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By default, we have our Galaxy page open to our posts, which are as sweetly sublime as we are DDG.
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argamasa: I agree itch.io is the worst, not only front page, the way you manage your library and games owned.
Yeah, I remember the time they had that charity sale with like 1700 games or something, and I bought it, and then I had to figure out where they all went, as they weren't with my regular purchases. Figuring out their site is like a little game in itself!

EDIT: On the other hand, it turns out I was kind of glad they weren't just thrown in with my regular purchases, as I did want to keep those separate.
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Time4Tea: I think GOG's landing page is ok. It's far from the worst store front page I have seen. OP: you say you don't like it, but how would you improve it?
I know you weren't addressing me, but:
I'd like a darker theme available for nighttime viewing. Other than that, I really don't have a big problem with it other than maybe it's trying to do a little too much on that one page.

Imo, the biggest issue is that the GOG front page barely does anything to advertise their one biggest selling point - that their games are DRM-free. It is barely mentioned anywhere, yet it should be front and center! It's what the whole store is about, after all.
That's a good point. GOG needs to keep in mind that there are always new young people getting into gaming that may not already know everything we old-timers take for granted.
Post edited 2 days ago by GilesHabibula
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KeoniBoy: By default, we have our Galaxy page open to our posts, which are as sweetly sublime as we are DDG.
There was a silly joke when I was learning English and it said that only members of the royal families and people with intestinal worms use the plural when talking about themselves. :)
I've always put any storefront in 'useless' category.

I head straight to 'new releases', or 'wishlist'. No idea why would bother with some pre-selected items on the store front, when can head to section I'm interested in and grab what I want. Much faster and cleaner solution! Only drawback I see, is total absent of titles I'm after in both sections... Oh well...

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Melvinica: There was a silly joke when I was learning English and it said that only members of the royal families and people with intestinal worms use the plural when talking about themselves. :)
Oldie, but a goodie!

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Time4Tea: (...) Imo, the biggest issue is that the GOG front page barely does anything to advertise their one biggest selling point - that their games are DRM-free. (..)
Good point!
I agree to the sentiments of disappointment voiced here to some extent.

First of all the new colour theme GOG is applying everywhere is not my cup of tea. The Grey, Green Yellow theme was better. But it's subjective.

The lack of a dark theme is a horrible thing.

The organization of the front page is so haphazard.

The screenshots viewer in the games' pages are clunky.

Visual elements appear to be a little to big on both mobile and desktop; but a little worse on the desktop.
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Time4Tea: Imo, the biggest issue is that the GOG front page barely does anything to advertise their one biggest selling point - that their games are DRM-free. It is barely mentioned anywhere, yet it should be front and center! It's what the whole store is about, after all.
That may be a misconception.

The majority of GOG's current customers might not even care about DRM-Free.

GOG of course, would know this better than we do, so we can only surmise or guess at the likely numbers.

It is certainly very evident, that they only push Galaxy and a certain usage of Galaxy, which is not at all DRM-Free concentric.

They talk about Game Preservation, but in reality it is only from their perspective. If they die, the true reality is that only those of us who downloaded the Offline Installers are the true preservers. GOG enabled that, but they don't encourage it, quite the opposite now.
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KeoniBoy: By default, we have our Galaxy page open to our posts, which are as sweetly sublime as we are DDG.
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Melvinica: There was a silly joke when I was learning English and it said that only members of the royal families and people with intestinal worms use the plural when talking about themselves. :)
In our case, the former is, in fact, the case, as our kupuna is the High Chief of the island of Bora Bora, which makes us his heir, and therefore Tahitian Royalty. We try to remain modest about the fact, but since you raised the subject, we felt obliged to clarify the matter. A hui hou kakou.
PS: You have our sympathy and condolences regarding the subjugation of democracy in your country by the bullies in Brussels. So sad.
Post edited 11 hours ago by KeoniBoy
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Time4Tea: Imo, the biggest issue is that the GOG front page barely does anything to advertise their one biggest selling point - that their games are DRM-free. It is barely mentioned anywhere, yet it should be front and center! It's what the whole store is about, after all.
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Timboli: That may be a misconception.

The majority of GOG's current customers might not even care about DRM-Free.
Eh ... if GOG's main selling point isn't DRM-free, I have no idea what it is then.
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Time4Tea: Imo, the biggest issue is that the GOG front page barely does anything to advertise their one biggest selling point - that their games are DRM-free. It is barely mentioned anywhere, yet it should be front and center! It's what the whole store is about, after all.
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Timboli: That may be a misconception.

The majority of GOG's current customers might not even care about DRM-Free.
No that's silly, nobody would be here (except for the occasional GOG only release) if the games had DRM, it is and will always be their main selling point and difference compared to other, MUCH richer catalogue-wise stores
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Timboli: That may be a misconception.

The majority of GOG's current customers might not even care about DRM-Free.
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Time4Tea: Eh ... if GOG's main selling point isn't DRM-free, I have no idea what it is then.
"Old games that run on modern systems, especially exclusives, and sometimes with modernized aspects included (like RE or Diablo or Dino Crisis" - something like that perhaps.

Of course I don't think gog should drop the installers, I just suspect a sizable amount of people, if not a majority, still shop here mainly for the "Good Old Games" and not so much for DRM-free. I believe a staff member mentioned a few years back that gog estimates only about 5% of people download the installers; that said I recognize that Galaxy is prominent with the big blue button and the installers are hidden away.

Gog might be kinda weaselly at times like Cyberpunk piggy map dlc, but they surely recognize - especially after Hitman goty - that explicitly dropping DRM-free / installers would be a massive pr nightmare.

Ultimately Gog is a company who of course wants to stay open, and not a non profit or similar.
Post edited 2 hours ago by tfishell
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Melvinica: There was a silly joke when I was learning English and it said that only members of the royal families and people with intestinal worms use the plural when talking about themselves. :)
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KeoniBoy: In our case, the former is, in fact, the case, as our kupuna is the High Chief of the island of Bora Bora, which makes us his heir, and therefore Tahitian Royalty. We try to remain modest about the fact, but since you raised the subject, we felt obliged to clarify the matter. A hui hou kakou.
PS: You have our sympathy and condolences regarding the subjugation of democracy in your country by the bullies in Brussels. So sad.
You may say that our democracy is being tested, but you have mixed up the cardinal points.
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Time4Tea: Eh ... if GOG's main selling point isn't DRM-free, I have no idea what it is then.
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tfishell: "Old games that run on modern systems, especially exclusives, and sometimes with modernized aspects included (like RE or Diablo or Dino Crisis" - something like that perhaps.
Hmm, ok. Perhaps that part of their message doesn't resonate as much with me, since I use Linux (which GOG barely supports anyway).