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Posted October 23, 2018
Yeah I didn't really like that either

Also don't they just show big releases on the very top of the site anyway as a big banner? That alone is enough to make me notice the games they're trying to get me to buy, and I already keep an eye on new releases 'anyway' ffs lol
Posted October 23, 2018
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Crosmando: What is that front page, it's completely obnoxious, like a browsing hijacking porn ad, even Valve don't shove their games on release in your face in such an overt way.
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babby: While I thought the front page spam ad was annoying too, I'm pretty sure that Steam (by default) opens up a window advertising a game every time you open it, unless you disable that in the settings.
I wasn't even aware you could disable that.
Posted October 23, 2018
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Crosmando: What is that front page, it's completely obnoxious, like a browsing hijacking porn ad, even Valve don't shove their games on release in your face in such an overt way.
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babby: While I thought the front page spam ad was annoying too, I'm pretty sure that Steam (by default) opens up a window advertising a game every time you open it, unless you disable that in the settings.
Also Steam has this annoying new friend window that pops up every time you go there.
Posted October 23, 2018
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tinyE: Also Steam has this annoying new friend window that pops up every time you go there.
Which you can disable, too.

It's fun disabling things.
Posted October 23, 2018
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tinyE: Also Steam has this annoying new friend window that pops up every time you go there.
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lolplatypus: Which you can disable, too.

It's fun disabling things.
really? how? I looked but I'm not really good with stuff like that.
Posted October 23, 2018
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Gersen: Well it's the first time they have one of their games exclusively on Gog so you can understand why they are a little over-enthusiastic about it :)
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Crosmando: Too bad Thronebreaker looks like some cheap clicker tablet game.
In other words: It will sell better than anything else released by gog this year, encouraging them to spiral further and further down the drain.
Posted October 23, 2018
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lolplatypus: Which you can disable, too.

It's fun disabling things.
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tinyE: really? how? I looked but I'm not really good with stuff like that.
Okay, first you have to get that monstrosity to show up somehow. View -> Friends should do the trick. In the resulting window you should see a cog symbol in the upper left corner, somewhat next your username and icon. That'll open up the Friends List Settings. Under Friends List disable "Sign in to friends when Steam Client starts".
Posted October 23, 2018
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tinyE: really? how? I looked but I'm not really good with stuff like that.
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lolplatypus: Okay, first you have to get that monstrosity to show up somehow. View -> Friends should do the trick. In the resulting window you should see a cog symbol in the upper left corner, somewhat next your username and icon. That'll open up the Friends List Settings. Under Friends List disable "Sign in to friends when Steam Client starts".
got it
THANKS :D
Posted October 23, 2018
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Crosmando: What is that front page, it's completely obnoxious, like a browsing hijacking porn ad, even Valve don't shove their games on release in your face in such an overt way.
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Mafwek: You are implying Valve actually releases their own games!
I even heard this at walmart over the PA.

And that's just one game.
Posted October 24, 2018
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pkk234: The 'skip and never see again' button has worked for me.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: How does that work? Based on cookies? If so, it's not going to work for anyone who values their privacy and therefore deletes cookies often.
Probably based on cookies because it happened again in a different browser for me. In this case one has to choose: either privacy or annoying ads or not using GOG.com as landing page at all.

The perfect solution would be to purge not all but only most cookies and keep the ones that are actually useful, but I guess this is not possible right now.
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Panaias: Even though I am not a fan of these games, during the past few days I grew tired of GOG constantly breaking the throne in my face, so much that it actually has the opposite effect: now I will surely never even think of buying that game.
Had exactly the same thought. Their advertisement strategy is so annoying, I'm pushed rather away from GOG by it. I would really like to have a word with their marketing department. They really need to improve and there must be a negative reaction or they will never learn.
Post edited October 24, 2018 by Trilarion
Posted October 24, 2018
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Mafwek: You are implying Valve actually releases their own games!
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kohlrak: I even heard this at walmart over the PA.

And that's just one game.
Clarification: You are implying Valve STILL releases their own games!
Post edited October 24, 2018 by Mafwek
Posted October 24, 2018
Just to add another comment to this "oh God NEVER MEANS NEVER, GOG".

But also my main annoyance is the feeling that they want to remove the community. They have removed the text snippets of the news, in one decision that I wonder who thought it was a good idea (and yes, I guess there are 100342897432 threads about it already but who knows the keywords to find them) and that makes the discussions about sales or new releases basically vanish, but with that I wonder if someone wanted to take the branding and throw it to the bin and make something reminiscent of DOTEMU.
Posted October 24, 2018
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Please stop using my name in vain and out of context. Especially in thread titles. Thank you my son.
Posted October 24, 2018
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CMOT70: Please stop using my name in vain and out of context. Especially in thread titles. Thank you my son.
This is your father speaking, do stop thanking heretics!
Posted October 24, 2018
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CMOT70: Please stop using my name in vain and out of context. Especially in thread titles. Thank you my son.
Strike me with lightning please, I have an itchy head and I'm too lazy to scratch it :)
Post edited October 24, 2018 by IwubCheeze
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