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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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tfishell: Props to GOG for even allowing us to talk about creating competition to them on their own forum. :P Geez.
They're too scared to look at their own forums right now I guess (big fat :-P@GOG).

On a more serious note, there's a lot of stuff I liked about GOG (and still like) and one of them is that they (AFAIK) never stepped in when people were competing offers (Humble, Steam, itch.io - you name it) on their forums. Or even reviews.
Posted April 29, 2018
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gamesfreak64: I would also love to see all the many posts that users made that wanted the profiles to come here .. but i cant find any .... (where are they ?)..
Here's one.

I wanted the profiles - obviously, optional and curated by the profile owner.

I also liked using Galaxy, when it tracked my game time and achievements privately. I didn't particularly mind the "friend started playing X" popups because they were obviously transient (although Barefoot Monkey and me, and probably other users, made several requests to make those optional).

I also hoped the ability to invest in one's online presence would encourage people to do so and contribute to a healthier community. (You can't really tell, but back in 2012, before the scams and downvotes and gator dipshits, I used avatars from my favorite games, made valuable posts on game-specific subforums, and was really fucking polite.)

Now all this supposedly transient data was collated and instapublicized. There are also entries from various randos shitting up my dashboard that I can't delete. Hopes for a better community also went down the drain, because friendship now means a breach of privacy and is not something you do to your actual friends or even anyone worth associating with.

I'm not particularly privacy-minded. I used to be, before I started competing and my full legal name and mug got posted on the interwebs day 1. I have an unencrypted smartphone which constantly tracks my location. I use my real name on Steam (although my profile is private). I'd use it on GOG, too, if they didn't fuck up the profile thing. But they did.

I have no control over what gets posted. I don't trust GOG to not leak the data they said or >implied they weren't going to leak. Combined with the Battletech bullshit, for the first time in 11 years I'm seriously considering piracy - not because I don't want to pay (ffs I have 1902 games on GOG, at least half of which were bought at worldwide prices) but because they can't fucking leak what they don't have.

TL;DR shit sucks.
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tfishell: Props to GOG for even allowing us to talk about creating competition to them on their own forum. :P Geez.

edit: unfortunately you'd need expensive lawyers to write up contracts. :-/
You're assuming they read their own forum. The amount of radio silence on this subject alone should disabuse you of that notion.
Posted April 30, 2018
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Starmaker: I wanted the profiles - obviously, optional and curated by the profile owner...
^This.
Posted April 30, 2018
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tfishell: Props to GOG for even allowing us to talk about creating competition to them on their own forum. :P Geez.

edit: unfortunately you'd need expensive lawyers to write up contracts. :-/
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paladin181: You're assuming they read their own forum. The amount of radio silence on this subject alone should disabuse you of that notion.
Debatable. They could also be silently rubbing hands and chalking up each oldie's departure. This also happens easily when an organisation under new management changes course and feels hindered by the protests of the more ancient members.

But again, it's the weekend. As we've long noticed through the traditional eclipses of ToC enforcement, these are not days of very acute forum monitoring.
Posted April 30, 2018
I just don't get it.

I've contacted their complaints department at least a dozen times, and nothing.
Posted April 30, 2018
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tfishell: Do you know or have the connections to know how to create an online store? I'd like to think that if Fireflower can get games on their store, other stores can.
I'm sure I could figure it out. My first ever electronics project involved interfacing a computer with an undocumented system after all.. and I didn't blow anything up :)

The question is would enough people be interested for it to start and keep going long enough to become self-sustaining. The hardest part might not be getting developers/studios to let me sell the games, but finding people to buy them who don't already own the games elsewhere.

EDIT: I should probably also point out that the electronics project worked too..
Post edited April 30, 2018 by xyem
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tfishell: Do you know or have the connections to know how to create an online store? I'd like to think that if Fireflower can get games on their store, other stores can.
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xyem: I'm sure I could figure it out. My first ever electronics project involved interfacing a computer with an undocumented system after all.. and I didn't blow anything up :)

The question is would enough people be interested for it to start and keep going long enough to become self-sustaining. The hardest part might not be getting developers/studios to let me sell the games, but finding people to buy them who don't already own the games elsewhere.

EDIT: I should probably also point out that the electronics project worked too..
i would be at least interested in what you were proposing.

speaking as someone with 413 games on my gog account.

i liked gog, a bunch. but almost every step they've taken in the last three to four years has increasingly erred on the side of not listening to their actual userbase.
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xyem: I'm sure I could figure it out. My first ever electronics project involved interfacing a computer with an undocumented system after all.. and I didn't blow anything up :)

The question is would enough people be interested for it to start and keep going long enough to become self-sustaining. The hardest part might not be getting developers/studios to let me sell the games, but finding people to buy them who don't already own the games elsewhere.

