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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 29, 2018
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toxicTom: Are you trolling or just mentally challenged?

I'm trying hard but you repeating the same bullshit over and over... makes it a challenge to stay "respectful".
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boztix: Again the same? Again being disrespectful with the one who does not think like you or does not write what you want to read? Leave us all in peace of your once, your bad reputation in the forums is not coincidence
Leave us in peace from your horrible English. o.O
Posted April 29, 2018
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liquidsnakehpks: Its amazing there is no response they probably thought the users would welcome this shameless worse than steam rip off features and thank them for it hahah.

Honestly did they hire ex ea employees to run gog , this reminds of the time blizzard introduced real id and got screwed it for it properly.
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/120220/InDepth_Why_Was_Blizzards_Real_ID_Such_An_Issue.php
Now you've gone and jinxed it. You mentioned Real ID here. So this will be the next change that GOG will introduce.

But I agree that it appears that some of GOG's employees seem to be working for GOG's competitors. So much incompetence at once must be intentional sabotage!
Posted April 29, 2018
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dm36: 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.
To repeat myself:
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boztix: [...] 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. [...]
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HeartsAndRainbows: 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.
In short: I don't know what gives you the notion that GOG wanted this update to be any different than it is right now.

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dm36: [...] And data can not really be mined from any of those 3 features by the way. [...]
I could tell you some basic things about yourself, but I don't accept chat, friend invites or other forms of private communication so it would all be out in the open. And unlike GOG I respect your privacy too much to publicly share my estimations about you. What I can tell you is that the number of games in your account would make you a target for something many posters seem to forget: Displaying the number of games makes it easier for hackers ("crackers", actually) to determine which ones the "valuable" accounts are. The same people/robots could also use your date of registration, your reputation and your account's current online status to take a (possibly very incorrect) guess about the time it would take you to even notice that you account was resold at a site that resembles G2A.
And those are just the things I can come up with on the spot.

If you want to stay on GOG my best advice would be to ask support to at least remove all those demos you no longer need*, to get two step authentication and to consider a stronger password both for your GOG account and your email (also use different ones). Stay safe.


* This is more of a general bit of advice. I doubt it would make any noticeable difference in your particular case.
Posted April 29, 2018
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toxicTom: That actually made me smile, thanks.
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ZenWan: Me too +1 (for you and your bad rep)
The small group of users who do not respect those who do not think like them and for which many users do not want to write in the forums of gog disrespecting again in a post '' dominated by 8 or 9 users who do not stop repeating same again and again and to attack anyone who does not agree with them.
Posted April 29, 2018
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ZenWan: Hello

I'm not sure what kind of invading privacy are you referring to as we don't do it at all. And to hide info about your profile can be done through your account settings-privacy:
https://www.gog.com/account/settings/privacy

Best Regards
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GOG.com Support
Ok, so this IS on purpose, then.

A couple people called this a dozen pages back. Well done, guys.

Oh, and as for GOG... yeah, fuck you too, assholes.
Posted April 29, 2018
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puviani: Downloading the game files is a good idea, but you penalize only yourself if you delete your account. You won't have access to any updates to your games and that's a service you paid for, not to mention being an offline backup in case your disk fails. Not buying from them again and warning others about them is how you can have an impact without sacrificing yourself.
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Pangaea666: That would be the big downside, but I at least have to seriously think about it. Most games won't get updates anyway. The big kick in the teeth is if my disk with all the files on go up in smoke.

I can no longer support a company that behaves like a vampire.
I've had the displeasure of buying hard disks meant to store long-term data that went belly up in less than two years. I can only agree with puviani's argument.
Posted April 29, 2018
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ZenWan: ...
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MariusHispano: woof
@Zenwan: Look, you made a new friend! What's your stance to pets (particularly some which smell a bit, but still be trained)?
Post edited April 29, 2018 by toxicTom
Posted April 29, 2018
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tinyE: How long could that take, it doesn't fork.
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Lifthrasil: And contains several loops.
You both had me laughing out loud! Definitely deserving a +1 each.

Edit: it's 15 minutes later and I randomly remember these posts and start laughing again.
Post edited April 29, 2018 by joppo
Posted April 29, 2018
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ZenWan: [i]Hello

I'm not sure what kind of invading privacy are you referring to as we don't do it at all. And to hide info about your profile can be done through your account settings-privacy:
https://www.gog.com/account/settings/privacy

Best Regards
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GOG.com Support
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At this point it's really as if they are trying to be insulting.

