I never really gave two cares about the new changes to the store, until this sale.

The old layout worked for me so much better.

Just click sales, and use the sorting tools which worked in my favor. I could list games by certain year groups, and hide any games that I owned. Since I primarily use gog for older games, I liked to just focus on the games usually released before 2000, and maybe a some early millennium stuff.

Well, all of that seems to be gone. All of my owned games lumped in, so tons of pages to sort through. And also the "oldest first" sorting appears to be heavily broken as it is definitely not going by chronological release. It almost seems like an amalgam of original release, and release on the store. Very broken.

Anyway, got my games. I'll definitely check out the next sale later on. But not looking forward to browsing the store when it happens. I hope they fix the sorting options before then.

anyway, my 2 cents.

/gripe

That's the point of wishlists.

Have a wishlist, keep your wishlist uptodate, and check from time to time whether there's a newly discounted game on your wishlist.

I don't really see the drawback.

GOG leaves the choice of whether to use the original release date, or the date it released on GOG, up to the developers. Unfortunately this does result in cases where old games appear alongside newer games due to using the GOG release date.

blame it on the rain! :D

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiZVrTaC9Pg

and when you want to update your wishlist? Guess what sort of mess you have to trudge through to find the games first. This was never an issue before the update though. So did gog have control over release dates prior?

I haven't been with GOG super long, so I honestly can't say if it's always worked this way or not. It's been like this for as long as I can remember though.

I suppose I check gog often enough for the latest releases not be overwhelming to explore.

Even then, going though the new releases once a week shouldn't be a daunting task either.

Both of these problems have definitely existed for as long as I've been here, and I'm pretty sure they always have; they've just gotten much more noticeable as the catalogue has grown (in the case of the latter problem) and as longtime customers' libraries have grown (in the case of the former issue).

The release year filters aren't gone, per se, there's just no longer a UI element for enabling them. See this topic for details. But, just as with all the sorting options relying on release date, those filters are only useful up to a point.

Trying to sort by 'oldest first' now is pretty useless. I primarily use GOG for older games too, so I want to be able to filter by release date. The problem has become noticably worse over the last year. I guess this is part of the problem with GOGs success and the expanded number of choices.
I want more options to be able to sort my owned games library as well as in the shop itself - and the problems are only going to get worse as by my and GOGs lists grow.

Source?

I did slog my way through all 43 pages and picked around a dozen titles. A few were on the wishlist; most weren't. Having the list view on those 43 pages was nice - for me, it's easier to look through the list than the grid. What sucked was checking out all of the "Uh, I don't remember what this game is about" game pages. The new game pages take a lot longer to load on my craptastic 'net connection, compared to the previous version before the site downdate. Having pages with .gifs on them doesn't help matters. Right-click -> block element. Repeat.

I know, it's my problem because of my slow connection. But still, it takes me a good 3-5 times longer to load a game's page nowadays.

Reminds me - I need to leech a fast connection to download the new goodies. : )

Yeah, something is very badly broken if the best way to browse the GOG catalog is to use CheapShark.

The very minimum that GOG should implement is an option to hide already owned games, and also hide DLCs. Especially DLCs, expansions, and version upgrades make browsing the catalog almost intolerable.

Also GOG's way of doing sales is somewhat counter-productive. I have understood that there will be altogether three batches of GOG Connect games. OK, that's cool! But at least I am not going to buy any games before I know what those GOG Connect games are going to be. I don't want to buy something this week, only to find out that I could get that with GOG Connect for free next week. It would be better to have them all available from the very beginning.

I can confirm, some release date of GOG games are just wrong.
But I did not record them though.

Someone needs to pull a jshackles and do an enhanced gog script!