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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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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.
I don't even regularly post here, but I had to comment on just how insultingly poorly worded this PR spiel post is.

But yeah, thanks for doing your job and implementing privacy settings that actually do what they're supposed to do (one week later, with opt-in by default...).

Anyway, I appreciate your store front (even though it is not the biggest one out there ;) )
Post edited April 30, 2018 by ReptilePZ
Posted April 30, 2018
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Lifthrasil: And I agree that the part about us being a small crowd was a warning, that they aren't going to listen to us indefinitely. It basically says that they're bringing the Facebook crowd over here now and our days as critical customers are numbered.
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dewtech: The god damn meme thing about this shi+ is that the social media dumb***** don't even buy that much games or play them that much, so is GOG going to publish FtP games with extra gacha crap here?
Apparently GWENT is really successful, so yes. Free to pay games with micro-transactions are probably the way forward that GOG wants.
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dewtech: The god damn meme thing about this shi+ is that the social media dumb***** don't even buy that much games or play them that much, so is GOG going to publish FtP games with extra gacha crap here?
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Lifthrasil: Apparently GWENT is really successful, so yes. Free to pay games with micro-transactions are probably the way forward that GOG wants.
Glorified gambling. Many casinos don't have an entry fee either.
Post edited April 30, 2018 by jorlin
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Ophelium: Who is this "majority"? You mean the people who just buy games left and right and really don't participate in the forums?

From what I gather, most people think toxic forums are heterogeneous ones. I'm sorry. A lot of us were born in a time when we were taught to think and feel for ourselves. We have opinions that don't match yours. We continue exercise our right to be offended and to defend that right. Now, some people don't express that well. But if you can't accept that we're all different and some of us are crankier than others, then don't put yourself to the trouble of trying to talk with people here. You're not going to get anywhere.
One thing that makes the forums toxic, is you have that + and - rate system. If someone comes along and they say they like Trump for example, all of a sudden you have hordes of leftist gog users click the - button so they can hurt the other's reputation and silence the other user, and also hide their post, because they can't handle a different opinion. So your comment is quite untrue. If you're going to tell me I'm wrong, then you're either in an echo chamber with your comment, or you aren't paying attention. That's just one example btw.
Posted April 30, 2018
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Lifthrasil: Apparently GWENT is really successful, so yes. Free to pay games with micro-transactions are probably the way forward that GOG wants.
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jorlin: Glorified gambling. Many casino's don't have an entry fee either.
AND they give out free drinks and food.
Posted April 30, 2018
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jorlin: Glorified gambling. Many casino's don't have an entry fee either.
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tinyE: AND they give out free drinks and food.
Yes, indeed. Well I'll pass on elCook's bland marketing crackers.
Post edited April 30, 2018 by jorlin
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Ophelium: I've seen it on Facebook, since I follow GOG on there. The positive feedback is also coupled with comments about how we're a toxic community and a bunch of whiny assholes.
I know this is just you paraphrasing, and even if this is actually what's said, it's probably not written by the same people, but it would be pretty funny if someone called us "a toxic community" and "a bunch of whiny assholes" at the same time. ;)
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drmike: Just curious if anyone else has seen this positive feedback.
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Ophelium: I've seen it on Facebook, since I follow GOG on there. The positive feedback is also coupled with comments about how we're a toxic community and a bunch of whiny assholes.
I'm going to be 100% with you, it was bad.
A small group of the forum is speaking for everyone here, and that's not cool.
I want this rep system abolished from the forums.It's discouraging other people from speaking their minds.
It creates a mob like a mentality, if I don't like you or agree with you I'm downvoting you.
Then the downvoting of people who don't agree with your point of view, that's not acceptable.
You guys went past the point of constructive feedback.
It was cool at first seeing the passion of the community, but then a few of you went overboard.
It was disgusting, and it made the community look disgusting.
When their's only a few members who speak on the forums, everyone looks at those few members.You guys represent GoG in a way.The new customers here, this is the first thing they'll see or look it.
Yeah GoG does has its faults, and yeah they can fuck up, but when you guys act like you know everything and speak for everyone here, your fucking up.Yes, the majority of the internet does not like the GoG forums, it's not hard to guess why.

It's good to point out a company when you don't like something their doing, but the shitshow here was unacceptable.
Post edited April 30, 2018 by coreyblueexclusive
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jorlin: Glorified gambling. Many casino's don't have an entry fee either.
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tinyE: AND they give out free drinks and food.
But physicists aren't welcome.

A few years back, some of my colleagues arranged a big conference in Vegas. More than 4000 physicists. Most of them stayed in one of the biggest casino hotels there, since those offer quite cheap stays.
After the conference the hotel politely informed the organizers, that physics conferences aren't welcome anymore. Some other hotels chimed in too.

