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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 02, 2018
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Zrevnur: 1. https://www.gog.com/newsletter/20180430_info_feed_en
2. Subscribed to all of them in https://www.gog.com/account/settings/subscriptions
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HypersomniacLive: Thanks, that's a second confirmation then.

@GOG
When we said you needed to send out emails to communicate the new social features, a promotional email to hype the public profiles to your unsuspected customers was not what we meant. Why you ask? Well, here's one of the first reactions; enjoy, and don't be surprised if more follow.
Unless there is some sort of delay, I haven't received an email about the new profiles at all. I don't have any subscriptions. However, I did receive the email about the updated privacy policy last week.
Posted May 02, 2018
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Serren: 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: And understanding context must not be yours, else you'd probably guess I'm referring to the whole group of whiners and not you only. ;)
Moving goalposts now, are you? If your response was to a "whole group" of people, then why was it written specifically in response to the things I said in my post? Why not make an actual general response? Contrary to what you seem to believe, people can't read your (alleged) intentions on a web forum when you don't put them out there.

Oh, and if you consider people who voice their opinion to be "whiners", then doesn't that make you an even bigger whiner for whining about them? But hey, weave whatever security blanket you need; just do it away from me.
Posted May 02, 2018
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Somebody (responsible) did not read the new European GDPR privacy law act?

Since May 1st, you are obliged(!) to p r o t e c t user privacy, not s p r e a d user information in public!!

Hence, GOG user profiles have to be an OPT-IN and not an opt-OUT feature setting.

You are liable and prone to lawsuits.

Hire a (real) lawyer, GOG staff. You need one.
Posted May 02, 2018
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buckybit: Somebody (responsible) did not read the new European GDPR privacy law act?

Since May 1st, you are obliged(!) to p r o t e c t user privacy, not s p r e a d user information in public!!

Hence, GOG user profiles have to be an OPT-IN and not an opt-OUT feature setting.

You are liable and prone to lawsuits.

Hire a (real) lawyer, GOG staff. You need one.
Unless you are a lawyer, I highly doubt you're qualified to make statements as to whether this violates GDPR. The irony of keyboard warriors telling GAG to hire a real lawyer because they'll be in legal trouble is not lost upon me. :)

Not to say I disagree with the premise that this should be opt in rather than opt out. I totally agree with that.
Posted May 02, 2018
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drmike: 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.
Hmm... that's strange, the link still works for me. But thank you for the two links you posted, always interesting to read other articles.

It is funny re the Facebook post, perhaps he thought that was the only way to get Zuckerberg's attention? ;-)

He's not the only one to quit over the privacy issue, I had missed this story earlier:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43956540

But of course they represent a tiny unimportant minority, as we know.
Posted May 02, 2018
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HypersomniacLive: I read these a couple of times, and I'm genuinely perplexed.

If you click on the little gear icon with the exclamation mark inside (to the right of the thread title), you'll easily see that elcook's post #1746 was the very first post of a GOG employee/representative. Where, and how, were people even able to tell any blue-text to shut up? I'd really be interested in one-two links to such posts, because I don't see how that was technically even possible.
Word on the street is that Drealmer made such a post and was notified he was banned for multiple weeks for swearing, and his post deleted.

The person you are quoting likewise swore in the text you quoted. Whether they will be also banned I cannot say, albeit certainly Drealmer had been banned for 3-4 days once before.
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Posted May 02, 2018
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HeartsAndRainbows: I just wanted to say "Thank you!" to the uncounted, active members of this community who took time out of their precious free time to enable/support a civil, fact-based discussion in this thread, no matter how unrewarding your efforts might have felt. (Which of course is something almost every reader will apply to themselves, especially the asshats, but that's life for you.)
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Lukaszmik: You sure put in a lot of time and effort yourself, so "thanks" back at you :)

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HeartsAndRainbows: The reason I'm bringing this up now is that I have something else to say:
"Goodbye."
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Lukaszmik: I rarely participated in discussions on GOG to start with. Mostly because I only engaged when there was something important to me going on (and I actually knew about it by accidentally stumbling on a forum announcement...), and my take from it was that GOG was long past too comfortable in their market presence to care about actual community feedback.

