I didn't even know of the site's existence until around 2015. I don't recall how I found out about it, but I remember being introduced to it as 'Good Old Games', so with me at least, it's not an issue of me being some old-timer who never got a memo.

I'm sure I had done some research into the site's legitimacy at first, so perhaps I came across the name used one or more places online and just assumed it had always been styled as 'GOG'.

P.S. It's not a place to which I give my custom, but are there still people who say "Kentucky Fried Chicken" or "Kentucky Fried", or does pretty much everyone pronounce it /kay eff see/?

Thanks .

A "new and improved" version is terrible and looks much like first windows 10 interface.
5 full of banners pages instead of 1 but informative. Thank you very much.

Well, while the frontpage just recently got an overhaul, surfing through the forum is still a pain on a mobile phone, however, none of these actually "treat their respective customers better":

(in general also of course)

- I've been addicted to the internet since the early days so I'm pretty used to slow loading and usually don't mind having a page load for a second or three, but it seems to me that very few really knows how to optimize a site while making it more "modern". Same goes for these young game devs that have absolutely no knowledge on how to make efficient code and in reality goes backwards. It's a bloated and flashy perversity that only gets worse.

Like with most things - if we have an abundance of something, we just consume and non the wiser.

- As far as I know, Netflix has removed a crucial part; the ability to read others opinions on what they've seen. I've only seen non-official forums, but in these days I guess they're all scared of negative reviews and all the frazzle of dealing with everyone's "opinions" so it's best to just scrub it and just forget about it... ;)

- Oh, and DRM, (s)nuff said.

- Getting every list served to me ordered by "popularity" has zero value in my mind. I buy/try a game because of my own opinions, not because 10000 others have already bought it! And Popular Achievements; LOL! talk about trying streamlining everyone into a flock of sheep where everyone is alike! :D

- Making it more difficult for a costumer to change/find something, contact support, subjective censorship, and this damn thing called autoplay are something that I personally REALLY have a distaste for. GOG have been getting worse here, sadly. I just don't get why more and more companies are serving more a dumbed down version than the last one...

No wait... I know.

- Lets' face it - GOG is a company that sells games - of course they want to highlight some games by using these "in your face zoomed blocks" that takes forever to scroll past. It's an old and tried trick just like street sellers use their voice to actively influence more people. But damn so much scrolling. It just makes me sick and tired of getting overloaded with empty graphics and no substance. At least in the "older" days we actively searched, and lo and behold, actually read about the game and others reviews about it.

I think we all can agree that this "modern design" is catered towards those with low attention span and/or self-esteem/self-control.

Still - I prefer GOG mainly because of the DRM free games and the seemingly more mature audience. Reading the forum or a review on Steam is like reading a 10 year old trying to sound mature and cool, but in reality it sounds more like a retard that spews out every unintelligent mumble he/she/it have heard from an uncle that also never finished 3. grade. XD

Like richlind33 said: The more changes, the more it stays the same. Or as our friendly retard neighbour said; stupid is as stupid does.

Net sum results are all that matters, not intentions.

Personally one thing that is still missing on gog is patches for Linux versions of the games. Currently if a Linux game receives a patch gog only updates the game installer in the game library but never creates a separate patch. So Linux users are forced to redownload whole games again, again and again.

No other store does that.

Plus providing games with necessary 32bit libraries like Steam does so they run of the box and you don't need to fiddle with anything.

Don't get me wrong. I'm thankful for Linux versions of games but there needs to be at least a minimum level of support for them. Currently there is no support whatsoever.

These are the things that really do need addressing.

It's weird that so many people still don't know that GOG hasn't stood for Good Old Games since 2012 since the re-branding.

It's the reason why I re-buy my games on Steam lately...
I think to go Steam only now /:
No much difference between GOG and Steam...Galaxy forced for multi (no LAN version anymore)...and lack of support for Linux users.
A lot of my Steam Library are DRM free anyway...you just need to download via the Steam client.
It's certainly the future of GOG with Galaxy (less and less optional).
I'M SAAAAD T_T

GOG keeps losing and losing fragments of its indentity in an attempt to reach to a wider customer base...

Did you notice that GOG's principles, formerly proudly displayed in the storefront, are no more, after this (more than) layout change?

Without wading through multiple pages, the STORE link is broken in Internet Explorer 11 (seems GOG love breaking Internet Explorer with every pointless site update) as the page shows no graphiics and hovering over them just shows the link to https://www.gog.com. Plus, other links on the page don't work like the left hand options (Price, system etc), nothing happens when clicked on, same for the top menu (Everything, New Releases etc) nothinh happens when clicked on!

So, if I can't see what's for sale or filter what's On Sale, how can I see what to buy? And no, I won't be installing another browser thank you, tried Chrome/Firefox and did not like using them so they won't be making a re-appearance anytime soon and luckily Edge was removed from my version of Windows 10 LTSB :)

Has GOG some sort of vendetta against people using IE11?

Hardly anything in the new design works in IE11. And chat didn't for a while even before, and the menus didn't expand on the old site sections, like the forum, and there were problems with sale pages for a while now, mainly couldn't switch between the front page "tabs". Typically their reply was to use something other than IE. So they don't care. And yeah, I did install Vivaldi recently to have chat for a reason once and now used it to check how the new site should look like, but largely just been on the forums since, can't be bothered with a site that doesn't bother. Other stores don't seem to have a problem making it work.

I'm surprised how many games have a lover review ratings if you only check out the verified owner ones .

Again, too many people willing to accept change without question!

At leastl Steam still works! Having never bought from them for over 2 years (which will now change) their steam client just 'works'. Whenever I launch it to see what's on offer or Free it never fails to display anything or not let me 'click' anyhting. But, with stupid GOG curators it seems GOG are trying to be more like 'Steam' and failing miserably as the new 'site' (or should that be 'shite'?) is just stealing other ideas to make it look 'modern' and 'appealing' but completely breaks stuff in IE11, Steam doesn't and simply works!

GOG (Good Old Geed?), as I've said before, is now an 'indie shovelware' portal, the garbage that seems to get shovelled on to it regulalrly doesn't appear to be slowing and far outweighs anything 'good', even some of the 'Good Old Games' they do get seem to be overpriced for their age and some have issues with 'missing' functionality like co-op and multi-player support. It used to be 'Good' but has now turned into a greed driven ugly shovelware monster!

All the above is my opinion of course!

Wouldn't know and wouldn't care about clients (and I guess Galaxy works for browsing GOG too? another thing I wouldn't know or care about), but it's not just Steam. Just did a quick check, just seeing whether anything appears broken, whether I can browse catalog, get to game pages from it or add something to cart, and Steam, Itch, FireFlower, Zoom, Humble, GamersGate, Origin and UPlay all worked (granted, no account on Steam, Zoom, GG, Origin or UPlay and not signed in on FF, but that didn't seem to bother them, only Origin popping up the log in or sign up page, rest being happy to add to cart and sort out login later). GOG doesn't. That should kill any argument that the browser can't be worked with anymore, even when talking specifically of a gaming site, eh?

I heard something about that on here, but no I personally didn't notice.

I used to use GOG simply for browsing and discovering games and then buy them somewhere else. Now the store is so awful that I dont even use to to browse anymore.