Oh wow. Site is still painfully slow, but this is SO much better than before (and review paragraphing is back! Seriously, how could GOG manage to break such a basic thing so badly?) Is there anything you can do about the annoying zoom effect in the header image, and the fact that it keeps changing automatically?

I agree with everything you're saying, and it's sad that GOG doesn't seem to listen to their users (or even care about them anymore for that matter).

I joined GOG for the Good Old Games that I have fond memories of from my childhood and teenage years, and I loved the passion they showed hunting them down and making them work on modern systems. These days, I don't even remember the last time I was exited to see a great DOS or early windows title. The bigger the releases become, the larger the company grew, and they distanced themselves further and further from the community.

My problem with GOG these days is not that they have issues with their website/service. It's that they don't seem to care about them. What was the last time we had a proper community manager who acknowledged an issue and kept us in the loop on how a fix is going? That's what I'd love to see on Twitter, instead of the juvenile cringeworthy jokes that they think is "edgy" or "hip", but in reality it only amuses 10-year-olds and is just a steaming pile of shit. Incompetent development/testing team is one thing, but acting like nothing happened is another. How hard is it to post "hey retards, we know we screwed up, we're working on fixing the issues in the coming weeks/months/years".

As for why I started this thread: My hope was that if they start to see workarounds and fixes to their website, it might occur to them that something is wrong and they should do something about it. After all, users shouldn't need to do horrible hacks like this just to make it working as it did before. The uglier the hacks get, the more and more embarrassing the situation becomes.

I'd love to see GOG-fixing browser extensions popping up with coin miner scripts and malware hidden in them, that would wake them the F up. Well, this is not one of them. :)

I think it's more likely that they'd see it and just go, "hmm I guess there's an option for the people bitching," continuing about their day as if nothing had changed. It's work they don't have to do kind of thing.

Sorta like how mod fixes and workarounds more or less never prompt developers to actually patch stuff.

Perhaps, but for me the damage is done. These scripts fix a lot of wrong but it's breaking the site as well, obviously. Some pages don't load, etc.

Even if the site would be perfect with this fix, I will keep my current habits of not visiting GOG mindlessly like I used to do, but at least now when I do visit the site I wont get mad CPU spikes. I'll still be reminded that they stuck a knife in our backs.

And these workarounds usually get a very low engagement rate. I highly doubt even half the people complaining on the site redesign will be using this.

I was 9000% on board with GOG's mission, due to their delivery and image, but this site redesign missed the mark so much and the way it's being handled has me wondering what the hell happened with management over there. I see it as an attack to my integrity. Clearly I was wrong when I thought GOG and I we're on the same wave length. This is an attempt to cater to the mindless robots out there. But hey, it's part of life right? Deception I mean.

When Ars technica redesigned the comments section and messed up bad, about a year ago, the backlash was so strong they reverted the changes within the week or following week and have not touched it since. You know, like a respectable company.

EDIT: Anyway, I'm out. I'm not coming back to complain on this. I vote with my wallet and my purchase influence has gone down tremendously. After making lots of posts on this issue, I'm simply repeating myself and I'm wasting my time. Not worth the effort.

Stellar work, cheers a bunch. If I could ask for one more thing - would it be possible to have the full review show instead of having to click on the "Read more" button?



Yes and no. For the most part, GOG's response to the people bitching in the forum is to collect feedback somewhere where the sun never shines. But once in a while something gets done, and when it does, GOG takes their sweet time implementing it while breaking tons of other things.
For example, GOG removed a ton of options regarding reviews with their 2014 revamp. adaliabooks restored and improved them with his script (along with with a good number of other improvements, most of which GOG has broken in the meantime). GOG adopted more or less all of them now. Thing is that it took them four years to do so. Four years. And that's just one example.

So from my PoV, there's no reason to subject one's self to that if/when there's a workaround. I've been using custom userscripts and userstyles almost from the very beginning. I do what I can myself, but my skills are pretty limited on that front, so I'm very appreciative of the community's work.

Fair enough, and yeah the community's done some great work. I think my solution though will just be taking my money elsewhere for the time being. Rather than buying certain horror games here (like the Corpse Party games) I just grabbed em from some place that isn't nearly as painful to use.

Not sure how much I even trust the payment process here anymore given how big of mess they made with Javascript.

back when gog started there wasn't even a mod for the gog forums now for me it's harder because when you say gog doesn't listen to it's community are you talking bout every one,, your team, or maybe it's just you and you think everyone is on "your side" < not the actually reason

300 people want round objects
300 people want triangles
now whos right and who right round or triangles i believe some of this stuff needs to be actually voted for becuase some people might like square versions of the game store

they really should just add options in the settings with toggle switchs becuase some of these are needed but others are more preferences as well


store page
List / Grid
https://web.archive.org/web/20171001062653/https://www.gog.com/games?sort=popularity&amp;page=1
(not sure why they got rid of the button?)


< my thoughts and opinion >
personally for news to > me < not anyone else i never looked at the gog news once since creating a gog account. i never really bothered or cared about it either so having it on front instead of games i want to look, i would be disappointed

I do agree on videos though they need to go

I like Grid more then list form because it takes a little longer to scroll in list and i feel list view just takes too much unused space although i would replace the video with a popup of other information on the game at lest.

this is just what i like /dislike maybe no one likes my thoughts or maybe some people might agree i just want to put another idea on the table since not everyone like the same design or ideas

For me the grid vs list thing doesn't even matter, it's the fact that they did such a poor job of this. It's slow, formatting breaks in their own bloody client, search/sorting has gotten worse, discoverability is worse, nothing is filling the gap left by gogmixes, even the way they setup the halloween promo is problematic...its just dumped in with anything else on sale.

It's not so much that they change the look, so much as they royally fucked the functionality of it in the process and broke stuff. Function > form always, whoever did this design though didn't get that memo. It's like something tried to make a Steam knockoff in Wix.

Excuse me but is there any chance of these ?

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_anniversary_design_community_fix/post13

A bit belated - using the community's quality_of_life workarounds doesn't necessarily translate into spending money on GOG.

First, thanks for the work here !

Now... I'm sorry to ask, but I'm a complete newbie on this : how can I use this ? "Just copy-paste the scripts from the link below into your favourite injector to use." I... don't understand :S
I'm on PaleMoon, using GreaseMonkey plugin with Adalia and Barefoot scripts. It can't go "through" GreaseMonkey ? It's not a script ?
Thanks in advance for any explanation/help :)

Easy, but also seppuku in times of liberal vapid hipsters spawned from the social fascism division of outrage culture bred by imitating steam and meeting on the lowest common denominator of fucking everything. Y'all should be glad we still got a 2000's style real forum and not something like the https://www.discourse.org/ pos everybody likes to use on those spy bugs they like to slog around.

Just don't open the main page and add https://www.gog.com/frontpage/rss as live bookmark.