Posted May 26, 2015
high rated
I just opened this thread in the hope to get some attention from the GOG staff responsible for the new account system and to remind them to keep their promise! Since the new account system (NAS) the sorting in the game library is NOT ACCEPTABLE! GOG removed manual sorting and GOG removed lots of other things, I get that. But removing manual sorting should also introduce a good automatic title sorting. This is still not the case (Looking at my Witcher Games, The Broken Sword Games, The Blackwell Games, The Atlantis Games ect.). Here is what GOG PROMISED us:
-- COMING SOON: Improved searching. Soon, finding desired titles will be easier thanks to the search improvements that we'll be implementing on the new My Account. Also, as part of the solution, we will be changing the way that titles from a series are ordered (i.e. Broken Sword should always show up before Broken Sword 2).
So they KNOW about the fact that they are still missing a sorting system which uses sort titles instead of real titles and still my library looks totally scrambled several weeks after the introduction of the NAS. I am soooooo glad that I now have a friends list got rid of that (great) PMs and that I can access and use all those other social media crap but all I want is to archive my collection. THAT is what I paid for and one reason I did this here on GOG and not eleswhere was because I thought they are aware of the fact that GOG users are collectors who like to archive their collection. With manual sorting the fact that GOG never did implement a simple database field with sort titles in it was not that problematic because you could work around to make your own order. Now this is absolutely necessary. So I am asking GOG WHEN will my library look good again? When will you keep your promise! You can have all the social media things back - just give me my great looking collection back. PLEASE!
I have also made an entry to the community wishlist but until now there has not been much response to it. Maybe that is just because most people don't know what a sort_title database field does: well, it is used if a normal title would lead to a bad and unlogical sort order. It is also used to keep a franchise together and it leads to a good looking library.
Example:
Atlantis: The Lost Tales, Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis, Atlantis 3: The New World
Without sort titles (now):
Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis, Atlantis 3: The New World, Atlantis: The Lost Tales
With sort titles (meaning that in background every game has assigned a logical title like "Atlantis 1", "Atlantis 2", "Atlantis 3")
Atlantis: The Lost Tales, Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis, Atlantis 3: The New World
It is just an internal thing and it should not be that hard to implement an additional database field, copy the game titles and changing them where it is needed and change the "order by title" to "order by sort_title". It is a mystery for me why GOG has not done this yet.
And no, this can NOT be done using the tags, GOG provided for us because
1) It is not possible to sort by tag.
2) Even if it would be you would need to assign EVERY single game with a logical tag to achieve a correct sort order because otherwise the games without a tag would all be at the beginning or the end of the collection (depending on the order).
-- COMING SOON: Improved searching. Soon, finding desired titles will be easier thanks to the search improvements that we'll be implementing on the new My Account. Also, as part of the solution, we will be changing the way that titles from a series are ordered (i.e. Broken Sword should always show up before Broken Sword 2).
So they KNOW about the fact that they are still missing a sorting system which uses sort titles instead of real titles and still my library looks totally scrambled several weeks after the introduction of the NAS. I am soooooo glad that I now have a friends list got rid of that (great) PMs and that I can access and use all those other social media crap but all I want is to archive my collection. THAT is what I paid for and one reason I did this here on GOG and not eleswhere was because I thought they are aware of the fact that GOG users are collectors who like to archive their collection. With manual sorting the fact that GOG never did implement a simple database field with sort titles in it was not that problematic because you could work around to make your own order. Now this is absolutely necessary. So I am asking GOG WHEN will my library look good again? When will you keep your promise! You can have all the social media things back - just give me my great looking collection back. PLEASE!
I have also made an entry to the community wishlist but until now there has not been much response to it. Maybe that is just because most people don't know what a sort_title database field does: well, it is used if a normal title would lead to a bad and unlogical sort order. It is also used to keep a franchise together and it leads to a good looking library.
Example:
Atlantis: The Lost Tales, Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis, Atlantis 3: The New World
Without sort titles (now):
Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis, Atlantis 3: The New World, Atlantis: The Lost Tales
With sort titles (meaning that in background every game has assigned a logical title like "Atlantis 1", "Atlantis 2", "Atlantis 3")
Atlantis: The Lost Tales, Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis, Atlantis 3: The New World
It is just an internal thing and it should not be that hard to implement an additional database field, copy the game titles and changing them where it is needed and change the "order by title" to "order by sort_title". It is a mystery for me why GOG has not done this yet.
And no, this can NOT be done using the tags, GOG provided for us because
1) It is not possible to sort by tag.
2) Even if it would be you would need to assign EVERY single game with a logical tag to achieve a correct sort order because otherwise the games without a tag would all be at the beginning or the end of the collection (depending on the order).
Post edited May 26, 2015 by MarkoH01
