Posted October 29, 2018
As if it's not bad enough that videos automatically start playing whenever you move your mouse over a game's thumbnail image, I noticed today that the videos frequently do not play. Instead, they show the message "This video requires payment to watch". The GOG main page and the store/sale pages are showing this message for most games. If it doesn't show this for a particular game, then moving the mouse off of the thumbnail and then back on usually results in this message being displayed. I'm seeing this on different versions of Firefox on different computers, so it doesn't appear to be a browser or computer issue. Personally, I think it's funny since auto-play videos are one of the worst things GOG did with the site redesign.