i do, in fact, do this.

but that's not a way for gog to get impulse buys.

i might browse the sale and see, "oh, this game i'm only nominally interested in has a cheap price. i'll snag that." but with the tile layout, it's a great, big mess. with a list layout, this'd be much easier. [though, of course, you'd perhaps lose the visual element of the "box" for the tile. that's something you could work into a list, though.]

+ games that people get from this roulette isn't impressive.

Simple in theory, but in practice I got spam because of the wishlist. And by spam I mean I got notifications for sales that didn't exist. After a few of these e-mail I just removed everything from my wishlist and I only come here from time to time to see what else is new.

It's sad, that the Good Old GOG is dead. Whoever works there now is irrelevant, but the result of the development shows - it's a lot of crap. There's a long list of things we can't do that we must do with scripts if we want a reasonable experience on this site. It's strange that nowadays I feel better about how Steam develops their platform compared to how GOG does it. And I don't like Steam, which should say a lot about GOG these days.

Even a thing as simple as a counter is not fixed on GOG. In the drop-down menu on top of the site I have 257 games listed, and when I get in my collection it says 258 - and it's an old one. The Community Wishlist comments have nl2br enabled but then the comments are converted back to non-html to prevent having clickable links from spammers. And there's no effort to take care of that spam, and the comments with HTML look butt-ugly.

The Community Wishlist is a forever-beta wasteland. Even the HTML line breaks are rendered as XHTML, which is not the DOCTYPE of the GOG website. Because the developer responsible for changing nl2br($comment) to nl2br($comment, 0) would probably have to do a lot of explaining to the bosses if they did such a ludicrous thing.

Seriously, I can't believe there's no developer (at GOG) with even a tiny passion for bug fixing who would take care of at least the small bugs every once in a while. But this doesn't seem to happen and it makes you wonder why. Does GOG have careless developers or horrible bosses who hold their devs accountable for anything else outside the assigned daily work? Both cases are terrible, which would make GOG a very un-cool workplace. About 2 years ago I thought "what if I'd move to Poland and work at GOG?" I'm glad I didn't make an effort to make that move.

I really miss the Good Old GOG. It bums me out to see the website as it is. Their DRM-free policy "adapted" to allow some exceptions, the website cries for attention all over the place, and it looks like more and more stuff is broken these days.

Regarding this sale, has anyone found a title discounted by 90%? I didn't, because nothing on this website is discounted by 90%. I see no point in making a headline for such discounts when they don't exist. So was it intentionally fake advertisement? Or are the marketing and development departments out of touch?

I'm sure the explanation will look like "throughout the sale we will have -90% discounts, so make sure you come back to see the deals, as this is just the first day". But it's still bullshit marketing done on the shadow of a once great website.

Or you couldj ust turn off the wishlist alerts :P

You know, this and your previous suggestion are like "Dumb and dumber" - and I mean the ridiculous movie. We wouldn't have to become "creative" if the website worked properly. Even the notifications show HTML tags in them. This website looks more and more like something done by amateurs.

I'm not saying everything works as it should, I'm just saying that if you want to avoid wishlist related spam, turning off the wishlist alerts makes way more sense than deleting everything from your wishlist.

I just thought I would pop in with a question to the GOG staff and other community members. It seems that whenever I browse the site from my phone (Android), the main page includes a section marked "Ending Soon" among the other categories under "Browse Deals."

Is this some sort of bug or oversight, or are there going to be games that will be periodically removed from the sale?

this is gay

I used the wishlist mostly to let me know when something I want is on sale. So disabling the notifications would make it close to useless for me.

GOG sale: Return of the lootboxes.

4 games, 3 repeats, 0 warnings. Screw this, I'm out.

No one had done up a running list of what games folks are getting in their Hats/ Stars/ Lucky Charms/ whatever so I compiled one in the tracking thread:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/what_mystery_game_did_you_get_from_the_hat/post45

Hope this helps

And even if promises were made...

Harsh! :P