I can't believe I'm just discovering this right now! xD I've a tendency to visit and re-visit my bookmarked threads, sometimes forgetting to explore beyond...

Absolutely fantastic website you created, gogtrial34987! :D I am utterly speechless. Your attention to detail is a remarkable testament to your love of gaming! Incredibly useful and customizable search engine. And I really appreciate the access to all currencies and the dark theme, too. ;) Impressive work!

I very much have the same. :) Glad you found your way here anyway, and thanks for the kind words! (Also to everyone who uttered kind words before (and going forward) who I didn't/won't respond to directly - I don't want to feel like a broken record saying ty all the time, feeling that it'd add very little to the thread, but I do read and thoroughly appreciate all the responses.)

Heh, you're preaching to the choir here. I actually use zero libraries or frameworks, both on the back-end and on the front-end. I use a few transitions to make the collapsing and expanding more obvious, but that's the same as everyone did 16+ years ago with jQuery, using a CSS feature which has been widely supported for 12 years.

I do use a couple of relatively new core HTML features for giving accessibility hints, as well as CSS features (specifically :has() and round()) which allow me to create certain layout dependencies with lining out things relative to each other that otherwise wouldn't be possible at all. I thought that should be safe now that IE is no longer with us and all browsers auto-update. There, I did run into the unsuspected reality of people maintaining dedicated Win7 or even XP gaming machines, where the browsers simply can't update beyond a certain point - but all those fancy new HTML and CSS features are decidedly optional ("progressive enhancement"), and lack of support should still result in a layout that is very serviceable.

Do you see something which is actually broken for you? (That's always possible, as I don't test every change I make in all those old browsers.) If so, a specific browser version together with a screenshot would be most appreciated, so I can fix it.

Banned games in Germany don't affect anything about the shown prices; all banned games have a regular price in Germany, which is generally the same as in the rest of the eurozone (and the exceptions aren't related to games being banned). I wish I could show "general EU pricing", but there's no such thing; GOG does all pricing on a per-country basis, and Germany is simply the biggest country within the eurozone.

Urgh, so much re-PACK-ing for the stalker release. There used to be just the three original games. Then the three enhanced editions were announced as coming-soon. And then at release all six of those products were removed, with each of them replaced with a PACK containing both the original AND the enhanced edition (so each game has effectively two duplicate versions, only differing in name and screenshots, but not in content).

I feel no shame in admitting that my heuristics for determining relations between games got completely confused by these shenanigans. The question is if I'm going to bother detecting this for a next time, or if I'm just going to accept that a next time will also require manual fixups...

What's really annoying with such repacks is that as products with a new ID, they don't have associated price history. On the one hand that's fair, as the thing you get now is really a new thing; on the other hand it isn't, since the discounted games people bought in the past now contain the same.
The idea of automatically rewiring my queries for best prices for all repacks is rather daunting, but every case I see (there are one or two each month) makes me think I will really have to...

Also the repacks of the original versions got a releasedate on GOG from today. But that, at least, I already have the infrastructure for to fix without issues... *knocks on wood*

Meh, and all of them lost the information about included goodies. I guess I'll need to make that transitive for included unavailable products.

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(Yes, okay, I admit, I enjoy this sort of thing.) :D

I'm working on the age rating filter today, and I can conclude with great authority that age ratings make absolutely no sense.

Overboard has a PEGI rating of 18+, but in Brazil it's rated for 10+. (Ooh, that game actually looks like fun! Onto the wishlist!) :D
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons has a PEGI rating of 16+, while in Brazil it's 0+.

Conversely, Myst III has a PEGI rating of 3+, but in Brazil it's rated 16+.

The Guest and The Longest Journey have an ESRB rated of 17+, but respectively a PEGI rating of 7+ and a USK rating of 6+.

USK ratings (the German system) seem unexpectedly sane in comparison, with the maximum deviation being 18+ for Empire Earth 3 and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest (which is just outright banned in Germany), while being only 12+ in the rest of Europe, or 0+ for The Guild 2 in Germany, versus 14+ in Brazil and 12+ in the rest of Europe.

