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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 30, 2018
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Pangaea666: Currently my main harddisk has around 400GB free, and a good deal of the installers were downloaded previously. Hopefully there is room. I'm also on Linux, so regular backups with Back-In-Time could probably do the trick on an external harddisk, or extra internal one. The risk of total failure can never be removed, but backups will at least reduce it a good deal.
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xyem: All the Linux installers (that I own on GOG) and extras take just under a terabyte.
And thanks to the COMPLETELY private profile you have *cough cough* I can see you have a few more games than me, so hopefully I'll have enough room. Don't have many huge games, so would think it should be okay. We'll see...

Finally got uGet integration working now, so here we go.
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jesujej: Some of you proudly show your location but get angry when they show some random numbers in your profile for everyone to see? I don't get it.
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nightcraw1er.488: If you did your homework you would see that you can change your country as and when you want to any country you like. There is no telling that a person is from the country given. The other data showing however is impossible to change, alter or restrict. There is a difference. Anyways, just pop your credit card number on here, its just a random number isn't it.
While we're at it: lets change our profile names and pictures to our real selfies.
Post edited April 30, 2018 by jesujej
Posted April 30, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: If you did your homework you would see that you can change your country as and when you want to any country you like. There is no telling that a person is from the country given. The other data showing however is impossible to change, alter or restrict. There is a difference. Anyways, just pop your credit card number on here, its just a random number isn't it.
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jesujej: While we're at it: lets change our profile names and pictures to our real selfies.
I would recognize that white outline on a blue background anywhere! More importantly,
Only 87 games, 40 achievements, and 30 hours played, what a johnny come lately looser ;op
Posted April 30, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: If you did your homework you would see that you can change your country as and when you want to any country you like. There is no telling that a person is from the country given. The other data showing however is impossible to change, alter or restrict. There is a difference. Anyways, just pop your credit card number on here, its just a random number isn't it.
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jesujej: While we're at it: lets change our profile names and pictures to our real selfies.
Someone already did that to me in here.

I freaked. No one else cared. :P
Posted April 30, 2018
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I might have been willing to let my profile stay open, but thanks to the way GOG is handling the demands for better privacy options, I decided to set my original account as private as possible and then created this one to work as my alias for this message and not post anything with the old account until the privacy settings allow not only blocking the number of games, achievements and total hours played, but also select whether our profile can be seen by everyone, friends of our friends, only our friends or none at all.

After that, being able to showcase only a select few games instead our full library would be a nice extra feature that might actually make me reconsider and not stay forever in maximum privacy mode.

Just to be clear, I will not be using this account for voting, it exist only to prove the point that whether GOG likes it or not, I alone will decide how much of my data will be available for others to see.
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To put another point out here, as all things considered, and despite the protests, number of games and playtime isn't THAT huge a deal. It's the other likely consequences of GOG being even less protective of privacy that I worry about. Like building up an actual profile of each user, analysing their interests based on types of games, platforms, new/old releases, DLC interests, locations, and of course sharing all this stuff with "our trusted partners" (the usual suspects). It's part of the big data mining operations that goes on all over the net, and that way too few people care about or know the consequences of. I find it downright amazing how ignorant people are of these very serious issues.

Hopefully GDPR* will help a bit, but we'll see how it pans out.

*as mentioned before, I think GOG pushed out this NOW before the formal compliance date of GDPR on May 25th.
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jesujej: While we're at it: lets change our profile names and pictures to our real selfies.
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tinyE: Someone already did that to me in here.

I freaked. No one else cared. :P
Doens't look like you freaked out considering the real picture is still used?
Post edited April 30, 2018 by Pangaea666
Posted April 30, 2018
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Trilarion: basically just a registration fee and and some paperwork and you are free to start.
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mvscot: You'll need a few hundred quid each year to have your annual accounts prepared (at least that was the case years ago when I had a small limited company).

Sure, that should be in the noise once you're actually up and running and generating profit, but it's needed regardless.
Only done some quick looking into this and it looks like I could do this myself?
Somewhat familiar with accounting as it is, considering getting accreditation as an accountant even.
Posted April 30, 2018
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Pangaea666: To put another point out here, as all things considered, and despite the protests, number of games and playtime isn't THAT huge a deal. It's the other likely consequences of GOG being even less protective of privacy that I worry about. Like building up an actual profile of each user, analysing their interests based on types of games, platforms, new/old releases, DLC interests, locations, and of course sharing all this stuff with "our trusted partners" (the usual suspects). It's part of the big data mining operations that goes on all over the net, and that way too few people care about or know the consequences of. I find it downright amazing how ignorant people are of these very serious issues.

Hopefully GDPR* will help a bit, but we'll see how it pans out.

*as mentioned before, I think GOG pushed out this NOW before the formal compliance date of GDPR on May 25th.
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tinyE: Someone already did that to me in here.

