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Posted January 15, 2016
... I can't imagine what new people think coming to GOG for the first time and having the site in a language other than their own without knowing how to change it.

It's happening like every time I come to GOG now, connecting from multiple locations like my house or college. If I'm not logged in already the site ends up loading in German most of the time instead of English when I'm in the US.

EDIT: German not Dutch. My bad.
Post edited January 15, 2016 by user deleted
Posted January 15, 2016
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Dutch?
Posted January 15, 2016
Try to:

1. Log in and change your language in https://www.gog.com/account/settings/personal (persistant change on server side concerning your account)
2. Go to main page http://www.gog.com and change your language in dropdown in the footer.
3. Clear your browser cookies (might have impact when you enter site logged out)
4. Re-open your browser and check if the site is in Deutsch

Then we will know for sure if it's set by GOG servers for you.
Posted January 15, 2016
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Gydion: Dutch?
I tend to get the site in Vedic Sanskrit, myself. True story.
Posted January 15, 2016
Well, you must have unlocked the super secret ultra special Dutch GOG website that no one knows about because currently GOG offers four languages and Dutch ain't one of them... :D
Posted January 15, 2016
Shouldn't he want the site in Vulcan?
Posted January 15, 2016
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tinyE: Shouldn't he want the site in Vulcan?
Pretty sure he wanted the site in Kinglon :)

More seriously, i think he meant in deutsch (german)
Post edited January 15, 2016 by DyNaer
Posted January 15, 2016
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Johny.: Try to:

1. Log in and change your language in https://www.gog.com/account/settings/personal (persistant change on server side concerning your account)
2. Go to main page http://www.gog.com and change your language in dropdown in the footer.
3. Clear your browser cookies (might have impact when you enter site logged out)
4. Re-open your browser and check if the site is in Deutsch

Then we will know for sure if it's set by GOG servers for you.
Johny I've seen this happen only when I'm NOT logged in I believe. It has happen at my home and at my college on multiple PC's so the cookies would not be the same. If I just visit the site (when not logged in) the language comes up German on the first load of the main page. My college is like 30 min away, Eastern USA, I visited GOG for a few min to check out the releases today (did not log in at all) and I noticed the same thing it does at my home, main page was in German... pretty sure it's on your end and seems to be detecting my general location wrong sometimes.

I'll try this though... but it seems to be random, sometimes it loads in English correctly and sometimes it loads in German but like said, unless I'm mistaken, only when I'm not logged in. Meaning it's before it knows my language setting. I don't think I've never seen it come up in German if I've been logged in, which makes sense since my account is set to English.

If I refresh usually it will reset its self to English or I'll just manually change it. I also tend to clean my cookies/cache frequently.
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Johny.:
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Gydion: Dutch?
Sorry I think it's German actually looked like Dutch based how it was spelled. Lol
Post edited January 15, 2016 by user deleted
Posted January 15, 2016
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USERNAME:Gydion#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4Dutch?
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Also how terms like "Pennsylvania Dutch" and "Dutch apple pie" came to exist -- neither has anything to do with the Netherlands, its people or its language. ;)
Posted January 15, 2016
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Johny.: Try to:

1. Log in and change your language in https://www.gog.com/account/settings/personal (persistant change on server side concerning your account)
2. Go to main page http://www.gog.com and change your language in dropdown in the footer.
3. Clear your browser cookies (might have impact when you enter site logged out)
4. Re-open your browser and check if the site is in Deutsch

Then we will know for sure if it's set by GOG servers for you.
Well, I never bothered to report it, but I can second that this happens all the time. German or French website on first visit. I am using a custom browser that doesn't persist any data between sessions, so every time I visit the site I start with a clean & fresh state. No indication as to why it happens on the client side, no way to reproduce reliably. A refresh fixes the issue.
Posted January 15, 2016
What annoys me is that the saved language and currency selection seem not to matter when you go visit another country because gog is tracking your location and seems to assume that just because I am going to Germany I suddenly want my preferences changed...
Posted January 16, 2016
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Johny.: Try to:

1. Log in and change your language in https://www.gog.com/account/settings/personal (persistant change on server side concerning your account)
2. Go to main page http://www.gog.com and change your language in dropdown in the footer.
3. Clear your browser cookies (might have impact when you enter site logged out)
4. Re-open your browser and check if the site is in Deutsch

Then we will know for sure if it's set by GOG servers for you.
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onarliog: Well, I never bothered to report it, but I can second that this happens all the time. German or French website on first visit. I am using a custom browser that doesn't persist any data between sessions, so every time I visit the site I start with a clean & fresh state. No indication as to why it happens on the client side, no way to reproduce reliably. A refresh fixes the issue.
Thanks for confirming it. I knew I wasn't completely crazy... :D
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