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New features, local currency option, new payment methods, store credit, and an updated look for GOG.com!

For almost six years now we strive to bring you not only the best in DRM-Free gaming, but also to give you the greatest experience possible. To that end we're always looking for ways to improve our site and service. Today, we're rolling out a vastly updated version of our store with an improved interface, sleek new look, and lots of handy new features. Let's take a quick tour, shall we?

Video: Welcome to the fresher, better GOG.com!

First of all we are giving you more DRM-free content: movies! We are starting with 20 documentaries about internet and gaming culture but we aim high! You can find more on this in the appropriate newspost, so let's focus on the other features we're rolling out.

We wanted to give you more choice as to how you pay for things on GOG.com. Now it's up to you if you want to pay in US Dollars, or in the currency primarily used in your country, whether it's the Euro, Pounds Sterling, Australian Dollars, or Russian Roubles. That's four new currencies supported by GOG.com for your convenience. Still - the choice is yours, so if you want to stick to US dollars, just switch to it - you find this option at the bottom of each page. To make buying things at GOG.com an even more flexible process, we're introducing some new payment methods: Sofort, Giropay, Webmoney, and Yandex.

All this also means that users for whom the local currency pricing has been enabled will have an option to select one of two different prices for each game in our catalog. Of course, we stand by the simple truth that $1 does not equal 1€, so a game with a $5.99 price tag will cost 4.49 Euro, 3.69 British Pounds, 6.49 Australian Dollars, and 219 Roubles respectively. $9.99 translates to 7.49 Euro, 5.99 Pounds Sterling, 10.89 Australian Dollars, and 359 Roubles. In a perfect world we would apply the same method of pricing to all of the games we offer. However, things are a little bit more complicated, and there are some games in our catalog that follow a different region-based pricing scheme. However, we wouldn't be GOG.com if we didn't find a way to make right by the users who end up paying relatively more for such titles. Here's where the Fair Price Package comes in!

The Fair Price Package applies to all of the titles which we couldn't include in our standard pricing scheme. If you end up paying more for a game than its standard US Dollar price, we'll refund you the difference out of our own pocket. The refunded value will be added to your account in Store Credit in the currency of your purchase. That's right, no more gift codes, you'll be getting Store Credit that you can use to purchase anything on GOG.com or partially pay for an item that's more expensive. More choice, ease of use, and less limitations!

Finally, the GOG.com store has gotten itself a substantial visual revamp. We went for a fresh, mobile-friendly design that should make it even easier to find the games you want, notice the hot promos, and see what's new. The main page, catalog view, product pages, and checkout have been updated and also lay the groundwork for even more overhaul, coming within the next few months together with many of the GOG Galaxy features. We hope you like it!

PS. Unfortunately, we need to drop some titles from our classic catalog. In such cases, we always do our best to give you an advance warning and a last chance to purchase such games - preferably with a considerable discount. Check this news post to find out which titles are being removed from our catalog, when will it happen, and what parting discounts for them do we currently offer.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by G-Doc
A bit of experimentation suggests that the search dropdown is currently disabled everywhere except the front page and catalogue pages. Fingers crossed we get a more consistent functionality when things settle down.
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Rinu: Thanks! Do you know what currency is used during the payment, not just visually in GUI but what a bank is charged in reality?
Whatever currency you are currently using on GOG. This isn't just a "visual" change.
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Calib4n: I think the new layout is a bit shit.
Meaning it's really shit.

Also, as a Swiss citizen, I'd rather have my prices in dollar than euro.
GOG front page, scroll to the bottom, right hand side. Change currency. Profit. :)
Oooh shiny :)
only thing I kinda miss is the green logo :P
Why remove games? I don't get it?

And I like the aesthetic change but the front page is wayyyy to busy. I found my eyes jumping from one thing to the next without really noticing what I was looking at... I like change but busy change is bad.
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Gnostic: Yeah, I would prefer user get the choice to buy it at a higher price or not at GOG. If the user don't think the price is fair just don't buy it or wait for a sales.

But take the choice away and make everyone unable to purchase it at GOG no matter what, I don't understand the logic. Is like if I don't like to buy apples from a certain store, I force everyone else unable to buy it. Still I hope the majority of GOG users are happy with their choice and think of the consequence in their future endeavor.
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Racer_X: GOG stuck to it's principle and that's a good thing! Using your argumentation I could say "Why the hell aren't you selling games with DRM, too? I can choose whether or not I buy it then". Nothing I want to see on GOG.
Also you CAN buy the overpriced regional priced product. You'll get the pricing difference back from GOG itself. So therefore I'm totally ok with all of the new stuff. Well, I'll get used to the new interface anyhow.
Well I prefer DRM free with regional pricing versus no regional pricing but no games. Pricing can be changed in time, but DRM free legally cannot. Also I prefer the support of GOG versus steam and other digital distribution platform.

But why am I arguing my preference at the internet? It is the majority to GOG customers preference that wins, I hope these fellow GOGer will be happy with their choice.

I will have to buy Regional priced or even DRM games from other platform if I want them badly enough. Bah I own every other spell force title on GOG but was unable to complete my collection due to this. At some time in the future I will have to complete it on other platform
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Calib4n: I think the new layout is a bit shit.
Meaning it's really shit.

Also, as a Swiss citizen, I'd rather have my prices in dollar than euro.
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Coelocanth: GOG front page, scroll to the bottom, right hand side. Change currency. Profit. :)
Thanks buddy, much appreciated !
I could be wrong, but didn't the Wishlist used to say how much the games cost? And it was a different color when they were on sale? Both of those features are not showing up right now.
By all that is holy!

This is... most impressive, but I've one complaint: you've to click "see comments" to see the... well, comments.
where is the cleanup of the wishlist feature (removing/merging of duplicates....)
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bernstein82: the ugly
- why can i no longer i see if i already bought a game? (in all the views)
You can, but it isn't obvious. Games listed on the front page are in black lettering if you don't own them, grey lettering if you do. If you go to the game page it says 'Owned' under 'Buy Item'. If you're not seeing that, then it's probably just a temporary glitch.
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cendare: I could be wrong, but didn't the Wishlist used to say how much the games cost? And it was a different color when they were on sale? Both of those features are not showing up right now.
No, you're remembering correctly, I figure the full functionality of the new site isn't all up and running yet (can't imagine why they'd take this feature out of the wishlist).
Post edited August 27, 2014 by Coelocanth
i'm missing the green in the gog logo and i have a problem too seperate different areas, if there arent a clear line between for example system specs and oter information, its just grey, maybe you could integrate another coulor?
I'm disappointed by new look. So much, that thinking about not buying games that being remove next week. Even Gothic 2 :(
I love old happy-n-color look. This makes me feel depressed.
New payment options (hopefully PLN will come some day) are really cool, but the new layout is terrible. It's bland, monotone, hard to read and in no way "fresh and mobile-friendly". What was wrong with green and yellow logo? Those were your trademark colours, now you're dark grey and grey like some other Internet game store (nudge nudge, wink wink).