EDIT: I should probably also point out that the electronics project worked too..
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lostwolfe: i would be at least interested in what you were proposing.

speaking as someone with 413 games on my gog account.

i liked gog, a bunch. but almost every step they've taken in the last three to four years has increasingly erred on the side of not listening to their actual userbase.
Who is the true user base in gog?

By the way congratulate you because in the wish list of gog about 17,000 people asked that gog galaxy had a version in linux and a few users as I read you have complained about it.

Not only you want to exclude all users who also like achievements, profiles ... but also want to prevent gog galaxy in linux.

It must be that it bothers you when it comes to playing.
Post edited April 30, 2018 by boztix
Posted April 30, 2018
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lostwolfe: i liked gog, a bunch. but almost every step they've taken in the last three to four years has increasingly erred on the side of not listening to their actual userbase.
Yeah, I feel the same so I would be aiming to make people feel how I initially felt about GOG: proud as hell to be a customer.

Can't ensure that all my solutions to the problems I've seen on GOG would make everyone happy, but they shouldn't make people specifically unhappy either. Should be minimised as I would actually discuss stuff with the community..

The only thing that should really cause direct unhappiness is that development time has been spent on something they don't want, but that's an unsolvable problem (on the other hand, the wishlist would actually be used as a guide of what to do..).
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lostwolfe: i liked gog, a bunch. but almost every step they've taken in the last three to four years has increasingly erred on the side of not listening to their actual userbase.
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xyem: Yeah, I feel the same so I would be aiming to make people feel how I initially felt about GOG: proud as hell to be a customer.

Can't ensure that all my solutions to the problems I've seen on GOG would make everyone happy, but they shouldn't make people specifically unhappy either. Should be minimised as I would actually discuss stuff with the community..

The only thing that should really cause direct unhappiness is that development time has been spent on something they don't want, but that's an unsolvable problem (on the other hand, the wishlist would actually be used as a guide of what to do..).
What do people do not want? What are your solutions?
Posted April 30, 2018
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boztix: What do people do not want? What are your solutions?
For example, someone might be unhappy that development time was invested in a system for dealing with accounts that have 100s of games because they don't have that many, rather than say... adding customisable wallpapers to the (optional!) profiles :)

EDIT: totally not a personal gripe about GOG at all don't know what you mean
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boztix: What do people do not want? What are your solutions?
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xyem: For example, someone might be unhappy that development time was invested in a system for dealing with accounts that have 100s of games because they don't have that many, rather than say... adding customisable wallpapers to the (optional!) profiles :)

EDIT: totally not a personal gripe about GOG at all don't know what you mean
They have been developing a client for drm free games that is the premise of gog. Moreover, the client has been very well received, even 17,000 Linux users have voted for a conversion to the client's Linux.

However I agree that privacy needs to be improved, and it is sad that so few people have voted on the wish list on a very important issue.

What more problems do you see?
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lostwolfe: i would be at least interested in what you were proposing.

speaking as someone with 413 games on my gog account.

i liked gog, a bunch. but almost every step they've taken in the last three to four years has increasingly erred on the side of not listening to their actual userbase.
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boztix: Who is the true user base in gog?

By the way congratulate you because in the wish list of gog about 17,000 people asked that gog galaxy had a version in linux and a few users as I read you have complained about it.

Not only you want to exclude all users who also like achievements, profiles ... but also want to prevent gog galaxy in linux.

It must be that it bothers you when it comes to playing.
all users are the "true userbase of gog."

the trouble is that gog itself has fought against it's userbase in various ways across the years.

here's just one example:

while gog galaxy is GREAT for a subsection of it's userbase, it is not something that another section of the userbase wants or cares for.

if those folks are reasonable, they will be accepting of galaxy, but also expect that older methods - the gog downloader and the files up on their game pages - stay viable. this is the VERY least that /gog/ can/should do for their userbase. but gog has INCREASINGLY pushed those users toward galaxy, without their actual consent.

are there troublesome users who want to force everyone to think their way?

sure.

you know what to do about those? ignore them and carry on your merry way.

the point is: our relationship with gog is a fiscal one. we expected certain things out of this particular relationship, but those items are being stripped from us one at a time. one of these things is privacy. it's FINE if you want your profile displayed for the world to see. but for some of us that is less fine. all we're asking for is the tools to hide ourselves if we so desire.

it is not a war against you, our fellow forum-dwellers.
it is a war against gog, who has eroded our trust to the point where we believe we'd be better off elsewhere.
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boztix: They have been developing a client for drm free games that is the premise of gog. Moreover, the client has been very well received, even 17,000 Linux users have voted for a conversion to the client's Linux.
And I'm one of them, even though I wouldn't use it myself. What's your point?
EDIT: And by that, I mean I am a Linux user, voted for it, but wouldn't use it.

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boztix: What more problems do you see?
Poor communication.
Broken website.
Lack of testing.
Non-optimal defaults.
Personal information leaks.
Disregard for stated values.
Post edited April 30, 2018 by xyem
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