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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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lostwolfe: oh.

oh good grief.

what a weird place to put it.

and since i'm in 800x600, i can't see this, because the default behaviour then is to smoosh community away and turn it into "more."

GOG CODERS GOOD GRIEF. [....
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HypersomniacLive: Perhaps you'd like to add your vote here?
done.

thanks for the link to the wishlist item.
Posted May 02, 2018
so we really need this?
Posted May 02, 2018
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Just adding my name to the list of people appalled that all their data has been publicly viewable, by default, without their knowledge, for the past week before GOG even bothered to send out an email to tell us our profiles exist. I shouldn't have to opt out of having everything GOG knows about me being spread out for all to see, especially with no prior warning. This is not bloody complicated. Profiles should have been set to maximum privacy by default, right from the start. That they still haven't fixed this shows exactly how much GOG values its users' privacy.
Posted May 02, 2018
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petitmal: so we really need this?
They fixed the profiles so you can set it to private and nothing will show, for now a 404 page will show but that should be very easy to fix, they should show a custom page telling there is no profile or just redirect the page back to the main site or something like that, as it is now it shows a general 404 error ... i assume they will fix that.

As for showing profiles to the world, some things are even worse, maybe some users already have it in there country but the Dutch will be tapping the living daylights out of their people: starting may 1th so its active already and unchanged (look for sleepwet referendum).

There is even a post in english at Reddit its quite old didnt know it existed but i stumble upon it during a google search:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/79dcb7/what_is_going_on_with_sleepwet/

very very short version would be: its for the peoples own safety and to prevent some nasty people doing nasty things, they only forgot to mention why those nasties are/were able to do so: no border security/checks so anyone can come and go..... thats the only cause.... in a way their gross negligence cause all this and now they have to resort to dragging the living daylights out of anyone, google for more information.

Anyway thats the last post about it cause they might be tapping as we speak, so much for democracy .... :D
back to talking about games now , :D
Post edited May 02, 2018 by gamesfreak64
Posted May 02, 2018
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Got the mail today, and thought 'have a look in the forum' - only to find there's thousands of posts about it already, and profiles have been active already for quite a while(?) - Really bad style. And that at a time when many (non-commercial) sites shut down because of the new European privacy law....

Well, not too big a deal, as (by now....) you can disable it completely (which I directly did). Anyhow it was not useful at all, as I cannot use Galaxy (even if I wanted to, which I don't). GOG for me is a game store (and it is basically my only one as I refuse to use steam, and Humble became mostly a Steam-Key re-seller).

It is nice (for those that like it) to offer more. The moment you make it mandatory I'm gone. And I'm afraid this day will come. Already now there are games that need the 'completely optional' Galaxy, and now this social media stuff that links it in even more.....

On the good side I know that whatever happens, I will keep all the games I bought here. That is my main reason to be here, and why I praise GOG wherever possible. So no bad thoughts from my side. Just the note again that a site that holds the DRM-free flag high needs to be careful when trying to introduce any kind of vendor lock-in :o
Posted May 02, 2018
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Trilarion: 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?
Personal, yes. Sensitive...? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA. Let's not resort to exaggeration.
Posted May 02, 2018
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Whoa that escalated quickly!
I appreciate my privacy and I know there are companies that can get valuble information from such a profile but to boycott this "outrage of persolnal informations" I set my profile (also on my second account NewPyk) for all to see (except friends list cuz someone could get offended). Becouse I don't care a bit.

GOG.com has provided me with best selection of classic games that I can think of. Yes, sometimes they make mistakes but almost always listen to customers. And give you choice. You want to play without any modern poop? Be my guest.
But if GOG wants to compete with other juggernauts they have to play by the rules, without it we won't have modern games without DRM or on-line multiplayer for many titles.
Cherrs GOG!
Posted May 02, 2018
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Just the other day my bank website started its own 'community'. They created a public profile for each customer and listed their account balances and recent transactions, but you could log in and turn it off if you wanted to.

Oh no wait they didn't because PRIVACY. It's 2018 and privacy is a thing now.
Posted May 02, 2018
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VanillaBaron: Just the other day my bank website started its own 'community'. They created a public profile for each customer and listed their account balances and recent transactions, but you could log in and turn it off if you wanted to.

