Hey everybody,

I noticed as soon as you bought a game and revisit the store page of the game it only shows "owned" and not anymore the actual price.

It would be helpful it it still would be shown how much the game costs and right now also too see how long a discounted price for a game still is up if I wish to recommend it further to other people, but that's pretty hard if all I can say is I own it.

So please, would it be possible to add the price under the "owned" label and also how long a discount still is up or something? That would be really great!

I just checked with System Shock 2, which I own. On the game page, it shows 'Owned - redownload?', and under that there's a gift icon with 'gift this to a friend ($1.99)' So it does show the current price of the game, but not how much longer it's on sale.

Something seems to be wrong with your setup. See attached image.

If you look under the already owned where it says gift this it will show the price.

Here's a picture

Jeez I'm sorry, I didn't notice it until you guys mentioned it. Still would be nice to see how much longer it's on sale from the games page.

Thanks for the fast answers anyways!

^^^^^^^ THIS!

It's baffled my mind why they hide the price of owned games anywhere at all. Just show the price and separately whether it is owned. The idea that people only want to know the price of games they don't own, or that people who own a game already have no reason to buy it again so they don't need to know or care about the price is rather short-sighted IMHO and can't really help sales at all, but probably can hurt them to some degree. There are ways to work around it, but people should never have to go on a wild goose chase to find out the price of something. :)

GOG, please fix this and make more money! :)

Edit: For people who don't see the problem, go to the GOG homepage and hit "END" to get to the bottom of the page, then look at the Top Sellers list etc. Any games you own are marked "OWNED" with no price showing and you have to click on every single game individually to go hunt down the price on the individual game cards. Ditto for http://www.gog.com/games as well. Is there a workaround? Yes, you can click on 750+ hyperlinks and visit that many pages and spend 6 hours of your time... :) Seriously though, from the perspective of having a customer friendly user interface, it is most sensible to always show customers the price of things regardless of whether or not they own it. Ownership is a separate concept to consider showing and should not hide the price. IMHO, the suggestion to fix this is simply the desire to have both a more user friendly site, and for GOG to make more money from having made the user experience a slight bit nicer. :)

Didn't notice the other posts, eh? :P

I've read the entire thread. What my post is saying is that it is nice for people to post links to how to work around the problem on parts of the website that do show the price, but that that is just that - a workaround which has to be done for each one of 700+ games individually. That isn't a solution for the problem but rather an inconvenient way of working around it. The problem still exists and I wouldn't doubt it if it leads some people to make less purchases as a result. Not necessarily a conscious decision to not purchase something, but rather they're scrolling down the big list of games in the catalogue looking at the prices and all they see is OWNED, so they just look at games they don't already own and don't even think about the other ones. But - if they saw perhaps some game is on sale for $0.99 or $1.49 they might think "oh crap, that's on sale pretty cheap, I'm going to stockpile some gift codes for friends/giveaways/etc." I'm not criticizing GOG for this nor complaining about it. Rather, I am pointing out a strategic weakness in the way the site displays prices (or rather agreeing with the original poster for pointing it out) which definitely can be improved in such a way that is beneficial to customers and also makes it that much easier to know prices and more likely someone might buy something they might otherwise overlook. GOG would stand to make more money from it and that would make me happier to know even moreso than the convenience I'd get from it personally.

It just surprises me that they've never noticed this as a user interface design problem before as it seems obvious to me, but then I have some background in HID work also and I subscribe to the Joel Spolsky school of thought about user interfaces. :)

Not a work around all you have to do is go to the game page.

You're obviously not reading what I said. The desire is to visit the Browse Games page and see the list of the entire game catalogue all on one screen with the price beside each game whether it is owned or not, pretty much like every other store that sells games. One's ownership of the game shouldn't hide the price, there is no technically sound reason to hide the price. Hiding the price provides no benefit to the potential purchaser, and so... why do it? There is no sound technical reason. This forces someone who really does want to know the price for a game to mandatorily have to click on the link to go to the individual game page - for every single game they wish to know the price of and that is not an optimal customer experience.

Please, tell me again "yes, I understand what you're saying skeletonbow, but all you have to do is go visit each one of 700 games individual game pages and spend 8 hours of your time to know all of the prices, see it's real easy" and we can record it all on cassette tape, put it on auto repeat and go play video games for a bunch of hours instead of manually going through the loop here. :)

I'll submit a request for it directly to the people who can do something about it later - GOG support. I'd be shocked if their marketing people don't grasp the point of the suggestion and agree that it is a good idea that can only help to increase revenue and improve customer experience with no consequences.

Well I have not much to add, other than a slightly humorous comment, if the game is owned you probably already know the price. :P

MaGog gives you that right now.

GOG wasn't built around the concept of gifting. The UI was made so that you were buying things for yourself, or specific items for friends. The concept of "Hm, this game is cheap, let me buy it so I can later gift it" wasn't part of the UI design.

And a middle-click (or ctrl-click) to open the game page in a new tab isn't that much hassle, is it? And the new tab also keeps your current position of the list, so you don't have to scroll that far again.

And I'd rather they returned the "Hide Owned" checkbox than show prices for games I already own, but that's just me.

I own 299 games and don't have a clue what the price is of the majority of them at any instant in time, whether or not they're on sale etc. If someone can retain that information all in their head and track all sales and flash sales to the instant they'd probably have photographic memory to say the least, or they're Rainman. <grin>

I just though of another idea which is that Barefoot Essentials could probably handle this easily, or another web script. I'll bounce it off of BarefootMonkey to see what he thinks and if not I am going to poke around with Greasemonkey or Stylish tomorrow perhaps as I know the browser does have the prices as they flash on the screen very briefly then are overlaid by the OWNED tag afterward. It is probably a matter of tweaking the page CSS a bit. Either way it is probably a trivial hack to do in BE or a separate script. If either happens, I'll post back here about it for anyone interested in the feature.

Thanks again to the OP for bringing this up (it has been on my mind for a while), and of course to those who did post workarounds as they do help for some usage cases.