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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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Trilarion: No more purchase until resolved...

Please vote:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/keep_or_bring_back_manual_sorting

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/bring_back_game_boxes_in_the_game_shelf

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Grargar: If I may, add the link for manual sorting in the Galaxy section of the Wishlist. The way things are going, I suspect that if that entry gets enough votes it may be considered by GOG, and since the account system is the same on both Galaxy and the site, the non-Galaxy user will also get it back.
Just a thought.
Lets take a vote and see who likes the new numbered page idea.
Posted May 13, 2015
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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.
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Djaron: 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 ?
It's just that I'm kind of anticipating that GOG will be using those tags in the same sort of way as Steam does, even outside the library (popular tags common to many users get shown on the game page, except that some quite useful tags get stripped out because Steam doesn't like them). Maybe that's thinking too far ahead, maybe not. Regardless, that's the intent of my preliminary warning to GOG. I am overwhelmingly in favor of erring on the side of pessimism.

Edit: If they do fuck it up just like Steam and end up policing it to death, I get to feel smug and point to my post and go "told you so GOG, you didn't listen, now reap the whirlwind".
Post edited May 13, 2015 by ErfInverse
Posted May 13, 2015
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Lemon_Curry: Tags error:
On the drop-down menu entitled MORE in a game window the tag selection disappears (as well as the menu itself) once I move the cursor from ASSIGN TAGS... to the right section (MANAGE TAGS etc.).

I'm using Firefox 38.0 with no add-ons.
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Djaron: i dont think it is an error, sir... i experience same behavior

i think mainly it is because they wanted the whole drop down menu as a "mouse cursor hover" thingy, not a "click to trigger on/off" way.
If that really is the case they could at least change the text from ASSIGN TAGS... to SHOW TAGS... and remove both the tick boxes and the MANAGE TAGS.

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Djaron: but nowadays, every webdesigner only think about developping their stuff having only portable devices in mind... hey folks, we still ahve computers, they still work, we even have HD screens more than 25" wide, you know ?
Next up: optimizing and developing web pages just for Google Glass*.

*Why don't they call it Google Glasses? Do they come in monocle versions? :P
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JudasIscariot:
Awesome! Can I please get a beat patch for Mount & Blade? ;)
Post edited May 13, 2015 by Lemon_Curry
Posted May 13, 2015
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Lemon_Curry: Awesome! Can I please get a beat patch for Mount & Blade? ;)
A what patch? :P
Posted May 13, 2015
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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 ?
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JudasIscariot: 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.
well, my bad... actually, i have 38 update alerts (i had been slacking lately...)

and i tried to look about already one third of those, and so far, i think i had no other clue than to use the goog old gog downloader to redownload the whole game files and goodies as step 1 and then compare with my own archive as step 2 and play the differences game :) and as most install files were recently renamed with a new template, i guess i would have to lok at the filesize, the properties or md5 hash or such...

i humbly apologize not being right now neither in the mood nor technical capability (or weather capability) of doing this for feedback and debugging purpose only... especially because by the time i may be done with such task, things may change in between.
Posted May 13, 2015
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JudasIscariot: 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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Djaron: well, my bad... actually, i have 38 update alerts (i had been slacking lately...)

and i tried to look about already one third of those, and so far, i think i had no other clue than to use the goog old gog downloader to redownload the whole game files and goodies as step 1 and then compare with my own archive as step 2 and play the differences game :) and as most install files were recently renamed with a new template, i guess i would have to lok at the filesize, the properties or md5 hash or such...

i humbly apologize not being right now neither in the mood nor technical capability (or weather capability) of doing this for feedback and debugging purpose only... especially because by the time i may be done with such task, things may change in between.
No need to apologize :)

Those updates were flagged before we made the changelog feature live so you may have those updates from the time when I posted everything to a given subforum after updating a game.

In any case, we are posting any and all changelogs in your account so if you have a game update, please look at the changelog after you've cleared your old updates :)

Also, if you need to know what was updated lemme know which game and I may remember the update off the top of my head :)
Posted May 13, 2015
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MoP: Oh well, what else is new I guess. Thanks.
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JudasIscariot: You can add custom tags to sort through your library, I don't know if that helps but it should make it easier than having to click and drag a bunch of boxes on the shelf. I've tried the old manual sort even back in the days before I became GOG staff and I couldn't make use of it. I do hope that with the new tags this will make sorting options easier for everyone but I understand that a lot of people liked their manual sorting as well.
Have you guys ever considered doing a public beta with interface changes to try to see what people's pain points would be before forced roll-outs? From the small sample of complaints I've read (and posted), it seems like a six month beta interface period could've allowed time to get things polished and working in a way that people would be happy and excited about the change instead of bitching and moaning. Additionally with a public beta when you can say that X% of users that switch to it don't switch back, that's giving a good acceptance metric.

I mean, I've wanted game changelogs on GOG for about as long as I can remember using the site, so I was ready to consider this change positive when I read the list on the announcement (then I tried to use them, too...).
Posted May 13, 2015
The GOG downloader, on detection of updates, links to https://www.gog.com/account/games

This is now a 404 .. why exactly? Is it really that hard to simply make this url connect to the game list in the new account?
Posted May 13, 2015
Great!
Posted May 13, 2015
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Lemon_Curry: Awesome! Can I please get a beat patch for Mount & Blade? ;)
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JudasIscariot: A what patch? :P
I have no idea what it is. I just know that I want it 'cause it sounds fantastic. :)
Posted May 13, 2015
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Djaron: 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.
The only slow part of the old library for me was the counter, which for non-obvious reasons often needed half a minute or more to count the few hundred games.

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JudasIscariot: 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.
Great! :)

Is there / will there be any way to also download this changelog?
Posted May 13, 2015
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Djaron: 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.
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eiii: The only slow part of the old library for me was the counter, which for non-obvious reasons often needed half a minute or more to count the few hundred games.

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JudasIscariot: 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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eiii: Great! :)

Is there / will there be any way to also download this changelog?
You should be able to just copy-paste it from your account :)
Posted May 13, 2015
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eiii: Is there / will there be any way to also download this changelog?
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JudasIscariot: You should be able to just copy-paste it from your account :)
Yes, trying to mark the changelog while scrolling it down to the end within a page which also scrolls while I try to scroll the changelog ... not really what I was dreaming for.
I more was after a nice URL like http://www.gog.com/game/game_name/changelog. ;)
Post edited May 13, 2015 by eiii
Posted May 13, 2015
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JudasIscariot: You should be able to just copy-paste it from your account :)
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eiii: Yes, trying to mark the changelog while scrolling it down to the end within a page which also scrolls while I try to scroll the changelog ... not really what I was dreaming for.
I more was after a nice URL like http://www.gog.com/game/game_name/changelog. ;)
Ah, well, sorry nothing I can about that myself :)
Posted May 13, 2015
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JudasIscariot: 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.
Is there any chance we could get a full list of which games got a changelog even for updates from before the new account system rolled out? Or did I misunderstand your post?
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