Engioc: Galaxy 2.0 - no thankyou, can I please have the old interface back??????

- Why are people so obsessed with purple???? - Get rid of it or let me decide the colour scheme.
- Ugly brown background - Get rid of it or let me decide the colour scheme.
- Left side bar with pointless items on it like Friends, Activity, Online, my friend list is empty and I intend on keeping it that way. Its just a waste of space. - All I need is a list of my games, nothing else.
- I don't need Recent games, Owned games, Installed games, what I need is a way to stop you from adding freebie games to my list when I didn't ask for them. I will never install those games, get rid of them. I want a simple list of all my games minus the rubbish you forced me to have:
- Beneath A Steel Sky - don't want it, not a game I will ever play.
- Lure of the Temptress (writing is so small I cant even tell if that's the name) - don't want it, get it out of my library.
- Teen Agent - garbage, remove it from my library.
- Tyrian 200 - Another load of rubbish I don't need, I want to delete it.

Why am I forced to keep these games? I didn't ask you to add them to my library. Admittedly they have been there before Galaxy 2.0, but if you want to provide me with a new feature then let me get rid of these stupid games I never wanted in the first place.

What I want from GoG Galaxy:
- A list of my games and icons on the left
- A list of my games on the right in the tiled view
- A button to get to the store
- The ability to get rid of freebie games you forced me to have, plus the ability to op out of freebie games during purchasing so I only get games I actually want.
- NOTHING ELSE.

Engioc: Galaxy 2.0 - no thankyou, can I please have the old interface back??????

- Why are people so obsessed with purple???? - Get rid of it or let me decide the colour scheme.
- Ugly brown background - Get rid of it or let me decide the colour scheme.
- Left side bar with pointless items on it like Friends, Activity, Online, my friend list is empty and I intend on keeping it that way. Its just a waste of space. - All I need is a list of my games, nothing else.
- I don't need Recent games, Owned games, Installed games, what I need is a way to stop you from adding freebie games to my list when I didn't ask for them. I will never install those games, get rid of them. I want a simple list of all my games minus the rubbish you forced me to have:
- Beneath A Steel Sky - don't want it, not a game I will ever play.
- Lure of the Temptress (writing is so small I cant even tell if that's the name) - don't want it, get it out of my library.
- Teen Agent - garbage, remove it from my library.
- Tyrian 200 - Another load of rubbish I don't need, I want to delete it.

Why am I forced to keep these games? I didn't ask you to add them to my library. Admittedly they have been there before Galaxy 2.0, but if you want to provide me with a new feature then let me get rid of these stupid games I never wanted in the first place.

What I want from GoG Galaxy:
- A list of my games and icons on the left
- A list of my games on the right in the tiled view
- A button to get to the store
- The ability to get rid of freebie games you forced me to have, plus the ability to op out of freebie games during purchasing so I only get games I actually want.
- NOTHING ELSE.

Engioc: - A list of my games and icons on the left
- A list of my games on the right in the tiled view
- A button to get to the store
- The ability to get rid of freebie games you forced me to have, plus the ability to op out of freebie games during purchasing so I only get games I actually want.
- NOTHING ELSE.

yowshi: manual hiding of games, when you have a large games list full of stuff you don't play much any more. that is not a good idea.

Jeysie: 1 & 2. "Owned Games" is what you want here. If you want to always see this option, you can go to Settings > General > Starting Page. Meanwhile, "Installed" is useful for quickly finding what you're already playing, and you can simply just ignore "Recent".
3. Settings > Interface > Store
4. As others have said, just manually hide them. You already had to do this in both Galaxy 1.2 and the web interface so this is not a Galaxy 2.0 issue.

Two options:

1. Mark every game you don't want to play any more as "Done" or "Completed" or such.
2. In the "Owned Games" view, go to the Filter and in Tags, check every tag except the one you just made.
3. Click the bookmark icon, and name the new view to whatever you find best.

Or (the option I personally am using):

1. Give a personal rating to every game you don't want to play any more.
2. In the "Owned Games" view, go to the Filter and check Rating > "No Rating"
.3. Click the bookmark icon, and name the new view to whatever you find best (I'm using "Potential Games to Play".)

I get there's some issues that are genuine valid complaints (I agree that the color scheme should be customizable or things like importing existing tags from the web interface) but there's other cases where folks seem to be going straight to the forums to complain without looking at the interface first. Or cases where people are complaining about things you can easily ignore because there's multiple ways to sidestep them completely. I agree it would still be best if everything about the sidebar was customizable, but right now the extra options aren't hurting you and some of them are actually even useful if you try them out with an open mind.

Like for instance I actually loved the Installed tab because it effectively automatically eliminated the need for the manual "Currently Playing" tag I used for a similar purpose in 1.2.

yowshi: except the list on the left in 1.2 shows you the games you've most recently played. it's sorted by most recently played by default. and you can tell how long ago since you last played a game at a glance.
my preference for this kayout is based in simplicity. i didn;t have to hunt around or set tags on a bunch of games manually. it's all right there and everything is very easy to find largely because it isn't split up into multiple places and i don't have to manually set every last little thing just to make things easy to find.

if you want that level of customizeability and the complication it brings to getting set up into a useable format then all's good for you. but if you're like me and you just want a simple setup that has everything right there already then you are shit out of luck in 2.0.

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I think it is worth noting that steam did basically exactly this sort of layout change. and many people weren't happy with that and forced a rollback to older versions on their own systems. so this isn't just something for gog. many people just don't like these kinds of views. and i get that many either don't care or do like them. but i would ask, what about all the people who don't like them and feel entirely screwed over by this change?

Engioc: - A list of my games and icons on the left
- A list of my games on the right in the tiled view
- A button to get to the store
- The ability to get rid of freebie games you forced me to have, plus the ability to op out of freebie games during purchasing so I only get games I actually want.
- NOTHING ELSE.

yowshi: manual hiding of games, when you have a large games list full of stuff you don't play much any more. that is not a good idea.