If GOGs terms are "laughably one-sided" then they probably do not fully apply due to:
[url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/bibliotheque/briefing/2013/130624/LDM_BRI(2013)130624_REV1_EN.pdf]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/bibliotheque/briefing/2013/130624/LDM_BRI(2013)130624_REV1_EN.pdf[/url]
I do however not know if this protects US customers the same way as it protects EU customers.

Great news. I love it!

What you say is false:

I have about 150 games in my other account. In the forum where I speak, there are users with more than 200 games. Many of us have been in gog, some practically since it started.

But you say that the original clients do not want this which is false, in this same forum there are people who buy gog games from their origins that has no problem with options like achievements, profiles, cloud save ... because we can continue Having drm free games, we are not required to use achievements or cloud save but we want.

Now gog is aimed at more users but nobody has been excluded, there are a few users like you who want to exclude the rest.

When 11 users (yes 11, it's laughable) decide that you're not going to buy back in gog, why, games do not have drm, there is no mandatory galaxy, everything is optional and I do not doubt that the subject of privacy It will improve. But I explain it to you, you want to forbid others to have options that do not affect you, that do not force you to have to use them.

As for the list of desired, if you think that 5000 votes for offline achievements are few, you will tell me what you think about the privacy options that do not have 800 votes.

I also say one thing, guys from gog.com improve privacy options, whether they are 700 votes or 3000, privacy is basic.

I also congratulate gog for the profiles,great¡¡¡

I'm sorry but I can't get over this and I realize there would be far more interesting parts to discuss but... Why is it important for you to let us now how many games you own on your other account? And why do you chose to post with this one if that number is so important to you?

If you just want to speak your mind, by all accounts just do it. Whether you make a strong case doesn't depend on the number of games you own but rather whether or not you manage to make a few good points. We're not some fancy rich people only society.

We have to take your word for that, as they seem to prefer to have you as their spokesperson here. Having to use GOG's... unique forum software I have to say I can see why they would prefer a third party forum, though.

What are you talking about? Did you reply to the wrong post? The post that you quoted (written by Lukaszmik) talks about privacy options. They even go so far as to point out:
I'd also like to point out that the (currently unfulfilled) wish for offline achievements (for Galaxy) that was mentioned gathered 4,617 votes as of now. The community wishlist doesn't log the date of creation, but the earliest comment on that list is from May. 7, 2015.
The Disable "view profile" function for customers who care for their privacy! has gathered 632 votes as of now - since Monday (Apr. 23, 2018).
There are still users who haven't even logged in since then. There might be others that have not even noticed the update. If you want to compare numbers you'd have to compare growth. I can't tell you about the growth of that Galaxy wish, but I can tell you that I have never seen anything like the growth of that Disable "view profile" function and I have spend a lot of time with the community wishlist in the past year. (Since you seem to like numbers: I myself made over a hundred wishes and voted on over four thousand of them. I also made an uncounted number of comments and probably over nine thousand reports of spam and duplicate wishes...)

While I agree that 11 users signing an open list and 3 more deleting their accounts is not a high metric, you have to keep in mind that not everyone reads or posts in this thread (or even in the GOG forums at all). We can only speculate what will happen next, but I'd be willing to bet that the most privacy conscious users on GOG also make up a good part of the biggest spenders. Up until now, gamers who did care about privacy would have preferred GOG over Steam. I think GOG will at least notice that in their bank account, whether those users chose to speak up or not.

Everything is not optional, which is what is being lamented here in the first place. There is no option for users to hide their number of games, achievements or total gaming hours logged with GOG Galaxy. Last of which was never displayed here, so users who wouldn't want that number to be public would not have used Galaxy in the past - if they had known beforehand. It also wasn't optional to have all your related privacy setting set to be visible to everyone when the update went live. Only some lucky few noticed those new setting in the 4 days before the update. Given that this information was private before, users should have to Opt-in to showing that information to the publish - not Opt-out of them, how GOG implemented them. The thing is: The community already gave their feedback about this backwards ways of implementation when we first learned about the new setting. It did not change anything. We communicated our issues again when this update went live. It did not change anything. There is no indication that GOG's handling of our privacy will improve.

Yeah, this part is just crazy...

The wish list which reflects unfortunately the interest in privacy is minimal among gog users. Because it is being discussed in various internet sites and forums and 700 people have not voted. Even in more than one forum some user has encouraged the rest to get many profiles to get more votes.

I think it is indisputable that the community is more interested in drm free and gog galaxy with all its options than privacy. Here the users are by the drm free peincipalmente.

And it's sad because privacy is very important.

