What are the most important changes/improvements that you would make to the site (be it the catalog [games, movies] sections, account section, etc.) if you had the authority to make changes?

(I should also suggest providing links to wishlist entries of these changes if you want: http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site)

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well this is over the top but - i would like to have the animation of opening the game box, and flipping manual books, also 3D rendering of the box itself on the shelf where we can rotate as we want.

better game shelf would be nice too ;D

I will bring back the game boxes on gog shelf.
And some other changes to ban scammers.

More openness about what GOG is actually looking for so that we can hold them to their own standards. Right now it just seems like one guy sitting around going "nope, don't like that" rather than a consistent set of criteria a GOG-worthy game needs to meet, and I'm sure many of us could think of a few games in the catalog that are guilty of the same things as certain rejected games.

As a user, it's a bit annoying not knowing if a game actually has a shot to show up here or if it's already been silently rejected for one random reason or another. I'd imagine the affected developers are equally frustrated by the mercuriality of the whole process.

Flat design for everyone!

I can think of three main things I would change:

A. The acceptance policies. There would still be curation, but no more rejecting games for being "niche" or "casual". If a game is of sufficient quality, it would be accepted. However, to maintain proper front page exposure for new releases, games that aren't having day-one releases would be added to a queue and released regularly.

B. If the GOG version of a game is missing features, updates, DLC, OS support, or anything else found in other versions, it would be very clearly noted on the store page.

C. No more sale bundles and no more sale mystery games.

We need:
A better-structured forum
Link to relative game subforum in the store 'gamecard' page
Spoiler tags at the forum
Email Notification For Forum Posts
Expand your forum search capabilities beyond English

And many other forum wishes =)

Sort forum search by last post date.
See a list of posts a user posted. (In particular, see my own posts as a user.)
Fix the forum replies, including the "my posts from last 24 hours" etc.
Remove the greying out of downrated threads.

I actually dont understand why subforums are not linked to the relative gamecard ....
Having said that, someone mentioned in the past the forum was custom made....maybe its not possible to change or do certain things with it?.

Why not? These are quite neat + they give you a reason to get the whole series for a cheaper buck. I appreciate that a lot. I understand the removal of the mystery games though.

I need the old shelf back. I liked it way more when i didnt have to navigate between pages and had one big column of games. Should be a option to either have 1 big page of games or 20 or 50 games per page.

Oh yes, I can very much agree with this option.

The reason I dislike GOG's bundles is that, in my opinion, they don't serve their intended purpose. A bundle is supposed to be balanced - You get a crazy discount (let's say 85% off or better) on the games in it, but to do so you have to buy all of them. Unfortunately, on GOG the bundles often have discounts that are completely underwhelming in the context of a bundle. You'll have to buy the entire bundle to get the discount, but it will only be around 75% off or less, which is what you would normally expect from most games that are individually discounted. As a result, most of the bundles only harm the customer by requiring them to purchase multiple games together to get the same discount they would normally get buying the games individually.

It also doesn't help that:

- Many individual games do get discounted at 80% off or better, making the bundling of games feel unnecessary even for crazy discounts.

- It seems that some games are discounted exclusively in recurring bundles, which causes problems for users who want a good discount on just one or two games from a large bundle.

- The whole thing is arbitrary anyway, because any user that has all of the games in a bundle can buy them individually as gifts for the full discount.

So isn't your problem more about the bundle discounts not being high enough, rather than that they shouldn't exist in the first place?

I like the idea behind GOG bundles much more than Steam and Humble Bundle bundles because you get compensated for games you already have in GOG, so you don't end up buying the same games several times. In HB it is normal that one has to think carefully whether the bundle is worth it because you already have most of the games in it in HB, yet the price remains the same.

The saving grace for HB though is that its bundle prices tend to be the lowest anywhere, ie. it is the best place for cheapskates. Hence you don't necessarily care if you have most of the games already, but then there are increasingly also those fixed $10 or $15 (or even more) price points.

"You are in charge of revamping/improving the GOG website..."

Yeah, by the quality of it, it really looks like I am. :-p