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Posted April 30, 2018
Activity Feed • Gameplay Stats • Personalization


UPDATE: We've added a new option to the Privacy settings in GOG Profiles - from now on you can turn off your profile on GOG entirely, so no one can see any kind of information that is shown on the profile page. This also means that when you turn off your profile, you won’t be visible on your friends’ friends lists, even if they decide to keep their profiles visible.
The option to enable/disable your GOG Profile can be found in your account „Privacy & Settings” options, under „Privacy” tab.



We just introduced a new feature on GOG.COM: User Profiles – a social way to share what you and your friends are up to. See what your friends on GOG are playing, achieving, and sharing across four sections – Feed, Profile, Games and Friends.

Your Feed is the centerpiece of your Profile. Here, you’ll see which games your friends have been playing, all sorts of achievements and milestones, as well as general thoughts, screenshots, and forum activity. You can dispense your approval at whim and share your own stuff as well!

Your Profile is all about you and your gaming accomplishments. It's a summary of your activity, like the time you've spent in your games , your latest achievements (and just how rare they are among other users), as well as a glimpse at what your most active friends have been up to.

If you want to know more about your Games, you need to hit the the third tab. It contains a list of all the games you own on GOG, together with stats like time spent in-game and your progress towards unlocking the achievements. Sort the list, compare stats with your friends, and get some healthy competition going.

Finally – your Friends: get a general summary of their achievements and hours played. Here you'll also see which games are the most popular among your friends right now, so you can join them in multiplayer or find something you might enjoy yourself.

Of course, your profile comes with some sweet personalization options, choose a wallpaper from your game collection and share a few words with the world.

User Profiles are available for all GOG.COM users. Your personal gameplay stats like achievements, time played and milestones depend on GOG Galaxy, but if you’re not using the optional client you can still use the feed, post in it and interact with your friends.

Launching profiles also means adding new privacy settings on our end. You'll find three new Privacy options in your account's „Privacy & settings” area. These settings allow you to set the visibility for your profile summary, your games, your friends, etc.
So what are you waiting for? There's so much room for activities!
Posted April 25, 2018
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I do enjoy how even the little thumbnail for the announcement is subtly chilling.
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Posted April 25, 2018
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SpiderFighter: Gog, can you spot the difference?
http://tinyimg.io/i/7yfOBJY.jpg

(Also, friends who have set their profiles to "private" should not be visible on someone else's profile.)
Careful now, with the wording you've used, they may just make a copy of that image, and send it out to all of us via email.

EDIT: typo
Post edited April 25, 2018 by HypersomniacLive
Posted April 25, 2018
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HypersomniacLive: Odd, has anyone gotten an email about these?
Yep I got one.
Posted April 25, 2018
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HypersomniacLive: Odd, has anyone gotten an email about these?
Yes, just a short while ago. They mention it's in advance of GDPR.

I have a theory that they knew they would mess this up like they do with everything, and pushed the experiment on us so they could fix their mistakes before it cost them €20 million... ;-)
Post edited April 25, 2018 by mvscot
Posted April 25, 2018
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Banjo_oz: The analogy of a friend who doesn't understand why you don't laugh because he painted your car bright pink or why you got mad because he had a huge party in your living room while you were away (he'd be totally cool if you did that to him, after all) is very apt, IMO. It's when they accidentally run over the cat that you decide, no this isn't acceptable behavior anymore.
That's also my impression. Thanks for sharing.
Posted April 25, 2018
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HypersomniacLive: Odd, has anyone gotten an email about these?
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mvscot: Yes, just a short while ago. They mention it's in advance of GDPR.
Great, so beyond the complaints/wishes of their users in the 'early notice' tread on the forums they were aware of the current and upcoming environment/legislation related to privacy concerns and still they went ahead and made public info that used to be hidden
Post edited April 25, 2018 by Pheace
Posted April 25, 2018
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SpiderFighter: Eh...not so much, but MAN do I miss IT Crowd! Great to see it unexpectedly again. :)
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mike_cesara: I don't think you're the only one missing Roy, Moss and Jen.. Brilliant British humou. As for me, one of the best I've ever seen.
Yeah put me down as missing them too.
Posted April 25, 2018
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RainbowDragon: [...] Reading further above about the legal e-mail address I checked their privacy settings at
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632109-Privacy-Policy
and found something interesting: they have published a new privacy police that will be valid on 25.5.2018. Please read again: MAY 25th, 2018... here
http://files.gog.com/new_policies/Privacy_Policy_GOG_EN.pdf

[...]
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HypersomniacLive: There's also a draft of a new User Agreement, going into effect on the same date.

