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New features, local currency option, new payment methods, store credit, and an updated look for GOG.com!

For almost six years now we strive to bring you not only the best in DRM-Free gaming, but also to give you the greatest experience possible. To that end we're always looking for ways to improve our site and service. Today, we're rolling out a vastly updated version of our store with an improved interface, sleek new look, and lots of handy new features. Let's take a quick tour, shall we?

Video: Welcome to the fresher, better GOG.com!

First of all we are giving you more DRM-free content: movies! We are starting with 20 documentaries about internet and gaming culture but we aim high! You can find more on this in the appropriate newspost, so let's focus on the other features we're rolling out.

We wanted to give you more choice as to how you pay for things on GOG.com. Now it's up to you if you want to pay in US Dollars, or in the currency primarily used in your country, whether it's the Euro, Pounds Sterling, Australian Dollars, or Russian Roubles. That's four new currencies supported by GOG.com for your convenience. Still - the choice is yours, so if you want to stick to US dollars, just switch to it - you find this option at the bottom of each page. To make buying things at GOG.com an even more flexible process, we're introducing some new payment methods: Sofort, Giropay, Webmoney, and Yandex.

All this also means that users for whom the local currency pricing has been enabled will have an option to select one of two different prices for each game in our catalog. Of course, we stand by the simple truth that $1 does not equal 1€, so a game with a $5.99 price tag will cost 4.49 Euro, 3.69 British Pounds, 6.49 Australian Dollars, and 219 Roubles respectively. $9.99 translates to 7.49 Euro, 5.99 Pounds Sterling, 10.89 Australian Dollars, and 359 Roubles. In a perfect world we would apply the same method of pricing to all of the games we offer. However, things are a little bit more complicated, and there are some games in our catalog that follow a different region-based pricing scheme. However, we wouldn't be GOG.com if we didn't find a way to make right by the users who end up paying relatively more for such titles. Here's where the Fair Price Package comes in!

The Fair Price Package applies to all of the titles which we couldn't include in our standard pricing scheme. If you end up paying more for a game than its standard US Dollar price, we'll refund you the difference out of our own pocket. The refunded value will be added to your account in Store Credit in the currency of your purchase. That's right, no more gift codes, you'll be getting Store Credit that you can use to purchase anything on GOG.com or partially pay for an item that's more expensive. More choice, ease of use, and less limitations!

Finally, the GOG.com store has gotten itself a substantial visual revamp. We went for a fresh, mobile-friendly design that should make it even easier to find the games you want, notice the hot promos, and see what's new. The main page, catalog view, product pages, and checkout have been updated and also lay the groundwork for even more overhaul, coming within the next few months together with many of the GOG Galaxy features. We hope you like it!

PS. Unfortunately, we need to drop some titles from our classic catalog. In such cases, we always do our best to give you an advance warning and a last chance to purchase such games - preferably with a considerable discount. Check this news post to find out which titles are being removed from our catalog, when will it happen, and what parting discounts for them do we currently offer.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by G-Doc
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Personally, I'm boycotting GOG as far as purchases are concerned. The layout of the game pages is worse for disseminating information (even if it looks pretty) - you have to scroll to see the actual "game-details". This alone is annoying, but at least the information is still on the page.

On the other hand, it has been 5 months since the website update, there doesn't appear to be any interest on GOG's behalf in restoring the _simple_ functionality that reviews had (c.f. to sort by Date). GOG could also easily indicate whether a Reviewer owns the game on GOG or is just pulling nostalgia out of their ass.

Then you have big-bad-elephant Steam that has given end-users much more control - now it may not be perfect, but being able to add "Tags" to (store) games and/or flag them as "Not Interested", etc is respectful of my time. With the thousands of games out there, its pretty difficult to remember which games you've determined (already) that you just don't want.

Perhaps not enough people care about this particular issue, but I find it offensive when a company (hardware/software/whatever) releases updates that REMOVE working functionality that makes a product worse.

