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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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Tauto: Can you show/tell me how this is done? (email address search).
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xyem: You can only opt out of both username/email searches, you can't only opt out of the email one.

You have to set the Your Visibility to unchecked in the "Privacy" menu under "Orders & Settings".
I've no objections to a username search since I don't use this name anywhere else, the email address is another matter, it's connected to a couple of dozen accounts (mostly online stores) and I'd prefer not to have Big Data add this site to whatever marketing profile they've compiled for me. Which is why I wouldn't mind a little more granularity in the privacy settings.


Is there no "Post Preview" option in these forums?
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HeartsAndRainbows: You might not know this about me, but I occasionally see or hear visions of the future. ;)

GOG's next sugarcoated statement will be: "The builders of our company are fully engaged in reconstructing our website, and its labor force is deployed for that. Nobody has the intention to erect a store that sells your data to our trusted partners."
(Or something along those lines... I'm sure I will be pretty close.)

Sad thing is: This one was probably a vision from the past.
Yeah... it's something most defenders of GOG's approach here don't seem to grasp.

The fact that there is no official "er... wait a minute, maybe we jumped the gun here - give us some time to reconsider the situation, folks" statement from GOG means as far as they are concerned they did nothing wrong with the Profiles.

Things sure aren't going to change for the better.
Post edited April 28, 2018 by Lukaszmik
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Breja: Our only relationship with GOG if a business one. Only in those terms can we really communicate.
Well, I cleaned everything off my WL except an expac for Witcher 3 where I already own the base game here.

While I wouldn't say I'm in firm boycott mode, I am suddenly pretty leery of investing any additional $$ here.
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xyem: Can't see it without logging in, it seems.
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227: Oh, right. Here's a direct link.
Hmm, I get a distinct warning from my virus scanner, advising me not to view this site:
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Harmful web site blocked
http://killapenguin.com/random/gamestuff/dear-gog-what-are-you-doing

This web site has been reported as harmful.
We recommend that you do not visit this web site.
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Back on topic:
2 more announcements from GOG and the link to this topic is kicked from GOG's homepage ...
Post edited April 28, 2018 by jorlin
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Hey, this is a pretty cool feature.
Thanks.
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This topic went way too far and it keeps going on and on forming a loop, and I fail to see any effect whatsoever. Actually, I'll be surprised if staff will be crazy enough to respond to any of your demands, and, oh, there's plenty of sissy bs here, with a pinch of sane comments—ultimately ignored—and a lot of lulz.

I love it.
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New German press article about this (missing privacy thing):
http://www.pcgames.de/GOGcom-Firma-256620/News/User-wollen-mehr-Privatsphaere-1255358/

Source: https://www.gog.com/forum/general_de/vorgestellt_nutzerprofile_12897/post95
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jorlin: Hmm, I get a distinct warning from my virus scanner, advising me not to view this site:
Wow, that's irritating. Bitdefender, right? I emailed them about the false positive, so it should be fixed within 72 hours.
Thanks.
27.04.2018 at 15:08 hrs A few days ago, GOG expanded its platform to include personal profiles for all users who add numerous social functions. However, not all users seem to be enthusiastic about the changes. Several users currently want better control over their privacy in the GOG forum. The GOG team has not yet commented on the criticism.

Last week we reported on GOG's announcement that all users will soon receive a personal profile with which numerous social functions will be available. Before the start, players were asked to make some privacy settings for their upcoming profile.

Since this week the new profiles are available on GOG - but not all users are enthusiastic about the changes. In the meantime the comments of the users, who ask for a better control of the private sphere, are accumulating in the forum. Within only three days, a wish list of users has already received over 500 votes. Among other things, the "Show profile" function should be removed if the corresponding user wishes to do so. And there are also many reviews in the thread of the official announcement. GOG has not yet responded to the wishes.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
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Suprised this post is still going.
Just add it to the evergrowing list of "improvements" to the store:
- no option to fix classic installers as default
- lack of Linux builds
- broken forum
- broken announcements every time
- social media integration
- giveaways and such like only via social media platforms
- regional pricing
- "curation", or, not releasing some games for no apparent reason, yet shovelling out shovelware like there was no tomorrow
- endless sales
- high and regional pricing
- online only games
- games with large components online only
- broken and abandoned games
- inumerate different versions of games/dlc often with no upgrade path or sense behind it (for example risen 3 being cheaper in the sale bit by bit that the whole package)
- pre order only items
- telemetry and phone home from games (victor crab and grim dawn do that, and unity games mostly do the telemetry)
- drm seeping in various guises and types prodding to see points of least resistance
- mostly galaxy only multiplayer
- manuals sold as dlc
The list goes on. In fact it's hard to see a single improvement for anyone who does not want a "Steam experience". Even support is going down the pan.
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toxicTom: Thanks.

