Is that really the IKEA way? Explains why I only have been to such a place once and never after.

And for your last notion of physical maze. That won't work with GOG, because if I get annoyed, I simply close the tab and I'm gone.

Meh, room for improvement. New reviews are a plus, lack of mixes is a minus.

Well, GOG seems to have thrown out all PC games and switched to selling ... stuff to the modern Netflix mobile crowd, not customers with PCs, according to their new redesign of their web site.

At least their prized idol store called "Steam" and "Netflix" seem to treat their respective customers better.

To be honest, I don't know how to update the current state of GOGs practices with my forum avatar, I should darken the picture halfway I think.

oh waow, i had no idea they were serious about it... i was just joking, but it seems i missed the most fun of it :)
new reviews without formatting or line breaks, though :)

everything has a price

and yes lack of mixes is not very cool, frankly, but the whole gogmix feature never had been correctly implemented to begin with (as in "no way to find back your own mixes from your account management settings... so if you dont remember the link, it's over)
i'm not very keen on restricted version of such feature only fully usable by "famous influencers" only and us user getting only a minimal-to-none capability for same thing
It goes against the whole logic of internet, in that it centralizes speech into a choosen number of few mouthes instead of letting everyone able to express themselves on equal footing. That is how mainstream medias such as newspapers and tv had been running for decades, and internet was supposed to get free of this pattern

To be honest, not everything is awful, the game page details have general better look, but consistent to catering to the growing analphabetic target groups, the design of the web shop seems so hard to work to avoid any useful (textual) information as possible not to scare the smartphone crowd away.

I could list endlessly to flaws but my main gripes are

- hiding the site news to bottom of the front page and even there it is only a stripe with "News" without any of them
- next to no information on the top of the game pages, lets play hide and seek; at least you have to big fat "BUY BUY" button on the top
- no text on the tiles (and mousing over them does not count)

I don't have Netflix but Amazon Prime Video... if you insist on selling videos, so be it; but GOG does looks like one, not wanting to sell PC games anymore.

Yes, I do know that GOG will not take back their redesign, as the last one during introduction of the Witcher 3 Patching Delivery System (also called "GOG Galaxy") was met with no love with their customer base, but they dont count obviously.

I personally do not like it, while I liked the older design much.
First, it is somehow broken for me (on latest Chrome), and even if I have English language as chosen, I see most parts of the website in german (I do not live in germany and I do not know this language).
I did not notice such problem on other websites for years.
Secondly, its less readable for me now.
I visit main website everyday to see whats new, and now news are at total bottom, and only latest 3.
There is a lot of unused space on both sides, especially right side when reading single game page, including system requirements that is on bottom with other things now, making a lot more scrolling, and ... where are GOG user lists?

I have 2 GOG icons I can click on my startscreen, Gog and GogGalaxy….
I USUALLY choose the GOG one, because I like it better than the gogGALAXY interface.
Now, The one I love is becoming the one I don't particularly care for.
Just put GOG back to before your 'update', and keep on updating Galaxy at will.
Many of us would appreciate it. (and, if I get too frustrated, I can always delete both)
Thanks

Oh! I forgot about my STEAM icon.... If I start hating GOG, there's always that poor replacement....?

Ok I changed my GOG bookmark to
https://www.gog.com/games?sort=date&page=1
This is the best way to see all games, filter, or sort them without having to look at the cram-full start page.

Btw why has the last row of the game list only 2 games, while the complete list has 3 columns? Not much important but looks something unfinished.

Oh dear.

I have nothing against the main page - actually, I like it - but I don't like a lot the new game pages. The good thing is that you can easily select a version and its DLCs, but the layout looks a bit messy.

And please... make the list of gamelists on game pages come back!

i hate this new layout for the gog site, it loads slower and is more decated to google leapis which drags it on loading
the old layout was fast and allowed me to find what i was looking for fast and casual, the new look feels like im on a
touchpad the active linking make using a mouse on site like being in a popup animated mine field..

wish they left site alone im a home pc user with mouse all this push for touchscreen portables is a pain in butt...

Aside from the rather noticeable increase of load times, I'm being more and more annoyed by several specific issues:

1. The images for games listed in the "Discover Games" (the element that was, on the old page, nicely balanced by news section right next to it) are too damn big, and take far more space than the "old" listing. GOG might as well hire Limp Bizkit to produce its own theme song: "Keep scrollin' scrollin' scrollin'". What's ironic is that all this white space is not even utilized properly in case of longer text, which is simply cut off, rather than continued underneath. There's plenty of white space there.

2. News section being dumped all the way down, and changed into pictorials. I get that the newer generation can't be bothered with words much, but the old approach allowed maximum information within the same page element boundary. Also, personally I find the side-scrolling annoying as hell, but that's just a very personal gripe. The side-scrolling doesn't exactly provide an immediate indication of time progression the way the old stacked design did, either.

3. Curated collections - not something I used even on the old page, but there it took nowhere near the same amount of page space. Moreover, it did not subordinate anything of value (to me) in the old design, meanwhile pushing News all the way to the bottom in the new one. Not to mention that it was not so aggressively "in your face!" graphically presented, either. FFS, I don't need half the screen of a banner for somebody's "curated" advertisement.

4. Beyond the main page - the game pages are also mis-designed now. Whereas the old design was very compact, and allowed immediate access to all desired information (screenshots, system requirements, partial overview of the game, and REVIEWS all within the same screen range), now it takes scrollin' scrollin' scrollin' to see either system requirements or, heavens forbid, reviews.

Honestly, GOG, fire whomever was responsible for this part of your re-design (if not all of it). While the main store page has serious issues, the games' pages have been outright broken by somebody apparently unaware of basic design principles taught in Layout 101. What's more absurd is that they had a perfect template present in the old version.

Lastly, the whole "mobile" look of things is just plain ugly.

There are 50 / page, so at 3 / row you're left with 2 on the last.

maybe because of the filter? when you have in on/off it uses different number of items per row

The site is just not ready, on top of being ugly and slow many aspects are just plain broken on Firefox ESR. What I don't understand is why it was pushed out in a half completed form, what possibly could have been the rush?

I used to come to GOG everyday to check for updates, now I can't even see the new updates. Anyone want to bet if my habit of checking the site daily fades away before they fix it?