Posted October 01, 2018

Fortuk
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Registered: Aug 2015
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Registered: May 2013
From United States
Posted October 01, 2018

EDIT:
The only thing I dislike is the auto-playing videos. Hope they change that or add an option to disable it.
Post edited October 01, 2018 by user deleted

HendlessX
New User
Registered: Feb 2018
From Brazil
Posted October 01, 2018
The page redesign is vaguely similar to Windows (Microsoft) Store.
But it's nice to see that the gog team is trying to improve the user experience.
But it's nice to see that the gog team is trying to improve the user experience.

Fortuk
New User
Registered: Aug 2015
From Other
Posted October 01, 2018
On a positive note, the filters for the reviews are a big improvement. It is much easier to search through the reviews now for relevant info.

vitreolum
New User
Registered: Feb 2012
From Romania
Posted October 01, 2018
Aaaand another dislike for video autoplay.

Shadow Man
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Registered: Mar 2012
From United States
Posted October 01, 2018
high rated
I have three issues with the new game pages:
1. Autoplaying videos. You should offer the option to disable that.
2. The purchase button blocking the bottom right of the videos. Make it smaller so that nothing is obscured.
3. The missing controls for the YouTube videos. There's no way to pause, rewind or advance the video, adjust the volume or resolution.
1. Autoplaying videos. You should offer the option to disable that.
2. The purchase button blocking the bottom right of the videos. Make it smaller so that nothing is obscured.
3. The missing controls for the YouTube videos. There's no way to pause, rewind or advance the video, adjust the volume or resolution.
Post edited October 01, 2018 by Barry_Woodward

ZFR
I love gold!
Registered: Jan 2010
From Ireland
Posted October 01, 2018

It suck a bit for honest reviewers who has the game elsewhere and does good and helpful reviews but for anyone in doubt whether a game is worth it or not this is definately a win.

Oh, and I'll add my voice to the no-autoplay-please.

Loganberrybunny
New User
Registered: Mar 2016
From United Kingdom
Posted October 01, 2018


andyr354
New User
Registered: Nov 2016
From United States
Posted October 01, 2018
Can I please disable the autoplaying videos? I'm on limited bandwidth.