Addenum:
And this forum? Cripes. I can't even open a thread that I've previously read, and go to the most recent (unread) post. I have to freaking _remember_ what post I last read. I've been on various forums since 1999 and before that Usenet and BBS's in the 80s... 30 years ago that was a _BASIC_ feature. I really don't understand why everyone here keeps putting up with things like that.

Imagine if every time you opened up your email that all messages were always marked as Unread, no one would put up with that.
Post edited January 15, 2015 by CrashNBrn
Looking back, everything turned out fine.
yesyesyes.. its golden cage here.. more and more golden and more and more cage. what is keeper going after by such restrictive manipulation?
why is one not even able to find out thread he discussed on before, for example, from his profile (f.e. option "your discussion posts")
there are nice disscusions about old games im not able take up (continue) ...
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CrashNBrn: Addenum:
And this forum? Cripes. I can't even open a thread that I've previously read, and go to the most recent (unread) post. I have to freaking _remember_ what post I last read. I've been on various forums since 1999 and before that Usenet and BBS's in the 80s... 30 years ago that was a _BASIC_ feature. I really don't understand why everyone here keeps putting up with things like that.

Imagine if every time you opened up your email that all messages were always marked as Unread, no one would put up with that.
Sorry for the 1-year old bump, but this is the most recent I've found searching the forum and googling about this topic. My apologies if this is being / has been discussed more recently.

Being new around here, I've searched and googled because I thought I was missing something quite obvious, maybe not seeing the icons or something that would take me to my last read post. But now I'm seeing that this very basic (IMO) feature is actually missing in the forum...?

So, before starting to complain :-P, am I missing something or the forum is really this hard to follow, having to remember what you read last time?
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nepundo: Sorry for the 1-year old bump, but this is the most recent I've found searching the forum and googling about this topic. My apologies if this is being / has been discussed more recently.

Being new around here, I've searched and googled because I thought I was missing something quite obvious, maybe not seeing the icons or something that would take me to my last read post. But now I'm seeing that this very basic (IMO) feature is actually missing in the forum...?

So, before starting to complain :-P, am I missing something or the forum is really this hard to follow, having to remember what you read last time?
Sorry for the 'default' answer but you should contact support about that and/or go to the wishlist.
When gog was created, all the friendliness was put in the staff, and there wasn't any left to put in the user interface.
yeah, it's weird. I found it weird when I first got here. it's weird. you have to favourite posts you think you're going to like. it's weird.
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Potzato: Sorry for the 'default' answer but you should contact support about that and/or go to the wishlist.
When gog was created, all the friendliness was put in the staff, and there wasn't any left to put in the user interface.
It's ok, the default answer is fine :). Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing the obvious, not start a discussion here. Thanks.

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johnnygoging: yeah, it's weird. I found it weird when I first got here. it's weird. you have to favourite posts you think you're going to like. it's weird.
Thanks for the tip. I guess people get used to it, if there's no other choice. However I find it difficult to follow all the traffic in the general discussion forum.

If anyone is interested, I've voted here. But this feature has got so few votes... :(
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Potzato: When gog was created, all the friendliness was put in the staff, and there wasn't any left to put in the user interface.
:D
Brilliant sentence.
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nepundo: Sorry for the 1-year old bump, but this is the most recent I've found searching the forum and googling about this topic. My apologies if this is being / has been discussed more recently.

Being new around here, I've searched and googled because I thought I was missing something quite obvious, maybe not seeing the icons or something that would take me to my last read post. But now I'm seeing that this very basic (IMO) feature is actually missing in the forum...?

So, before starting to complain :-P, am I missing something or the forum is really this hard to follow, having to remember what you read last time?
There's no need to apologize nepundo. :) Sadly, that particular request has long been part and parcel of our never-ending sighalong:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/lets_discuss_your_experiences_with_the_forum?search=unread

Welcome to the choir futilitarian!
Seems like GOG is testing the usage of a content delivery network (CDN). Had to allow requests to gog.co to unbreak the angular stuff on the start page.

EDIT: Seems like it's gone. No idea if corrupted data or developer typo.
Post edited February 01, 2016 by The-Business
well, that has been settled :D
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coffeecup: well, that has been settled :D
What has?