A little over a month ago, I made a thread about a technical issue where prices simply don't show up, usually requiring the need to open up a private browser to browse properly.
While that is still an issue, today I found myself browsing the website for quite a while as I was going through the current PlayStation deals. It was a miserable experience.
There are nine pages of games and DLC with absolutely no way to sort them. Want to look at deals from lowest to highest price? You can't. Maybe you want to view the games alphabetically? Nope. Perhaps you are only interested in full games and would like an option to leave out season passes? Sorry.
This is the same when doing a standard search as well. So when searching for 'Resident Evil,' you again are given no sorting options at all.
But what about the game pages themselves? Well, UNO is on sale, so let's take a look at that.
Immediately greeted with this obscenely large banner image. There is absolutely no reason it needs to be this big but let's scroll down further and add it to the cart.
Okay, I suppose this is fine. It's weird that they don't include an actual description of the game itself but I'll just add it to the car--hey, wait. What is the Ultimate Edition? Let me check that before I finish my purchase.
And here is where I run into what I think is the most bewildering website design decision on the site.
You can't fucking click any of those. That includes both the text title of the game and the image of the game. For everything under the 'Editions' section on game pages, you have the option to add it to the cart and that is it.
Basic website navigation language would lead most people to assume that you can click either the image or text of 'UNO Ultimate Edition' to go to that product page. But instead, you need to scroll back up to the search bar and search for it individually. It is the most nonsensical design choice imaginable. And this is just UNO. For a larger AAA game like Resident Evil 2, it will list the Deluxe Edition under the 'Editions' section but you can't actually click it to be brought to a product page to see what is included in that Deluxe Edition.
Oh, and the description of the game that you're on the game page for? It's at the bottom of the page, under the 'Editions' section. Logically, it should be at the top of the page in an area under or to the right of the 'UNO' game title. But nah.
It's messy, unorganized, slow and buggy. I don't understand how this new web store launched the way it did.
While that is still an issue, today I found myself browsing the website for quite a while as I was going through the current PlayStation deals. It was a miserable experience.
There are nine pages of games and DLC with absolutely no way to sort them. Want to look at deals from lowest to highest price? You can't. Maybe you want to view the games alphabetically? Nope. Perhaps you are only interested in full games and would like an option to leave out season passes? Sorry.
This is the same when doing a standard search as well. So when searching for 'Resident Evil,' you again are given no sorting options at all.
But what about the game pages themselves? Well, UNO is on sale, so let's take a look at that.
Immediately greeted with this obscenely large banner image. There is absolutely no reason it needs to be this big but let's scroll down further and add it to the cart.
Okay, I suppose this is fine. It's weird that they don't include an actual description of the game itself but I'll just add it to the car--hey, wait. What is the Ultimate Edition? Let me check that before I finish my purchase.
And here is where I run into what I think is the most bewildering website design decision on the site.
You can't fucking click any of those. That includes both the text title of the game and the image of the game. For everything under the 'Editions' section on game pages, you have the option to add it to the cart and that is it.
Basic website navigation language would lead most people to assume that you can click either the image or text of 'UNO Ultimate Edition' to go to that product page. But instead, you need to scroll back up to the search bar and search for it individually. It is the most nonsensical design choice imaginable. And this is just UNO. For a larger AAA game like Resident Evil 2, it will list the Deluxe Edition under the 'Editions' section but you can't actually click it to be brought to a product page to see what is included in that Deluxe Edition.
Oh, and the description of the game that you're on the game page for? It's at the bottom of the page, under the 'Editions' section. Logically, it should be at the top of the page in an area under or to the right of the 'UNO' game title. But nah.
It's messy, unorganized, slow and buggy. I don't understand how this new web store launched the way it did.