I took a break from this discussion, as well, and decided that there is no longer any point for me to hold any loyalty toward GOG. I actually paid more for some games to get them here. I pre-ordered KC:D here (and a few other titles earlier on) to show my support for GOG, despite the fact that the release was delayed around 3 weeks compared to Steam (and I've learned a long time ago my lessons about pre-orders). I kept mentioning GOG as a superior choice of digital distribution every time the occasion arose (whether online or in face-to-face discussions).

Only to be told that people using other social media than GOG's own bloody forum are more important - or, at least their opinion is. Apparently, I'm not the customer they put first anymore, despite years of steadfast support of GOG's growth.

Fine. I'll start looking more closely at other sites' offerings now. Enjoy your social media butterflies as the main support, and... heh. Good luck with that.
Same for me. Looked at a couple of games I've been wanting for a while in the recent sale. Decided against buying them as who knows what GOG will decide to do next.

Have loved this company for more than 5 years and have seen it continue to go downhill until it's eventually going to become just another Steam.

But the sheer cluelessness displayed in this last fiasco is unfathomable. Especially with the EU's privacy law about to be enacted.

And yes, this is in violation of that law -- I own several sites and have been making sure I'll be ready to be completely compliant by the end of the month. GOG apparently decided it didn't apply to them.

Besides, if a company doesn't have the basic common sense to implement a new feature with an opt-in feature rather than an opt-out AFTER they've already publicized your private information (And after the Facebook fiasco), what else are they going to do?

Honestly, GOG, I'll have to think long and hard before buying another game here, as this has just soured me on the entire company.

Meanwhile, I'll be downloading all my 160-plus games in the next couple of weeks, so that if I decide to delete my account, I'm ready.

And yes, I appreciate the ability to turn off my profile, but the issue still lies that you are continuing to publish a user's private information first and THEN give them the opt-out option.

I would say someone in the EU will have a very good legal case against you after the 23rd. Would be surprised if somebody doesn't go after you, as what you are doing is a clear violation of EU law.
Posted May 02, 2018
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gamesfreak64: 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.
Apparently I have got the Penumbra games from some bundle, so that explains one missing game. For the another one I think I rather read first the last pages of the what did just update thread before comparing my game shelves with my order history.
Posted May 02, 2018
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Lukaszmik: You sure put in a lot of time and effort yourself, so "thanks" back at you :)

I rarely participated in discussions on GOG to start with. Mostly because I only engaged when there was something important to me going on (and I actually knew about it by accidentally stumbling on a forum announcement...), and my take from it was that GOG was long past too comfortable in their market presence to care about actual community feedback.

I took a break from this discussion, as well, and decided that there is no longer any point for me to hold any loyalty toward GOG. I actually paid more for some games to get them here. I pre-ordered KC:D here (and a few other titles earlier on) to show my support for GOG, despite the fact that the release was delayed around 3 weeks compared to Steam (and I've learned a long time ago my lessons about pre-orders). I kept mentioning GOG as a superior choice of digital distribution every time the occasion arose (whether online or in face-to-face discussions).

Only to be told that people using other social media than GOG's own bloody forum are more important - or, at least their opinion is. Apparently, I'm not the customer they put first anymore, despite years of steadfast support of GOG's growth.

Fine. I'll start looking more closely at other sites' offerings now. Enjoy your social media butterflies as the main support, and... heh. Good luck with that.
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Bloodygoodgames: Same for me. Looked at a couple of games I've been wanting for a while in the recent sale. Decided against buying them as who knows what GOG will decide to do next.

