Hi!

I live in Germany but prefer GOG.com in English. I know I can change the setting on the bottom of the page, and I know language preferences are saved in my account. However, I often visit GOG without logging in, just to check on the new stuff (I do not save login data in the browser and log in only if needed) and so always end up on the German page.

So, is there a link I can use which gets me to the English GOG directly?

Thanks for the trouble.
fpv

If you first visit https://www.gog.com/user/changeLanguage/en, you should get a cookie that tells GOG.com you want the page in English, and then simply visiting https://www.gog.com/ should give you the page in English.

That's what the language menu at the bottom of the front page does, at least, loading the first url (with en, fr, de, or ru as the last part) in the background, and then loading the front page again.

Unless there's a URL way to force the language, then i doubt it...

Two ways it could work (assuming POST/GET work) would be en.gog.com or gog.com?lang=english A cookie might work...

Whenever I see this kind of question, I simply use Firebug to fetch what GOG themselves do when clicking around the site, then rely that information to the questioner. And very often it's a script that loads a URL in the background, and then either inserts the content from that request to the currently loaded page, or reloads the page because the background request set a cookie.

Interesting...

I know when i glanced at the page's source code, the JS variable used for the language was currentlanguage, although that seems to be for updating the game information listed rather than how the page is displayed and in what language...

Firebug... wish i got to use that stuff more often. But i'm so far behind on Web Technologies that i pretty much gave up on it.

Thanks to both of you. This does work:

www.gog.com/user/changeLanguage/en, then www.gog.com

but of course I had something more practical in mind.

Just out of curiosity: Where do I have to look in Firebug to find that?

Woule like to know the same. It is easy to do this for the Steam website, should also be that simple for GOG:com.

What I did:
Go to front page
Open Firebug (F12 by default, I think)
Activate the Net tab
(You could go to the front page here if you forgot to earlier, but then you'd also have to do a Clear afterwards to make it a bit easier to find what you're looking for)
Activate the Persist button (otherwise the listing is cleared on reload)
Choose a language

Now the listing in the net tab will fill up with all the requests that are made, the first two should be the URLs I posted. ("GET de" [fr, en, ru] and "GET www.gog.com", both expanding to the full URL on hover). Then I tried visiting them in the same order manually to confirm my theory, both in the same browser (where I'm logged in) and another (where I'm not).

All right, thanks. That will come in handy in the future, I'm sure.

Also, most browsers should have some sort of developer tools built-in by now - Edge, Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Pale Moon, and Opera does at least (but I still prefer using Firebug despite that, as Firefox'/Pale Moon's dev tools are slightly different from the Firebug I'm used to).