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There have been many criticisms made about the gog site redesign, so I thought perhaps it might be worth addressing some of them individually and offering constructive criticisms on how they could be improved. One of my personal annoyances is the youtube previews that occur when the user hovers over a title thumbnail with the mouse. I might want to browse through 100s of titles in a sale, and I don't want to spend minutes viewing tiny video clips of games I'm 90% certain I will have no interest in. If I'm interested in seeing video previews, then I will already be on the game's page. Why not just default to rotating screenshot thumbnail previews instead? This would provide a much faster gauge of what the game is about while massively reducing the user's bandwidth. I notice that games without video previews do this anyway, so I'm sure the site designers could implement the feature very easily if they desired.

If anyone agrees then I've created a wishlist to vote on here (I know it's a long shot):

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

Any thoughts?
Yes, thank you, this is probably the fourth thread specifically about this.
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Darvond: Yes, thank you, this is probably the fourth thread specifically about this.
And yet these annoying thumbnails are still here.
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Darvond: Yes, thank you, this is probably the fourth thread specifically about this.
Well thank you, but I haven't found any threads on this (though I expect I would if I dug deeply enough) . Anyway, the main purpose was to link to the wishlist proposal vote, as I don't see much evidence that the threads on this board have much sway with the gog team. Perhaps if the wishlist vote gathered enough momentum then it might inspire gog to take action. We have to start somewhere – I mean there are nearly 2 votes already!