I would give that game a chance, but U$35 is too much for an unkown game. It would hardly fit within GOG price ranges anyway.

You mean because unlike modern websites, it actually loads in under 10 minutes and without timing out at least once?
Hear that Mr. Gog, somebody out there is capable of writing a bandwidth and latency appropriate website.

The only reason why Web 2.0 isn't the top of my "things that suck on the internet" list is Flash, FB and online pornography.
Nope, just a bit on the shifty side. :-P

Why? GOG already has Carmageddon. ^^

YEAH!
Not to mention Postal and Blood!

Jeeze, did this guy even look at the catalogue!?

And Soft Porn Adventure.

Here are a few more, Star Wars Pit Droids is great fun.

The Lego games are nice too, atleast I love them.

Only that site is not handling databases consisting of hundreds of entries for millions of user accounts. :P

That's no excuse. The reason why performance sucks is because they're pulling in scripts from god only knows where and not properly optimizing things. There's absolutely no reason for them to require FB, Twitter, and Youtube scripts along with a lot of the other crap that they've decided absolutely needs to be loaded in order to see anything.

The database is the least of the issues. CDNs are a necessary evil these days, but it's not the CDN that's the problem, it's all that social networking crap that causes the trouble. That and the fact that they're trying to do things which aren't necessary and just break the site.

If they want that fine, but they really ought to have a lite version which avoids all that BS.

Haven't observed anything like that. Also when I included YT features and social stuff in my own page once the only thing that took longer to load were these particular elements so I don't think that it's that kind of stuff that's slowing down GOG. But actually I can't say that GOG is among the slower sites I visit, even when accessing it through the crappy mobile connection of my smartphone GOG doesn't seem to load much slower (if at all) than most other sites out there. The only things that take a notable time to load for me are the bestselling lists and especially the shelf. They probably could be optimized a little more but that particular stuff is something that does require some notable work by their servers (at least the shelf since the content is account related and every entry is accompanied by a cover image). I'm wondering whether accessing GOG's site simply is much slower from Asia.

It's a latency issue and it's certainly worse here in Asia, but it's not the location so much as the fact that they're loading scripts from scripts and every time there's a new script added to the chain, it adds up to additional latency and an increased possibility of having things timeout.

Literally the only sites I can think of that I visit that are worse than GOG are Slashdot and Kongregate, and slashdot also abuses the hell out of javascripts from random places. And obviously, Kongregate, is probably mostly because they're using so much flash.

I was having issues with it even back in the US, sure it wasn't quite as bad there, but I was still having issues with posts dropping and the site shouldn't be held hostage waiting for scripts that have no reason to be on the site in the first place.