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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 28, 2018
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Nokatus: For anyone interested, the forum user location that GOG shows is a setting that can be changed by the user, and it only effects the seen location on the forum. Many users let it stay at "Other" instead of a specific country.
Funny, in a not funny at all way, how both the current and they upcoming User Agreement claim in article 3 that setting a location is optional.



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227: Oh, right. Here's a direct link.
Nice article.

A bit late, but a couple of suggestions, if I may:
invasive features that broadcast each user’s number of games owned, as well as total play time and number of achievements (which are only counted if the user in question uses GOG’s Galaxy client)
Perhaps clarify that it's the latter two that depend on the client, number of games is pulled independently.
but a feature making it possible to set the classic installers as the default (which would be useful to avoid accidentally downloading the wrong ones while backing games up) has yet to become available.
Perhaps mention how long it's been since said feature was asked for, or promised by GOG, for context?
Basically, the only principle left is DRM-free, and even that’s shakier than one might think;
You should check out the disclaimer on the BATTLETECH game page, that's current in relation to Gremlins, Inc.; there's quite a bit of discussion going on the release thread.
minor inconveniences unaddressed (for example, clicking your username in the top bar now leads to your profile page rather than your library).
Small correction, it links to the activity feed, not the profile page.



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Zrevnur: 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
Would like to read the article, but can't; site's asking me to complete a Captcha -enough all ready!
Post edited April 28, 2018 by HypersomniacLive
Posted April 28, 2018
i think i've only found three profiles that aren't locked down, and I look at everyone's.

GOG got themselves a real winner here! Clearly the masses love it! :P Shit, did they bother to ask ANYONE before they implemented this? :P
Posted April 28, 2018
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tinyE: i think i've only found three profiles that aren't locked down, and I look at everyone's.

GOG got themselves a real winner here! Clearly the masses love it! :P Shit, did they bother to ask ANYONE before they implemented this? :P
My wishlist is public!~ *hint hint*
Posted April 28, 2018
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tinyE: i think i've only found three profiles that aren't locked down, and I look at everyone's.

GOG got themselves a real winner here! Clearly the masses love it! :P Shit, did they bother to ask ANYONE before they implemented this? :P
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Pheace: My wishlist is public!~ *hint hint*
My everything is public *run run*
Posted April 28, 2018
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Good morning, Rebellion! Forgive my late replies; catching up.

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tinyE: "You are ridicolous, I hope gog will start soon the banhammer on you all, so you stop to pestering the forum with your shit."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zANvYB93u2g
I miss one day, and there's unquoted, deleted drama! What was the gist of the post? Search only turns up the replies. (I know TinyE didn't write it; forum hangs when trying to quote his quote of the original post, because that post has been deleted)

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MariusHispano: ...snip... in this forum and in other forums (I think we all know these foreros).
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brouer: Erm. I'm only an occasional visitor to this forum, so now I'm curious.
Are there other GOG-centric forums/discussion groups elsewhere?
I know of the one on Reddit, but that's pretty low-volume.
Not sure about other forums, but I can tell you that the subreddit is pretty active. IIRC, it's around 10k users, and I've always had speedy replies in there.

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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).
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BKGaming: 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
Those are fair points. I wasn't aware of the other list (probably because the one I posted is the one that always gets linked), but you're still talking three years for that one, and we're at nearly half that now.

I think the telling thing is how many people are, on a daily basis, still discovering that the "privacy" options aren't truly offering privacy. In that sense there are untold masses who a) aren't even aware of the profiles, b) aren't aware they're optional and c) think they can be turned completely off. The twitter rage I've seen from people defending them as being private is insane, even when pointing out that, no, they aren't private. My primary reason for posting that though, was only that it had been absent for four pages of the thread, and I wanted to draw attention to it for new readers. The link to the other was simply meant as an encouragement.
Post edited April 28, 2018 by SpiderFighter
Posted April 28, 2018
Just wanna say: Love the fact that I can finally share my games list and what I'm playing with my friends. Thanks for adding it :)
Posted April 28, 2018
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Zrevnur: 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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HypersomniacLive: Would like to read the article, but can't; site's asking me to complete a Captcha -enough all ready!
Not sure if it is allowed to post the whole text here. But an English translation was posted on this page:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_gog_profiles_a393f/page73
Direkt link to post doesnt work unfortunately - broken forum I guess...
Posted April 28, 2018
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tinyE: i think i've only found three profiles that aren't locked down, and I look at everyone's.

