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Posted May 11, 2015
Big changes are here.

My Account is the heart of your GOG.com experience. It's the one place that's 100% yours, and the place you always go to download your games and manage the entire library.
Starting today, your My Account is completely new - remade and redesigned from scratch to better support our growing library of games and many of your biggest requests. Aside from every usability fix we could think of, we've also introduced brand new tools to keep your library organised, and new social features to stay in touch with your friends.

The list of new features is long, but you can see the whole thing on our forums. The most important highlights include:

--Support for friends lists and chat.
--Shared wishlists.
--Advanced filtering and custom tags for your library.
--A new, detailed order history.
--Accessible game changelogs.

We're sure that these new changes will greatly improve your overall user experience on GOG.com, and we can't wait to hear what you think on the wishlist and right here in the comments!
Posted May 13, 2015
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LoboBlanco: This is just an aesthetic thing really. I think there was quite an improvement with all the new welcomed features, some of which were old wishlisted items but on the other hand I liked the old look (not talking about features here) of the wishlist and the library. They had maybe more personality with the paper wishlist and the game boxes on the shelf.
I guess the new design matches the rest of the UI of the site better, though the old one matched the feel of the site better in my opinion.

The new functionality and capabilities are welcomed though.
sorry, sir, but some of the issues described here are not just on the "aesthetic" department, they are clearly in the daily usability topic (such as bottom control of pagination, types of sorting without game release, the fact that you only have the browser's back button sometimes to help you and having to restart, settings not saved from one session to another)

if you put that in the "aesthetic" thing, i can assure you that once you go past a given number or entries in your library, it becomes hindrance...
Posted May 13, 2015
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nuketakuler: *snip*
I think you meant to quote GOG.com instead of me, but otherwise seems to be an apt parody of the usual GOG Good News™ PR blurbs that always seem to leave out relevant pertinent information that is eclipsed by the hype building.
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Posted May 13, 2015
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MarkoH01: I am totally missing communication with some of the GOG staff here who are "responsible" for this. There were SEVERAL postings here critizicing the new design and specifically mentioning what GOG could change and what they (the paying customers) want. It would be so great to make a discussion out of it like it is in the Galaxy Thread. In this thread nothing seems to happen except that many users are complaining. I starting to wonder if GOG even reads this.
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HypersomniacLive: Ah my friend, allow me to say that you're making a fatal mistake here. Reread the OP - they say [emphasis added]:

we can't wait to hear what you think on the wishlist and right here in the comments!
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HypersomniacLive: Hearing is a step down from the listening that they did in the "We are listening to your feedback!" thread. And in both cases, they never said that they would respond to or take anything we say into account.

Sorry MarkoH01, I know what you mean, but I just couldn't resist.
If memory and experience serves me right, they will let a few days pass, then come back with a summarised statement that won't address everything, and then the circle will start all over again; kind of a rinse and repeat thing.
No apologies needed. You are absolutely right and I had a good (but still bitter) laugh. Let's hope that at the end of all the cleansing process something will be left that we still love.
Posted May 13, 2015
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Has anybody mentioned yet how hideous and clunky the new shelf is?

Oh, yes it seems so.

I just love having to flip through six pages of shelf with no more box art. Because having everything beautiful, artistic, and convenient on one page was wonderful and I hate things that are good.

(That's sarcasm.)
Posted May 13, 2015
By detailed changelog did you really mean a cryptic blue dot as only sign your game has been updated. This and the shitty new self makes want to never launch that DS Visual Training Game again xD
Posted May 13, 2015
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javihyuga: By detailed changelog did you really mean a cryptic blue dot as only sign your game has been updated. This and the shitty new self makes want to never launch that DS Visual Training Game again xD
Click the game that has been updated, then "More", then "Changelog".
Posted May 13, 2015
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ErfInverse: What exactly is this demand for having all games on one page? Do you like having the library page load and render longer than it takes for the pitch drop experiment to complete? Because that's what will happen when you have a large amount of games in your library and a JavaScript-heavy site, such as the GOG library, trying desperately to strain your quadcore processor to its knees.
of course, at 400 or more games, the old library was a pain, yet it only loaded chunk by chunk and it worked rather fine compared to, lets say, humble bundle account library for example... So the old gog was rather reliable anyway.

and also because:
1) page navigation is only at bottom
2) the page/position you are in your library at a given time is reset if you try to back from a game page
3) purchase date and alphabetical filters are not enough, especially if you cannot chose which direction those filters work (always from latest purchased to oldest, always from a to z... no way to choose ascending or descending)
4) the website design is meant for touchscreens of tablets and phones and everything (game covers, dropdown menus, etc) is freakingly HUUUUUGE and not giving a damn at me just using a decent sized hd monitor at 1080p res
5) even the downloader links are opening a new page on its own ! (check point 2)
6) could find more to fill in but i'm tired atm, will assign some brain time during sleep to the process of finding you other reasons :)

