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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 27, 2018
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Mr_GeO: this is a perfect opportunity to finally make a backup of my purchases here, which is a long overdue anyway.
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PrivateProfile: Shouldn't take too long with your account ;)

A few weeks ago, I spent several days with re-downloading my entire backlog (but I own a lot more games here).
That actually a kind of funny thing, these numbers showed in profile, and they also speaks volumes about how sloppy are these profiles were made :)
Some of the games that I had are not even showed there. Some of them (installed via Galaxy) which I sink a significant amount of time to them (to the point where I finished them more than a few times) are showing playtime of 0 m. Some of the games that I played just a few days ago (when Galaxy was still fully able to collect and send data to GoG servers) are labeled as "last played 2 years ago" or something similary idiotic. On the other hand, some of the games that I never even install (heck, I've never even downloaded them), are showing playtime more than 0 and in one of them I suposedly got some achievements!
Actually, the only game that is somehow correctly listed here, with the numbers more or less accurate is Witcher 3. Which, in turns, is telling me that I spend too much time on it... :)

EDIT: Just checked and even my HuniePop progress is not properly tracked! GoG, you had one job... :D
Post edited April 27, 2018 by Mr_GeO
Posted April 27, 2018
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jorlin: Jim Sterling, hmm, yes, he might create some traction. How about contacting Angry Joe as well and, let me think...: Ah, yes. The Register!
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MIK0: Jim Sterling and Total Bisquit are my safer bet, but they are noone's dog. I think in general that press or other venue shouldn't be weponized. All we could do is inform them in they didn't already know, it will up to them if they want to tackle the issue or not.

Personally I would like someone with enough visibility to pick up the story and maybe sum up all GOG screw ups, just to debunk the fake image they try to keep regardless their real way of dealing with the community.
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Gersen: Honestly I am pretty sure that Gog are currently working on adding new privacy options and are just waiting for them to be ready to announce them. (Maybe that's wishful thinking on my part but I don't think they are just "ignoring" complaints and hopping for thing to cool down on their own)

I just really hope they will manage to post something on the subject before the weekend...
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MIK0: I too think so. I believe they'll make some changes and then announce them in the usual pr fashion, something on the line of how they treat privacy seriously and care for users feedback. Expect it's a fact that it is not true. If they cared about privacy they would have disabled profile temporarly and answered users questions. Something simple and not that time consuming.
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HeartsAndRainbows: * Again: The majority of GOG’s customers doesn't post in the forums - at all. (Some of which probably because they thought even the public Online/Offline marker was too much. - I've seen regular forums which let you hide such things.)
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MIK0: I use the forum less that I would because of it's abysmal quality and lack of features and usability.
Unless Steam will change them the privacy settings are:

Settings for privacy on Steam ( maybe its because it is easier to sue the living daylights out of anyone in the USA
then in Europe) but Steam has settings you can adjust, and EU is only talking and seldom takes actions)

My basic details:Public
Your profile name and avatar are visible to anyone who visits your profile and are used to represent you in multiplayer games.

My profile:Private
Your community profile includes your profile summary, friends list, badges, Steam Level, showcases, comments, and group membership.

It also includes the following elements which you can control individually:

Game details:Private
This category includes the list of all games on your Steam account, games you’ve wishlisted, your achievements and your playtime. This setting also controls whether you’re seen as "in-game" and the title of the game you are playing.

Inventory:Private
Your inventory includes items you've received in games that use Steam Trading. It also includes any Steam Trading Cards you've collected and extra copies or Steam Gifts.
Can post comments on my profile:Private
Post edited April 27, 2018 by gamesfreak64
Posted April 27, 2018
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jorlin: How about contacting Angry Joe as well and, let me think...: Ah, yes. The Register!
Was Angry Joe ever big on issues like privacy or DRM-free? I know he likes to present himself as a "champion of the people" so to speak, but I don't recall ever hearing him actually say anything about such issues. But then I rarely ever watch his stuff anymore.

