sees ginormous ad with 'skip this window to never see this ad again' button... presses it... immediately sees the ad again in slightly smaller format. Sees same ad in cart check out page and in other places on the store front.

*sighs


ok guys, whoever is in charge of this just needs to stop please. news info for impending releases and banners for that is ok informational and expected. Not 100 percent coverage of screen forcing customers to click out of in order to access the store is not ok. bigger is not better, its annoying to have to scroll thru and turns off customers. many splash screens of the same release sale is overkill and turns off customers. Redundant ads of the same banner is irritating. To the boss of said person in charge of the sales promotions..

this isnt working. its having a reverse effect on me. I went from reminding my husband that a new witcher game is offered to asking him to forgo getting it due to these tactics. Gog is becoming so damn... .smarmy.

GOG acts like the guy in front of the bar in “From Dusk till Dawn”.

Thanks GOG. With this fucking ad shit I‘m out forever. Hope more will follow.

I wonder when this Thronebreaker add will infect the offline installers .

Already didn't like the website design, but this has gone too far.

I clicked away the full screen ad yesterday. Thought was the end of it for Firefox on my PC, that a cookie was stored and I am spared from seeing this strange crap again.

I had to click away the ad just now.

Does replying to posts like this make you feel any better? I couldn't give a crap what anyone thinks. GOG has issues, this community has serious issues and as a customer I like to think I have the right to say what ever the hell I like about this place, especially considering how down in the shits it has become. If you don't like it, you can bite me.

What makes you think that this was something that didn't originate from the higher-ups/CDPG shareholders? Same goes for the current redesign (and, for that matter, the idea to include a copy of Galaxy in the offline installers for a bunch of popular games, and have those installers default to installing Galaxy along with the game). The people who come up with a company's website design concepts are, in most cases, pretty rarely the same people who are tasked with technically implementing those site features or changes.

I usually take it for granted that it's upper management/marketing/corporate shareholder pressure that drives a lot of these decisions leading to experiences that are obviously suboptimal for people who actually use the service and its site and products day-to-day -- and probably, in many cases, for those who design/maintain it as well.

Managers only provide a rough idea or a simple guideline.
Those whe made the current GOG still have a very bad taste and know nothing about usability and accessibility.

Yeah, having to click through to get to the front page is sorta annoying.

I mean if this happens again I might as well just bookmark my wishlist and beeline straight to that, bypassing looking at any of the details currently on offer.

I can see deals on games on a normal GOG front page just fine, thank you. No need to have a giant click-through banner; that just feels spammy.

Depends on the managers.
Some are smart (or experienced) enough to hire responsible, skilled people, give them their task and some solid but flexible guidelines for how to go about it, what the end result should look like, etc., then get out of their way and let them do their thing.
Then there's this type: "Do this thing. Also this thing, this thing, this thing, and these other things [some of which contradict one or more other things]. But do it using this particular tool, because I heard that's a good tool [which it might be...for a completely different task]. How long do you think it will take to finish all this? ...No, that's no good -- you've [arbitrarily] got [1/2 the length of the estimated time given]. Make it work!" Later, after a significant amount of work has already been done, maybe Mr/s. Manager meddles a bit more, asking for features never initially mentioned, or insisting something needs to be "more [whatever]" ("There should be autoplaying videos on every page of the store! That's the new standard, we can't be left behind! And this button, and those banners -- they all need to be twice the size they are now, at least!")

I'm not saying all the "grunts" are super-skilled, wise and just, but are constantly hamstrung by the "vision" of dimwitted superiors. But problems like this (i.e., the current store design overall) usually come from the top down.

Now, if you're talking about the general brokenness of so many elements of the site (i.e., things not working even in the shitty way they're intended to), most of that could absolutely be laid at the feet of the coder monkeys themselves, past and present. :)

The top banner was annoying yet okay, for reasons... Current big fat full screen one with autoplay trailer on mere mouseover is definitely too much.