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ErfInverse: To GOG: stay away from policing the tags. There will be no Steam here. Only really spammy tags should be destroyed.
what is this you mention about policing tags ? Spammy tags ? Spamming who ?
tags can only be viewed by account's owner... so gog should not concern about checking them as they do not interact with "communauty". if i ever want to make tags about the orgasmic measurement of the hard-on each game gives to me, it is just a private setting in "MY" account (at least this word comes in handy for once)
or may i had misunderstand your statement ?
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danatblair: I feel like conversations about the new library are going like this:
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you are my hero !
Post edited May 13, 2015 by Djaron
Posted May 13, 2015
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ErfInverse: What exactly is this demand for having all games on one page? Do you like having the library page load and render longer than it takes for the pitch drop experiment to complete? Because that's what will happen when you have a large amount of games in your library and a JavaScript-heavy site, such as the GOG library, trying desperately to strain your quadcore processor to its knees.
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Martek: To add to other good reason, I posted my own reason earlier ITT.

I print my library to PDF. I do this for a number of reasons (that I won't hash out here). Needless to say, there are plenty of good reasons to want all games on one page.. :)
Oh, but you can be quite sure that if they decide to implement the one page view, it'll only be done in the typical tumblerized style of having infinite scroll and "load more" button in the bottom after, say, every 20 games. I have no doubt that whoever is in charge of web design here is just itching to do it exactly in that way.

Edit: By the way, I violently hate all the worst practices (such as infinite scrolling) from mobile browsing that are now invading every site. But I don't hate tags. Those can be actually descriptive and useful when used properly.
Post edited May 13, 2015 by ErfInverse
Posted May 13, 2015
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ErfInverse: What exactly is this demand for having all games on one page? Do you like having the library page load and render longer than it takes for the pitch drop experiment to complete? Because that's what will happen when you have a large amount of games in your library and a JavaScript-heavy site, such as the GOG library, trying desperately to strain your quadcore processor to its knees.
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Martek: To add to other good reason, I posted my own reason earlier ITT.

I print my library to PDF. I do this for a number of reasons (that I won't hash out here). Needless to say, there are plenty of good reasons to want all games on one page.. :)
no need to tell your reasons... in fact i agree, i even think that allowing some kind of csv export of "MY library" could be a for once useful feature...
Posted May 13, 2015
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Grargar: Click the game that has been updated, then "More", then "Changelog".
Yeah, that is really convenient. "Mmmmh, I got an update. Let's start a search among the three pages of that cool blue tiny bullet. Ahá, there it is. Wow, I can see what has been changed, and just after manually searching through all my collection! This is almost as good as manually search everysubforum for the changelog post."
Posted May 13, 2015
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javihyuga: Yeah, that is really convenient. "Mmmmh, I got an update. Let's start a search among the three pages of that cool blue tiny bullet. Ahá, there it is. Wow, I can see what has been changed, and just after manually searching through all my collection! This is almost as good as manually search everysubforum for the changelog post."
Alternatively, look at the image below.
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Posted May 13, 2015
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Grargar: Alternatively, look at the image below.
I hope this works next time, because the last two updates after this new account didn't showed there. But well, I also had an update sign for 5 days before the change, so I just might be the "lucky" guy which eats all the possible bugs.
Thanks for the info though!
Posted May 13, 2015
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Grargar: Click the game that has been updated, then "More", then "Changelog".
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javihyuga: Yeah, that is really convenient. "Mmmmh, I got an update. Let's start a search among the three pages of that cool blue tiny bullet. Ahá, there it is. Wow, I can see what has been changed, and just after manually searching through all my collection! This is almost as good as manually search everysubforum for the changelog post."
worse even, compared to older game box from previous library, if there is no changelog (often), you have no clue about what the update is about ! is it a new revision number ? is it a major patch like from x.0.0 to y.0.0 or to x.0.4 ? supported langage added ? a goody added ? does it worth redownloading the whole pack of thing, having to cope with the disaster that are now the downloader links ?
Posted May 13, 2015
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ErfInverse: It adressed Pixelboy's ignorance on tags, which is exactly the portion of the post that I quoted.
You still don't get the difference - tags can't be used to sort/ manage one's entire game collection in permanent way. they can only be used to filter and search. I'm pretty sure that PixelBoy is well aware of them, but they can't do what he wants.
Posted May 13, 2015
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javihyuga: Yeah, that is really convenient. "Mmmmh, I got an update. Let's start a search among the three pages of that cool blue tiny bullet. Ahá, there it is. Wow, I can see what has been changed, and just after manually searching through all my collection! This is almost as good as manually search everysubforum for the changelog post."
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Djaron: worse even, compared to older game box from previous library, if there is no changelog (often), you have no clue about what the update is about ! is it a new revision number ? is it a major patch like from x.0.0 to y.0.0 or to x.0.4 ? supported langage added ? a goody added ? does it worth redownloading the whole pack of thing, having to cope with the disaster that are now the downloader links ?
Actually, we do add to the changelog whether a goodie was added now that we have a changelog for this kind of thing. We recently added the unofficial 2.36b beat patch for Europa Universalis to the goodies section. It's in the changelog and this will occur for every game we add to so if you get a Linux-compatible version of a game, there will be a changelog entry with a date of when this entry was added.
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