First of all, congratulations on the site, very useful especially to see the best offers at first glance.

If I may make an observation, perhaps it would make sense to change the German flag to the European flag since the prices should apply to all of Europe that uses the Euro.

In the future will there be cards for individual games like on GOGDB or is that not planned? Thank you!

I've thought about this, yes - but the EU flag really isn't appropriate, given the large number of non-euro EU countries, and although I could make some non-official "eurozone" flag myself, Cavalry showed that there is at least one game with price differences between several eurozone countries, and where there is one, there are probably more. I need to have a fuller overview before I take any steps in this direction.

No solid plans right now. I do have vague ideas to expose more detailed information about individual games, which I'd probably try to cram in the sidebar as some kind of overlay, and I can imagine that that might end up with individual game pages in the end - but all of that is a long-term thing regardless, with plenty of time for me to still ponder exactly how to proceed.

Also, I prefer to primarily add features for things which gogdb doesn't cover. There'll be overlap regardless, but given the choice between adding something completely new, and something which gogdb already does, I'll pick the former every time.

This is now live.

Thanks. Now I know that there are only 4 games that are both NSFW and 18+ PEGI.

I've added sorting by title, and by original release date, exposing the full original releasedate when doing so (or when filtering on it). This can be useful to get an idea of when coming-soon titles are scheduled to arrive, though of course there's no guarantee that they'll be day-1 releases on GOG.

At the moment I've added/corrected that original releasedate for 360 products. Probably lots more to correct, but at least none are currently missing.

Neat, nice to see sort by title.
Could the sorting option be preserved between searches though?
And what about parameters in general, other than q, being preserved when you click the home image at the top? Or at the very least the include NSFW option not being cleared each time?

A click on the logo will always give you the homepage, and thus (for now) reset everything. That's a pattern I don't want to break. I do intend to at some point have the option to remember some "always do this" settings, which would apply on the homepage, at least including the NSFW tag and the country - but I need to figure out where to move the complexity of having logical URLs when I go that route. (I want URLs to be shareable, giving the same results for different people, so I'd have to either push to history state with JavaScript, or redirect to the correct page with all applicable URL parameters on first entry, and it all gets hairy - something to have a long hard think on after having taken care of more immediate wishes.)

For general sets of filters it gets even more complex, since there probably is no one set you always want to use, but several that you want to refer to frequently. I mean, this is why browsers have bookmarks, but I can see ending up implementing my own version of that in-site, exposing a list of (deliberately remembered) "frequent searches" somehow? (Either heavy-weight with user accounts, or lightweight in a cookie/localStorage, with the risk of it disappearing...) Of course, if you then want to apply that set of filters to varying search terms, I'll need to go fancy. (That's probably what'll make it all worthwhile, but yeah, we're talking long-term now.)

What you could do at the moment to prevent the NSFW tag from being cleared, while resetting most other things, is just starting a new search by clicking on the Find button (with or without empty search field). Or, bookmark https://gamesieve.com/?okay_tag=nsfw yourself, and just click on that bookmark whenever you'd otherwise have clicked on the logo?

I'm not immediately seeing the general use of retaining sorting between searches. (The way I generally approach this is that filters allow you to drill down on the current view, but searches start 'mostly' fresh.) I mean, I can see there being quite some cases where it'd be helpful to retain sorting, but I see even more cases where it isn't. I can imagine being talked into it, though, so feel free to expand on what you're doing / searching for where it'd be helpful for you, and ideally also why you think it'd be desirable in other cases as well.

I was not happy with the result of this, so I did it completely anew. I removed add-on goodies for over 250 products where they were just duplicated included products, or moved them to the proper category if they actually belonged in the artwork/references/... category (I suspect that no(t all) goodie categories existed in the early days of GOG, so those goodies simply couldn't have been properly categorized yet.)

I'm still not entirely happy with the resulting heuristics, but building a proper framework for enriching this data isn't worth it at this point, so it'll have to do.

I also solved a bug where the "frequency of sales: never" filter was causing an error. As far as I can tell, only one visitor encountered the bug, so yay? :)

Since I was looking at goodies anyway, I just did this.