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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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boztix: No, to the majority of gog galaxy users we love it, it seems great that there are achievements, profiles, cloud save or friends list. The problem is that there is a minority of users who do not want those options and despite being able to do without them playing without gog galaxy prefer that others can not choose to have these options.
just to make something clear:

i don't care that the profiles exist. for those of you that are into that, that's awesome.

i just want privacy controls so that i can hide mine, so that no one can interact with it and learn things from it.

we want to have choice, not to remove what you like.
Posted April 26, 2018
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boztix: No, to the majority of gog galaxy users we love it, it seems great that there are achievements, profiles, cloud save or friends list. The problem is that there is a minority of users who do not want those options and despite being able to do without them playing without gog galaxy prefer that others can not choose to have these options.

Because of those users, this forum is reduced to a few hundred users instead of the thousands that every day use gog galaxy and who speak in other forums dedicated to gog.
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toxicTom: You forgot the sarcasm tags. Some people might think you actually mean that.
No, he did not forget the sarcasm when more than 15,000 users have requested that gog galaxy have a Linux version or 5000 users have requested offline achievements.

What I do not understand is the problem of a few users where there is gog galaxy and they are adding options requested by thousands of users on gog.com.

I would never ask that those users be forced to use gog galaxy, I do not know why you want to prohibit thousands of users from choosing options such as achievements or cloud save when they have requested them.

Another thing is the issue of privacy that should be improved in my opinion.
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boztix: No, to the majority of gog galaxy users we love it, it seems great that there are achievements, profiles, cloud save or friends list. The problem is that there is a minority of users who do not want those options and despite being able to do without them playing without gog galaxy prefer that others can not choose to have these options.
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lostwolfe: just to make something clear:

i don't care that the profiles exist. for those of you that are into that, that's awesome.

i just want privacy controls so that i can hide mine, so that no one can interact with it and learn things from it.

we want to have choice, not to remove what you like.
So I do not know what the problem is. I defend the same as you. I understand seeing the wish list or reading other forums that there are thousands of users who want profiles or achievements but I defend the users that you want more privacy, more I have voted for that in the wish list.

What I do not understand is why some users want to eliminate achievements, profiles or other options hurting the majority.
Post edited April 26, 2018 by MariusHispano
Posted April 26, 2018
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MariusHispano: No, he did not forget the sarcasm when more than 15,000 users have requested that gog galaxy have a Linux version or 5000 users have requested offline achievements.

What I do not understand is the problem of a few users where there is gog galaxy and they are adding options requested by thousands of users on gog.com.

I would never ask that those users be forced to use gog galaxy, I do not know why you want to prohibit thousands of users from choosing options such as achievements or cloud save when they have requested them.

Another thing is the issue of privacy that should be improved in my opinion.
I don't see anyone who wants to take away Galaxy. I'm using since the first closed alpha... Nobody wants to get rid of cloud saves either. Or achievements. Nobody wants to take away any of that from you.
The only things that is really bad is that data is leaking from the profiles. They should be turned off until until this is fixed, because data that is once out in the wild can never be contained again.
Posted April 26, 2018
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boztix: >snip> the thousands that every day use gog galaxy and who speak in other forums dedicated to gog
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ZenWan: Hmm...

And where might those busy forums frequented by happy Gog Galaxy users be?
I usually visit several forums. One of them in elotrolado. In that forum we like what gog is doing, profiles, achievements, cloud save ... But we respect those who do not want them even if you are few users.

If you want to register and speak in the post of gog, it will be a pleasure to read your opinion even if it is not the same as ours
Posted April 26, 2018
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RainbowDragon: Thank you all for keeping up the pressure here
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/disable_view_profile_function_for_customers_who_care_for_their_privacy
and in the forums!
It is now #1 (most voted) wish this week. And a related wish is #4:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/set_all_privacyrelated_options_to_most_secure_by_default
Posted April 26, 2018
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gamesfreak64: 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.

and thats why so many users responded: we already knew that sites like Steam, Gamersgate and all other would be sharing user info so we knew what to expect...
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PixelBoy: The very ironic thing here is that many have set their STEAM profiles public because of GOG Connect...

At least that's when you get some free games, or rather, DRM-free copies of games you have already purchased elsewhere.

Still, in the end as unbelievable as it may seem, GOG seems much worse than competitors when it comes to privacy and other legal issues.

This is completely unrelated, but I have in the past commented that order confirmations from GOG state that the final sum includes tax, but I have never received a message stating how big tax exactly, and under which country's taxation. GOG really needs to hire more competent people in their legal department...
Reading your post I have to say that if somebody asked me a month ago if I ever would be able to say something positive about steam I definitely would have declined that, and maybe even pointed them to gog's website (but not anymore, you hear/read me, gog?). Now, all of a sudden there IS something steam is offering their users - privacy! That's a strange and crazy world we are living in ...

