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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 26, 2018
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liquidsnakehpks: This is a unwanted mess they should have left the site alone and should have made it optional for gog galaxy only like the optional cancer it is now.
I guess they see this as a tactic to court more publishers, by creating a Steam-like ecosystem that encourages people to stick around here.

It's easy for us to say "never change anything about GOG" because we don't have to deal with keeping publishers happy, trying to keep the business afloat, having to deal with competition, staying relevant, stuff like that.

I do agree that we need a full privacy option - just a page that says the user's name and says "This user has chosen to set their profile to private." No more showing off how many games we own and whatnot, if we don't want to.
Posted April 26, 2018
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liquidsnakehpks: This is a unwanted mess they should have left the site alone and should have made it optional for gog galaxy only like the optional cancer it is now.
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tfishell: I guess they see this as a tactic to court more publishers, by creating a Steam-like ecosystem that encourages people to stick around here.

It's easy for us to say "never change anything about GOG" because we don't have to deal with keeping publishers happy, trying to keep the business afloat, having to deal with competition, staying relevant, stuff like that.

I do agree that we need a full privacy option - just a page that says the user's name and says "This user has chosen to set their profile to private." No more showing off how many games we own and whatnot, if we don't want to.
That should be the bare minimum if they cant give the option to disable the profile all together, i would love to know what publishers demanded this change in gog so that i can kindly send my warm regards in a very friendly way.

I would love to see a response from gog justifying this need ? will we get the yearly spam of call of duty games now ? or the lootbox ridden f2p mmo games now ?

What would i give to have a good old games site with no bs just drm free classics + a simple community forum to discuss stuff with decent forum tools sigh.
Post edited April 26, 2018 by liquidsnakehpks
Posted April 26, 2018
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In general, we don’t share information about you to third parties. There’re exceptions like our Trusted Partners, [...]
• Third party vendors [...]
• Third party vendors [...]
• Third party vendors [...]
• Third party vendors [...]
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• Social media platforms for the purpose of personalized and targeted communication;
Say it with me GOG: Fucking facebook. That's a capitalized "Trusted Partner" for you.

I, uhm, have trust issues. So does everybody with a functional brain.
Post edited April 26, 2018 by Vainamoinen
Posted April 26, 2018
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Why does it make a difference if a profile is not existent or if it's displayed only to you? Judging from some of its comments, some people think full privacy is not enough and the profile should not exist at all, which is pretty ridiculous.
Post edited April 26, 2018 by Taro94
Posted April 26, 2018
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10.2. How you use your information. Please remember that any
communications you have via GOG services (e.g. via private
messages, chat or the GOG forums or via multiplayer games)
may reveal your screen name, other details about you and the
content of any communications by you with other users. Also,
any information and content you share publicly using GOG
services (e.g. on our forums or your GOG user profile) will be
accessible to GOG users and others. Consider carefully with
whom you share your information and avoid sharing contact or
private information about yourself
Ok GOG, I'll be following your own instructions here: I'm considering carefully not sharing any private information about myself with anybody... Considering... More considering... Ok, considered. Carefully.

Now if you'll be so kind as to tell me how NOT to share my number of games, achievements and hours played, which are private information about myself? Thanks.
Posted April 26, 2018
Finally! Thank you GoG :D
Posted April 26, 2018
Grrr, everything is all jumbled up and there are purple dots.
Posted April 26, 2018
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nepundo: Now if you'll be so kind as to tell me how NOT to share my number of games, achievements and hours played, which are private information about myself? Thanks.
I'm pretty sure that's not private information.
Posted April 26, 2018
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nepundo: Now if you'll be so kind as to tell me how NOT to share my number of games, achievements and hours played, which are private information about myself? Thanks.
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Galamid: I'm pretty sure that's not private information.
Well, not right now it isn't..
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Galamid: I'm pretty sure that's not private information.
Also, seeing as until a few days ago you could only know how many games someone had if they explicitly disclosed it, it was, by definition, private data (which is now public).
Post edited April 26, 2018 by xyem
Posted April 26, 2018
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Galamid: I'm pretty sure that's not private information.
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xyem: Well, not right now it isn't..
I wonder if GOG considers it's downloads to be public, or private.
Posted April 26, 2018
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Galamid: I'm pretty sure that's not private information.
I think that's the biggest misunderstanding peoples have when it comes to GDPR and is something that is even debated among lawyers trying to work with the GDPR implementation.

Not everything is considered as "personal data" by GDPR, and even among personal data not everything is considered as being sensitive personal data.

The biggest impact of GDPR seems to be technical ones and what to do in case of a data breach, for the rest a simple EULA update is enough to cover most of it. (That's why Gog / CDPR and a lot of other online companies are currently sending updates of their EULAs)
Posted April 26, 2018
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Galamid: I'm pretty sure that's not private information.
I can kind of see that point since we're all so used to it from Steam and the like but do you think everyone would be fine with it if Amazon/etc suddenly made a profile page and started displaying similar information with no way to turn it off?

Another big thing is that on Steam, you knew what you were getting into when you bought into it, since it used to be that way from the start.

On GOG people knew none of that information was public, and now suddenly after having already been customers for a while/long time that privacy is suddenly being stripped away.
Post edited April 26, 2018 by Pheace
Posted April 26, 2018
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Telika: ...
So close, yet so far.

It's a bit baffling. The tool itself is good. And, if you just had made it optional, or even, just made all its data display optional, people would have growled a bit, thrown a few sarcasms, and that would be all. The "but it's optional, just don't use it if you don't like it" argument would have held. The thread would have died.

The baffling part is : why didn't you ? Honestly, what would it have cost you, to just allow these to be toggled on/off by a user

Sometimes I do genuinely wonder if you don't have a cheeky saboteur within your board. It looks so deliberate, the way you go the extra mile to turn a nice feature into a catastrophe. So easy to avoid.
But isn't it the same as the initial idea and justification for bundling Galaxy installers with the games and switching them on by default? If I remember correctly their stance was "customers are stupid and GOG knows better". This seems to be just more of the same stuff. They simply seem to think that they know better what is good for you and me and that deep down customers value privacy not so much than to give up buying on GOG for it.
Post edited April 26, 2018 by Trilarion
Posted April 26, 2018
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Galamid: I'm pretty sure that's not private information.
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Gersen: I think that's the biggest misunderstanding peoples have when it comes to GDPR and is something that is even debated among lawyers trying to work with the GDPR implementation.

Not everything is considered as "personal data" by GDPR, and even among personal data not everything is considered as being sensitive personal data.

The biggest impact of GDPR seems to be technical ones and what to do in case of a data breach, for the rest a simple EULA update is enough to cover most of it. (That's why Gog / CDPR and a lot of other online companies are currently sending updates of their EULAs)
What goes around...
Posted April 26, 2018
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Pheace: I can kind of see that point since we're all so used to it from Steam and the like but do you think everyone would be fine with it if Amazon/etc suddenly made a profile page and started displaying similar information with no way to turn it off?
I think it's two different thing; whenever peoples should have an option to disable it and whenever "legally speaking" it is considered as being "private information".

While I do think there should be an option to totally hide this information for those who want it; I don't think it's really "private information" even for the GDPR. (but again I am not a lawyer)
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