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Posted December 31, 2019
Gog.com search is garbage, it used to be good like search by years and many other such filters. I used to buy alot from gog.com i have over 400 games. I used to buy dozens a game year from gog.com now i buy maby 2-3 because i cant find jackshit due to gog awful ui
Posted December 31, 2019
i think a simple "hide owned games" when browsing for games would go a long way
Posted December 31, 2019
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butcer: like search by years and many other such filters.
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robertgg: i think a simple "hide owned games" when browsing for games would go a long way
Both of those would be very welcome.
Posted December 31, 2019
Searching across the site -- from games to forum -- is rather poor... not so poor as to be broken... but... enough to make the experience a chore.

But...

Then there's Steam that seems more-and-more difficult to manage as well.

Seems a theme.
Posted January 01, 2020
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robertgg: i think a simple "hide owned games" when browsing for games would go a long way
mentioned it 15+ times to mods and devs of the site including the red banner on the top of the site notifying people of said game that is leaving GOG. they don't care.
Posted January 01, 2020
GOG search is easily the least helpful search feature I've used on any website to date, the amount of basic features missing from it is unbelievable. That goes for the storefront and the forums.
Post edited January 01, 2020 by ReynardFox
Posted January 01, 2020
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ReynardFox: GOG search is easily the least helpful search feature I've used on any website to date, the amount of basic features missing from it is unbelievable. That goes for the storefront and the forums.
For website or forum searches you can use general search engines like:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.gog.com%2Fforum%2Fgeneral+%22Endless+Legend%22&ia=web

Unfortunately this doesnt work for the "browsing games" use case.
Posted January 01, 2020
Yes It is horrible the search by tag function is gone!

e.g. Horror, FPP, RPG, FPS
Post edited January 01, 2020 by fr33kSh0w2012
Posted January 01, 2020
Personally I really dislike how if you search for a game using the search bar and hit Enter it will automatically jump to whatever the first game on the list is rather than giving you the entire list.

GOG could use an overhaul for their website.
Posted January 01, 2020
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ReynardFox: GOG search is easily the least helpful search feature I've used on any website to date, the amount of basic features missing from it is unbelievable. That goes for the storefront and the forums.
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Zrevnur: For website or forum searches you can use general search engines like:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.gog.com%2Fforum%2Fgeneral+%22Endless+Legend%22&ia=web

Unfortunately this doesnt work for the "browsing games" use case.
The fact you have to rely on an ad-hoc solution like this to do basic stuff speaks volumes about the state of the website.
Posted January 01, 2020
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butcer: Gog.com search is garbage, it used to be good like search by years and many other such filters. I used to buy alot from gog.com i have over 400 games. I used to buy dozens a game year from gog.com now i buy maby 2-3 because i cant find jackshit due to gog awful ui
Data grid view for gog.com store page: https://github.com/ghorint2t/scripts
Posted January 01, 2020
It is goofy to be me to see things on the site "improved" while other ancient broken systems remain intact.

I too use other search engines to search the site unless I know exactly what I want.

P.s. I did use Magog a handful of years ago when it was maintained. It didn't look pretty, but it was extremely useful.
Post edited January 01, 2020 by Tallima
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