version so if that version is censored etc, then bad luck. This happened to be with one particular title and GOG said I cannot buy the "other" version.

I see they use geolocation to determine default location so they can use your currency if you have it, I think you should be able to turn this OFF in your settings so if you want a US version of a title you can select that and if you want a EUR title you can select that.

I am surprised GOG went to movies, I think it is a good thing but I am concerned the ethos of GOG is starting to slip a little. So many popular indie titles are not here and when I ask the devs they just say they were turned down. :( Don't get me wrong, GOG is all about choice and they are giving us choice and doing an AMAZING amount of work for us all and for that, the GOG team is to be commended.

Lets remove the forced GEOLOCATION so we can choose to download ANOTHER region version. ie GOG we should be able to turn OFF so GOG can't tell where we are bar in our user settings. By all means still leave it in there if people want for convenience but like I said, if a title is censored in your region GOG will force that version on you and this is a problem. If they don't know where you are, it is up to you to say so and get that version. This is far better as an option because GOG is all about choices :)

I am pretty surprised I can't see rices on the wishlist anymore too................ and I too miss the colours and look of the older one..........I agree it was better............. oh well...............we will see how we go I guess.
Post edited August 28, 2014 by styggron
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Achaern: Please allow us the option of user skins so we can do away with all the formatting changes. Very rarely does anything like changes they didn't ask for, and it's always crummy to have something you know and trust change without notice nor need.

Thank you for existing. You're wonderful, please do listen to your userbase. I would hate to see this hostile UI design lose you customers.
This is an excellent idea! Please allow us users to choose to use the old skin if we want to. I'd love this!



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MrAlphaNumeric: You know you can still select USD from the currency selection unless it's a regional priced title right? Not that it makes much difference in the price. They have to adapt to the market if they want to survive. As long as they stay true to their principles it's fine.
I'm not sure if this will do. For example they offered to pre-order "The Vanishing of Ethan Carter" until yesterday for $ 18.99. Now the price tag says € 18.99, although it was € 14.99 before as you can still see on the preview picture of the video on this site: http://www.gog.com/news/welcome_to_the_fresher_better_gogcom

Beneath the new price GOG tells me "Get €3.80 back in Store Credit for any future purchase! Due to the regional pricing this item comes with a Fair Price Package."
That's simply not the same, because I have to spend more money then I initially intended to.

Also, overall I have to say, I really don't like the new look and feel of the new UI. What was wrong with the old one? To me it's like some poster before me said: I used to pass by during the day, only becaused I liked the cosiness of the site, the warmth, the somewhat naive design it all had to it. Yeah, it's looking way more "professional" now, ready for the big market...
Why not bring up something totally different for new games and movies (and whatever stuff I also don't care about) and leave our beloved __Good Old Games__ just the way it was...
Post edited August 28, 2014 by ..eve.
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GOG.com: For almost six years now we strive to bring you not only the best in DRM-Free gaming, but also to give you the greatest experience possible. To that end we're always looking for ways to improve our site and service. Today, we're rolling out a vastly updated version of our store with an improved interface, sleek new look, and lots of handy new features.
'improved interface', as in better for a touch phone or tablet? Like Windows 8 kinda thing am i right? So yeah those 'good' changes are very subjective, but popular opinion is that the default Windows 8 thing (that seems to be cool) is not actually that cool, not really.

Anyway whatever, your site looks less interesting now, the display of the front page is all mashed up together which makes sorting it out visually more difficult (and that not on a mobile device!), but i'm sure i'll get the hang of it, as i have had to for all the other products that jumped on this bizarre 'windows 8' visual bandwagon (that includes things like Malwarebytes, Avast, PSI Secunia and lots of other applications). The fact it makes the desktop experience less useful seems to be lost in the 'must make it for mobile and look like Windows 8' craze.

And please put some colour back, your green GOG icon was a very distinguishing part of your brand. Grumble, grumble.

And why has the display by 'bestselling' listing for the games changed so much after this change? Where are the Baldur's Gates that dominated? Why is Theme Hospital now top? Is there a bug here?

I suppose at least you have left us traditionalists the option of viewing the games as a list instead of a Windows 8 puke-pattern, so thanks for that small mercy (although the the way the old list looked was better on the eyes).

Everything else is cool i suppose, you got to expand your business model etc. But yeah the new Windows 8 inspired look, i'd pay for an app to change it back.........
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GOG.com: New features, local currency option, new payment methods, store credit, and an updated look for GOG.com!

