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Many of you are really pleased with the brand new GOG.com and its features, which is quite nice we must say :). Our Dev&Design team has put a lot of their work into rewriting 98% of the site's code and we're happy lots of GOG users appreciate it. If you still didn't discover all the new features that GOG has for you, we have prepared [url=http://www.gog.com/en/overview/]an overview page with the main new features. We'd like to know what's a fancy feature for you and what should be improved or changed. Let us know how do you like all the new features of the brand new GOG.com in this thread.
I have had trouble with the dosbox configs for some of the older games. One thing that bugs me is that you include EVERYTHING in the config file, which is totally unnecessary and potentially confusing.
I, for one, would appreciate if you only including the changes you are making to the vanilla dosbox setup (i.e. what you get if there is no config file)
furthermore, although I understand that this is not a dosbox website, I feel as though you use the program so often that you should have some support for the program on your forum pages.
Because you use dosbox in your marketing claims of "compatibility," I think you owe it to the customers to provide some added, game specific info about the program.

Also, I want games ported from other platforms, like C-64 and Atari ST and Amiga, because those versions (up until the mid 1990's) were always light years better in the graphics dept than the MSDos versions.
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Tyler62092: I would like a more organized list of GOGMixes, such as ordering them all by how many times it has been Liked.
You can do that already. http://www.gog.com/en/catalogue look at the right side.
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Bolek: You can do that already. http://www.gog.com/en/catalogue look at the right side.
Thanks, I didn't see it.
I'm going to lay it all down right here. I've been wanting to do this ever since relaunch but I wasn't sure if posting individual problems would even get them read.

The GOGmix character count includes hidden characters, so you can have a 250 visible character count and still be over if you use, say, quotation marks. It should count visible characters instead. GOGmixes should have a save draft feature, at least a single slot, so problems like this can still be saved without you having to lose EVERYTHING because you can't save entries with more than 250 characters.

When editing a post, carriage returns are eliminated for some reason, meaning you have to go back and add them all again before reposting.

More interconnectivity between pages would be nice, so that you could enter the various pages of your profile and have a one-stop area where all the information can at least be accessed. Sometimes I need to click multiple times every time I drop by to see everything.

The game shelf now loses organization when you move away from it. It keeps the order, but if you have things placed on the shelf with spaces in between, the spaces are lost.

Would be nice if there was a profile page where you can make some general statement about yourself, but I don't know if this would be abused.

In the game descriptions, I often don't get a feel for why the game on GOG is improved. We own Baldur's Gate already, but when I look at the BG game page, I don't get an impression of why someone who owns a hard copy would want to get BG here. Maybe there isn't a reason, but, say, you could talk about disc swapping being a thing of the past there, you could talk about famous errors that are corrected, that sort of thing. Be proud of the coders' work on the games and show it off a bit. That will get more buyers anyway, I think.

Symbols are sometimes not defined on certain pages they're used; they need a general popup for definitions so people can all be on the same page. The color-coding dots and other things aren't memorable for me (in my case, I think more in shades of color than actual colors, if you know what I mean).

When looking at the "my posts" and "my questions" pages, there are boxes underneath the heart column that, when you click on them, it merely causes a reload and does nothing. Are these supposed to be checkboxes?

In forums it would be nice if you could reply to multiple people in a single post, rather than having to make multiple posts.

That's all that I can remember right now. Let me know, GOG staff, if that was helpful at all.
The webpage is awesome and better than ever, but there are few things to improve:
-when you view screenshots in IE8, the white cross to close them does not appear - so you have to rightclick on the page and choose "back" to close it (or close explorer altogether)

- I do not understand why from the game's card page, there is no link to said game's forums ?

- I would like to be able to download more than 6 files simultaneously, but I guess that is just a wishful thinking :))

Another thinkg - why is Beneath a Steel Sky twice on my shelf?

And also, I cannot redownload Operation Flashpoint, Colin McRae 2005 and TOCA3, even though they are on my shelf - is this intentional (was there some cut off date to redownload them?) or not ? I sadly deleted all my installers because I wanted to redownload them all (to make sure I have most recent versions), but I did not realize these were impossible to redownload anymore :(
Post edited September 26, 2010 by Paul_cz
All in all, I'd say that you've changed or added some things that noone ever commented upon, some of them to the worse, some of them just different but no real improvement.

Then there are things that people have been asking you to add or fix for the past two years that you've completely ignored.

And then there are all the things you've broken with the update, most notably in the forum.
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chautemoc: I'm assuming if they did that the forums would go back to being slow or comparably as slow.
How many posts are really all that long? From what I've seen it's only ever lists of useful things people are compiling for the community.
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chautemoc: I'm assuming if they did that the forums would go back to being slow or comparably as slow.
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Navagon: How many posts are really all that long? From what I've seen it's only ever lists of useful things people are compiling for the community.
It would be nice to get a response from development about if the post size limit will ever be lifted. Otherwise we might as well start figuring out a way to circumvent it, like recreating list threads in coordination with another person to create padding posts or other funky stuff like that.

EDIT: by the way, I'm *very* impressed with the speed of the new forum (after being a bit skeptical initially, but that turned out to have something to do with 20x the highest traffic ever ;) ).

-When the new downloader is finished, I'd like it to be able to download the extras as well
-I wish games on the shelf wouldn't swap when moved, but inserted. I really don't understand why they swap in the first place :P

All I can think of for now!
Post edited September 26, 2010 by LordCinnamon
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Navagon: 1: The ability to sort shelf alphabetically and by genre.
Strategy: A - Z
RPG: A - Z
This.

And manually within genres.
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LordCinnamon: It would be nice to get a response from development about if the post size limit will ever be lifted. Otherwise we might as well start figuring out a way to circumvent it, like recreating list threads in coordination with another person to create padding posts or other funky stuff like that.
Blue response: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/gog_forums_frequently_asked_questions/post120.
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SLP2000: And manually within genres.
I'd imagine you'd still be able to manually order your games after sorting it by genre, so that shouldn't be a problem.
I'd like automatic sorting by name of series. Either that or arbitrary tagging and automatic sorting by tag.
Post edited September 26, 2010 by Miaghstir
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KillingMachine: I'd like to see GOGs that use serial keys automatically come with them upon purchase instead of needing to request them via support.
This.
Ah, ok. I see this has been discussed already.
I like new website, but I miss the old green "own it" icon on games I've already purchased. Now these games are just slightly more dimmed