You know, this even brings up another evil marketing idea for steam - hello, is anybody from valve reading here in the forums? You know about gog connect - all those people who have accounts on both sites and get their steam games on gog?

Now here's an idea, just create "steam private accounts" for those who shut down their gog accounts. Give them all the games they had on gog and which are also available on steam to compensate for their losses here, and give them the privacy they want... deal?

Well, no, not really for me because of the third party and client software thing. No drm games for me, sorry, no deal... but maybe, just maybe, a few hundred or thousand gamers might have different ideas....

Now hurry up gog, or people will just leave... because steam still has something to offer you cannot match - privacy!
Posted April 26, 2018
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https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/public_gog_profiles

*and now grabs the popcorn *
Posted April 26, 2018
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MariusHispano: What I do not understand is why some users want to eliminate achievements, profiles or other options hurting the majority.
Who wants that? The thing is – most of the militant proponents of these features want to force these “features” onto everyone and they think that they have the right to decide for everyone.

I want to disable everything for myself and I will not spend any more money here until this is possible.

I think the people that are annoyed by the mere existence of these things are annoyed because GOG choose not to implement very important features that they have promised a long time ago that could be implemented in a small fraction of time – e.g. the ability to select non-Galaxy installers as a default that was promised a year(?) ago. And most are annoyed that they choose to break/downgrade one of things that was working (notifications).
Posted April 26, 2018
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RainbowDragon: Thank you all for keeping up the pressure here
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/disable_view_profile_function_for_customers_who_care_for_their_privacy
and in the forums!
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Zrevnur: It is now #1 (most voted) wish this week. And a related wish is #4:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/set_all_privacyrelated_options_to_most_secure_by_default
Yep, and in less than a week.... can't repost often enough the fact that the "we want public profiles" request took 6 YEARS for their 1280 votes :-)...

Keep on voting people, stand up for your rights!

p.s.: I do hope that gog will not need another 6 years before they add privacy settings.. nah, guess not, they most probably will be out of business before that if they don't listen to us...
Posted April 26, 2018
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Privacy is the one thing that trumps DRM free.
Posted April 26, 2018
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MariusHispano: What I do not understand is why some users want to eliminate achievements, profiles or other options hurting the majority.
Who? Where? When? Why??
I'm genuinely confused, as I've not come across these people who want to eliminate these things. It should go without saying that, if true, it's pretty reprehensible.

And why it keeps popping up in here is equally confusing.
Post edited April 26, 2018 by SpiderFighter
Posted April 26, 2018
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Of the arguments I've seen here none want anything more than to have the choice. The issue is that GOG knows that for, I suspect, the majority the community here is not engaged in their extensions, Galaxy and Profiles, and the only way to create that community, in their minds, is to force it on all and hope it sticks with enough folks to grow. Otherwise we wouldn't have the galaxy bundled installers and profiles being created for everyone when it should have been something we have to consciously publish.

There is massive marketing potential in online communities folks bullying or suggesting games to one another its definitely something that GOG and their shareholders would want to push as aggressively as possible.

Things like this is why I only play DRM-free games I don't trust game companies with my privacy allowing games online is something I have pretty much never done. Game publishers/developers are not data experts nor security experts and are as such wholly untrustworthy in determining what should be thrown around online to their inevitably insecure servers.
Post edited April 26, 2018 by Cusith
Posted April 26, 2018
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MariusHispano: What I do not understand is why some users want to eliminate achievements, profiles or other options hurting the majority.
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SpiderFighter: Who? Where? When? Why??
I'm genuinely confused, as I've not come across these people who want to eliminate these things. It should go without saying that, if true, it's pretty reprehensible.

And why it keeps popping up in here is equally confusing.
They're on to us.

Might as well drop the act.

Yes, this is all an evil master plan to deny people the ability to achieve. First in games, then in real life.

And we would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling GOG kids.
Posted April 26, 2018
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RainbowDragon: Thank you all for keeping up the pressure here
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/disable_view_profile_function_for_customers_who_care_for_their_privacy
I'm perfectly fine with the current privacy options (especially that I do not use Galaxy so no stats there), but I also perfectly understand that forcing anyone to show their profile in public is not only bad move - it's just illegal. Showing number of owned products is violation of obvious customers rights and I suppose they're going to have some legal problems if they don't correct it quickly.

In short: voted!
Posted April 26, 2018
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Dalthnock: And we would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling GOG kids.
Surely it must be: … if it weren't for those meddling kids and that stupid GOG.
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