So the page

https://www.gamespot.com/games/baldurs-gate-3/

Has a release date of 2020 (!) and an Early Access Review from 2020 (!) with a score of 6 (Fair). The actual Baldur's gate 3 came out on August 3, 2023, and Gamespot did not yet manage to post a new review of the final game. By all other accounts, it appears to be a very good game, certainly better than "fair". What's up with that, Gamespot?

@Realmjumper: I agree, I find it excruciating - so much so that I rarely visit Gamespot anymore. This certainly has been discussed ad nauseam before, but the whole mess started with the redesign a few months or a year ago. Since then, Gamespot has been riddled with bugs (and still is to this day, although the most egregious bugs are getting SLOOOWLY resolved). The usability is questionable, to say the least, and the performance is painful. This certainly has been the most seriously botched website relaunch I have seen in a long time. I have no evidence, but I would be quite surprised if they did NOT take a serious hit in visitors and ad revenue after this. Makes you wonder if the recent layoffs were not at least partly caused by this.

There does not appear to be a way. But that is only the tip of the iceberg. The stack system is currently simply broken and unusable. Here are some things that do not work either:

- editing a stack with more than about 20 items => the system displays only the first 20 or so entries and then appears to crash (no javascript, no editing), or it crashes outright (blank page or system crash message). No editing also means no deleting items from the stack or moving/copying to another stack.

- converting an unranked stack to a ranked stack (clicking on the button to convert produces an error message - this happens even with empty stacks)

- adding a game to a custom stack from the game page - there are only three default stacks to choose from

- adding games to a stack from the "edit stack" page (after the initial creation of the stack). This is supposed to work, since when you open an empty stack, the system offers to "add some games" and then sends you to the "edit stack" page, where there is no possibility to add a game.

- sorting a stack by GameSpot Score

And that is only from a few minutes of testing. Given how easy it is to provoke/reproduce the bugs, and that the stack system has been unusable since it was introduced last year, one could conclude that nobody at GameSpot gives a damn about the bugs in the stack system. A more generous speculation would be that the system redesign launched last year was so buggy that they had to scramble until now to get everything else working, and the stack system is just really really low on their priority list.

I question the wisdom of breaking things that are important for their (presumed) core audience of hardcore gamers, and then not bothering to fix them for six months, but well, it's free, so who am I to complain.

The PC Version of "Venetica" has been released in Germany a while ago, but I still can not at it to my collection:

"You cannot add games which have not yet been released into your Collection or Now Playing lists. That doesn't even make sense. Unless you stole it. Give it back."

Regards,

Arno