Posted December 31, 2018
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?
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?