lolplatypus
New User
Registered: Dec 2008
From Germany
Posted October 01, 2018
high rated
Some feedback:
The autoplay, as has been mentioned, might not be a good idea. Limited data and all that. It's generally just not good practice and it looks cheap, sorry to say. There were trailers before. People could click and watch them. We're quite capable to manage that. Besides, you're running into a rather awkward situation here, being Gog: many of the older games do not have a trailer to show here, meaning their store pages are half empty on opening. To put it plainly: this doesn't work. At all.
The size. Up to this point the store pages had been more compact than Steam's, for example. While there's thankfully still a lot less clutter, the information is now a lot more stretched out. Is there a reason for this? Instead of being able to discern all relevant information at a glance, there's now a lot more scrolling involved to review relevant information. This is more work for the consumer with, at least at first glance, no added benefit. Why?
And while we're at it, what's up with recommendations? I'm having the store page for HuniePop open right now and under You may like these products you're showing me The Witcher, The Witcher 3, Sunless Sea and the HuniePop Deluxe Edition Upgrade. I'm on Linux (you know this, you're showing me Linux system requirements - good job there by the way), I already own Sunless Sea and there's no reason to show me DLC here, because the store page already has a section for DLC - where the Deluxe Edition Upgrade is indeed listed. So that entire section is completely useless and the vertical space it exclusively occupies completely wasted now, isn't it? Again, why?
And just out of curiosity, how do you get from HuniePop to Sunless Sea, exactly?
Furthermore, there's a worrying lack of Gog Mixes. In the past these were probably one of the best features here. Set you apart from the competition in a good way. I would hope they are planned to make a return in the future.
Also: Popular Achievements. This is occupying more vertical space. Why is that even there? You're listing achievements under General Features. This is enough. The knowledge that I'm getting an achievement for killing my first enemy has no bearing on whether I am going to buy Tower of Time or not. The system requirements (listed further down) or the game engine (not listed at all), however, might. Even if for some reason I actually was interested in achievements, this would be useless, since the list doesn't seem to be exhaustive. So why is this here? Of course, we all know the answer, but to be honest, if I wanted Steam, I'd use Steam. Steam is pretty good at being Steam, you know.
So I don't know if this is possible, but could we make this optional? I faintly remember Galaxy being optional and always remaining optional. The option not to have Galaxy-exclusive features shoved in my face would be pretty dope and rather consistent with that statement. I realize this isn't going to happen, because it might be difficult, you wouldn't directly benefit and to be completely honest, it's not a massive deal, merely a bit of an annoyance I could live with, if I really had to. But, you know, principles and shit.
On the positive side, at first glance the overhauled review presentation looks very nice. In terms of filter functionality as well as visually (e.g. full reviews as standard). Well done! I have no idea why the reviewers' number of games is visible to me, but since their profiles are inaccessible from there (you sly dogs, you), I can't check whether any of them are set to invisible, so for now you're getting around a stern talking to.
Another positive: the design looks very clean. It already did before and the sacrifices necessary for the look aren't worth it, but I want to point that out as a positive. It's by no means a terrible redesign, it's just not a good one.
Overall it's still better than Steam's garbled mess, so yay?
Edit: ranting about achievements.
The autoplay, as has been mentioned, might not be a good idea. Limited data and all that. It's generally just not good practice and it looks cheap, sorry to say. There were trailers before. People could click and watch them. We're quite capable to manage that. Besides, you're running into a rather awkward situation here, being Gog: many of the older games do not have a trailer to show here, meaning their store pages are half empty on opening. To put it plainly: this doesn't work. At all.
The size. Up to this point the store pages had been more compact than Steam's, for example. While there's thankfully still a lot less clutter, the information is now a lot more stretched out. Is there a reason for this? Instead of being able to discern all relevant information at a glance, there's now a lot more scrolling involved to review relevant information. This is more work for the consumer with, at least at first glance, no added benefit. Why?
And while we're at it, what's up with recommendations? I'm having the store page for HuniePop open right now and under You may like these products you're showing me The Witcher, The Witcher 3, Sunless Sea and the HuniePop Deluxe Edition Upgrade. I'm on Linux (you know this, you're showing me Linux system requirements - good job there by the way), I already own Sunless Sea and there's no reason to show me DLC here, because the store page already has a section for DLC - where the Deluxe Edition Upgrade is indeed listed. So that entire section is completely useless and the vertical space it exclusively occupies completely wasted now, isn't it? Again, why?
And just out of curiosity, how do you get from HuniePop to Sunless Sea, exactly?
Furthermore, there's a worrying lack of Gog Mixes. In the past these were probably one of the best features here. Set you apart from the competition in a good way. I would hope they are planned to make a return in the future.
Also: Popular Achievements. This is occupying more vertical space. Why is that even there? You're listing achievements under General Features. This is enough. The knowledge that I'm getting an achievement for killing my first enemy has no bearing on whether I am going to buy Tower of Time or not. The system requirements (listed further down) or the game engine (not listed at all), however, might. Even if for some reason I actually was interested in achievements, this would be useless, since the list doesn't seem to be exhaustive. So why is this here? Of course, we all know the answer, but to be honest, if I wanted Steam, I'd use Steam. Steam is pretty good at being Steam, you know.
So I don't know if this is possible, but could we make this optional? I faintly remember Galaxy being optional and always remaining optional. The option not to have Galaxy-exclusive features shoved in my face would be pretty dope and rather consistent with that statement. I realize this isn't going to happen, because it might be difficult, you wouldn't directly benefit and to be completely honest, it's not a massive deal, merely a bit of an annoyance I could live with, if I really had to. But, you know, principles and shit.
On the positive side, at first glance the overhauled review presentation looks very nice. In terms of filter functionality as well as visually (e.g. full reviews as standard). Well done! I have no idea why the reviewers' number of games is visible to me, but since their profiles are inaccessible from there (you sly dogs, you), I can't check whether any of them are set to invisible, so for now you're getting around a stern talking to.
Another positive: the design looks very clean. It already did before and the sacrifices necessary for the look aren't worth it, but I want to point that out as a positive. It's by no means a terrible redesign, it's just not a good one.
Overall it's still better than Steam's garbled mess, so yay?
Edit: ranting about achievements.
Post edited October 01, 2018 by lolplatypus

