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InkPanther: Hmm. What's your screen resolution if I may ask?
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djoxyk: currently that's 1280x1024, I use this screen for old games of 1990s and early 2000s era.
Heh, mine's that for... everything, only one I have. 11.5 y/o, still works :) And yep, handy for much of what I play too, being old games.
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Cavalary: Heh, mine's that for... everything, only one I have. 11.5 y/o, still works :) And yep, handy for much of what I play too, being old games.
wow, impressive. I've got this screen from shop that sells used PCs, only for 25 bucks. I already used it for a year and considered it already nice bargain. But if it can work a little longer that would be nice :) old hardware was much better than nowadays.
Post edited October 02, 2018 by djoxyk
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I haven't spent a ton of time with the new site, but I don't notice a huge difference in load speeds for game pages. However, the gamepages look like garbage now.

The gigantic banner is just too much. I can't even imagine how badly this looks on mobile. The screenshots seem ok, but I'm on a 1920 x 1080p monitor, so ymmv.

The gigantic "Buy Now" button looks pretty suspicious too, when before there used to be tons of info at the top or near the top of the gamecard. Not too keen on these changes, to be honest.

I can't wait to find out which vulnerabilities have been exposed with this update, too. There's always something "new" (old) that gets broken every time they change something with the site.

I also couldn't help but notice when you get to the description of the game on the gamecard, the right half of the screen is just.... blank. And also, the games I looked at had additional screenshots below the screenshots near the top. Kind of redundant.

I feel kind of bad for gog for the amount of crap they get from me and other people, but this should have been beta tested or something. I'm not liking the update at all, and it's not just me being crotchety.
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What a complete mess. UGH. For all the reasons already stated - the UX people took something good and made it worse. Worse Information density, UN-necessary scrolling, reduced usefulness, more jarring, ugly visual design. Web 3.0 at its worst.

Maybe they were trying to convince their bosses that everyone uses mobile devices to access a PC only gaming store...
Works decently here at the hotel, but I'll have to withhold full judgment until I get back home to my uber-fast (for 1995) 768 kbps connection.

For now, I like that the system requirements section is easier to notice and easier to read. Ditto the Languages section, though that's more for other users than for me since English almost always gets the love. The reviews area with filters is nice.

I finally noticed on the Stellaris store page that there is a pull-down for the various editions. This feature could probably use some work, to make it more noticeable. Had I not been looking for the upgrade editions after reading them in the news blurb, I might not have noticed the option to choose different editions. Might be a good idea to also put them down near the DLC area but slightly separated? That's kinda where we're used to looking for those things.
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Breja: I wasn't even done disliking what is now "old GOG" apparently. I liked the "really old GOG" layout best and haven't been really happy with the site since. But this really does suck balls. What's the point of those huge ass banners? Now I have to scroll and scroll to get to everything that was immediately clearly visable before.
I just dug up an old screenshot of someone complaining about the first game page design overhaul and it seems like such petty nitpicking in light of the atrocity that gog bestowed on us yesterday.
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Post edited October 02, 2018 by fronzelneekburm
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Dryspace: [NOTE: On a hunch, I opened the site in Firefox, and indeed GOG is not displaying correctly in IE11 now. Post has been edited.]
Protip: Maybe don't use a browser that eternally fails standards tests at every opportunity, and it only dragged to an update via a system update.
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idbeholdME: No problems here with long loadings. Everything seems to be working fine.

And regarding the new layout, I'm kind of neutral to it. Not amazed nor disappointed.
Mostly this.
I kind of liked having the games in a seires listed higher on the page, but it's not a big deal either way.
Asthetics aren't really a big deal to me either, and I haven't had the loading speed issues others have.
The lack of games being tagged with "owned" on their main store page isn't great though, I'm hoping it's just a bug that gets ironed out soon.

EDIT: Bug confirmed, the tag showing owned or not is no longer absent, so that's good.
Post edited October 02, 2018 by RoseLegion
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Seriously, GOG, have any of you tried opening it on anything but phone?
How about trying it in windowed mode?
(90% of the page goes to cut in half banner)

And by the way, why do you think that ads for games i already own is more important than rating and reviews for the game i'm thinking to buy?!?
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fronzelneekburm: I just dug up an old screenshot of someone complaining about the first game page design overhaul and it seems like such petty nitpicking in light of the atrocity that gog bestowed on us yesterday.
You forgot a WTF on the language section where everything beside English is hidden behind a "Show more languages" button. :P

What I think about the rest of the changes I've already written in the official thread.
Post edited October 02, 2018 by eiii
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Breja: I wasn't even done disliking what is now "old GOG" apparently. I liked the "really old GOG" layout best and haven't been really happy with the site since. But this really does suck balls. What's the point of those huge ass banners? Now I have to scroll and scroll to get to everything that was immediately clearly visable before.
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fronzelneekburm: I just dug up an old screenshot of someone complaining about the first game page design overhaul and it seems like such petty nitpicking in light of the atrocity that gog bestowed on us yesterday.
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Breja: I wasn't even done disliking what is now "old GOG" apparently. I liked the "really old GOG" layout best and haven't been really happy with the site since. But this really does suck balls. What's the point of those huge ass banners? Now I have to scroll and scroll to get to everything that was immediately clearly visable before.
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fronzelneekburm: I just dug up an old screenshot of someone complaining about the first game page design overhaul and it seems like such petty nitpicking in light of the atrocity that gog bestowed on us yesterday.
Fuck me, I didn't even notice before that GOG AGAIN made the number of game I own public. With all the privacy settings at max privacy. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL Fudge.

There was this huge week long shitstorm about this... and we're back to square one?! Are you fudge kidding me?

EDIT: This post was meant to express way more rage than it does now, however it was edited by the mod. The intense rage at how GOG is treating me as a customer, however, strangely enough has not been lessend as a result.
Post edited October 02, 2018 by Breja
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Dryspace: [NOTE: On a hunch, I opened the site in Firefox, and indeed GOG is not displaying correctly in IE11 now. Post has been edited.]
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Darvond: Protip: Maybe don't use a browser that eternally fails standards tests at every opportunity, and it only dragged to an update via a system update.
As far as I'm concerned, the fact that it doesn't keep changing is a huge point in its favor. And can use just about any other site in it, with some quirks here and there but works, but on GOG now (or for major sale pages for quite some time, and more recently chat), nope. Doubt there'd be any problems if the server would generate the page and pass the info as plain HTML to browser, but with GOG insisting on angular.js and not having the actual data showing up on page in the page source at all... Heck, that's something I'd take issue with on principle, even if it would work, not being able to see what the browser is actually processing.
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Cavalary: As far as I'm concerned, the fact that it doesn't keep changing is a huge point in its favor. And can use just about any other site in it, with some quirks here and there but works, but on GOG now (or for major sale pages for quite some time, and more recently chat), nope. Doubt there'd be any problems if the server would generate the page and pass the info as plain HTML to browser, but with GOG insisting on angular.js and not having the actual data showing up on page in the page source at all... Heck, that's something I'd take issue with on principle, even if it would work, not being able to see what the browser is actually processing.
If you want to insist on using an unchanging rock of a browser, why not go fully Debian and break out Lynx or other text mode browsers?
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TentacleMayor: I like that the new review section and system requirements are given more space. I hate the video autoplay.
I hate video autoplay on any and every site. I want the option to run the video or not and want the whole page to load first.
Post edited October 02, 2018 by clisair
I can confirm being someone on extremely slow bandwidth here that the load speeds for the game pages are indeed a LOT slower. I've seen steam pages load quicker than this. I'm used to painful, but this is bloody pathetic.