For almost six years now we strive to bring you not only the best in DRM-Free gaming, but also to give you the greatest experience possible. To that end we're always looking for ways to improve our site and service. Today, we're rolling out a vastly updated version of our store with an improved interface, sleek new look, and lots of handy new features. Let's take a quick tour, shall we?

Video: Welcome to the fresher, better GOG.com!

First of all we are giving you more DRM-free content: movies! We are starting with 20 documentaries about internet and gaming culture but we aim high! You can find more on this in the appropriate newspost, so let's focus on the other features we're rolling out.

We wanted to give you more choice as to how you pay for things on GOG.com. Now it's up to you if you want to pay in US Dollars, or in the currency primarily used in your country, whether it's the Euro, Pounds Sterling, Australian Dollars, or Russian Roubles. That's four new currencies supported by GOG.com for your convenience. Still - the choice is yours, so if you want to stick to US dollars, just switch to it - you find this option at the bottom of each page. To make buying things at GOG.com an even more flexible process, we're introducing some new payment methods: Sofort, Giropay, Webmoney, and Yandex.

All this also means that users for whom the local currency pricing has been enabled will have an option to select one of two different prices for each game in our catalog. Of course, we stand by the simple truth that $1 does not equal 1€, so a game with a $5.99 price tag will cost 4.49 Euro, 3.69 British Pounds, 6.49 Australian Dollars, and 219 Roubles respectively. $9.99 translates to 7.49 Euro, 5.99 Pounds Sterling, 10.89 Australian Dollars, and 359 Roubles. In a perfect world we would apply the same method of pricing to all of the games we offer. However, things are a little bit more complicated, and there are some games in our catalog that follow a different region-based pricing scheme. However, we wouldn't be GOG.com if we didn't find a way to make right by the users who end up paying relatively more for such titles. Here's where the Fair Price Package comes in!

The Fair Price Package applies to all of the titles which we couldn't include in our standard pricing scheme. If you end up paying more for a game than its standard US Dollar price, we'll refund you the difference out of our own pocket. The refunded value will be added to your account in Store Credit in the currency of your purchase. That's right, no more gift codes, you'll be getting Store Credit that you can use to purchase anything on GOG.com or partially pay for an item that's more expensive. More choice, ease of use, and less limitations!

Finally, the GOG.com store has gotten itself a substantial visual revamp. We went for a fresh, mobile-friendly design that should make it even easier to find the games you want, notice the hot promos, and see what's new. The main page, catalog view, product pages, and checkout have been updated and also lay the groundwork for even more overhaul, coming within the next few months together with many of the GOG Galaxy features. We hope you like it!

PS. Unfortunately, we need to drop some titles from our classic catalog. In such cases, we always do our best to give you an advance warning and a last chance to purchase such games - preferably with a considerable discount. Check this news post to find out which titles are being removed from our catalog, when will it happen, and what parting discounts for them do we currently offer.
I really don't like the new house style whatsoever. its just not what springs to mind when I think GOG. Way to monochromatic in my opinion.
I wish I could agree that the site is now "better," but I can't. It's visually clunky and far too busy. I'm so happy that another website I loved has been ruined by the rush to "go mobile." I'll probably still visit GOG but not nearly as much as I once did. The movies are silly, too.
The bestselling list is pretty much correct. The top games are strongly influenced by sales. Theme Hospital was on sale recently, that's why it's higher up than usually.


The only thing that is really annoying for me is that now I can't see what I'll be actually paying for a game anymore.

Yeah I get that those games that before did cost $40 and now cost $53 give me $13 store credit, but it would be nice to see the actual price when looking at the game list already.

Why not display the price as "$40 + $13 (store credit)" or something?
New and better ? Sorry, don´t think so !
- on my Wishlist there are no prices displayed, so i cant see on one look if something from my list is on sale
- the new Design is horrible and doesn´t fit GOOD OLD GAMES

Better for mobile ? Don´t think so either !
- before your change i ould use your Site fully on my IPad, no i can´t use the checkboxes in a sale,
to select more than one Game ... i have to go to the Gamesite and click the "buy button " there !

Haven´t you ever heard the old saying about Windows-PC´s ??

NEVER TOUCH A RUNNING SYSTEM !

You touched, you fumbled !

on a throw with 6 dices you got 6 times a 1 !° ;-)
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Achaern: -The idea to make a website specialising in older games compatible with phones and tablets is mind boggling. It's all spaced out, ugly, and clearly copying inferior services like the PSN and Google Play. You're better than them, don't try and be like them. We come here because we love YOU for YOU.
They *have* shown an interest in the mobile markets in one of their surveys, i wouldn't be surprised if they'll be expanding there in the future.