The GoG website is currently VERY heavily JavaScript reliant.

The fancy effects are nice an' all, but it slows the site down on my older machines and also degrades very poorly when run on older browsers. At the time of writing, the GoG website basically only works properly on the 'Big Three' (IE, Firefox and Chrome) and those of us that use other and older browsers struggle to navigate the site :(

The better javascript-heavy sites usually support graceful degrading, so that if the javascript breaks the site is still usable using standard HTML linking and display; With GoG, if the javascript breaks, many links stop working and even whole chunks of the site disappear or fail to render properly (Recent changes to the front page have made it unusable on all my machines except my Win7 laptop, which is the only thing I have that can run a recent enough version of Chrome!)

Is it likely something could be done about this at some point?
Maybe a simplified version of the site that is less code-heavy?

There are 2 things GOG never does - add the stuff you vote for on the wishlist to the catalog, and fix the website. So no, it's not going to happen unless it's something useless that they need to add for Galaxy integration.

The script coming from images-3.gog.com seems to be the problematic one.

While I agree with you, and while it would be nice browsing the site in Cyberdog again, sadly, I doubt it will happen.

Yeah. Where's System Shock 2 and Lucasarts? Get off your lazy asses, GOG! I will not spend another cent here before you fulfill at least these two most voted for wishes!

It also sucks badly on mobile devices.

Honestly, i'd rather not have Javascript and just have images and links as appropriate... The javascript could be useful in cases such as, an active timer so you know how long a deal is going on for, but otherwise it seems a lot of the extra javascript fluff could be removed.

But few people would consider my designs as workable, they would be ugly and usable and fast and tiny, while a large portion of people want eye-candy...

I'm reminded of what i said regarding eye-candy, and my GF burst out laughing because i think she replaced my example of an engine with herself (or another girl) and it was funny in that context :P

Let's reprogram GOG in HTML 1.0.

My thought too. ;) Or just make it with Geocities. http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=1&music=2&url=gog.com

Although that probably would work, the formatting prior to CSS was an annoyance and probably better off not used, not to mention it could clutter up the page a lot. Every line has a new font tag with the same font as all the other font tags.

No... I think having HTML 4.0 with minimal JS would be better.

Heh. that's great. :D

Too much yellow and red...

HTML 1.0 with an embedded Midi. With Times New Roman.

... Would the midi be the usual crappy built-in soundfonts that they were in the 90's?

Yes, with audio compression because dammit, 5k is too many!