There are some thick skulls on this thread. :D

I'm pretty sure cyberpunk will have a offline mode that will be DRM free.You can quote me on that when the game comes out.
And if it doesn't then you can raise hell.
and I think they're already a better version of Steam.
We don't get that flood of trash in the store like Steam does.
You get to keep your games.(DRM Free) I got all my installers on my 1TB flash drive.
Gog has cloud saves now.
Achievements.
We get free profile backgrounds from Galaxy.
All we missing is a few triple A games on the store and better privacy options.

Bah. No way to publicly list a profile? That's lame.

I know some of you don't WANT this feature, but that is why privacy settings are an option. But it seems the only way to view a profile is by being logged into GOG period. I'd like to be able to link my profile on other forums, like my Steam profile.

Some of us are not that concerned about who views our game lists :P

Uh... that's good? I have no problem with those features either, seeing as they actually are optional. What I have a problem with is the invasion of privacy and data-mining — which are mandatory BTW.

But hey, you can enjoy a new trinket. I guess that means it's okay. Yeah, it seems that the rest just up and left. Actually there were plenty of cases in this very thread that said they wouldn't buy on GOG anymore, they just didn't ask to be added to RainbowDragon's list. The most recent example is Thomq.
I think the majority of people who take their privacy seriously didn't even bother posting anything before closing the tab, resigned to never come back. The rest just keep silently upvoting privacy-conscious posts, in the hopes that GOG will come to their senses and say "Wait! It was just a belated April fools joke that got out of hand! We come here dressed in our monk robes to say how much we are sorry and we'll undo as much harm as we can".
I am not holding my breath tho, unless extensive GDPR fines or mass customer exodus hurts their bank accounts.

Alright, now I can pinpoint you as a brazilian (or possibly portuguese) troll. You slipped up and you wrote (with a typo) "principalmente" and this word is portuguese. I bet you can't even write a french sentence. And as someone who "doesn't have anything to hide" why would you choose a fake country?

Edit: as later mentioned, more likely to be spanish language. Still not something spoken in France.

Also ain't it funny that, for such a firm advocate of the new profiles, yours is not personalized — not even with a background image — and is as open as the crappy opt-out defaults GOG set? As if you didn't bother touching it in these 6 days?

Oh right, I forgot. Troll.

Cool. Including coreyblueexclusive, boztix, plus a handful of users (including one or more trolls) and Mark Zuckerberg, you amount to probably a dozen! I'm so happy for you!!

You mean "A badly implemented option that doesn't even give us the full possibility of privacy nor obeys the European law that is about to take effect and that GOG as an European company is subject to"?

Yes, you are right, some of us do not want this feature.

The only things being listed are your game count, achievements, and hours played. Give them time, and I am sure they will make those private too as an option. Remember this is a new feature.

And data can not really be mined from any of those 3 features by the way. There won't be no GOG spy foretelling how many of us are playing Hunie Pop or Leisure suit Larry.

If you want privacy beyond even that, the only thing left would be your profile name, and that has been publicly visible since the day you started posting on these forums.

Spanish, fwiw, although the word 'principalmente' is the same in both languages.

When he posted about all the happy Galaxy Gog users who loved the new feature so much, he linked to a google group where they supposedly chatter happily away - and it was Spanish. Sorry, can't be bothered to search his posts for the link.

My Spanish is not bad, but why would I want to post there or even read their stuff. If they have something to say about the profiles etc, they can say it here.

In English, this is an English forum.

With their real profiles.

Isn't it ironic that a person who is so happy with the new feature, and complains about those Gog users who do not want their profiles to be visible won't post about his happiness whilst using his real profile?
Perhaps he doesn't want his profile to be seen.

Not exactly which games but it definitely tells scammers who the big targets are, or beggars who they need to harass for games.

This is the same kind of non-senstivity to privacy they showed when they had that sale that displayed the names of the biggest spenders

As someone who works with programming, I can tell that if they actually wanted to remove those numbers from our profile (at least until they set up better privacy controls) they would spend 10 minutes deleting or commenting (i.e. turning a piece of code into text the computer ignores ) a few lines, then deploy the new version to their server. 10 minutes is a worst-case scenario, mind you.

They've had a full week. I can only assume they don't see a problem with the way things are. How long are we supposed to wait? As much as the option to set the classic installers as default, maybe? They've made a promise more than a year ago and the meter is still running on that option.

Edit: a full business week, but I don't really think they'll modify anything in a sunday anyway.

I've had my game library posted on several sites, even linked on my steam profile. I have a wiki profile afterall, and have had one for several years. I have never had anyone begging me for games or trying to pull a scam.


And please tell me how they are going to scam you or beg games from you if they can not contact you? Chat message settings can be set to friends only or 100% private.


Well it is not a problem right now, because the information is not public. Only members of GOG can view the information. And the viewable information when set to private is 100% useless for data mining as I stated.


Seems some of you are just being a tad too paranoid.