The storepages are an eyesore now. It won't stop me from acquiring the games that I want, but I'm surely not gonna use GOG from now on to gauge the game's worthiness.

Indeed, the storepages are painful to watch. Especially on a PC... which is the medium GOG sells games for...

But yeah, on mobile devices the new UI works inefficitently as well. Except for the heavily promoted titles. They are everywhere now, and they are mostly the only thing that they let you see, unless you dig heavily for something else.

But yes, even their game cards will be less serviceable than they used to be, so...

Maybe someone at GOG decided that their own game cards and GOG reviews are not worh it anymore?

No, but gog versions of games continuing to be out of date in bug fixes has:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/suggestions_wanted_for_gog_mix_games_that_treat_gog_customers_as_second_class_citizens/post1509

Gog won't be around for another 10 years if this keeps happening.

Not directly but:
I was checking back on GoG every few days before and will definitely stop doing so. The frontpage is a pain to look at, even after manually blocking the giant zooming images, the news are well hidden and the scrolling involved to get anywhere is atrocious.

This is not a page that says "you're welcome here enjoy your visit", it's quite the opposite. This page is telling me: "not having a headache yet? Wait till you visit the actual store HAHAHA".

Also my reviews were got screwed by removing all paragraphs, so why put any effort in it?

If I really, really want a game and get third party notice that it's on sale here, I'll come by and grab it but i'll try to minimize my exposure to GoG.com until sanity returns.

The DRM-free, off-line installers is why I shop here, so in that regard, no, it won't affect my purchasing games on GOG. The fact that they've been quick to respond to complaints and taken steps to rectify them, also speaks in their favour when you compare it to the stonewalling you receive at other on-line stores. The service they offer is also far superior to places like Steam and they're clearly putting in effort to fix problems such as patches not being uploaded by developers. All in all, no reason to reconsider shopping here.

The new front page design is cumbersome to use, however, and I hope they change it to be more in line with the sleeker, more informational style that they used previously. It's currently far too easy to overlook new releases and pertinent news items, which would affect my purchasing of games simply by me not knowing about games being available that I'd be interested in buying. Hopefully these are growing pains as the front page is currently not very pleasant to use.

Why would it affect me? Price points matter to me the most, so there's that, but DRM-free games are what I come here for, so as long as they're supporting DRM-free (and are the biggest DRM-free supporter in the market, no less), I won't stop shopping here. That's like saying the reverse or something, that I'd buy more because the ads are prettier.

Not necessarily. But have to click more times on store page to find all useful information that were previously easy visible.
For me is new layout a bit step aside instead of move forward.
But assume that one can get deal with new look :/

GOG will die and we will cry? :D

How has the site update affected (or further affected) your decision about how much to spend on GOG?

Negatively. I can't speak for anyone else, but I strongly dislike the grid view for shopping - I find it uncomfortable and more work than a list view.

I used the list view for viewing and sorting games, and I will spend decidedly less time browsing games without it. I can't imagine that will have any other outcome than "less browing = fewer purchases".

Please bring back the option for viewing games in list view. (Or if it's still there and I'm failing to find it, then make it more obvious.)


Seconded.

Service far superior to Steam? That was a few years ago maybe.

You pay more for games. You get updates 1-3 months after Steam. You dont even have an option to set your store preferences to block unwanted games like Early Access (InDev), DLC or genres.

They also dont offer refunds for crappy games, while having a terrible curation team.

Lets see how quick they are to respond to the complaints on the new broken UI and 'rectify' tthe whole thing. I would bet 100$ that it wont happen.

No, this is best store now with DRM free games and good prices. Also, community and support is very nice, so I will stay here and spend as much as before.

Actually, GOG curation team is very good comparing to the Steam with its tons of bad "indie" games which was made by one guy from downloaded assets and sometimes game build even doesn't have an exe file to launch this game! So yes, GOG is still much better that Steam, especially in curation.

Everything was correct until you criticised their support team. (Previous mentions are more of the devs fault though but true non the less).

Their support team are actually legends and much more kinder and compassionate then any other company (My experience) and much better then steam with regards to refunds it's more the community that is severely cancerous.

Yes and no.

I'll still try to buy here first if I can, but I'm much less inclined to browse the store than I was before. SoF helped ease the pain a little... for now.

I am not thinking of directly boycotting Gog, so in that sense: No. But with that said, I really don't like the new layout where everything is huge like I was a toddler (someone made the very apt comparison that this feels as if Fisher Price was doing their web development), the loss of functionality like Gogmixes or some Sorting orders, and the extra work to get the information I used to take in one or two screens.

The news section is much smaller and every post is bound to rotate out of view in a few days. Since I can't always check the news at short notice I used to ignore them until the weekend. From now on this will mean guaranteed missed releases.

And since the game cards load slower I'm pretty sure that, when I had ten minutes to browse before going out and used them to look at eight games, now with the same ten minutes I might maybe check four.

So even if I am not as outraged now as with the Profiles fiasco (which DID result in a sort of not-complete-but-severe boycott), the fact is that I'm less inclined to browse the store because it's more annoying, it'll take more of my limited time when I do and I'm bound to have lost the releases of games that would have interested me. Thus, indirectly, I can't see my purchase habits remaining the same.

I'm pretty sure this new storefront will not reflect nicely in their next few months' financial reports. If they are smart they'll do their best to listen to the feedback people are presenting here. Most likely tho, their CEO will do like every CEO does, bury its head in the sand and thrust further in the direction of wherever the marketing dept tells it to go.

Service as in customer service, which is practically nonexistent at Steam. So yes, GOG has much better service than Steam.