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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!
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groundhog42: [...] The only reasons I can see is that either they didn't foresee the backlash it would cause, in which case they don't seem to understand a proportion of their customer base and why they buy here. Or they did foresee the response and they just don't care. Neither of which exactly fill me with confidence for the direction GOG could take in the future, and I say that as someone who feels very positively towards GOG. [...]
They actually had a lot of our our feedback ahead of time - but actively chose to ignore it.

My suspicion is that they are trying out the facebook approach: Users aren't our customers - they're our merchandise.
That would be a way the forced implementation of this "optional" feature would make sense (for GOG). Also the increase in GOG's "trusted partners" points into that direction.
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priestlyjudas: Eh, I feel like the community aspect is one where Steam is way ahead, no surprise considering it's a much older aspect. It's also my main motivation for mostly buying on Steam - talking to people about games, while gaming feels much better than just gaming.
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HeartsAndRainbows: While what you are looking for is talking to people about games, the reason Steam has more of that is sheer numbers:
"By early 2018, [Steam] had over 150 million registered accounts with a peak of 18.5 million concurrent users online."
- [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software[/url])

Someone stated a few pages back that GOG had like 500,000 users. I'm not a lawy... er mathematician... but according to those numbers I would say that Steam should have about 300 times the amount of gaming discussions that GOG has.
Somewhat related: Just searched a bit for CD Project vs Valve/Steam value and I got maybe Valve ~= 4x CD Project. No idea how much of that goes to GOG though. And half of it is based on estimate as Valve is not publicly traded.
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brouer: I know of the one on Reddit, but that's pretty low-volume.
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BKGaming: Hey now, I have to assume you are talking about /r/GOG and I should take offense to that being a mod there.
No offense intended. Merely stating a fact.

There isn't a whole lot of posting activity there. Even compared to subreddits with a third of your subscribers (of which I'm one). And certainly compared to GOG's own forums.

A pity, really. Reddit's mobile app is a heck of a lot nicer than trying to browse gog.com/forum on a phone or tablet.
Seriously, this forum's UI is truly awful.
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puviani: forward our complains to their superiors and then come back and keep us informed.
With all due respect, that happens only in a perfect company.

I noticed a website with a big huge security glitch about a year ago and I (and a few others) informed them about it. They got hacked about a month ago and are now whining to the press about how much they're a victim.

I have to wonder how many companies actually pay attention to feedback they're getting.
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brouer: Seriously, this forum's UI is truly awful.
I tried a few months ago to get them to fix a couple of accessibility issues. Dead silence.
Post edited April 27, 2018 by drmike
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brouer: There isn't a whole lot of posting activity there. Even compared to subreddits with a third of your subscribers (of which I'm one). And certainly compared to GOG's own forums.
That's because a lot of the post posted are related to game releases or sales, etc. People don't tend to comment on these type of post, just up vote them. Discussion type post though do happen and they usually get a decent amount of activity.

But yea I understand where you are coming from, I would like to encourage more discussion type post myself. We have a lot of activity, just not a lot of comment activity. I think people use /r/GOG more as place to keep up on sales and releases and feature announcements rather than to talk to other fans.
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brouer: There isn't a whole lot of posting activity there. Even compared to subreddits with a third of your subscribers (of which I'm one). And certainly compared to GOG's own forums.
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BKGaming: That's because a lot of the post posted are related to game releases or sales, etc. People don't tend to comment on these type of post, just up vote them. Discussion type post though do happen and they usually get a decent amount of activity.

But yea I understand where you are coming from, I would like to encourage more discussion type post myself. We have a lot of activity, just not a lot of comment activity. I think people use /r/GOG more as place to keep up on sales and releases and feature announcements rather than to talk to other fans.
Reason I dont like Reddit is the moderation/censorship and all those weird reddit rules. Especially stuff like "shadow banning" is (IMO) atrocious and needs to be abolished. (I dont have a reddit account and IIRC never posted on reddit.)

Edit: I do read reddit though.
Edit 2: But not the GOG reddit so far.
Post edited April 27, 2018 by Zrevnur
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Hey GoG. Still waiting for toggle to set full privacy setting.
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HeartsAndRainbows: Someone stated a few pages back that GOG had like 500,000 users. I'm not a lawy... er mathematician... but according to those numbers I would say that Steam should have about 300 times the amount of gaming discussions that GOG has.
As far as total accounts we know GOG has close to 700K from this video, because that's how many people played the Witcher 3 via Galaxy after release. Considering it has been a top seller on GOG we can safely assume they probably got a lot more accounts after that.

I would say a good estimate of 1 to 2 million total accounts would be a good bet. Active accounts would of course be a lot lower. Probably around 300,000 if I had to guess (active being those who check the store or buy or play a game regularly or log into Galaxy on a daily/weekly/monthly basis).
Post edited April 27, 2018 by BKGaming
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SpiderFighter: In only a few days, the wishlist asking Gog to disable the "view profile" function has now reached almost half of the wishlist asking for profiles in the first place (which took six years to amass).
I know you are just bringing this up to counter point those who point to the wishlist showing users wanted profiles but to be honest this is rather pointless on both sides of the argument.

The wishlist is something that most people don't even know exist. It's also pretty easy to motivate people to vote for something when they are angry. One is organic growth the other isn't.

And people always post to that old wish when the Galaxy wish has a more votes and it didn't take six years to amass:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/profiles
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puviani: They are paid to be the representatives of the company in both directions. Management doesn't read our complaints and they don't talk to us. The "blues" and customer support are the people we talk to and it's their job to listen and forward our complains to their superiors and then come back and keep us informed. If they can't do that, they're useless. Perhaps not through any fault of theirs, but useless nonetheless.

So, DO pester any GOG employee you can get your hands on.
Yeah... last time some peeps tried to "force gaming to be free" by pestering the shit out of every person even associating with the people they thought responsible for some shit or other was 2014, and it didn't turn out so swell.

You can make yourself heard without pestering people. You can make the higher ups see reason without compiling boycott lists. This is not about winning a stupid game of harassment. And it actually can't be.

Again, this is a moral issue. If you compromise your morals just to elicit a reaction from GOG, raising the issue loses its justification.

A reaction elicited because the forum helpers are getting nightmares from posting, what's that worth? Nothing.
A reaction elicited because GOG fears losing tons of customers, what's that worth? Also nothing.

Right at the bottom of it, GOG needs to regain customer trust. If you clearly 'forced' them to do anything, that's just not going to happen, because no one would believe the words that finally were spoken.

If your arguments aren't strong enough to instigate an actual discussion of the morals, don't sound the war drums, make your argument better. Threads like this one are doing a fine job keeping the topic relevant.

They must not, at all costs not, turn into organizing harassment.
Post edited April 27, 2018 by Vainamoinen
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Vainamoinen: If your arguments aren't strong enough to instigate an actual discussion of the morals, don't sound the war drums, make your argument better. Threads like this one are doing a fine job keeping the topic relevant. They must not, at all costs not, turn into organizing harassment.
Does trying to get this discussion out into the wider world (e.g. youtube, news outlets, blogs) constitute harrassment?
GOG. Do it like a BOSS!
Get rid of Borg err..FB already so we can celebrate.

Make it So!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YamnMWSn2Mg
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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..
That actually explain why I always have to search for posts manually as the links don't works (in this thread too).
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xyem: Does trying to get this discussion out into the wider world (e.g. youtube, news outlets, blogs) constitute harrassment?
No media you choose to communicate the discussion is in itself evil. But these are indeed mighty instruments, and with great power... you know the rest.
Post edited April 28, 2018 by Vainamoinen
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Gog's dossier.