This is getting better and better - I can now hover over my own avatar and start a conversation with myself and even invite me to be my friend.

I will refrain from clicking on either of these choices, as I fear the buggy mess I may find myself in if I do.


The purpose of us giving feedback is to improve things, like stopping the "Start Conversation" link from acting like "Add to contacts list", and not to introduce more problems. You know that, GOG, right?

the truth is that the disaster of galaxy still in beta yet spreading its design and yet uncomplete and unreliable features towards the site "live" is a big problem for the witcher 3 launch

the game itself, and its launch, were so far rather fine (compared to many ea/ubi stuff released with big marketing last year). but the fact they insisted to make "The Witcher 3" to carry the galaxy / webdesign stuff like ball and chain is now spreading some nasty shadow over the game that didnt desserve that.

for me, gog shot a bullet in the foot with that ! wanted to "enter the major league" using the release of a tbh GREAT game so far... but, well... if you sent me a beautiful lady ringing my doorbell in sexy outfit, promising me good time... well, it is totally a turn off to force her carry a bag or basket full of cow poo with here. hope you see the image i am trying to raise here. now the hot chick will always be nicknamed "the poo stinking gal" for undesserved reason.

add to that the fact that in the past 2 or 3 years, most kids/teenagers or people in general build up a very strong "spoiled brat" attitude and rager fast for minor stuff while rarely forget or forgive any negative thing... it was for me a rather too risky move from gog and i cant understand why they did that ! would have they release W3 as they did W2 (on cozy old "not fancy/eyecandy steamized dumb look" website they used to have), people would still ahve come here. People who keep wanting to go steam will (and had) purchased their W3 copy at their local dope dealer, not here at the source.

so i dont think it brought them more customer HERE instead of when they used to shop for their game so far (amazon, steam, etc), it rather pissed off people who already were accustomed to come here to shop for games as their prior choice. Dont see the point in playing against one's loyal customer base, for no customer gain either.
yet please consider the situation and context are different...
valve was pioneer, first of its genre and created a sort of unexisting market at its beginning time. everything was to build, everything was new, everything was unseen before. and steam/valve is a distributor, a reseller... they just had to get the support (and game supply) from publishers then become monopolistic/greatest market share

gog is an outsider, a "newcomer" in a way (they started with games so old others would not pain themselves trying to publish, sell and also patch or add tech support to... so they got the back end of regular publisher's catalog rather easily), then it started to sell drm free "less old" games, and indies... yet many indiesrather preferred the greenlight stuff or early access stuff, and regular editors started to realise they could surf their money board on nostalgia and sell oldies through steam (especially when releasing new opus of long ago forgotten/outdated series)

but gog has rather very little loyalty, engagement or support from those publishers (who are drmholic and already in business with the major actor in the market), as we could have seen with nordic game in and out of catalog a few times in a row. so they had only "the witcher" serie as a trump card to play as they are developpers themselves. W3 was one major awaited game they could be sure to get in their catalog because, obviously, it was theirs.
W3 was used as a sort of battering ram to try to get into a sort of forteress (locked market)

to me, outsider with only one card to play in a locked game with a major actor already having the best cards is rather different than the one who arrives in a clean empty field to build as he wants.

I added myself as a friend, I couldn't help it. Now when I hover over my name, I see the following:

"Sorry, data for given user is currently unavailable. Please, try again later."

Strangely I don't have a new friend request. I wish I'd started a conversation with myself instead, as the option is now missing :(

Edit: the above message only occurs in the thread I tried to add myself in. In this thread I can try to start a conversation with myself, but I get a GOG bear where I try.

Edit #2: and when I refresh the page, I can try to add myself as a friend again! :)

Starting a conversation with oneself yields a gogbear.

Inviting oneself to befriend oneself causes the avatar hover menu to disappear, replaced with a hover message that reads "Sorry, data for given user is currently unavailable. Please, try again later." (which disappears, restoring the hover menu, upon page reload). It seems GOG is planning to have some profile data accessible via the hover menu.

On the plus side one can now see one's own wishlist from the hover menu (was not so a few days ago).

I understand what you're saying but I don't quite understand what point you're making. if it's that using W3 as a lever for Galaxy was a bit heavy-handed, that's true. It was when Valve did it with HL2 and it is now. It is a bit different now, though, as W3 doesn't require Galaxy. In fact, some of those who had problems (because apparently not everyone did) who dispensed with it had less problems afterward.

If your point is that gog will alienate some of its preexisting userbase with the new features, I would say that's very true, but I'm sure they've considered that themselves and believe they'll hold on to most and bring in new people as long as they're reasonable balancing everything.

LMAO here, almost makes me want to try it out for myself; cheers for the much needed laugh. :-)


Thanks for experimenting with this. At least things don't break beyond repair.

Sadly, I can't see my wishlist, apparently I'm not supposed to share it even with myself if it's set to only one person.

You just wait till the constant flow of friend updates start showing up.

Tarnicus is now playing with Tarnicus. :P

I think he's already doing that... ;-)

wooow i wont follow you on this one :)
i seem to have been spared from many account/purchased games/display issues so far (complete miracle, if you ask me)

but if i try to have some fun with "myself" by trying to add me to my friend list, i guess i would push my luck too far and maybe my account will be divided by zero, or i would open a rift to another dimension... :)

btw for the sake of importing savegames, and refresh my memories, i started back from zero (witcher 1 first) today... tantalizing myself, i know, as the 3rd is out (and installed and launched without any problem afaic)...

but, wow, even if W3 blasted my eyes yesterday, i admit that for a game of its own age, Witcher 1 is still decent looking (with a medium power 2011 machine of mine), especially with some little improvement (Ehanced edition... i played the base version at its release and never tested the EE one... mods also... and sweetfx)

(apologies for the offtopic...)

Yes it would be rather embarrassing if the amount of time I had played with myself was logged and pubicly visible :D
The saying "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" seems strangely ironic to me upon waking :D

Edit: so I wake up, log on and see no notifications. I see there is a forum reply. I read and reply to it. After that, I get a notification! There are no new replies lol. I must be time-travelling here!

Edit 2: and the notification is still here

I just saw that the old conversation threads were added to chat.

Nice, but I'd really appreciate an option to sort the contacts by time of last message. Current order seems rather random (online contacts are first, but beyond that, I have no clue).


I think that threads with "giveaway" in them are still allowed.

Some of them, but at least in my case, not all conversations.

I thought so at first, then realised that a scroll bar appears when I'm over the contact list and I can get to the other contacts. I can't tell if it's really everything (too many to remember), but it looks pretty comprehensive.

Chronlogical sorting of messages would make a lot of sense wouldn't it? Since using the new system, I have noticed that new messages are sorted chronologically (after showing the 30-40 people online) and after that it is a mess.