thomq
New User
Registered: Jan 2014
From United States
Posted October 01, 2018
I'm not noticing the videos auto-playing. However, I'm also using Safari 12.0 and I think that might automatically prevent auto-play videos. Though, I think the previous version did, too.
Safari also has preferences for setting whether videos should auto-play per site, if desired. So, maybe other web browsers do, too? Has anyone checked their web browser settings?
Just mentioned it because even though a web browser doesn't prevent auto-play videos by default doesn't mean there aren't settings to prevent it. Safari prevents that by default and has settings to change that, so it seems likely that at least one of those features would be in other web browsers. Or maybe an extension for browsers that don't have features? Good luck everyone on that.
It'd be nice if animated gifs were stopped, too. Seems like there was an option for that in web browsers a couple of decades ago, but there isn't for Safari. For those I just use CSS to hide all GIF images since they've usually been animated.
Safari also has preferences for setting whether videos should auto-play per site, if desired. So, maybe other web browsers do, too? Has anyone checked their web browser settings?
Just mentioned it because even though a web browser doesn't prevent auto-play videos by default doesn't mean there aren't settings to prevent it. Safari prevents that by default and has settings to change that, so it seems likely that at least one of those features would be in other web browsers. Or maybe an extension for browsers that don't have features? Good luck everyone on that.
It'd be nice if animated gifs were stopped, too. Seems like there was an option for that in web browsers a couple of decades ago, but there isn't for Safari. For those I just use CSS to hide all GIF images since they've usually been animated.
Post edited October 01, 2018 by thomq

Lifthrasil
Bring the GOG-Downloader back!
Registered: Apr 2011
From Germany
Posted October 01, 2018

1. Autoplaying videos. You should offer the option to disable that.
2. The purchase button blocking the bottom right of the videos. Make it smaller so that nothing is obscured.
3. The missing controls for the YouTube videos. There's no way to pause, rewind or advance the video, adjust the volume or resolution.
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/videos_shouldnt_autoplay_and_should_have_full_controls

SkyKoala
New User
Registered: Mar 2017
From Sweden
Posted October 01, 2018
Those elements look a bit too large for my 1366x768 display, it's like this interface was designed for HiDPI monitors. And it just doesn't look... as neat? as the previous version: https://imgur.com/uDYD6HB
I am okay with that large video window, but at least add playback controls and the "disable automatic playback" option, just like Steam does.
Another feature I'd like to see in the new UI is a link to a game's forum. Currently you can access it either though your library or a search field in the general forum section. Both of these ways are not convenient, so maybe adding forum links on game pages will attract players to them? The activity on most game forums leaves a lot to be desired.
Liked how they added more screen space and filters for reviews, though. And yeah, where is the GOGmix section?
I am okay with that large video window, but at least add playback controls and the "disable automatic playback" option, just like Steam does.
Another feature I'd like to see in the new UI is a link to a game's forum. Currently you can access it either though your library or a search field in the general forum section. Both of these ways are not convenient, so maybe adding forum links on game pages will attract players to them? The activity on most game forums leaves a lot to be desired.
Liked how they added more screen space and filters for reviews, though. And yeah, where is the GOGmix section?
Post edited October 01, 2018 by SkyKoala

Olauron
Arcane Wellspring
Registered: Dec 2012
From Russian Federation
Posted October 01, 2018
Nice new interface. The only problem I see with the implemented filter for verified owners is all the bugs that GOG has with different versions. For example, I pre-ordered PF:Kingmaker, now none (!) of the editions is 'owned'. Add kickstarter keys to the pre-orders (like PoE and PoE2) and you will notice that a huge number of people "do not own" games here.

aluinie
stealthy elf
Registered: Sep 2008
From United Kingdom
Posted October 01, 2018
low rated
I like the new design as it looks fresh and easier to look at.