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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 May 01, 2018
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lillywaters: What are you embarrassed by the games you play? [...]
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HeartsAndRainbows: Would that be the reason your own games section is set to private?

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
from my knowledge my games were not set to private. when i do a look at your profile it showed them and what i played
Posted May 01, 2018
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rottenbrain: Bla blabbady bla....
This is what happens when a herd grows overlarge. It becomes frail and diseased, and has to be thinned if it is to survive.
Posted May 01, 2018
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elcook: 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.
Thank you, elcook. Better late than never, I suppose. It's a shame we can't have the good features of the new profiles (such as the ability to see reviews we've posted) without the privacy-invading stuff, but oh well.
Posted May 01, 2018
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Thank you thank you thank you for the option to turn off the profile, for those of us who do not want the social features. I maintain that "off" should have been the default.

I do think the profile feature has potential. It would be neat if the number of games, achievements, and friends could be turned off or set to Only Me but the profile page itself could still be visible to Friends Only (like to post status updates). Just a thought.

Thanks GOG for giving us our optionality back.
Posted May 01, 2018
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"Our feedback on Social Media told us that this is a feature that most of our users wanted."

This is the stupidest thing I've heard all day. Did it not occur to you that the people who don't want profiles aren't on social media? For fux sake man.

EDIT: This is like interviewing 100 people wearing green about whether they like the color green.
Post edited May 01, 2018 by barleyguy
Posted May 01, 2018
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PortalShifter: 100 pages of comments because people are concerned that others may be able to view what games they've played?

Wow.
No, the people were concerned that other people may know how many games they have.
Posted May 01, 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.
Why is it that you guys never seem to learn from your mistakes? o.O
Posted May 01, 2018
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PortalShifter: 100 pages of comments because people are concerned that others may be able to view what games they've played?

Wow.
No, it was a hundred pages of posts because people didn't get the option to stop people from seeing information that they don't want people to see. No option for complete privacy at all. Now there is one. Not a great one and I'm not happy because I want more resolution and control over my info. But a step in the right direction. Privacy is no joke.
Post edited May 01, 2018 by paladin181
Posted May 01, 2018
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Joe788ac2: I just now found out about all this "Profiles" nonsense. Why THE HELL is this opt-out rather than opt-in?!
Honest answer: Because that's how most corporations (and spammers) on the Internet work.

Two months ago I sent a "We do security reviews of your website!" company an email pointing out a critical flaw on their website. They still haven't fixed the issue but they've been more than happy to sign my tagged email address to their mail lists and also give out (ie sell) the same email address to other companies.

Oh and just to mention to folks about it taking a week, per one of the other threads on this topic, this last week included holiday time in Poland. Of course then the question is why roll out such a change right before such a holiday when folks were going to be away from the office. Of course that happens quite often as well with online companies. Gotta love Friday afternoon software upgrades.

Not defending them. Just wanted to mention it.
Post edited May 01, 2018 by drmike
Posted May 01, 2018
Thanks for the update, GOG.

Good show on that.
Posted May 01, 2018
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drmike: Honest answer: Because that's how most corporations (and spammers) on the Internet work.
That's not a valid answer, especially for a company like GOG. it's a tactic that's invasive and pushy and highly inconsiderate of their customers, something I'm not sure they can afford to get away with as easily as Valve, they're not even close to their caliber. This is why I mentioned I didn't expect this from GOG.

The more I think of it, the more addition of the "Profile Enabled" option doesn't seem to be enough - think of their huge user database, most are inactive for years, suddenly all becoming public and their data exposed. I had to contact some friends with old accounts to alert them, as they didn't see the Privacy Changes e-mail.
Posted May 01, 2018
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coreyblueexclusive: Rep is being used like a weapon.
I could care less about it,but people really look at that. [...]
Who uses reputation as a weapon? And what do they do with the reputation system that they couldn't do without it?
Who really looks at other people's reputation or post rating?

I don't think people are that easy to manipulate. And who cares about those that are? Even if there were 20 silent users upvoting and downvoting every single post we make they don't influence the actual discussion we're having because they don't introduce anything new to it.

However, if you still feel this is something that should be discussed in depth you should consider either searching an existing thread or opening a new thread about this topic, because all your pearls of wisdom will be lost once this entire thread sinks to the bottom of the forums. And there's no chance someone will dig through over a thousand posts just to find someone's concerns on an entirely different topic. Just saying...
Posted May 01, 2018
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Joe788ac2: That's not a valid answer,
Sorry if you don't like the answer but it is correct.

It's one of the reasons why we teach our clients how to use tagged email addresses when they have to give out an address. They love catching companies when they sell off their client data.
Post edited May 01, 2018 by drmike
Posted May 01, 2018
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Awesome.

For those who like the profiles, you can have 'em. For those of us that don't, we can just switch 'em off. Choice is all we ever wanted.

Works for me.
Posted May 01, 2018
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Taro94: Stop with it already.
Reading comprehension must not be one of your strong points. That was the first and only post I made on this mess.
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Taro94: When you go shopping and the cashier returns your change, do you also refrain from saying "thank you" and instead say "HUH, I'd say THANK YOU, but you're only doing what you should be doing, so NA-AH"?
No, I say "have a nice day" to cashiers. I certainly would not thank a cashier, especially one who has shortchanged me. The only people who deserve thanks while at any shop are the customers.
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Taro94: Even if GOG wronged the community, it's already been redeemed, I feel, by having to endure the bullshit of some people.
The only bullshit I've seen in this thread has come from myopic apologists like you.
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