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Karterii1993: GOG deserves more customers imo, especially when the competition is a junkyard (Steam), Epic Games store, Uplay and Origin. You've got to admit that, at the very least, this is the best store out of all of them, no?
I don't use any of the other DD stores because they are not DRM free and their principles of business are not ones i agree with. So i vote with my wallet 100% on this.

But i did use Epic to get the free copy of Subnautica (before they made it tied to the client!), and the devs being anti GOG made it an easy decision for me. I don't have Epic installed anymore and have no plan to re-use it, it was a one off for a game i could not get any other way. I'd love to have Subnautica here, and buy the expansions etc, but like i said the dev is anti what GOG stands for.

I do look at Steam from time to time, even their horror-show forums can occasionally provide something useful and good, and as a general reference for a game it can be handy to check in from time to time. But i can seriously say that even with all the non-curated content they have, in general their game pages and how they organise content for the user to get at info etc, is more useful than what GOG has.

However their shopping experience and filters are about as bad as GOG's are currently (which is maybe where GOG gets the idea from?). Still Steam had a HUGE head start in the DD store race and built a HUGE following from them being first to market, so people put up with it. GOG could make some headway by making a DD store that is user focused and a pleasure to use? How refreshing that could be!

So why not have a filter for people that want to just see only old games? or a filter to remove all the DLC/Soundtracks from the search listings? or filter by game release date blocks (like 80's/90's/2000-2005 etc).

It's just going to get harder and harder to shop here as the catalogue grows and the filters remain as apathetic as they have been for too long. Pffff, whatever it's GOG store, they can do what they want right? Why make a customers experience better?


(oh.....i see there might be a reason to do that!)
Post edited November 23, 2019 by ThorChild
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ive recent lee began dippin' baby carrots an' celery sticks in garlic hummus for a nommy, fillin' protein-y snack

faaaaar better than fat people just eatin' rat-flavored chips or whatevs.
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Karterii1993: GOG deserves more customers imo, especially when the competition is a junkyard (Steam), Epic Games store, Uplay and Origin. You've got to admit that, at the very least, this is the best store out of all of them, no?
It's best(imo) in some areas, not so much in others(size/activity of forums, amount of games to choose from,discounts[frequency/level), etc).

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Karterii1993: Oh, and I actually agree with OP here. It doesn't matter that GOG doesn't officially stand for Good Old Games anymore, it is still an acronym for something. You can't ever actually remove meaning from acronyms, it was just removed 'legally' speaking. Don't understand why this is being discussed for so long. Obviously, OP understands that GOG doesn't officially mean anything anymore, but just as obvious is the fact that we all know GOG actually does stand for Good Old Games. What else would it stand for? And yeah, I know brands can have names without meaning, but you can't erase a meaning that was there before from the collective consciousness by just 're-branding'.
The site changed it's name because it now sells new games as well, so the old name didn't/doesn't fit all games sold.

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ThorChild: However their shopping experience and filters are about as bad as GOG's are currently (which is maybe where GOG gets the idea from?). Still Steam had a HUGE head start in the DD store race and built a HUGE following from them being first to market, so people put up with it. GOG could make some headway by making a DD store that is user focused and a pleasure to use? How refreshing that could be!

So why not have a filter for people that want to just see only old games? or a filter to remove all the DLC/Soundtracks from the search listings? or filter by game release date blocks (like 80's/90's/2000-2005 etc).

It's just going to get harder and harder to shop here as the catalogue grows and the filters remain as apathetic as they have been for too long. Pffff, whatever it's GOG store, they can do what they want right? Why make a customers experience better?

(oh.....i see there might be a reason to do that!)
They'd likely need to toss huge portions of the site and redo it from scratch to add some of that stuff, or rick editing the current code and possibly mess something else up. Both would cost them time and money which they sadly either don't want to spend or cannot afford to spend. :\
Post edited November 23, 2019 by GameRager