Oh no wait they didn't because PRIVACY. It's 2018 and privacy is a thing now.
HAHAHAHAHAHA Equating banking information with a profile on a games store... You hyperbole spewing folk never cease to make me smile.

The issue here definitely isn't what the data is. Stop overreacting about that. It's about that they decided to share it to beginning instead of not... That is egregious. But let's not pretend that that this is sensitive data or that it is even in the same league as banking data. In fact, they're not even the same sport.
Posted May 02, 2018
I'll have to agree with Mr. Paladin181.

Hyperbole isn't the least bit helpful, and I wish people would stop it, unless it's tongue-in-cheek (I liked Mr. VanillaBacon's post), or so outrageous that it's obvious you're exaggerating on purpose.

At the risk of sounding like a hipster (kill me) I'd say do not use hyperbole unironically, please.

In other news, I checked a few GOG staff profiles, and they were all set to private.

The hypocrisy, lack of self-awareness & stupidity of this stunt as well as the retardedness dealing with it gives me such a massive erection, if I attached a rotating light to it, I'd be able to steer ships into harbour.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for being such a lolcow, GOG.
Post edited May 02, 2018 by Dalthnock
Posted May 02, 2018
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It's extraordinarily bad form to enable such a public concept by default, and i seriously doubt if that decision conforms with the new EU data and privacy rules.

I haven't given my consent to any type of sharing of any activity information or other information collected by GOG.

Instead an obvious choice is to guide the users of GOG.com to a "Turn on User profiles and review your privacy settings" during their next login.

That way you will see the actual interest in such a feature versus automatic sign-ons through lack of clear information - with a high degree of vocal disappointment from many GOG.com users.
Post edited May 02, 2018 by Mandylion
Posted May 02, 2018
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paladin181: HAHAHAHAHAHA Equating banking information with a profile on a games store... You hyperbole spewing folk never cease to make me smile.

The issue here definitely isn't what the data is. Stop overreacting about that. It's about that they decided to share it to beginning instead of not... That is egregious. But let's not pretend that that this is sensitive data or that it is even in the same league as banking data. In fact, they're not even the same sport.
Edit: Thinking about it, my response here comes across a lot more cuntish than I intended. At no point was any form of personal attack intended and I don't think I've conveyed that adaequatly. I'll leave it up for consistency, but feel free to ignore what basically amounts to "old man yells at clouds" and I apologize for the rather condescending tone.

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See, the thing about comparisons like that is that they're meant to point out the severity of one component (in this case the maverick attitude towards data sharing, as you've pointed out yourself) by exaggerating another (in this case the sensitivity of the data - though, considering recent events, I am not entirely sure how sound our judgement as laypersons is regarding that matter). This is usually done to demonstrate the point to those who wouldn't get it otherwise (several examples in this thread) and/or to more accurately express one's point of view (in this case the measure of disappointment with the matter at hand). If people got either of those points in the first place, this kind of comparison wouldn't be needed. In fact, it would be completely useless, if it was a 1:1 example, because that would fail to achieve those goals in the first place.

To clarify, you clearly seem to be on top of things, this is not a dig at you in any form, I just more and more feel the urge to point these things out for the sake of my own sanity.
Post edited May 02, 2018 by lolplatypus
Posted May 02, 2018
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Late to the party but this really should have been something I should have had to `opt in` from thet get go, had I wanted my data shared really should have been down to to my choice and mine alone from the start and not something which I have now needed to opt out of.

Very, very piss poor decision making from the start in my book.

Are there any other future measures on GOG should I be made aware of that I wil be automatically joined with which later I have to opt out of as I did not want to be a member of in the first place as if there is then can I please opt out of them now save having to do it later?

All I want to do is buy and play the occasional game, everything else is just fluff I want to opt out of.
Post edited May 02, 2018 by Tyronne
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Posted May 02, 2018
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Fairfox: id love to see another timeline where its still implemented 'buuut private' by default
i imagine some peeps would stay entrenched in grrr-nerdles 'coz of overall concept, others naht mind so much
I can't speak for others, but I'd be using the profile (customised, even), and I'd've bought 4 more games during the last week and a half.
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