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MichalLeszcz85: I'll see what I can do about them technically-wise. Especially the last one seems interesting, I will see if I can find a way to filter the best historical deals.

Have a great day!
Michał
All one could ask, would be great if you succeed, and thanks, you too.
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rjbuffchix: may I suggest instead of having any news section, just posting about the new releases here in the forum directly?
I don't think we who regularly visit the forum constitute a significant majority of GOG's customers, not at all.
And so, whilst a dedicated page and write-up for each new item could be done away with indeed, some sort of of overhauled and highly visible newsfeed is rather necessary. One could then argue that filtering the search by new arrivals should be enough, but I don't believe it would...
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karnak1: several times during the year I think it doesn't make sense to present something which we already know what it's about. IMO you don't need to have any introductory text for them.
We, the long time customers, might know all about it but this is one of those things that can go "it goes without saying" very quickly and cutting out those new to the scene. Imagine this: there's kids that don't know what Skyrim is but want to get into gaming; this stuff greatly helps. I know when I was younger I greatly appreciated posts like the news (and, well, I still appreciate them), describing what was on sale and picking a few highlights, and seeing the titles so I can get a sense of what kind of games the different titles are, and heck, that those titles even existed in the first place and were considered good given how many I missed. I've actually bought titles that were brought to my attention from the news posts and picked up releases from series that I like that I missed the first time they came out.

And despite the promise of the "Information Superhighway" claims from the 90s, the net more often than not confuses the issue nowadays when you don't know what you're looking for, and there's too many used car salespeople trying to sell you something.
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MichalLeszcz85:
Thank you for taking the time to communicate with us on this issue, and sorry for replying to this rather late.

The way I see it, the game page descriptions consist of what the publishers / developers want to say about the game, but GOG's claim is to be a curated store, and recent CDP statements say that this will be emphasized more now, so the purpose of the release article is to say why that game is on GOG from GOG's perspective, what made it successfully go through the curation process.
That was what the old release posts did, with lengthier descriptions that sometimes went beyond the game itself, maybe touching on the impact it had in case of older games, or something about how it was made or the developer, or influences and inspiration etc. And, of course, that was already gone when the descriptions basically became one-liners, and that was when it became a problem from my point of view, but I guess it took this extra step for a critical mass of users to be bothered as well in order for the outcry to make itself truly noticed.
There was also that promise made to developers in the past, that because it's a curated and smaller store, GOG offers each game its time in the spotlight. But that was also largely gone when the redesign hit and news were relegated to the bottom and made to scroll off so quickly, so in case of more releases people may well never see some articles even if they visit frequently and know to look all the way to the bottom.

So, from my point of view as a user, release posts have a purpose if they actually tell me something, preferably from GOG's perspective, past what the dev/pub put in the game page description. Without that, might as well do away with separate release posts and just make a single one for each day, just listing that date's releases, whether one or dozens. That should also make it so posts don't vanish from the front page altogether so quickly. (Not that I in any way advocate that approach, mind you, two wrongs don't make a right, but it would be less bad than this I'd say.)

On a related note, however, the sort by date added option really must return to the catalog. And assuming that the date is stored somewhere, it would be nice to even display it, and also perhaps add a way to filter/search according to it.
Post edited January 22, 2022 by Cavalary
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Alexim: THANKS FELLOW HUMAN, THIS INFORMATION IS MUCH APPRECIATED AND EASY TO INCORPORATE INTO MY CARBON-BASED LOGIC PROCESSES.
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SmollestLight: Beep boop-

Jokes aside :) we are simply testing a new template and we welcome any feedback!
Here's my feedback :)

Pros: Easy to read a simple list of information.

Cons: The information is mostly useless.
When releasing a game there is so little information now that I can't tell if it's a game I might like so I don't even click the link to go check it out since it is more likely to be a game I'm not interested in. Life is too short to check the page of every game that releases.

What I would like: To have the short list of plain info listed (as you recently started doing) at the top of the post, BUT below that have a more descriptive text so we can tell if there's a reason to check the link :)

Maybe copy/paste a line or two describing what the game is about from the game page to make it faster and easier to do? :)
Post edited January 22, 2022 by Uilos