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If gog would be remade, what would you like it to look like?
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Galaxy 2.0 is an abomination. It shouldn't have any features. It shouldn't even exist.

Galaxy 1.2 was perfect as it was. GOG should officially revert to Galaxy 1.2, abandon Galaxy 2.0, and never perform any more updates on Galaxy 1.2 that in any way change the interface and/or functionality at all whatsoever.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Galaxy 2.0 is an abomination. It shouldn't have any features. It shouldn't even exist.

Galaxy 1.2 was perfect as it was. GOG should officially revert to Galaxy 1.2, abandon Galaxy 2.0, and never perform any more updates on Galaxy 1.2 that in any way change the interface and/or functionality at all whatsoever.
not galaxy , gog the store :P
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Orkhepaj: If gog would be remade, what would you like it to look like?
1. Simple and lightweight, optimized for present-day PC screen resolutions.

2. Providing a lot of customization options and filters for your game library.

3. With unlimited news list.

4. Free from any third-party scripts ( social networks, Google, etc. )
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Orkhepaj: If gog would be remade, what would you like it to look like?

not galaxy , gog the store
If you just mean the site (not Galaxy), then I don't understand the "2.0" part of the question. GOG 1.0 was the original form which was widely liked by many. Clean, fast loading, simple. News was at the top, offline installers weren't broken or abandoned, games that were sold as collections had installers to match, ie, installing Penumbra Trilogy, Blackwell Collection, etc, installed 3-4 games at once in one single installer, GOG Mixes were great.

GOG 2.0 and GOG 3.0 have already occurred in being the "makeovers" during the mid 2010's that scrapped GOG Mixes, put news right at the bottom (to this day, why?...), stuffed Galaxy installers into offline installers (then removed them due to backlash), even tried to hide those offline installer links behind an obscure sub-menu (then put them back after more backlash), stopped sending out "You have redeemed this game" proof of ownership email receipts to recipients of gifted games (that's actually more important to GOG users archiving offline installers to have than it is online-only Steam users who do still get them after redeeming a key...), the site page loading and forums got noticeably slower (not helped by adding Facebook and Twitter scripts to every page), etc.

So what you're really asking is "What would you like GOG Website Makeover v4.0 to be". And the answer is "closer to what v1.0 was than v2.0-3.0 is", ie, bring back GOG Mixes, send e-mail confirmation to recipients of gifted games, put news back up the top (like every other site on the net), re-enable the ability to rearrange games on the site library (not just inside Galaxy) and fix buggy / outdated offline installers. Once that's done some genuine improvements can be added like "responsive design" (ie, have the page scale to browser width and actually see more than 5x games columns in the library if you own a screen bigger than 1280x720...)
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Post edited April 02, 2022 by AB2012
Confusion over GOG Store or Galaxy aside.

Galaxy should have a Lite mode that focuses mainly on Offline Installers, with one-click game (all game install files) downloading ... keep it simple and light on resources. Git rid of the unnecessary bloat in other words, for those of us who want it that way.

The GOG Store, like as has been suggested, needs to become quick to load and informative in the right manner, and not have a 1,001 scripts running ... keep it simple and light on resources. Git rid of the unnecessary bloat in other words.

Decouple Galaxy from Offline Installers. Just have Galaxy inject what is needed when needed ... when a customer decides to change their mind and use Galaxy.

Show true dedication to priorities GOG have declared to us. Make it clear how things stand and where GOG is going.

Give access, and I cannot stress this enough, to older versions of games we have purchased, especially patch files.
GOG is terrible at search engines. I currently use the data grid view script instead of leafing though that awful store of theirs; typically eschewing the catalogue entirely to direct search titles. But even that is awful at times if you only remember part of a title.

For example, King____. (And I'm trying to find Kingsway...) The dropdown search is pretty broken, and scrolling though 163 games (when most of those aren't games anyway) isn't anyone's idea of an optimal time.

GOG's idea of ratings systems in both reviews and on these forums are also a mess. For game reviews, all we need is "Recommend, "Indifferent/Ambivalent", and "Cannot Recommend" represented as graphical symbols, with the limit of typographical characters raised to at least 1.44 MB. Being able to edit reviews would also be helpful to cut though nostalgia wank and warn users that it turns out the author is a kitten killer or something.

As for this very forum's reputation system, I've suggested several changes and implimentations, that I'm sure are all impossible in this current forum engine. My dearest condolences to the autopsy team. Even if you have to glass these forums and we start from 0, that'll be better than the current system.