It really is quite astounding to see a company display quite such a level of arrogance and/or incompetence. I don't think they can sink any lower in my eyes, though I'm sure this assumption will be challenged in the days to come.
Posted April 29, 2018
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puviani: Well, it turns out that this GOG idiocy is saving me money already. This weekend alone there were half a dozen games that I would have bought if I still trusted them. Every cloud has a silver lining.
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toxicTom: That coming from one with nearly 1.5k games already owned should tell GOG something... I've had PMs with a few people too, some had more than 1.8k, who were genuinely pissed off by the situation.

Could be that a lot of people actually enjoy bragging with the size of their library - and I wouldn't want to take that away from them since they spent good money on them and helped along the DRM-free cause - but some people feel embarrassed being "shown off" like that.

"How many games did buy at that place, darling?"
"A few hundred maybe..."
"You should really cut down on that, we could use the money to do something nice together, you know?... What's that big number up there on your screen?..."

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ZenWan: Hello

I'm not sure what kind of invading privacy are you referring to as we don't do it at all. And to hide info about your profile can be done through your account settings-privacy:
https://www.gog.com/account/settings/privacy

Best Regards
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GOG.com Support
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toxicTom: Chewbacca, where are you? We need the expressiveness of Wookie language here... Mine at least is not sufficient for what I think about that...
i have only 590 ( shaming myself for such a low number)
but in my defense to the low number:D

1. budget
2. old peecee ( and the new games i like and would buy are too heavy for my pc)
3. many games here i like but too much motions(3d) and effects ( lightnings/explosions etc etc etc)

Thats why i have to stick to point and click games preferably old style no ugly (vector graphics( like illustrator graphics) but real classic art the old games had like baldurs fallout and all the good old classic games ( no remakes)
Anyway if none of these 3 applied, i might have had 1K or so maybe more :D
I also like casual games so thats a plus for me i have >420 retail casual games ( on cd and dvd) and already too much digital at GG(gamersgate) and steam
and i got me 12 new games the last 2 months which is not much 6 a month at an average price of 7 or 8 Euros
so i have to be very carefull or i will have twice as much games at the 'evil' steam which i never intended to do
and almost as much at GG the the 590(thank you profiles) i have here at GOG... i m truly sorry ...... ( sad)

The reply you got from support scares me: i have seen replies like that already some 10 years ago and those are the start of 'state of denial' because of some 'confusion' and 'neglection' these things start... very complicated situation where things start because of miscommunication ..... a very sad thing to happen ....
Not good ..... not good at all (sighes)
Post edited April 29, 2018 by gamesfreak64
Posted April 29, 2018
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Here's the big problem with your kind of thinking (I'll bold the important bits for better understanding):

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dm36: ...
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.

Well it is not a problem right now, because the information is not public (YES, IT IS...SEE BELOW).
Only (=ALL) members of GOG can view the information.
See, it's all about you.
It's you - who likes to publicly share his libraries,
it's you - who has had no problem with scammers or beggars in the past...and at the end it's you who garnishes his opinion with some plain wrong statements, just to make your point, which ignores the reality completely.

edited: some words in
Post edited April 29, 2018 by PrivateProfile
Posted April 29, 2018
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ZenWan: New reply from Gog Support. I had previously received the 'our lips are sealed' response, and then an automated msg asking if they could close my ticket, if the issue was solved.
Knowing how support usually works, and before going into crazy conspiracies theories (it's probably too late already :) ); I suspect that the support guy/gall most probably don't browse the forum at all and has probably not a single clue what you call an "invasion of privacy" and no idea that it amount two the three counters than remain visible. The only thing he/she probably knows is that new profile were introduced recently and that they can be disabled in the privacy option; hence the answer.
Post edited April 29, 2018 by Gersen
Posted April 29, 2018
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hehe i wonder if the devs and publisher who are on gog and would want to join gog in future are watching this thread? if only you had communicated well with your users gog and implemented this broken mess on a test run and gottent back the feedback before forcefully rolling it out for everyone.
Post edited April 29, 2018 by liquidsnakehpks
Posted April 29, 2018
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ZenWan: Editing to try to get that message into italics, which wasn't working before.
Line breaks break the BBCode formatting. Every paragraph has to be italicized in separate.
Post edited April 29, 2018 by joppo
Posted April 29, 2018
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toxicTom: @Zenwan: Look, you made a new friend! What's your stance to pets (particularly some which smell a bit, but still be trained)?
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MariusHispano: I observe that you continue to disrespect all users who do not think like you. I also observe that you are still the same coward you need from your friends to attack others.

Your well deserved bad reputation you have it. The sad thing is the number of good users who have left the forum because of you and your small group.
Have anything to back your statement about number of good users who have left?
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