Lifthrasil: Hi GOG,
now you've re-designed your entire page and you've added several new sorting options to the store. But one sorting option that some users are
asking for since more than 5 years is still missing. The option to sort the games by (current) price. It can't be difficult to implement. It also can't be that you are unaware that this sorting option is useful. It is a standard in many online shops after all. So my big question is:
What does GOG have against sorting by price? It's a serious question. I'm not trying to be witty here. I am actually interested in your reasoning. What made you decide against the 'sort by price' option?
Definitely a very fair question. I've been wondering this for years now and there are many times where I visited the site during a major sale promotion and didn't want to wade through hundreds of games to try to find any ultra-deals that I couldn't pass up so ended up just closing the page and missing out on whatever I wasn't aware of. There are probably dozens of games I'd have bought in the past and/or would buy in the future if only I could sort the store catalogue by price with filters etc.
I can't see any reason why they would purposefully NOT add this option as it would only stand to provide customers a useful mechanism to help them give GOG more of their money. I can only surmise that it comes down to prioritization of features based on limited development resources and perceived cost to benefit versus other improvements that the resources could be allocated to at a given time.
That is the only reason that makes any logical sense to me anyway.
It's not a matter of whether someone can still look for deals and spend more time or not either, it's a matter of providing customers with conveniences to maximize their likelihood of going ahead with a purchase. One can claim a customer is "lazy" but it is GOG that misses out on the sale in the end.
There are tonnes of games I'd buy on sale for < $3 that I don't really even want for example, but would get them anyway just because it'd be so cheap. They're not worth taking time to search for every time a sale happens, but if they were easily thrown in my face with a couple clicks I'd toss down the coin. I know others who would do the same also. I often buy games on Steam and its resellers this very way. I go to the browse-games page, filter out software and DLC to only show games, then go through the list from cheapest to $5 or so to see any super cheap deals that come up including games I never heard of. I make opportunistic whimsical buys this way of things I'd never otherwise buy. No easy way to do that on GOG that I'm aware of. The closest way is using a 3rd party website to search and sort the GOG game database which isn't the most convenient.
Hopefully they decide to add the option in the future and join the ranks of virtually every other online game retailer. :) Then again, hopefully they don't do that as my wallet would start to hurt. :)