Hi guys,

I don't know if GOG takes suggestions, and I don't know if this is the right place to do so, but I figured that if I start a thread, others can chip in, too.

So, I've got a few suggestions that will improve GOG.

First off, I am extremely annoyed by the fact that I either jump in at the first or the last page of a thread every time I go in to read it. It is super annoying to have to go through all the pages again and again to find where you left off.
Now, I used to be a member of a forum that would take you to the last page that existed when you last read through the thread. Although it would be even better if I could jump to the last post I read, I found that the other forum's way of doing it also worked pretty well. Could we implement something of the sorts here?

Secondly, when I set up my account I found a drop-down menu titled "my location". I picked the United States because that is where I am located. However, if I enter the forums, it says "from United States". I know this is a minor issue that doesn't affect how the forum runs at all, but the fact is that I am not from the United States even though that's where I am located at the moment. Either implement another drop-down "from"-menu, or change the way the current one is set up.

Yepyep, that\s the ones I can think of for now!

That would be useful, though the priority for adding new features is probably lower than fixing the already existing (but broken) ones. Well, you are sending your posts from the US. That's how I always read it, it actually never occurred to me that it could be interpreted differently. But I really wouldn't worry too much about the location display. People aren't required to give correct information there and many people don't take the entry seriously anyway.

I know, but to be honest, I don't really care how others choose to use it. It's just that I personally would prefer to use it correctly, something that can't be done the way it's set up today.


EDIT:
By the way, I'd argue that today's jump-in function for the threads is a broken feature. It's there, it's just completely useless. :)

Well ... it's only "incorrect" if you insist that your way of reading it is the "correct" way. Which basically means that you're saying everyone else is using it incorrectly - like hedwards, who changed its location to China after relocating there, or Stinging Velvet, who changed his location to Georgia after relocating there, etc. I don't think that's the case though.

How so? You can simply change it to whatever country you want.

The setting has two purposes only: 1) what appears in the forum, and 2) what price/currency you are charged for The Witcher 2. That's it. I'm not really sure what you are proposing GOG should do with it.

I, like everyone else, is using it incorrectly, because it is impossible to use it correctly the way it is set up today. It is incorrect because the wording isn't consistent, not because of how people choose to use the function.

When I pick "my location", I am not picking where I am from. I am picking my location. Those two are not the same, but since they are being used interchangeably here, it is impossible to use the function correctly since the function itself can't figure out what it wants to be. Yes, you can. That isn't the point.

I don't care how other users choose to use the function. I care about how I, who would actually like to use it correctly, do not have the option to do so because the function doesn't know whether it wants to express where I am from or where I am located.

I know this isn't the least bit important to the overall majority of the users here at GOG. I know there are other issues that need fixing before this one. That doesn't mean one shouldn't point out flaws in barely useful features.


As explained above, "use correctly" refers to how I want the function to express that my location is the US when I am picking my location, and also that the function should not express that I come from the US when I am picking my location.
Where I am located and where I am from are two different things.

Okay. Pretend for a minute that instead of "My location" it says "My country of origin" in the settings. Go over there and change the value accordingly. Save your settings and never ever open them again to be safe. Problem solved.

May I ask, why is it so important to you to differentiate between your location and your nationality? If you want to display both, why not use the "Forum Title" field for it, since so far you didn't put anything beside "------" there anyway? You could make it something like Reveenka / a Martian (or wherever you come from) / From United States, then everybody would know you're just visiting the US. ;)

Well, you're specifying your location, and the forum displays the location from where you're posting. I'm posting from Germany, as noted under my Avatar. You're posting from the US, as noted under yours. What I'm trying to tell you is that you're only perceiving this as incorrect because you insist on interpreting the "from" as "born in", which probably is a rather unique view.

You are assuming that the "from" refers to you. It could refer to the message written. If your location is "United States" then the messages you write and send are coming "From United States". Kind of like when I write a formal letter, I write my name on it, then a date under it. The date isn't about me, it's the date the letter was written.

Not if it also changes the prices accordingly. It's not. It is important to me that the wording of the feature is consistent. If this is what the feature was intended to display, and if this is how everyone else but me reads it, then it should stay the way it is. While I still think the wording is confusing (if not straight up misleading), I also think that one shouldn't fix what isn't broken. And if most users here think the feature isn't broken - well, then we don't have to fix it. ;)
Not to be picky or nothing here, but I just tested this. If the "from" actually referred to the post, then the "from" should be stuck to the post even though I change my location. (Since the "from" refers to where to post was posted from, and not where I am from.)

However, when I changed my location to Tonga, my posts were suddenly also posted from Tonga. So, I think it's safe to assume that the "from" does not refer to where the post was posted from, but rather where I am from. And where I am from changes based on where I am located, because that's what the drop-down menu asks for - my location.


(However, like I said in my previous post - if everyone thinks the "from" feature is fine the way it is, I don't mind keeping it this way, even though I think it's flawed.)

This only applies to The Witcher 2 (for legal reasons). All the other games have the same price worldwide.

Of all the issues GOG forums have, you've certainly picked a strange one to get worked up about.

Sure, but GOG is planning on introducing more of the newer games to GOG in the time to come, and I assume that (at least some of) these, too, will have different pricing in different regions. Although it only affects one game now, it will be more important later.


I know, right? ;)
I'm not really all that worked up about it, but as you guys have posted, I have felt the need to clarify my views, and subsequently, the entire thread wound up being about this tiny little thing, even though I find the other point I make (about the thread jump-in feature) to be much more important to me.

I don't think that's very likely, but we'll see.
Yeah, this issue is a no-brainer. That's one of the features the GOG forum should have had since the very start, and it's been requested countless times already.

My pardon, then. I have only been a participant of the forum for a couple of months and was unaware that this issue has already been adressed by other users. :)