Still, it would be good if we could get him to make at least a vlog about it. If nothing else it would help inform occasional GOG users who still don't know about the profiles. It's not like GOG is going to tell them :P
Posted April 27, 2018
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After the mail 'we have nothing to communicate' I now got a mail asking: "Did we help?" ... That's hard to beat in cynicism. (probably automated and accidental cynicism, but still funny in an unfortunate way)
Posted April 27, 2018
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Lifthrasil: After the mail 'we have nothing to communicate' I now got a mail asking: "Did we help?" ... That's hard to beat in cynicism. (probably automated and accidental cynicism, but still funny in an unfortunate way)
I also find that ironic. If it wasn't automatic I would have thought they were mocking me.
Posted April 27, 2018
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Mr_GeO: this is a perfect opportunity to finally make a backup of my purchases here, which is a long overdue anyway.
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PrivateProfile: Shouldn't take too long with your account ;)

A few weeks ago, I spent several days with re-downloading my entire backlog (but I own a lot more games here).
thanks for the reminder... i will backup some files i need , waited because the files are huge but download speed is not that fast, my connection is fast enough a 1 GIG game at steam is downloaded very fast (not during major sales of course with 'gazillion' users buying at once ) but it is most of the time)

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gamefood: [...] PPS: When will we get overhauled GOG-mixes? For now they're still not yet usable to their full potential. I guess they're are more useful - and social - to people than this so-called "social"-crap. ;)
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HeartsAndRainbows: The GOGmix feature is no "longer officially supported". I agree that they are one of the more interesting and useful features of the site, but they didn't increase sales and are mostly used by users who are into creating and maintaining GOGmixes themselves. I think GOG's leadership envisioned them more as a sort of advertising tool, rather than something users could use to share information or tag games with telemetry and such.

That being said: At the end of the day GOG's support staff has been rather helpful and generally forthcoming when it came to helping out with GOGmix related issues. Alenko (LtAlenko) even went out of their way to fix something for me.
I hate telemetry ...... i really do... FF loves telemetry but i googled and turned all evil telemetry off, same with windows no telemetry ....

The funny thing with games collecting data while you play the game.... disabling internet doesnt help because they can easily save the data in some weird file locally on your drive and when the evil game detects internet is enabled it can still send data home, many steam games seem to do that you have a large folder with weird encrypted data and they just write it in the folder and send it lateron when you connect to the steam client to check for updates thats what nasty clients can do and because you granted that tool permission not a single AV or anti malware tool will notice that because it has consent to launch.
Post edited April 27, 2018 by gamesfreak64
Posted April 27, 2018
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Lifthrasil: After the mail 'we have nothing to communicate' I now got a mail asking: "Did we help?" ... That's hard to beat in cynicism. (probably automated and accidental cynicism, but still funny in an unfortunate way)
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MIK0: I also find that ironic. If it wasn't automatic I would have thought they were mocking me.
Dito
Posted April 27, 2018
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lostwolfe: lol.

i finally got the note about gdpr.

the profile seems...very tone deaf in the face of that letter.

from it:

"GDPR also grants you new rights. Under GDPR, you have the right to access your data, correct it, restrict access to it, or transfer it to another entity."

and then, they launch the profile.

annnnnd you can only do some of that, some of the time.

added in later: if this wasn't privacy-oriented and important, it'd almost be campy and hilarious. but it's not. so gog, please comply with the law. thank you.
To the best of my knowledge, users in several countries already had those rights even before the GDPR goes live. Having control over your personal data isn't some novel/new concept.

(Apologies for quoting the whole thing, but direct links to posts are increasingly breaking if a thread reaches a certain number of posts.)
Posted April 27, 2018
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MIK0: I also find that ironic. If it wasn't automatic I would have thought they were mocking me.
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PrivateProfile: Dito
Maybe they ask it so they can use it for statistics they collect to see how well the support is rated?
many sites always ask if you were satisfied with the solution they offered by yes/no buttons....
Posted April 27, 2018
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HeartsAndRainbows: (Apologies for quoting the whole thing, but direct links to posts are increasingly breaking if a thread reaches a certain number of posts.)
I think it is breaking because GOG have deleted posts, which is throwing the page number/post number off and their system isn't handling it properly (surprise!). When you request a post number, it is going to the wrong page to show it.

