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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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ZenWan: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/30/jan-koum-quits-facebook/
TC blanked the article and it now forwards to the main page.

NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/technology/whatsapp-facebook-jan-koum.html

http://time.com/5261207/whatsapp-ceo-jay-koum-exit/

edit: Interesting that he announced his departure via a Facebook post.
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Posted May 01, 2018
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I just want to highlight Barefoot_Monkey's valuepost here (unquoted for better default readability).

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Barefoot_Monkey: ...

I really like the new profiles. It's good that they can be disabled, and I have disabled mine, but I would love to be able to to have a public profile. In fact, I'm sure that the overwhelming majority of those disabling their profiles would gladly make their profiles enabled and public if there was a bit of granular privacy control instead of an all-or-nothing choice.

What I'd like to know is: is GOG planning to leave profiles as they are now, or will you be adding granular privacy controls in the near future?

Personally, I want the ability to have a profile and make certain things public while keeping other things private, like this:

- Gameplay stats about me are private. I don't want total hours played, total achievements, stats for a particular game, etc. displayed anywhere - not on the top-right corner of my profile, not on friends lists, not anywhere at all.
- Gameplay activity is also private. I don't want a list of recently-played games on my profile, and I don't want "started playing", gameplay milestone or achievement messages about me appearing on my profile or in other people's activity feeds.
- (Related to that, but not strictly concerning Profiles as such, I don't want GOG to display what I'm "currently playing" anywhere, and I especially don't want Galaxy to give my friends an alert telling them when I launch a game.)
- Everything I publish on gog is public, so if I make "thoughts" on my profile or review a game or create a new forum topic then those can appear on my profile and on my friends' activity feeds.
- I'd like my list of games owned to be public (but, of course, not my gameplay stats). My wishlist being public is nice (I'm glad we can still have this while our profiles are disabled). My friends list can also be public as long as it doesn't leak stats about people who don't want their stats leaked.
- My profile page itself would be public, but wouldn't have a "recently played games" list because when and what I play is my business alone.

Please, please encourage management and dev to add enough granularity for that to be possible. Then I and many others would be using our profiles happily.
(I agree with everything here, except I'd make my own wishlist [I'm in Russia, I don't need gifts] and forum participation [the forum is a tire fire, I consider it transient and don't want my participation aggregated] private.)
Posted May 01, 2018
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Pangaea666: I actually tried to get both LGOGDownloader and GOGrepo working yesterday evening, but it didn't work to log in due to recaptcha. There was an error message to that effect on lgogdownloader and I reckon it was the same issue on gogrepo. Hopefully there is a workaround.
Didnt find a wishlist for (or rather against) captcha nonsense. Maybe someone who understands when/how/why captcha user harassment stuff is used make one? I would put my '+' onto it although I dont remember getting a captcha on GOG for myself.

(If someone never spent any money on GOG or if someone has a very high download to money ratio or sth like that then I can see why captcha can in some cases be used. But the posts here do indicate that GOG is abusing captcha - though I have no proof of course.)
Posted May 01, 2018
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Zrevnur: Didnt find a wishlist for (or rather against) captcha nonsense. [...]
Personally I rather considered this an easy to fix bug/conceptual design flaw - rather than a "wish". So I've written a ticket about this to support, every single time it happened.
Maybe we should have written wishes for stuff like "Fix the bug that resets our country of origin every time we accept a giveaway game" or "Please repair all the formatting bugs in your forums as listed in the comments of this wish. Thank you kindly."
Posted May 01, 2018
Well, since disabling the profile in my Privacy settings I find when I click on my account name on the main GOG page I now get a 404 error instead and my number of games has been decreased by 1 as punishment for daring to disable the profile!

Nice!
Posted May 01, 2018
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WebJunkie: Well, since disabling the profile in my Privacy settings I find when I click on my account name on the main GOG page I now get a 404 error instead and my number of games has been decreased by 1 as punishment for daring to disable the profile!
Possible reasons for the game decreased by 1 issue:
[1] https://www.gog.com/forum/general/game_count_down_by_one_because_penumbra_requiem_moved_to_dlc_section
[2] https://www.gog.com/forum/general/profile_feedback_general_suggestions_bugs/post7
Posted May 01, 2018
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WebJunkie: Well, since disabling the profile in my Privacy settings I find when I click on my account name on the main GOG page I now get a 404 error instead and my number of games has been decreased by 1 as punishment for daring to disable the profile!

Nice!
The popup that appears by moving the cursor to the account name shows that I have one more game than what the number in my game shelf shows and I am fairly sure that after disabling my profile that number has decreased by two.
Posted May 01, 2018
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WebJunkie: Well, since disabling the profile in my Privacy settings I find when I click on my account name on the main GOG page I now get a 404 error instead and my number of games has been decreased by 1 as punishment for daring to disable the profile!
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kbnrylaec: Possible reasons for the game decreased by 1 issue:
[1] https://www.gog.com/forum/general/game_count_down_by_one_because_penumbra_requiem_moved_to_dlc_section
[2] https://www.gog.com/forum/general/profile_feedback_general_suggestions_bugs/post7
i think they are sorting the programs to have a own category : like: movies games DLC .
game demos should also not show in the bought games and they should not add to the number of games bought, i dont think they add to the amount of bought games.