Have loved this company for more than 5 years and have seen it continue to go downhill until it's eventually going to become just another Steam.

But the sheer cluelessness displayed in this last fiasco is unfathomable. Especially with the EU's privacy law about to be enacted.

And yes, this is in violation of that law -- I own several sites and have been making sure I'll be ready to be completely compliant by the end of the month. GOG apparently decided it didn't apply to them.

Besides, if a company doesn't have the basic common sense to implement a new feature with an opt-in feature rather than an opt-out AFTER they've already publicized your private information (And after the Facebook fiasco), what else are they going to do?

Honestly, GOG, I'll have to think long and hard before buying another game here, as this has just soured me on the entire company.

Meanwhile, I'll be downloading all my 160-plus games in the next couple of weeks, so that if I decide to delete my account, I'm ready.

And yes, I appreciate the ability to turn off my profile, but the issue still lies that you are continuing to publish a user's private information first and THEN give them the opt-out option.

I would say someone in the EU will have a very good legal case against you after the 23rd. Would be surprised if somebody doesn't go after you, as what you are doing is a clear violation of EU law.
This is beyond petty. You're actively trying to be upset about something.
Posted May 02, 2018
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aquaSolus: So, user MariusHispano, who can you be ?
SNIP SNIP
Your Profile...
► 8 Games
► 0 Achievements
► 3 Hours played

SNIP SNIP
And then they say people like me (an old grumpy assface fart who is jaded) is not needed here.
Pic related, but I'm thinking of starting to buy directly from devs who support that (still wont join steam again) and the other unmoral and in some countries illegal thing....
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Posted May 02, 2018
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elcook: [...] we have an important update to the GOG Profiles. [...]
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HypersomniacLive: I have a question about this, and I do hope you will clarify, and in a timely manner too.

The update in the OP here says [emphasis added]:

[...] 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.
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HypersomniacLive: The update in the respective OP in the German speaking forum says [emphasis added]:

[...] Dadurch wirst du auch nicht mehr auf den Freundeslisten deiner Freunde angezeigt, wenn diese ihre Freundesliste sichtbar machen.
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HypersomniacLive: The part I highlighted translates as [emphasis added]:

you will no longer appear on your friends' friends lists when they make their friends lists visible.
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HypersomniacLive: There are two friends lists related to profiles - one is the actual friends list (the separate tab), and the other is that "Friends" section of five friends on the profile page itself.

The German text reads as referring to the former list, while the English text as referring to the latter one.
Could you clarify which one a disabled profile actually affects?
It's for both. If you disable your profile, it won't show up on your friends' list in the Profile tab (short list of recent active friends), nor on the Friends tab.
Posted May 02, 2018
I see this has cause a lot of contention...eh..ADD ME AS A FRIEND PEEPS!!!
Posted May 02, 2018
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skullbone: I see this has cause a lot of contention...eh..ADD ME AS A FRIEND PEEPS!!!
But I don't know you!
Posted May 02, 2018
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skullbone: I see this has cause a lot of contention...eh..ADD ME AS A FRIEND PEEPS!!!
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Galamid: But I don't know you!
Yeah..but do we really know anyone these days :D
Posted May 02, 2018
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elcook: ...we have an important update to the GOG Profiles....
Man, that was an awful stunt. Who is running GOG these days? I really would like to have a word with him or her.

Also, the damage has already been done, by just publishing personal, sensitive data online. How can GOG just do that? I really don't understand it and I firmly believe the whole management should get fired immediately. They are obviously out of touch with many of their customers.

A personal apology for publishing my data without my consent and not such a meekly announcement buried somewhere in a thread would be in order, I think. However, my trust in GOG is finally gone and very unlikely to return ever.

A big deed you have done to DRM-free lately. I'm quite disappointed.

Giving me the opportunity to disable my profile is the bare minimum to keep me from leaving immediately, but not enough for anything more. Did I already mention that I'm quite disappointed?
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