Conveniently is actually the word that summarize all GOG's decision process.

Speaking of website complexity and crappy forum... just last night I opened my first thread on GOG forums, on the Rune Classic forums. Now it reads 6 posts (or 5 replies, depending on where I look). However, when I click the thread, I see only my post. Zero replies.

And what's up with the shopping cart? When I buy stuff and checkout, the items aren't removed. They stick to the cart even as I now have the games in my library. I can manually remove them from the cart, but they randomly reappear. I've removed stuff more than once, thinking it's clear for good now, and again I'm back to seeing two games in the cart that I've already bought. What a mess.

And yeah, all the JS & graphics make the website heavy for me, even on a fairly new (fanless) PC. It's annoying to browse.

You mean Netscape Navigator 1.0?

Well I'm convinced the reason they have so much trouble maintaining the site is due to the code complexity.

The changes to the games library interface to the new much uglier and horrible one was supposedly motivated by the fact that the old one had become unmaintainable, and I bet they will have to totally revamp it again next time they want to add a new feature as the new one looks even less upgradable and modular than the previous one!

I reckon they don't have time to fix things like search or add useful forums features simply because the website code is so complex and it's taking their whole web team's time just to keep it running as it is...!

It's amazing how much more complicated searching for stuff on a page becomes when the page is being dynamically updated instead of just being downloaded in one go.

Again, to be fair, this does seem to be a trend; I guess web people are being taught that dynamic HTML and javascripting everything is the way everything should be done, and it seems to be spreading around. Hell, I was trying to order a pizza online as I normally do only to find they'd taken their old basic-looking but functional site and turned it into a MASSIVE BUTTONS FOR TABLET USERS and javascript hell PoS that not only didn't work in my normal browser but didn't even work in Chrome so I have no idea wtf was going on there.

This is not how the web should be :( The most important resource on the web is the information, not how shiny and pretty it looks! I'm all for the pretty but not at the expense of accessibility and information...