GOG got themselves a real winner here! Clearly the masses love it! :P Shit, did they bother to ask ANYONE before they implemented this? :P
There's more than three. From looking around I would guess around 1 in 5 profiles are voluntarily public. It's early days, wait until they add more features to it and new customers start using it.
Posted April 28, 2018
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tinyE: i think i've only found three profiles that aren't locked down, and I look at everyone's.

GOG got themselves a real winner here! Clearly the masses love it! :P Shit, did they bother to ask ANYONE before they implemented this? :P
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White_Barry: There's more than three. From looking around I would guess around 1 in 5 profiles are voluntarily public. It's early days, wait until they add more features to it and new customers start using it.
1 in 5 ? thats 20% i assume cause 5 in 5 = 100% so 1 should be 20% ? or is it 10% ?

Anyway like you said it's early and new customers ( especially younger generations and maybe lots of oldies who think they are still young) will have them open to anyone so it might end in 20% closed and 80% open because of the 'gazillions' of new arivals....

Somehow this reminds of some discussions on the internet regarding people and who they vote for, they often used the word 'voting cattle' because govts would let in people who would vote for them...
similar things apply to many shows be it live or online, many 'people' will applaude for anything even if someone farts they'd applaude for it because they were paid for it or told to do so.
Posted April 28, 2018
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White_Barry: There's more than three. From looking around I would guess around 1 in 5 profiles are voluntarily public. It's early days, wait until they add more features to it and new customers start using it.
They should first fix the features that are there. I would make my profile public, if it wouldn't expose people on my friends list who have chosen "hidden" in their settings. That you can hide your friends list, and you friends still show up on the profile/activity page is just plain silly. "Sure you can lock the door, but the windows can't be closed, sorry."
Posted April 28, 2018
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White_Barry: There's more than three. From looking around I would guess around 1 in 5 profiles are voluntarily public. It's early days, wait until they add more features to it and new customers start using it.
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gamesfreak64: 1 in 5 ? thats 20% i assume cause 5 in 5 = 100% so 1 should be 20% ? or is it 10% ?

Anyway like you said it's early and new customers ( especially younger generations and maybe lots of oldies who think they are still young) will have them open to anyone so it might end in 20% closed and 80% open because of the 'gazillions' of new arivals....

Somehow this reminds of some discussions on the internet regarding people and who they vote for, they often used the word 'voting cattle' because govts would let in people who would vote for them...
similar things apply to many shows be it live or online, many 'people' will applaude for anything even if someone farts they'd applaude for it because they were paid for it or told to do so.
Are you suggesting Gog will pay people to use the new profile system or give praise to it? Not very likely. It would appear they've brought it on line as early as possible, hence the lack of features. The Polish are a very maverick people. They were the first nation to have a successful revolution against the tyranny of socialism imposed on them after WW2. It's in their nature to take risks, often with suprising results. At first I was skeptical about this new profile system but then I realized what they are doing. And of course some of the tiny handful of Gog customers who use the forums here are upset - it's as though some shiny new tract mansions are going up nearby and the old neighborhood.suddenly feels threatened.
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Posted April 28, 2018
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White_Barry: ... it's as thought some shiny new tract mansions are going up nearby and the old neighborhood.suddenly feels threatened.
No it's as though we're now all forced to have doors of glass. And the curtain they provided is pretty skimpy.
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White_Barry: ... it's as thought some shiny new tract mansions are going up nearby and the old neighborhood.suddenly feels threatened.
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toxicTom: No it's as though we're now all forced to have doors of glass. And the curtain they provided is pretty skimpy.
Yes that's true some are upset by what has been left out and that is understandable and they have every right to be annoyed but it's such a radical departure from the way the "community" part of this site has functioned it's reasonable to surmise that privacy issues aside, a lot of people don't like the change this could bring to Gog. I think the analogy of the threat of gentrification to an old neighborhood is apt.
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Posted April 28, 2018
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White_Barry: I think the analogy of the threat of gentrification to an old neighborhood is apt.
We kind of had that already when Witcher 3 hit big. Suddenly a lot more people here, and sadly among them a lot of scammers and trolls too. Has since gotten better though.
Posted April 28, 2018
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There should be an option to opt out of 'GOG Profiles' all I want to see is
my list of games in alpha order, sweet and simple.
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