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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
That's unexpected, but great move! Thanks, GOG!
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Poor Barefoot_Monkey, as if he didn't have enough things to do.
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The games section no longers says what games you already own :(
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VanishedOne: Listed as '0 games', and showing no details besides one's e-mail address if clicked on. Hmm.
Trying to redeem a Fallout code just indicates "code already used" but doesn't mark it off my inventory.
Very well, now you convert $ to € and show on the store, but my question is: how often is that updated? Tomorrow it might be more or less.
Still coming to grips with the changes. Not sure why GOG decided to branch out to movies, nothing there interests me yet.

I like that the change cleaned up the Gifts list, though I do have one code on there with no game associated. I don't think it's a Fallout key, as I had Support remove those a while back. I can PM the code to someone if they want to test it for me.
Guess the "no regional price" guys won, but at the same time GOG lost a lot of good games with that...
OMG I'm thrilled. This is the update I have felt that the site has sorely needed for years now! (Now my wallet is not anywhere close to being safe come the Winter DRM-Free Sale! Thanks!)

Plus, it is now actually USABLE on my iPhone 5S and I don't have to zoom in on what I want! I am so unabashedly thrilled that I may actually spend some money here today.
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DalekSec: The games section no longers says what games you already own :(
Just saw this as well. I hope it's only temporary due to the revamp.
The discount page still displays the old layout & marks the ownership though.
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Telika: first thing : okay it looks like the unredeemed codes are the ones that stayed and the redeem history is gone.
I was worried I lost some at first, but I guess I didn't have as many unused ones as I thought.
I can understand that the time for changes has come, but don't like them very much. Don't like the new top bar (Always on basket icon. Somehow I liked to see my avatar near account too) and front page looks terrible imho.

Also, don't like the fact that you have to drop some great games cuz of pricing changes... I mean... I still wanted to buy Silver and Summoner in future... ;/ (oh well, at least Summoner is on steam too O.o)

So yea..
Post edited August 27, 2014 by Trid
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It's pretty hideous. Can we get the older, better GOG.com back?
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IAmSinistar: Still coming to grips with the changes. Not sure why GOG decided to branch out to movies, nothing there interests me yet.

I like that the change cleaned up the Gifts list, though I do have one code on there with no game associated. I don't think it's a Fallout key, as I had Support remove those a while back. I can PM the code to someone if they want to test it for me.
Hello IAmSinistar, I can test your code. Happy for the new GOG, unhappy for all the games that are removed.
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Erich_Zann: "mobile-friendly design".

Yep, thought as much when I saw this ugly crap.
Luckily I don't give a fuck about graphics as long as the content is good.
Well you SAY that but the 'account' tab is still a mouse-over and I can never get them to work on my Android phones - still can't check my forum replies on the move!
Not bad. There are couple of thing that you could iron out but over all I rather like it.

If anybody was wondering, you can switch to $ from your local currency using dropdown menu under bestselling games on the main page.