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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!
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puviani: On a tangential note, one thing that popped up regularly on this thread is how "evil" and "unfair" the rating system is.
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So, personally, I'd say the reputation and post rating system is working exactly as it should and I'm glad it's there.
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Dalthnock: Donald Trump did nothing wrong.
I think you're conflating reputation and choice. Trump never had a stellar reputation, but voters chose him anyway. Similarly, McDonald's is well known for having less than ideal dietary properties, but people choose to eat there anyway. The goal of reputations isn't to force people to make the right choice; it's to allow people to make informed decisions.
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Dalthnock: Donald Trump did nothing wrong.
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puviani: but voters chose him anyway.
Ummm, he lost the popular vote by over 3 million, but lets not get into that here. It's a gaming forum. :D
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Dalthnock: Donald Trump did nothing wrong.
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puviani: I think you're conflating reputation and choice. Trump never had a stellar reputation, but voters chose him anyway. Similarly, McDonald's is well known for having less than ideal dietary properties, but people choose to eat there anyway. The goal of reputations isn't to force people to make the right choice; it's to allow people to make informed decisions.
I'm just testing your theory. If you're correct, that post won't be downvoted/deleted within the next hour or so.

But you do make a very good point. I completely agree.
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puviani: So, personally, I'd say the reputation and post rating system is working exactly as it should and I'm glad it's there.
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Void_Dweller: Awesome! Finally!
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Wishmaster777: Well done, Gog. Profiles look nice.
working
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grynn: Nice, I liked this thing.
exactly
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Reqruiz: At last! Great news, thanks :)
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Torval: This is awesome. Slowly the platform is evolving and maturing. Well done!
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Qz501: This is awesome! Good work!
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zBull: Hey, this is a pretty cool feature.
Thanks.
If you say so :P
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puviani: I went back and looked at the posts that were down-voted and the ones that were up-voted. Almost all of the posts that were down-voted were personal attacks against someone. Practically every down-voted post called others "whiners", "losers", "tin foil hats". The rest downplayed other people's concerns as irrelevant. Only a couple that were marked "Below viewing treshold[sic]" were benign, but they came from people who had a stream of insulting ones before, so I can easily attribute that to exasperation. The correlation between disrespectful posts and low reputations is not insignificant.
Really because I went 3 pages in and see downvotes for "Nice addition" or "Thank you for coninuing to innovate" or "I like it", etc. So yea there are some post that would qualify as that perhaps, but not all... not even close.

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puviani: Conversely, those that are marked "high rated" tend to be posts that are better articulated or researched than the ones around it, and they are generally formulated in a polite way. Again, there seems to be a significant correlation between respectful posts and high reputations.
They are "high rated" because they are bashing GOG and conforming to the outraged minority's opinion. Nothing more, nothing less. Being polite has nothing to do with it.
Post edited May 02, 2018 by BKGaming
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What a mess and one that could have so easily been avoided.

Profiles looks pretty neat for those that like that sort of thing so not a bad idea at all.
Of no interest to me though so disabled and moving on.
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Dalthnock: Donald Trump did nothing wrong.
Your choice in politics is interesting but meh, to each their own, I never got the appeal to downvote posts, I myself only indulge in upvoting funny posts or posts containing the lowest form of humor (puns).
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puviani: but voters chose him anyway.
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tinyE: Ummm, he lost the popular vote by over 3 million, but lets not get into that here. It's a gaming forum. :D
U.S. presidents aren't elected by popular vote, so the distinction is irrelevant. And the same is true in most representative democracies that give regional weight to votes. In many democratic countries, citizens don't even get to vote for the head of state; it's the elected representatives that the elect or appoint the head of state. So this is really a "dog bites man" story. And a moldy one at that.
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tinyE: Ummm, he lost the popular vote by over 3 million, but lets not get into that here. It's a gaming forum. :D
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puviani: U.S. presidents aren't elected by popular vote, so the distinction is irrelevant. And the same is true in most representative democracies that give regional weight to votes. In many democratic countries, citizens don't even get to vote for the head of state; it's the elected representatives that the elect or appoint the head of state. So this is really a "dog bites man" story. And a moldy one at that.
Like I said, this isn't the time or place for this discussion, I just wanted to point out that one little fact.
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puviani: U.S. presidents aren't elected by popular vote, so the distinction is irrelevant. And the same is true in most representative democracies that give regional weight to votes. In many democratic countries, citizens don't even get to vote for the head of state; it's the elected representatives that the elect or appoint the head of state. So this is really a "dog bites man" story. And a moldy one at that.
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tinyE: Like I said, this isn't the time or place for this discussion, I just wanted to point out that one little fact.
That little fact is made irrelevant by the Constitution of the United States, so I fail to see the use of pointing it out twice.
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tinyE: Ummm, he lost the popular vote by over 3 million, but lets not get into that here. It's a gaming forum. :D
Why is it lefties only care about the popular vote when they lose? Both sides knew the rules going in, you don't play chess then cry when your King is taken even though you took more of your opponents game pieces off the board.
Post edited May 02, 2018 by BKGaming
I'm not getting into this. :P

You two have fun.
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freythman: I know this is being discussed ad nauseam, but why were profiles enabled by default, and why were they made public by default? Shouldn't these settings have been opt-in, rather than opt-out?

Just tossing my $0.02 on the fire.
It would likely be the same pretzel logic that had them include Galaxy installers in the game files: those that are less 'tech savvy' would have a hard time finding how to enable them and opt in.
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GR00T: It would likely be the same pretzel logic that had them include Galaxy installers in the game files: those that are less 'tech savvy' would have a hard time finding how to enable them and opt in.
Well years of collected data would suggest that they are correct. Of course, that's not to say they couldn't have come up with a better idea to force people to go to settings and change stuff, but then they would probably get complaints about annoying users with popups / banners, etc.
Post edited May 02, 2018 by BKGaming
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Thanks for the option to disable the profile.

However, reading and reflecting on the reasoning and the PR spin, I now finally realize
gog.com forums is no longer a place I'll be happy hanging out in.

Maybe I'll start spending time in reddit subforums, like the gog representative seemed to suggest.

Thanks, was fun as long as it was fun.