On the main page there's a thing that says "Full Throttle Remastered" with a picture, but then it doesn't say anything about it at all, and on the right side there are three blinking dots like it shows when it's loading. What is it trying to say about the game - just that it exists?

Then right under that, in the section that says "One day, one chance, great prices" there's a box with three blinking lights and nothing else. What is this supposed to say?

Actually, then farther down the page there's a section that says "Favorites from: Our friends" and it's just a bunch of empty space, and all the way down at the bottom where it's supposed to show news, there's nothing.

I've tried reloading the page many times and I've logged out and back in, but it always looks this way. It seems like it should say something in these spots.

The site doesn't seem to work properly with some browsers (e.g: old Firefox versions and forks).
I had to install Chrome to get the freebie..

seems like over half of this forum is having trouble. i got sent to the game page, then sent back to the main page then it worked. i use edge.

It's the free game giveaway, so I recommend trying another browser and downloading that bad boy.

I'm disappointed with the new site layout, it all looks like a mobile app now. Large stylized icons everywhere, and not compatible with older FireFox or browsers, making it impossible to stay with older versions. I was happy with FFv15 for YEARS... but what i want to do won't let me anymore.

Just update your browser. Or if you use IE, install another browser. And hurry, the giveaway will be over soon.

Same here: 3 dots, like it's loading, but it never does, no matter how many times you try, and no matter how long you leave it.

So, it's my "old" (June 2018) version of Firefox that's causing the claim-the-freebie button to never appear?

Bit ironic, isn't it? I mean, GOG supposedly caters to old-school gamers - people like me who don't sneer at DOS games, don't want to install stuff just to be able to access a game, and more than likely aren't rocking the very latest gaming "rig" - and yet their website now doesn't work properly with a popular open-source browser that's positively youthful compared to much of GOG's game-catalog? Some cognitive dissonance going on at GOG, methinks.

I'm not massively fussed about missing out on a free copy of Full Throttle Remastered, but GOG's website excluding users of not-very-old non-corporate browsers seems to be at odds with their customer-base and philosophy.

yeah its rubbish netscape use to work fine for me until now i dont kno why they need to change these things

It's working fine with Chrome or Chromium based browsers like Opera. Other browsers seem to have the problem you're describing.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/download

FF v64 64bits works purrfectly.

FYI, as an alternative to modern Firefox, Chrome or That Other China-Owned Browser, Waterfox works too...

Nope, got dropped the Good Old Games persona years back. Galaxy, online only games, profiles etc. They want the steam crowd, and they don't use old tech. To be fair though, they won't have the resources to make everything compatible with all the different versions, branches, spinoffs etc. I don't like the new site, but things move on. Just have a system with you old stuff on, and a small or laptop machine which is kept up to date, you can even disk swap and virtual image if need be.

I hear you - and thanks for the sensible, non-snarky reply :)

GOG will never get the Steam crowd, though... As far as I can tell, the main reason people "like" Steam is for the convenience of having their game library in one place, all accessible through a single launcher, and not splitting their game library across multiple portals. Other quality-of-life stuff, like auto-updates, trophies, etc., are important to people - and GOG now offer those - but they're secondary to that single-portal thing.

So unless GOG can somehow overtake Steam and become people's single gaming portal of choice - which isn't going to happen - then GOG would be better off carving out their own niche in the market by concentrating on what makes them different from Steam, i.e. DRM-free games, better legacy support, rejecting regional price-fixing, etc.

Having a website that excludes people who aren't 100% up-to-date seems contrary to GOG's "USP". Surely the website can detect that the button never resolves, and after a timeout should substitute a basic link that worked for everyone?

I guess the real irony of this is that the more like Steam GOG becomes, the less reason there is to shop with GOG. If they become virtually indistinguiishable from Steam, you might as well go with Steam and not split your game-library. It's an entirely self-defeating aim IMHO.

Are you telling me that I missed out on a FREE Full Throttle?! GOD DAMN IT!!! I check this website EVERY single day! And I spend a lot of money here, so then when they give something away for free that I'd really like to have, I can't even have it?! This should NOT happen! If anyone has a copy that you don't want, I'll take it!!!

P.S.: If anyone knows what I would type into the URL to be able to get free giveaways in the future, in case a link doesn't work, I'd appreciate that too, so that this horrendous injustice will NEVER happen again!

It's so much more embarrassing than that, for whoever screwed this up. The button is added via Javascript, but only after running some substantial amount of Javascript that is not wholly compatible. Browsers that reject the incompatible Javascript abandon executing script on the page before they reach the section that adds the Giveaway button. To fix this, all GOG had to do was not use Javascript to add the button. Instead, put it right in the page source, like they already do with the FREE label on every game. Then, for people who aren't eligible for the giveaway (because they already got their copy), use script to hide the button. They could even get really wild and have the site serve the page with the button already in the correct state, without requiring client-side logic at all. They might not want to do that for caching reasons, though.
On the assumption that you're serious, I must respectfully suggest that you are incorrect. The giveaway was announced in the forum, was very prominent on the main page, and lasted for more than a day. If you checked the website every day, and looked around at the homepage at all, the giveaway was rather hard to miss. At most, you might have missed it if you were ineligible due to using a browser that GOG hates to support. People on such browsers got the banner, but no button, so they couldn't claim the game.
GOG is extremely bad about not providing links for their giveaways. Instead, you must load the homepage, then click the Javascript-powered button to claim your prize. If they did provide such a link, much of the complaining here and in other threads would not have happened, because it would have been much easier for people on alternative browsers to claim the prize. As is, they went out of their way to make it hard to claim.