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Posted April 26, 2017
Find what you're looking for faster, easier, and with style.


As some of you have already noticed, today we launched an overhauled navigation system for GOG.com. The goal is simple: to make it faster, simpler, and better for you to explore our store and find what you're looking for.

Browsing our catalog has never been easier: mouse over the Store tab for a neat dropdown menu that contains ongoing sales, a detailed breakdown of our games categories, and several top-tier suggestions.
To bring our games closer to you, we've also made several improvements to our search engine, so locating the title you're after should be much more straightforward now. Those accessing our store through mobile will notice that these changes have dramatically improved their experience, as well.

But that's not all! If you want to reach Support, interact with the Community, or manage your Account, you'll find that the intuitive dropdown menus make for a much more fluid experience, saving you time that could be spent playing your favorite games!

Your account name and avatar are now clearly visible on top at all times, so you can tell at a glance if you're logged in and on which account. Last but not least, redeeming gift codes and switching between languages or currencies is now more readily available with no need to scroll to the bottom of the page.

Enjoy!
Posted May 16, 2017
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PaterAlf: We are still missing the notifications, GOG. Please don't forget about it.
"Forget"?
They were obviously transformed into another argument to use Galaxy.
Posted May 17, 2017
I think the new look and navigation is okay. No complaints there.

But the notifications. :(

I've waited quite a while (years) to get properly working notifications and changelogs telling me what has changed if there is an update. Neither of these exist right now. Notifications are beyond broken, or "disabled" while they're working on new system. I won't even guess which year is it when we see that new system.

It wouldn't be such an issue if there would be a Linux Galaxy client that could auto-download and hash check new (offline-)installers & extras. As far as I know even the Windows version does not have those features.

I think the time has come to cease buying games on GOG.com for now as it is painfully hard to keep offline installers up-to-date. That probably means I don't buy much games at all.
Posted May 18, 2017
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BKGaming: Stuff like this and removing notifications when you didn't have a replacement really is unprofessional.
Add arrogant and disrespectful.
Posted May 19, 2017
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PaterAlf: We are still missing the notifications, GOG. Please don't forget about it.
GOG just sent a notification to everybody that they are working really, really hard on a new notification system as part of an ongoing project to improve the GOG experience (also known as the "/dev/random" project). Didn't you get it? ;)
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Posted May 20, 2017
Well, one good thing to come of all this...I'm now using Barefoot Essentials and Adalia Fundamentals. Makes things so much better than the old system, which I was willing to put up with. Now it's actually quite good!

Say, maybe they could try to make something similar with the Linux version of Galaxy by turning it over to the open source community. It gets done faster, we get more obvious documentation and customization, and GOG doesn't need to put in all the work. Win-win!
Posted May 20, 2017
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Jemolk: Win-win!
While I agree with your suggestion, why would a for-profit company seriously consider doing something that would allow the open-source community to circumvent their "revenue-enhancing" client?
Posted May 20, 2017
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Jemolk: Win-win!
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ValamirCleaver: While I agree with your suggestion, why would a for-profit company seriously consider doing something that would allow the open-source community to circumvent their "revenue-enhancing" client?
Because instead of wasting their resources on something they don't do very well, they could instead focus on what they do do well?
Posted May 20, 2017
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richlind33: Because instead of wasting their resources on something they don't do very well, they could instead focus on what they do do well?
My memory must be failing me. As of late, what has GOG done well?...
Posted May 20, 2017
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richlind33: Because instead of wasting their resources on something they don't do very well, they could instead focus on what they do do well?
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ValamirCleaver: My memory must be failing me. As of late, what has GOG done well?...
They used to make games, but the last few years they've been trying to reinvent the wheel -- without much success.
Posted May 20, 2017
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richlind33: They used to make games
You mean the 3 Witcher games?... I like RPGs a lot (such as the Gold Box, Infinity Engine and Aurora/Electron Engine games) and though I own all 3 because they were given away as freebies, the Witcher games do not appeal to me at all. Between the consolized controls and the nihilistic setting I find it difficult to endure more than maybe a few minutes with any of those games.

I recall that GOG used to find the IP owners of what were long unsupported & largely considered "abandonware" games, work deals to legally release them to the public and apply whatever neccessary tweaks to the games to help them work on modern computer operating systems all while purposefully, proudly & quite vocally avoiding the type of vendor lock-in practices of other digital download retailer(s).

I sure do miss that GOG... For some reason I don't think I'm the only one either.
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Posted May 20, 2017
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richlind33: They used to make games
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ValamirCleaver: You mean the 3 Witcher games?... I like RPGs a lot (such as the Gold Box, Infinity Engine and Aurora/Electron Engine games) and though I own all 3 because they were given away as freebies, the Witcher games do not appeal to me at all. Between the consolized controls and the nihilistic setting I find it difficult to endure more than maybe a few minutes with any of those games.

I recall that GOG used to find the IP owners of what were long unsupported & largely considered "abandonware" games, work deals to legally release them to the public and apply whatever neccessary tweaks to the games to help them work on modern computer operating systems all while purposefully, proudly & quite vocally avoiding the type of vendor lock-in practices of other digital download retailer(s).

I sure do miss that GOG... For some reason I don't think I'm the only one either.
Yup -- they do that just fine, and it's their primary competitive advantage as a company. However, they don't exactly do well programming web interfaces, as all of us must have noticed by now. The suggestion, which for what it's worth I don't actually expect them to take, at least not without some real prodding and hints that it's probably necessary, was that if we design the client, they need to do exactly zero upkeep, zero costs in designing it, and yet get the full value of ease of use that it's meant to use to attract new customers. I don't see the negative from their point of view unless someone in charge does want to eventually go for DRM, which would obviously kill their business stone dead, and most of the company at the very least damn well knows it.
Posted May 21, 2017
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Here's a suggestion regarding language and currency selection, the latter in particular.

A button, that works like the ones in the footer, next to the cart would make a lot more sense, and actually add to the user experience and convenience.

Now, one may argue that options to change these are in the account tab drop-down menu, but those are actually "shortcuts" to the Account Locale options.

Right now, if one wants to make a temp change, they have to scroll all the way down to the footer, wait for the page to refresh, then scroll all the way up to check the results. Having them in the nav-bar, especially since it's a stalker nav-bar, would make things simpler, easier, and faster.


On a different note, it's nice to see the Weekly Sale finally making it into the store menu, but I don't quite get why this week's other promos weren't/aren't included.
Posted May 26, 2017
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PaterAlf: We are still missing the notifications, GOG. Please don't forget about it.
^ T H I S ^
Posted May 26, 2017
I'm sure they're doing their level best....
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Posted May 26, 2017
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PaterAlf: We are still missing the notifications, GOG. Please don't forget about it.
Apparently the "considering options internally, but can't promise you anything" phase is still going strong.



On a different note - why are genres not listed in search results?
Speaking of search results, that yellow shading over titles on blinding white background is pretty eye hurting. Who would have thought that I'd be missing some of that grey on grey...
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