And the winner is Ingsoc85 who had the idea already on August, 25.

"Understandable, though I wish you implement a system that exempt long establish users from those restrictions, say people which bought games (to their account and not as gift codes) in a certain amount (say 10$-20$)."
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_gog_games_with_worldwide_gifting_restrictions/post203

I hope this works out with no unpleasant surprises for any party involved.

Care to share why The Witcher 3 is still restricted though? I assume that this action is irreversible? I’m not sure I understand what “it will appear that you’ve adjusted your general privacy settings” means. I assume that the blocked user won’t be informed in any way that they were blocked, yes? Which in turn means that they will assume that one has just tightened their privacy settings in a way that doesn't allow private communication with everyone, yes?

Why won’t they be informed of the block? If the goal is to maintain a positive vibe around these social features, then, imho, it’s not only (a bit) hypocritical, but it also has the potential of leading to the exact opposite result:
User A wants nth to do with user B so they block them.
User B wants to message user A, and finds out that they can’t. Being left to believe that everything’s fine and that user A just tightened their privacy settings, user B contacts user A in the forum asking for private communication.
At this point, user A either tells user B that they blocked them, or ignores them.
So, either everyone on the forum will know that user A has blocked user B, or at the very least that there’s some conflict between them.
How is this better from keeping things between the interested parties via applying full transparency between them? You don’t seem to think things through. Perhaps I’m the only one, but why would I want to block a friend?

And do I understand it correctly that we can only block someone that’s already in our contacts list? That’s what the “block someone who contacted you before” implies.
If it’s not limited to only those already in our contacts list, why do we need to go through the conversation window?

In the initial thread started by Ciris, she said that the option to block someone would also be available in the forum. Her words were: and I did not understand this as having to choose the “Start Conversation” option, but as a “Block user” option being made available right there among all the other ones. The way you describe the process though sounds like following:
1. Hover over a user’s avatar in the forum.
2. Choose “Start Conversation”, which in turn has the following results:
2.1 A conversation window opens.
2.2 Said user is added to one’s contacts list.
3. Choose “Block User” with the following results:
3.1 A message informs one that they’ve blocked said user.
3.2 Said user is added to one’s “Blocked Conversations”.
3.3 Said user remains in one’s contacts list.

Perhaps I’m dense, but why would one want to add someone they want to block, a spammer for example, in their contacts list when even blocking them does not remove them from there?
And where is the option to report a blocked user?

It'd appear that there's no way to block a user if they're not in one's contacts list already or without putting them before, which defeats the purpose of wanting to block someone.
I’m sorry, but the whole procedure is unnecessarily complicated and just adds to the messy way the contacts list and the chat system in general works. And this “Blocked Conversations” might be the answer to why the implemented procedure is as complicated and messy as it is, and why blocking a user doesn’t remove them from one’s contacts list.


While I appreciate that some much desired features were finally implemented, the way they were chosen to be implemented seems like another half-baked job.
Unless I’m missing something obvious, in which case, please do enlighten me.

I can only hope that the issues pointed out in this thread will be taken into consideration, and improvements will be made really soon – and I mean soon, not soon™ - along with adding a “Report User” option, as well as status (registration date and rep), and everything else that still needs to be improved/ added.

I won’t comment on GOG’s terrible communication this whole time, others have already done a good job at this.

Why isn't this a news post? Users who don't visit the forum might want to know about this stuff too.

This. The feature is incomplete.

If it were, then GOG would be making an effort to improve on their communication with its users.

Well, they were never informed of the gifting restrictions in the first place, so why start now?

At least one doesn't have to befriend someone before they're able to block them.

nice that your top men made it finally!

edit: hey gift restriction is still active, i've just checked it with witcher 3 dlc! prepare for anwers in about 2 weeks guys.

O______o

Then why have I slowly been building up a rapport with David Cameron?

ALL THAT TIME WASTED!!!

*blocks the Prime Minishit

*tries to wrap head around what foxowrks is saying*

I really don't follow - how is possible for you to see the conversation you had without it corresponding to a specific user? What kind of sorcery is this?

GOG's vat of bug stew ;-) I can initiate a conversation from the forum. Conversation appears on the right, but their user name/avatar refuses to show on the left. So for the time being, I'm prevented from taking any action.

Thanks Konrad, really appreciate your efforts. Could we get better communication for future changes please when they happen? Thanks again.

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At least they communicate clearly what they think of the forum users!

https://www.gog.com/forum/renowned_explorers_international_society/requires_galaxy_to_run/post9

"25 page circle jerk." GOG is evil and supports ISIS!