Odd, has anyone gotten an email about these? According to the User Agreement [emphasis added]:

22.1 We may change this Agreement if it's necessary e.g. for legal reasons or to reflect changes in GOG services or GOG content. If so, we will make the changed Agreement available online at here and (if you have a GOG account) email you to let you know about the changes
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HypersomniacLive:
Yes, I've got an e-mail with the changes.
It's "almost" funny, since they broke their own stated policy even before introducing it...
Post edited April 25, 2018 by jorlin
Posted April 25, 2018
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Banjo_oz: It's when they accidentally run over the cat that you decide, no this isn't acceptable behavior anymore.
Not quite as extreme as I was thinking but LOL, yeah. That's the kind of bumbling friend I was thinking about. You love them because they are basically good people, but worry about what they will do because they are just stupid enough to do something really bad with all the good intentions in the world. Then what? Awkward, I'm telling you.
Posted April 25, 2018
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HypersomniacLive: There's also a draft of a new User Agreement, going into effect on the same date.

Odd, has anyone gotten an email about these? According to the User Agreement [emphasis added]:

Yes, I've got an e-mail with the changes.
It's "almost" funny, since they broke their own stated policy even before introducing it...
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jorlin:
A nice article i found about another company who had such big words: date: 2011

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-02-08-gamersgate-were-not-afraid-of-steam

Its very entertaining if you Google Gamersgate you will find more interesting articles and now they sell loads of steamgames (DRM) so people can change ......

Anyway like i said we Dutch are used to read and listen to people talking nonsense, our Govt is a perfect funny example , and they make a perfect comedy show if you seach for videos on Youtube our Minpres is the most funny guy off all always laughing and talking nonsense, but always with a smile. :D
Posted April 25, 2018
Thanks for the replies, I just checked my email, and they sent me one just a couple of hours ago.

I also got a reply to my ticket, I bet nobody can guess what it says.
Posted April 25, 2018
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Kaguya-hime: https://www.gog.com/downloader
There are simplier downloader, if you don't want to use galaxy whatsoever. It don't disable your profile though, but still something.
It does the work nicely, just be prepared to suffer version update lag compared to Galaxy.

Basically reinforcing the "don't buy a game for the first half a year until the bugs are ironed out and you really can learn what you're getting" approach. Heh.

Edit: By the by, something I want to stress again.

Even if GOG introduces super-tight "privacy settings," they are, as somebody in another thread ingeniously pointed out, not "privacy" but "publicity" settings.

GOG will still gather and store that information, just not show it with any random user. That hardly gives me any consolation considering how much nowadays such information is worth to the right parties.

I skipped on Galaxy for pretty much the same reason - it was abundantly clear even at that point that it was a framework which would be extremely easy to abuse for the sake of data mining. The privacy policy changes (and the "so broad it can mean anything in GOG's favor" phrasing of the core privacy clauses) were already worded in a way allowing GOG "cooperation" with data-miners. Any comments on that during the old "new privacy settings" discussions were either ignored by GOG staff, or dismissed by a handy crew of acolytes with the usual "if you have nothing to hide..."

Even if GOG does not outright start selling that information, they are building a future asset that can be easily transferred at will (hell, just look what happened to Radio Shack database). And you, the originator of at least some of that information, will have jack shit to say about it.

Fuck "social media" and the erosion of privacy. One would think the whole mess with CA and Facebook would make people realize that the most seemingly irrelevant information can and will be used against them, but who gives a fuck when they can get shiny digital baubles for "free."
Post edited April 25, 2018 by Lukaszmik
Posted April 25, 2018
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HypersomniacLive: I also got a reply to my ticket, I bet nobody can guess what it says.
"Head to the left and cough for me please?"
Posted April 25, 2018
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Zrevnur: In EU EULAs do have limited power.
The problem is the amount of time, effort, and money requiring to enforce consumer rights in any jurisdiction that is, at best, indifferent to them. I have little faith in courts of law when one side boasts of retainer lawyers and war coffers comparable to lifetime income of an average family, and the other is some poor schmuck that got ripped of for a small amount.

Hell, telecoms in the US have been ripping off people by posting false charges on the cell bills (as an example), and after years of federal prosecution the end result was a "fine" that was a tiny fraction of the estimated gains from the practice.
Posted April 25, 2018
I like this part:

22.1 We may change this Agreement if it's necessary e.g. for legal reasons or to reflect changes in GOG services or GOG content. If so, we will make the changed Agreement available online at here and (if you have a GOG account) email you to let you know about the changes
In short i guess it means something like:

We change things as and when we see fit.,or something like that...
little bit like FaceBook boss who kept on saying: "But Senator we already have that ......."

The senator answered in a funny way and mentioned something about rear end of FaceBook protecting and he wanted the terms/rules/TOS whatever they call it to be rewritten so the average American can understand it instead of writing it in new swahili or something like that, a very good video....

https://youtu.be/ooR4CIuz_NE?t=1m16s
Post edited April 25, 2018 by gamesfreak64
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