My browser tells GOG that I want to see the website in english, but it's being ignored and instead via geotracking of my IP deceided that I have to view it in german. Why? It's rude and annoying. Only because my IP is from some country it doesn't mean I want to use it's langauge - there is a standard for this already after all and all browser use it.

Yes I know I can set the language on the website itself, but I have to do this everytime if I don't store cookies forever.

It's just a small thing, but it annoys me everytime I visit GOG. Steam and co. don't do it neither.

Yep it is really annoying. Hopefully gog will implement this in the account settings in the future, so that it stays fixed to the language you choose once.

Change the language after you are logged in. It will still show you the site in German when you are logged out, but store your setting and automatically change to English once you log in.

Because you're not important enough for them to remember it .

I've recently had to deal with this for a product I've been working on --there's really a lot involved in supporting something like this. However, this is the approach I took. a) The server has a 'default' language (which can be configured, depending upon your locale); b) if the user doesn't have a cookie, it attempts to fall back to the server's locale, failing that, English; b) once you log in, the server checks your settings, if they differ, you get a cookie; c) future log-ins check the cookie, override the server and ---if you log in as someone else with a different setting, should set your language to their settings.

The downside is that you could open a browser on the same machine (like a kiosk) the last person used and get a "log-in" page not in your language. The upside is that the server will serve up the pages you request in your desired language after you log in.

It's not a trivial problem to solve, took me better part of 2 days and testing different scenarios. But it's one that can be done. :)

Well, I don't know if I understood all that, but surely it can't be more difficult to query the setting the browser provides than determining my destination by looking up my IP. So why is this still not fixed?

The future here: they did implement it at some point, and for a while it worked, but they changed something recently and the website now ignores the website's own user settings and goes by GeoIP only apparently.

_sigh_ Einmal mit Profis arbeiten…

Because Indian coders....