Anyone having problems with their GOG games library?

When using manual sorting, if you leave some gaps between your game covers, empty rows are added indefinitely.

Even after moving all game covers close to each others (leaving no space between them) I still have 2 empty rows.

If you had 3 games (no gaps) on your last filled shelf, you were presented with no empty rows.

If you had 4 or 5 games (no gaps) on your last filled shelf, your library added one empty row (normal behavior).

Now I have 4 games (with no library gaps) on my last filled shelf, and my library shows two empty rows beneath it - whereas, It should display only one.

Changing sorting options, logging out etc. didn't make any difference.

Can it be considered a bug? Any fixes?

Dragonsphere does not have an icon yet: http://www.gog.com/en/forum

It seems we now have 1 to 2 empty rows rather than 0 to 1 (I have 1 game on the last row, and there's one completely empty row).

That's not a bug perse. Cluttered though, and easily fixable by making the conversations sortable/brought to a window by username via a drop down box or small text listing. That way you could keep your impromptu friends/contacts list
I confirm this.

This seems to be fixed. Probably related to Stelis' observation.

Interestingly enough, look at the attached image: if I try to put XIII in the last slot after VR Soccer, it's moved down to the next row (like the image) when I reload. This does not happen if XIII and VR Soccer are in the reverse order (VR Soccer in the last slot).

I'm going to bring this up again because i'm having a hard time believing no one is bothered by the fact that:

a) threads are missing from the boards regardless of what the 'Topics per forum page' setting is set to; b) The setting in question is affecting not only the number of topics displayed per page, as it should, but also the total number of topics displayed on the board, which means that users will have 'more' or 'less' threads available to them according to the value of the setting in question; and c) new threads bump off old threads from the boards.

I made a couple of threads to test this on TLJ's board.

Board: TLJ (I'm using this board just to highlight the problem, but the problem is by no means restricted to this board, it affects many boards)

So, after thread test1 this is what the board looked like:

'Topics per forum page' setting: 50 threads per page
Number of pages: 1
Total number of posts: 50
Oldest post: April 7, 2010 - thread: "Q:Game Graphics"

''Topics per forum page' setting, 30 threads per page
Number of pages: 2
Total number of posts: 60
Oldest post: March 21, 2010 - thread "An adventure Classic"

''Topics per forum page' setting, 15 threads per page
Number of pages: 4
Total number of posts: 60
Oldest post: March 21, 2010 - thread "An adventure Classic"

So, in this case users with the value set to 50 have, at any given time, 10 less threads available to them than users with the value set to 30 or 15.

And regardless of what the value is set to, all users are always missing threads anyway because with each new thread made by users an older thread is bumped off the board entirely.

After thread test2:

'Topics per forum page' setting: 50 threads per page
Number of pages: 1
Total number of posts: 50
Oldest post: April 9, 2010 - thread: "Q:Dissapearing Characters"

''Topics per forum page' setting, 30 threads per page
Number of pages: 2
Total number of posts: 60
Oldest post: March 22, 2010 - thread "Beautiful classic!"

''Topics per forum page' setting, 15 threads per page
Number of pages: 4
Total number of posts: 60
Oldest post: March 22, 2010 - thread "Beautiful classic!"

Which means that

vanishing thread 1, this thread is now missing for those with the value set to 50, and

vanishsing thread 2, this one has completely vanished from the TLJ board index regardless of what the users have set the value of the setting in question to.

I'm not (any more) crazy (than usal), am i ? ;)

Thanks, both the fix and the new glich noted in the OP.

Gog's staff added the icon meanwhile ;)

Apparently that is intended to allow you to arrange your shelf with spaces between covers without having the shelf re-set itself to a 'no spaces between covers' configuration when you reload the page, as noted by Miaghstir.

I think this is a bug coming from the new manual sorting system, rather than a new normal behavior.

They seem to have fixed the "spaces between covers in the shelf" as posted by Namur in the original post, but this broke the library which now has other problems with empty rows.


If you use sorting by purchase date or title, this bug is fixed and the default behavior is like before:

If you had 3 games (no gaps) on your last filled shelf, you were presented with no empty rows.

If you had 4 or 5 games (no gaps) on your last filled shelf, your library added one empty row.


However for manual sorting having two empty arrows (even after leaving no space between the covers) is just plain ugly!


Some steps to reproduce the problem:

Go to your last shelf with game covers.

Pick your last game cover and move it to your last available slot in your last available row.

Now close your account page, for example by browsing to the gog frontpage.

Then, go back to your library page and two more rows are added.

Do the above steps again with the same game cover and empty rows are added indefinitely. See also the attached image.

Even after you put all your game covers on the top shelves (with no gaps between them), log out and come back, it seems that one more empty row (than the usual) is added.

Is this thing universal?


Lastly, I don't think this is by design, as the newly added empty row can be only seen with manual sorting on.

However, if this the normal new default behavior, please bring the old one back. Now my library is hideous with so many empty rows.

It might be intentional (though we have no way of knowing until someone blue replies) When using automatic sort you have no need of the extra rows, but they might be there to give some extra space when moving stuff around. A switch might be good, so we can add the extra rows when we want it for rearranging the shelves, but remove them when we're done.

EDIT: Also, empty quotes have yet to be fixed, I tested just now.

Did you try my steps to reproduce the problem?

I moved a box down to an empty row and reloaded the page, I have always 1 or 2 completely empty rows beneath the last game; 1 if the box is in one of the 3 leftmost slots, 2 if the box is in either of the 2 rightmost ones.

You seem to have two rows even though the box is in the 3rd/middle slot. I haven't reproduced that.

Can you please, also, confirm the above steps to reproduce the problem?
That would be the best of both worlds!

I did reproduce the issue following your steps.

I still can't tell if it's a bug or intended behaviour. The extra rows might be a way to allow you more space between covers when you already have a game on the last slot of the last row, so when you return to the shelf the next time extra rows are added after the game that was on the last slot on the last row in your previous visit.

Edit: When i re-arrange the games back to no spaces i'm only getting an extra empty row, although the cover is placed one slot ahead of what it should, the last cover should be in slot #1 of the last not empty row and instead it goes to slot #2.

If i manually slide it back to slot #1 it will jump to slot #2 on reload.

I have a question, and it concerns the problem I had since GOG went out of beta.

After the relaunch, when I want to sort manually my bookshelf, it takes like 10-15 seconds before there's any reaction. To be more precise, when I point my mouse onto games cover, and try to drag it to replace with another cover, it takes 10-15 seconds before it reacts.

After that, while I'm dragging the cover to another place, everything works quickly, but when I drop it, it's the same as while I'm dragging it, it takes 10 seconds before they swap their places.

I remember I was able to sort my bookshelf pretty quick before the relaunch, but now It's a pain in the a**.

Could anyone confirm it takes so long to drag & drop game cover?

Maybe it is intended... I don't know.

Still I can't understand why:

"Even after you put all your game covers on the top shelves (with no gaps between them), log out and come back, it seems that one more empty row (than before the spring update) is added."

This has no use, because you already had at least two empty slots (with 3 game covers on the last shelf) / or even an entire empty row.

Nevertheless, now having two empty rows is very ugly.
No, for me it is almost instantly.

Yeah, even if part of it it's intended behaviour there's something weird going on with the shelf, check the edit on my other post.