Because counting all my games by hand is boring and time consuming, (counting physical cds is much easier espescially if all jewelcases are the same hight, just creat one stack of 10 ( or more) and stack the others next to the stack until its height equals.




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WebJunkie: Well, since disabling the profile in my Privacy settings I find when I click on my account name on the main GOG page I now get a 404 error instead and my number of games has been decreased by 1 as punishment for daring to disable the profile!

Nice!
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JAAHAS: The popup that appears by moving the cursor to the account name shows that I have one more game than what the number in my game shelf shows and I am fairly sure that after disabling my profile that number has decreased by two.
check your purchase history count the number of purchases and compare with your number of games make sure to seperate dlc , games and movies and some game demos.
Post edited May 01, 2018 by gamesfreak64
Posted May 01, 2018
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elcook: 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.
Thank you very much for the insight into the current minds on GOG. Over the last few years I already got the impression that the more GOG grows the less you value your old customers. But communicating it that open and direct is still surprising. When already an official PR message to your paying customers is worded in such a way I do not want to know what is talked on GOG behind the curtains.

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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.
To not understand me wrong, I'm happy to have an option to preserve my privacy now. But your solution to show a 404 error when viewing the profile page (and still pointing the default for the user menu to this error page) clearly shows your respect for customers which try to preserve their privacy.

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elcook: On the other side, some of you guys here in the forums, have felt differently about this new addition, and stated it clearly here.
[..] even if you're not the biggest crowd out there.
I do know that the people on the forum are only a minority of GOG's customers. But I do not share the impression that the people which want that privacy option are such a small minority (at least not compared to the people which want a public profile). The wishlist entry for public GOG profiles has gotten about 1300 votes (within more than 6 years). The wishlist entry for an option to disable the user profile already got more than 700 votes after only a bit more than a week. Both are wishes on GOG's wishlist, used by the same amount of people. So the relation between both user groups is not as bad as you make us believe.

Edit: Reworded the last paragraph to hopefully be easier to understand.
Post edited May 02, 2018 by eiii
Posted May 01, 2018
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WebJunkie: Well, since disabling the profile in my Privacy settings I find when I click on my account name on the main GOG page I now get a 404 error instead and my number of games has been decreased by 1 as punishment for daring to disable the profile!

Nice!
It's just a display glitch in the menu. If you go to your games collection, you will see the correct number.
Posted May 02, 2018
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boztix: Yes, the profiles have been a success accepted by the majority of the user community. Whether you like it or not, that is reality.

You have created a petition on the wish list where we have voted many users who like profiles or achievements and even then you have not got 800 votes yet.
You mean that majority of users which needed more than 6 years to get less than 1300 votes for the implementation of public GOG profiles while the minority of privacy oriented users already got more than 700 votes for an option to disable the user profile within only a bit more than a week? ;)
Posted May 02, 2018
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eiii: I do know that the people on the forum are only a minority of GOG's customers. But when it takes more than 6 years to get about 1300 votes for public GOG profiles and only a bit more than one week to get more than 700 votes for an option to disable the user profile on the same GOG wishlist than I do not share the impression that the people which wanted that privacy option are such a small minority (at least compared to the people which wanted the public profiles).
Keep in mind those 1300 votes to have profiles are voted on here on this website, which many people don't visit and it seems those of us that do frequent here aren't fans of the idea of profiles. So it's not surprising it took so long to amass the 1300 votes.
Posted May 02, 2018
It still shows the same number in my account as it does when hovering over my account name on the main page, this happened immediately after I disabled the profile, game count down by 1 game.

Thanks to all the other posters about this too, I do have Penumbra - Requiem and it's now listed as DLC under Penumbra - Black Plague, just a bizarre coincidence then!! As for the 404 error, I still get that though when clicking on my account name, it's showing it wants to go to: https://www.gog.com/feed

Seeing as I've disabled my Profile, wonder if the default for people who have done the same should be back to their Games list not the Activity Feed?
Posted May 02, 2018
Hmmm disabled my public profile, and yet 'view my profile' and 'my activity feed' is present which are useless... Could GoG go ahead and make those hidden?
Posted May 02, 2018
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GR00T: Keep in mind those 1300 votes to have profiles are voted on here on this website, which many people don't visit
Of course they are voted here on this website, the same as the 700 votes for the option to disable the profile page are voted here on this website too. It's about the relation of the two numbers.

It is as reasonable to assume that there are more people which want a public profile and do not use the wishlist as it is reasonable to assume that there are more people which want an option to disable the public profile and also do not use the wishlist (and maybe do not even know that their profile already has been made public).

People which want the option to preserve their privacy are most likely a minority, but the relation compared to the people which explicitly want a public profile is not as bad as some people want me to believe.
Post edited May 02, 2018 by eiii
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