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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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dm36: Maybe I'm out of the loop, but why are you singling out these 2 on their cultural backgrounds? Wondering the significance of it. Also 'Hispanic' is pretty telling that you are probably some white boy.
As far as I understand it, both users pretend to be in utter favor of the new profiles, yet hide their info (I can't say, if that's true - I didn't bother with checking in the two) and give supposedly wrong countries of origin.
Posted April 29, 2018
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I'm so confused!

Okay, who hates them, who likes them, who's indifferent, who's offended, who aroused, and what the hell is Goofy, a dog?
Posted April 29, 2018
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dm36: Maybe I'm out of the loop, but why are you singling out these 2 on their cultural/racial backgrounds? Wondering the significance of it. Also 'Hispanic' is pretty telling that you are probably some white boy.
Ha.

ha ha...

Merely pointing out some similarities between the profiles.

The one posted a link to a forum where Gog members supposedly praise this new 'development'. It just happens to be a Spanish forum.

The other has the nick 'MariusHispano'.

Run a search for 'hispano' and what comes up is 'hispanic'.

Are you calling my search engine racist?

And who are you to call me 'white boy'? Is that meant to be insulting?

Actually that's really funny...
Posted April 29, 2018
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tinyE: I'm so confused!

Okay, who hates them, who likes them, who's indifferent, who's offended, who aroused, and what the hell is Goofy, a dog?
Who is who and who is them?
And of course, Goofy is a dog.
Posted April 29, 2018
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tinyE:
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PrivateProfile: And of course, Goofy is a dog.
He wears a hat and drives a car.
Posted April 29, 2018
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PrivateProfile: And of course, Goofy is a dog.
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tinyE: He wears a hat and drives a car.
And?
So do Micky and Donald (aka: a mouse and a duck)

:)
Posted April 29, 2018
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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'm currently in a similar position as yourself. My advice would be: Buy a new external harddrive. In my experience those are very robust, reliable and still fit for year-long everyday use. I've been watching movies or installing games directly from my HDD and it has been very handy when visiting friends. (I can both vouch for WD and Seagate and while I'm aware that someone in this thread had troubles with their Seagate overheating I literally never had any complains concerning their products.) The risk of data loss is something that is ever present, but that's a risk you take with GOG already, as they don't appear to have backups of anything on their servers - be it user created contend(/content) or previous versions of their site.

There are a few things I can tell you with relative certainty:
1) This whole issue was caused by GOG's lack of care and compassion for their community. That attitude is here to stay, even if they improve their privacy options a few weeks after the fact. (Which they probably won't...)
2) As you already pointed out: History has shown that games which are not properly patched now might never receive a patch - especially on GOG.
3) Deleting your account is the only certain way out of this. You can (as the TOS suggest) stop using it, but then it will still be open to any future abuse GOG has in store for you.
4-6) Downloading your entire library of installers will take a good while. The space on your harddrive will run out eventually anyway. So there will be no major drawbacks if start downloading now and get yourself a new external harddrive - either order one from a professional online shop (that unlike Amazon only stocks the good stuff) or get one on Monday from your local store ("support your local dealer"). ;)
Post edited April 29, 2018 by HeartsAndRainbows
Posted April 29, 2018
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SpeedBo: Well... There's always FireFlower Games. Not a big catalog, but at least it is DRM free and private.
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Telika: Cool. But will they become horrible when they'll grow ?
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dm36: Maybe I'm out of the loop, but why are you singling out these 2 on their cultural/racial backgrounds? Wondering the significance of it. Also 'Hispanic' is pretty telling that you are probably some white boy.
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Telika: As a further hint that they could be (or could have been) the same person.
Who knows but for the moment they aren't spewing my info everywhere. In fact GOG is the only place freely handing out my info to everyone. No I don't use Facebook or any other social media site.
Posted April 29, 2018
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Pangaea666: I can no longer support a company that behaves like a vampire.
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HeartsAndRainbows: I'm currently in a similar position as yourself. My advice would be: Buy a new external harddrive. In my experience those are very robust, reliable and still fit for year-long everyday use. I've been watching movies or installing games directly from my HDD and it has been very handy when visiting friends. (I can both vouch for WD and Seagate and while I'm aware that someone in this thread had troubles with their Seagate overheating I literally never had any complains concerning their products.)
I also have everything backed up on HDDs - it's the best solution, in my eyes.
And if you double the back-ups, you should never have problems with data loss (well, in theory, anyway).
Posted April 29, 2018
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SpeedBo: Well... There's always FireFlower Games. Not a big catalog, but at least it is DRM free and private.
I checked the site :

"You earn two FirePoints for every euro you buy for. You also get 50 FirePoints for writing a qualified review. 200 points equals one euro."



Thats sounds familiar cause Gamersgate use it: they have Bluecoins
Anyway it sound promising but.... too limited in payments: no prepaid and prepaid is used a lot
There is no real need to know who bought the game as long as the transaction is legit and the money is transferred...
Unless kids at 13 or 14 have a full bak account or master card vis card or whatever they have to ask parents to pay for it OR use prepaid which you can buy..... imagine 10 million kids who would buy a simple game at 6.99 that would be a nice income :D
plus no info about the customers can be leaked or hacked, cause no data is collected from creditcards because it is prepaid.
Posted April 29, 2018
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SpeedBo: Well... There's always FireFlower Games. Not a big catalog, but at least it is DRM free and private.
I think, I have an account with them...yep, just checked.
Posted April 29, 2018
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Telika: Cool. But will they become horrible when they'll grow ?

As a further hint that they could be (or could have been) the same person.
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SpeedBo: Who knows but for the moment they aren't spewing my info everywhere. In fact GOG is the only place freely handing out my info to everyone. No I don't use Facebook or any other social media site.
Yeah. Am checking if they have anything from my gog wishlist. Seems not, unfortunately, but turns out they have something from my steam wishlist. So, thanks from the heads up.
Posted April 29, 2018
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MariusHispano: 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.
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 '' driven by 2 or 1 users who do not stop repeating same again and again and to attack anyone who does not agree with them.
Also ignoring every single one of the very carefully written, in-depths replies directly addressed to them as well as every other post, explaining what the problem actually is.

I'm sorry but, you are clearly unable or unwilling to understand the responses, yet you periodically return here to say that you speak for an invisible majority. ToxicTom's really waited long enough until they asked you "the question".
Posted April 29, 2018
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ZenWan: 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
I think you should ask them now how to hide:
a) your number of purchased games
b) your number of achievements
c) your number of hours played

(with screenshot attached) and where is this such option to do that in your account settings-privacy options as GOG by making these numbers visible DID invade your privacy.

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drealmer7: I responded:

with some other stuff "you say 'it is not currently possible' does that mean there are plans to make it possible? what is the eta on that?"

no response since
Same as above (about your response) - ask them how to hide these things on screenshot.

Also, more info just for you (about "no response since") - you will probably get no response during this week as in Poland 1st and 3rd day of May are free from work and many people took the other three days free (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) to have nine free days.
Post edited April 29, 2018 by Lexor
Posted April 29, 2018
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HeartsAndRainbows: [snip]
I'm sorry but, you are clearly unable or unwilling to understand the responses, yet you periodically return here to say that you speak for an invisible majority.
Good comment!
The funniest thing in my eyes is, that MariusHispano had already declared to not further participate in this discussion:

edit: the forum software doesn't load the correct page, so: look for post 1560

quote:"For my part here I close my participation, I am tired of so many stupid things. I hope good improve the privacy tomorrow and everything returns to normal, many users are tired."
Post edited April 29, 2018 by PrivateProfile
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