I freaked. No one else cared. :P
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Pangaea666: Doens't look like you freaked out considering the real picture is still used?
It's my good side
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jesujej: Some of you proudly show your location but get angry when they show some random numbers in your profile for everyone to see? I don't get it.
Those are two different issues:

1. "I have a right to decide who has access to my personal information."
2. "I decide that I want to keep all of my personal information hidden."
Post edited April 30, 2018 by Mueslinator
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Mueslinator: Those are two different issues:

1. "I have a right to decide who has access my personal information, and how much each person is entitled to."
2. "I decide that I want to keep all of my personal information hidden."
FIFY
Posted April 30, 2018
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Thanks for bearing with us for the last week, we have an important update to the GOG Profiles.

For the whole last week, we’ve been gathering feedback regarding the new feature on GOG. The news about profiles has spread across plenty of websites forums and communities, and we took our time to track all of them, and gather all of the feedback. The reception of the new feature we saw in the comments on Reddit, under different global and local media publications, as well as on social media, was really positive and this proved to us that we released a new feature that most of our users were waiting for. On the other side, some of you guys here in the forums, have felt differently about this new addition, and stated it clearly here.

At this point, we’d like to thank for all the feedback we received - the good as well as the constructive one. You bring a lot of important feedback regarding GOG, as you are very devoted to the platform, even if you're not the biggest crowd out there. And while we understand that there will be always different opinions, we definitely do not focus only on the positive mentions we come across, and always consider making changes if these changes are beneficial for the whole GOG community.

Taking it all into account, we decided to tweak a bit the Profiles settings, and add another option to the Privacy settings - from now on you can entirely turn off your profile on GOG, so no one can see any kind of information that is shown on the profile page. This will also mean, that when you turn off your profile, you won’t be visible on your friends’ friends lists, if they decide to keep their profiles visible.
The option to enable/disable your GOG Profile can be found in your account „Orders & Settings” options, under Privacy tab. Hope this will address your and others concerns regarding GOG Profiles.
Post edited April 30, 2018 by elcook
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elcook: ...
Thank gods... finally.
Posted April 30, 2018
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elcook: Thanks for bearing with us for the last week, we have an important update to the GOG Profiles.

For the whole last week, we’ve been gathering feedback regarding the new feature on GOG. The news about profiles has spread across plenty of websites forums and communities, and we took our time to track all of them, and gather all of the feedback. The reception of the new feature we saw in the comments on Reddit, under different global and local media publications, as well as on social media, was really positive and this proved to us that we released a new feature that most of our users were waiting for. On the other side, some of you guys here in the forums, have felt differently about this new addition, and stated it clearly here.

At this point, we’d like to thank for all the feedback we received - the good as well as the constructive one. You bring a lot of important feedback regarding GOG, as you are very devoted to the platform, even if you're not the biggest crowd out there. And while we understand that there will be always different opinions, we definitely do not focus only on the positive mentions we come across, and always consider making changes if these changes are beneficial for the whole GOG community.

Taking it all into account, we decided to tweak a bit the Profiles settings, and add another option to the Privacy settings - from now on you can entirely turn off your profile on GOG, so no one can see any kind of information that is shown on the profile page. This will also mean, that when you turn off your profile, you won’t be visible on your friends’ friends lists, if they decide to keep their profiles visible.
The option to enable/disable your GOG Profile can be found in your account „Orders & Settings” options, under Privacy tab. Hope this will address your and others concerns regarding GOG Profiles.
The world isn't crumbling, after all.
Posted April 30, 2018
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elcook: Thanks for bearing with us for the last week, we have an important update to the GOG Profiles.

For the whole last week, we’ve been gathering feedback regarding the new feature on GOG. The news about profiles has spread across plenty of websites forums and communities, and we took our time to track all of them, and gather all of the feedback. The reception of the new feature we saw in the comments on Reddit, under different global and local media publications, as well as on social media, was really positive and this proved to us that we released a new feature that most of our users were waiting for. On the other side, some of you guys here in the forums, have felt differently about this new addition, and stated it clearly here.

At this point, we’d like to thank for all the feedback we received - the good as well as the constructive one. You bring a lot of important feedback regarding GOG, as you are very devoted to the platform, even if you're not the biggest crowd out there. And while we understand that there will be always different opinions, we definitely do not focus only on the positive mentions we come across, and always consider making changes if these changes are beneficial for the whole GOG community.

Taking it all into account, we decided to tweak a bit the Profiles settings, and add another option to the Privacy settings - from now on you can entirely turn off your profile on GOG, so no one can see any kind of information that is shown on the profile page. This will also mean, that when you turn off your profile, you won’t be visible on your friends’ friends lists, if they decide to keep their profiles visible.
The option to enable/disable your GOG Profile can be found in your account „Orders & Settings” options, under Privacy tab. Hope this will address your and others concerns regarding GOG Profiles.
Nice, that's the message I was waiting for!

I won't even hide my profile completely, but it's good that the people who want to do it get the option.
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