Filtering is unfortunately exactly opposite of what I need. I don't mind spending time to find what I need, I mind not being able to see what I have in the order I want it to be.

Fulltext search is not really going to help if you want to see what you have while not looking for a particular name/tag/whatever. Or, you know, just enjoying the view of your stuff.

Honestly, I have no objections whatsoever to having that. Same goes to all the other stuff: tags, search, sorting, even the godawful UI. But. I am seriously pissed of by the fact that adding all this new stuff came with removal of the existing stuff, without any good reason except for the whole "big redesign for the sake of it" thing.

It was till now, it's not any more. Hence me being pissed.

In other words, nothing's forever, especially in the internet? What else is new? Oh, and from a purely practical standpoint there is no reason to have a collection of anything anywhere. Collections are bulky and often expensive when physical, tend to eat up disk space and usually require special visualization software when digital and stored locally and as you mentioned, may easily disappear or be changed against your will when kept "in the internets". Neither way is perfect, unfortunately.

Real life responsibilities, ever heard about them? Would've been jolly good for me to spend days after days after days just on picking the best software to create a neat little virtual collection of games/books/tv shows I like. But guess what, even if you like something you're not always have time for doing that if after all it's, you know, a hobby. So before hopping on a high horse and blaming someone for not loving something enough because of not doing X, consider if they actually *can* do X with time and money they have to spare.

You know that people like me voted there too? People who prefer manual sorting and a good looking shelf, but don't rage-quit GOG because of this minor thing? So, yes, it's 695 votes kindly asking to restore the old shelf and 5 votes from "some people whining around in a post" ;P

I told you before, you are no one to tell me if I have the right to complain or not, or where or how spend my money or complain about, exactly, 700 people that doesn´t like the newlayout at all. Hope you can cope with that too.

Cheers.

PD: I am not interested in what you vote or not.

Wrong. I voted there too, because I prefered the old boxes and manual sorting. But that doesn't mean that I don't like the new layout at all.

*burp*

Good for you! thumbs up. Then what are you doing complaining about the people that complaints about it?

People complain about some silly things. It used to be that all you want from a digital store is access to the games you bought and ability to play them reliably. All this other stuff is extra. GoG's challenge will always continue to be dealing with a small minority (very small) that are die-hard old school consumers that are completely resistant to any change. Lord help you if you incorporate changes that exist at other stores because we can't have GoG try to evolve and grow it's business, it much continue to be that small special snowflake/little engine that could digital store. Everyone seems to praise GoG users on these forums but I'm not seeing a whole lot of difference between the type of whining that goes on here vs. the type of whining that goes on over at Steam (or any other message forum).

Learn to read. I didn't complain about you. I just said that not every vote on this wishlist entry means "GOG U SUCK I HATE YOUZ!!!!!"

Yes.
It was Take Our Children to Work Day at GOG

If you were able to read well you should discover that i never said that LOL, but i repeat I stopped buying games the moment I see the library gone, SO WHAT?

Thanks anyway. :)
As I never sort anything alphabetically, ever, (:) I mean it) I don't really understand how a "shelf" can be useful at all if you can't sort the contents yourself.
And implementing that feature couldn't be so hard: If you can sort your games by the date you added them then why can't you just simply say you added a certain game later so that it is displayed further down on the shelf?

No more purchase until resolved...

Please vote:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/keep_or_bring_back_manual_sorting

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/bring_back_game_boxes_in_the_game_shelf

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/manual_sorting

+1

Sorry, bro... but I just don't care.

I don´t care that you don´t care. Next.

No. No, it was not. Even until now, you've had no control over this content and GOG never made any guarantees of keeping the game shelf as it was - in fact, they never even mentioned it as priority.

So you knew all along that this could happen and now are upset about it?

Of course there's a practical reason for collecting stuff, don't underestimate what you like, it makes you who you are.

Don't do that. Look, if you have so little time, I suggest you stop wasting it on arguing here with me. The time you spent writing these posts you could have spent creating a virtual collection instead - so do me a favour, don't reply, and go do something that makes you happy.

If I may, add the link for manual sorting in the Galaxy section of the Wishlist. The way things are going, I suspect that if that entry gets enough votes it may be considered by GOG, and since the account system is the same on both Galaxy and the site, the non-Galaxy user will also get it back.
Just a thought.