27.04.2018 at 15:08 hrs A few days ago, GOG expanded its platform to include personal profiles for all users who add numerous social functions. However, not all users seem to be enthusiastic about the changes. Several users currently want better control over their privacy in the GOG forum. The GOG team has not yet commented on the criticism.

Last week we reported on GOG's announcement that all users will soon receive a personal profile with which numerous social functions will be available. Before the start, players were asked to make some privacy settings for their upcoming profile.

Since this week the new profiles are available on GOG - but not all users are enthusiastic about the changes. In the meantime the comments of the users, who ask for a better control of the private sphere, are accumulating in the forum. Within only three days, a wish list of users has already received over 500 votes. Among other things, the "Show profile" function should be removed if the corresponding user wishes to do so. And there are also many reviews in the thread of the official announcement. GOG has not yet responded to the wishes.
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toxicTom: Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
Automatic translation is pretty good except for the last sentence: "Kritiken" means (due to context) "criticisms" and not "reviews".
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nightcraw1er.488: Suprised this post is still going.
Just add it to the evergrowing list of "improvements" to the store:
- no option to fix classic installers as default
- lack of Linux builds
- broken forum
- broken announcements every time
- social media integration
- giveaways and such like only via social media platforms
- regional pricing
- "curation", or, not releasing some games for no apparent reason, yet shovelling out shovelware like there was no tomorrow
- endless sales
- high and regional pricing
- online only games
- games with large components online only
- broken and abandoned games
- inumerate different versions of games/dlc often with no upgrade path or sense behind it (for example risen 3 being cheaper in the sale bit by bit that the whole package)
- pre order only items
- telemetry and phone home from games (victor crab and grim dawn do that, and unity games mostly do the telemetry)
- drm seeping in various guises and types prodding to see points of least resistance
- mostly galaxy only multiplayer
- manuals sold as dlc
The list goes on. In fact it's hard to see a single improvement for anyone who does not want a "Steam experience". Even support is going down the pan.
It's weekend. All will be fixed on Monday morning. :)
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nightcraw1er.488: Suprised this post is still going.
Just add it to the evergrowing list of "improvements" to the store:
- no option to fix classic installers as default
- lack of Linux builds
- broken forum
- broken announcements every time
- social media integration
- giveaways and such like only via social media platforms
- regional pricing
- "curation", or, not releasing some games for no apparent reason, yet shovelling out shovelware like there was no tomorrow
- endless sales
- high and regional pricing
- online only games
- games with large components online only
- broken and abandoned games
- inumerate different versions of games/dlc often with no upgrade path or sense behind it (for example risen 3 being cheaper in the sale bit by bit that the whole package)
- pre order only items
- telemetry and phone home from games (victor crab and grim dawn do that, and unity games mostly do the telemetry)
- drm seeping in various guises and types prodding to see points of least resistance
- mostly galaxy only multiplayer
- manuals sold as dlc
The list goes on. In fact it's hard to see a single improvement for anyone who does not want a "Steam experience". Even support is going down the pan.
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Melvinica: It's weekend. All will be fixed on Monday morning. :)
Yes, and as with all these things you have not specified Which Monday morning :o)
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GOG predicted the backlash and (9 days ago according to the link) posted a job offer for German support?
https://www.glassdoor.de/job-listing/customer-support-representative-german-gog-com-JV_IC3094484_KO0,38_KE39,46.htm?jl=2669729711&countryRedirect=true

Quote from that page: GOG Support: “Making the world better, one ticket at a time.”

Maybe make more tickets so that GOG Support can make the world better...
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Better bad press than no press...

*sigh*

I do like fiddling around with profile customization. For myself + maybe a close circle. But regardless of how private it is set it still shows total games; hours; achievements and probably other settings (well, it shows wrong because I guess its galaxy related which I do not frequent that much but still its nobodys business but my own).

To do it right gog need to add a setting which just shows a blank grey page of nothing but "private" to all but chosen friends. Nothing else as in NOTHING ELSE.

They did a lazy job regarding the privacy settings; the most critical setting IMO; and got correctly called out for it, even if the call out was quite tame (yet) IMO. Stuff like this NEEDS to be quadruple checked before going life.