So, what had happened? Did those physicists figure out how to beat the casino? Did they crash the system? ... Well. In a way. By not playing. The odds are shit anyhow, so my esteemed colleagues just enjoyed the free food and drinks and relatively cheap rooms, while not spending a single dime on gambling. The casino made a huge loss that week! That shows how much the casinos depend on their guests losing money there.
Posted April 30, 2018
I thought this thread was about profiles.

Yeah, because I DERAIL EVERYTHING! :P

that wasn't aimed at you Lifthrasil.
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Kadlin: One thing that makes the forums toxic, is you have that + and - rate system. If someone comes along and they say they like Trump for example, all of a sudden you have hordes of leftist gog users click the - button so they can hurt the other's reputation and silence the other user, and also hide their post, because they can't handle a different opinion. So your comment is quite untrue. If you're going to tell me I'm wrong, then you're either in an echo chamber with your comment, or you aren't paying attention. That's just one example btw.
You don't have to look any farther than this thread. Hell a portion of it is filled with downvotes because people dared to think differently or committed the mortal sin of just expressing that that even liked the profile features. Not like the upvote / downvote system means anything, you need like what 3 people to agree or disagree with you? Not very hard to do on this forum.
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coreyblueexclusive: It was disgusting, and it made the community look disgusting.
When their's only a few members who speak on the forums, everyone looks at those few members.You guys represent GoG in a way.The new customers here, this is the first thing they'll see or look it.
Yeah GoG does has its faults, and yeah they can fuck up, but when you guys act like you know everything and speak for everyone here, your fucking up.Yes, the majority of the internet does not like the GoG forums, it's not hard to guess why.

It's good to point of company out when you don't like something their doing, but the shitshow here was unacceptable.
Am I getting memed over here?
People should silence themselves as some dumb people look up to random people posting on a goddamn (and highly unmoderated from the start) forum? People can act as they want, part of the free speech part, having their own opinions and not being part of a "muh feelings" echo chamber.
Post edited April 30, 2018 by dewtech
Posted April 30, 2018
Wow, this thing has escalated.

I won't deny that the initial blunder by GOG shouldn't have happened; especially in these times where people are so sensitised to data protection and privacy, it's difficult to understand how this implementation of profiles passed all the screenings and was rolled out in that shape.

Then again, I feel like many people here (as in many other places on the web) have a tendency to overdramatise. Deleting your profile, vowing to never shop here again, and never recommend the site to friends again? Regardless of if people actually follow through with that – I guess around 99% of those making those kinds of statements usually don't – I wonder what they were expecting.

The feedback was acknowledged, initial remedies implemented within a week's time. Name another company that reacts this quickly and actively to a customer request, or that even reacts at all. Same as the initial implementation, which, yes, shouldn't have passed all the rounds in the way that it did, this change too will have needed many approvals and careful planning execution. If nothing else, to not accidentally make things even worse. A week's turnaround is amazing!

I've been following the Spotify forums on a few major, breaking (to me) bugs reported by hundreds of people, over the last three years. Most of it is ignored completely. A few lucky ones got an official acknowledgement, but nothing happened anyway. Inquiries get diverted back to the forums where every feedback is ignored. I've also followed bugs from other major companies, such as Adobe, which sometimes were left reported and confirmed for 6, 8, 10+ years. At the top of my head, I can't think of any bigger site or software developer besides GOG where turnaround, with actual remedies, is measured in days, instead of months or years (or infinities).

Even accepting that the initial backlash was warranted, I really can't find the big issue with either the way or the timeframe in which GOG reacted to it. Any other site wouldn't have even graced it with a response. Where else would we buy our games? As far as I know, GOG is still pretty much the only download store that doesn't actively and deliberately screw over its customers, in ways much worse than this.
Posted April 30, 2018
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tinyE: AND they give out free drinks and food.
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Lifthrasil:
You know what would be a cool idea, Sim Casino.

Include everything from basic building, to game design, placement, catering, security, even where you place your "Coolers".
Posted April 30, 2018
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Kadlin: One thing that makes the forums toxic, is you have that + and - rate system. If someone comes along and they say they like Trump for example, all of a sudden you have hordes of leftist gog users click the - button so they can hurt the other's reputation and silence the other user, and also hide their post, because they can't handle a different opinion. So your comment is quite untrue. If you're going to tell me I'm wrong, then you're either in an echo chamber with your comment, or you aren't paying attention. That's just one example btw.
I don't know of anyone who likes the rep system. I ignore it. The numbers don't mean anything really. A 16 who has been here since 2009 is just as valid as a 750 from 2014. But that's just my opinion.

Apparently, the rep system is a bit of old coding that GOG can't/won't fix.

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dewtech: Am I getting memed over here?
People should silence themselves as some dumb people look up to random people posting on a goddamn (and highly unmoderated from the start) forum? People can act as they want, part of the free speech part, having their own opinions and not being part of a "muh feelings" echo chamber.
GOG tried that moderation thing. It didn't last long.
Post edited April 30, 2018 by Ophelium
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