The update that came out today prevents videos to auto-play. What a relief.

Yup, not much to like with the website "update". Still trying to figure out why you would want to hide the news posts about new releases at the very bottom of the home page and hide all but the latest 3 entries. It makes no logical sense. Seems to all be in the name of smartphone viewing, but as others have mentioned, it's all too easy to build dual designs, one for phones, one for PCs/larger screens.

Reminds me a lot of what happened with IMDB a few years ago. They turned their website into a ugly mess. Where it was most efficient and easily usable before, they updated it with excess pictures and videos and odd design decisions, but in the process made the information, the most valuable thing on the site, more difficult to browse and read.

GOG seems much more open, at least initially, to feedback than those in charge at IMDB, who were completely tone deaf, so there is hope.

Getting rid of "list view" on the Store page is a horrible change. It wouldn't be so bad if the grids had a title header, but as it stands, it's hard to tell what some of the games really are because the graphics on many make the titles unclear.

Ah. Yes. Missed that detail.

Yes, that info should not be in there. For one, privacy settings. For another, what does that number have to do with one's review of this or that particular game?

Kind of agree on the news being too small, hard to notice. Also on the game purchase screen with big picture, weird. Why we change something good?

I really dislike the changes to the storefront as well, although it's the only "new" element on GOG I've seen so far before coming to the forum.

It's kind of a modern trend with web development which seems to be "style over functionality" and I absolutely hate it. The old design of the store might not have been the most stylish format for a "modern online store", but the functionality was perfect and it worked with no problems or slowdown. That's all I ask from an online store. I do not use online stores to think "wow this looks stylish! a lot of work went into this presentation!" because... why would I care when I'm here to buy something?

That aside pages on the GOG store now load far slower now, it's harder to notice specific games and everything just looks far too large and obnoxious.

I know it won't get reverted because that'd be a "waste of money" and "waste of time" for the company, but I'll be spending less of both on GOG through casual browsing unless something changes.

Despite all the things I hate about Steam, at least they still have one thing I do like:
The option to have a headlines only dedicated news page. On low bandwidth I can pop up that page, check out the latest things happening (sales, giveaways, admin announcements etc), and click further into the links I'm interested in. No flashy pictures or background stuff. Official news, pure and simple, loaded quick and easy, and free of comment.

While we're complaining about changes, bring back manual game sorting dammit!!

Is it just me or does it look more and more like GOG gave over their web design to Fisher Price?

I keep pushing those colorful buttons on my screen, hoping that an elephant or a banana will shoot out of my USB port. So far, no luck.

That, and the painfully slow list of your purchased games. Everytime I go there to check if a particular game in my local library was updated, I know why I don't go there anymore for any other reason. I second that wholeheartedly. :) That too!

Anyone liking the 'new' GOG ?

I'm largely willing to reserve judgement on the front page until the sale is over, but I do miss the news section. It might as well not be there now that it's just a handful of images tucked away at the bottom of the page. I thought at first that it was just another bunch of game ads.

Due to reading posts here I noticed the change to the 'News' on the front page.

Very bad IMO. If there would at least be a dedicated 'News' page or if I could click on the 'News' title to get a textual list of news instead of it being unclickable.

For me the 'News' part is the most important on the page. And it is now degraded to a mere 3 (very short at that) lines of text at the bottom of the page.

I'm okay with the the look & feel but I don't like how I have to hover the mouse cursor to see game titles. Now if games with similar covers (e.g. different DLCs for the same game) are listed together it'd be very confusing.

Let's hope barefoot essentials fixes this mess