So for example, if you have 20 posts per page and you request post 101, it loads page 6, but because comments have been deleted, it's now on page 5..
Posted April 27, 2018
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lostwolfe: lol.

i finally got the note about gdpr.

the profile seems...very tone deaf in the face of that letter.

from it:

"GDPR also grants you new rights. Under GDPR, you have the right to access your data, correct it, restrict access to it, or transfer it to another entity."

and then, they launch the profile.

annnnnd you can only do some of that, some of the time.

added in later: if this wasn't privacy-oriented and important, it'd almost be campy and hilarious. but it's not. so gog, please comply with the law. thank you.
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HeartsAndRainbows: To the best of my knowledge, users in several countries already had those rights even before the GDPR goes live. Having control over your personal data isn't some novel/new concept.

(Apologies for quoting the whole thing, but direct links to posts are increasingly breaking if a thread reaches a certain number of posts.)
steam was sued by Australia a while ago ...

Australia fines Valve $2.2 million over its Steam refund policy - Engadget
https://www.engadget.com/2016/.../valve-steam-fined-2-million-australia-refund-polic...
Dec 23, 2016 - Australia's federal court has fined Valve AUD$3 million (USD$2.2 million) after ruling that the company breached consumer law when it didn't offer refunds between 2011 and 2014. This is the maximum fine requested by Australia's competition regulator and it's 12 times more than Valve itself suggested it ...

Posted April 27, 2018
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gamesfreak64: Maybe they ask it so they can use it for statistics they collect to see how well the support is rated?
many sites always ask if you were satisfied with the solution they offered by yes/no buttons....
Sure.
But that's usually after they actually did something...

If, on the other hand, their only response under the "Did we help?" - mail was this:

We left your ticket (#******) open, as we're not 100% sure if we were able to help you.

You can reply to this email if you still need assistance.
If your case is resolved you can safely ignore this message, your ticket will close automatically after five days.

G***** (GOG.com)

Apr 26, 11:31 CEST

Hello

Thank you for sharing your concerns. We have nothing to communicate at this point, but we have forwarded your feedback to the appropriate department.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Regards
G*****
GOG.com Support

There was nothing helpful done.

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And seriously: what are you expected to do after that mail?
Answering, that they didn't really help, but thanx anyway?

In five days, the ticket will be closed automatically, and that was it then.
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HeartsAndRainbows: (Apologies for quoting the whole thing, but direct links to posts are increasingly breaking if a thread reaches a certain number of posts.)
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xyem: I think it is breaking because GOG have deleted posts, which is throwing the page number/post number off and their system isn't handling it properly (surprise!). When you request a post number, it is going to the wrong page to show it.

So for example, if you have 20 posts per page and you request post 101, it loads page 6, but because comments have been deleted, it's now on page 5..
:D
many sites do that, some newspapers sometimes print an article but all of a sudden they are 'corrected' by their boss or a govt and voila : "oops that page doesn t seem to exist, or the page you are looking for... or other dumb texts telling the page is gone because it was removed or had to be removed by order of law or something similar.

within 5 to 10 years a big change will arrive and the internet will be censored like crazy .... :D
some names: germany, france, sweden and more would love to remove all democratic rights
they would also love to know who is voting for what :D it is unknown sofar who votes on/for what but they would love to know that so they can award the good voter and punish the bad voters....
Posted April 27, 2018
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gamesfreak64: some names: germany, france, sweden and more would love to remove all democratic rights
Some links to prove your claims?
Posted April 27, 2018
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gamesfreak64: some names: germany, france, sweden and more would love to remove all democratic rights
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PrivateProfile: Some links to prove your claims?
Search for stupid things said by the Kauder brothers, von der Leyen and Brigitte Zypries.
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