It seems that you're using an outdated browser. Some things may not work as they should (or don't work at all).
We suggest you upgrade newer and better browser like: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera

×
Community
General discussionUPDATE: Introducing GOG Profiles(2385 posts)(2385 posts)
(2385 posts)
Pages:
1
25
50
75
100
125
145
146
147
148
149
159
This is my favourite topic
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 03, 2018
avatar
Telika: I'd say that you are the one who wrongly estimates the customers, of which we are probably a non-representative subset.
avatar
toxicTom: Yes maybe... but I doubt most customers coming here for DRM-free games actually care for profiles. Or at least people caring about DRM-free will tend to be caring about privacy issues too - it's both about control in a digital world. Control we DRM-free enthusiasts and privacy aware people want in OUR hands, and not in the hands of some company.

This thread an a few others have seen quite a few posts of (often long time) customers which I have never seen on the forums before. And almost all feedback from those people was negative, not necessarily about the profiles themselves, but about how GOG dragged them out in the open without a warning and (at first) no way to shut them off.

Many of those "non-forum" accounts I had a chance to look at had hundred of games, in some cases >1,500... (before they made themselves invisible again). I think those people are the important customers - mostly silently spending a lot of money here building large libraries and always coming back for more. Pissing those people off will be really harmful for business.

The next thing is "multipliers". I can only speak for myself, I have recommended GOG to hundreds, maybe thousands (counting in "lurkers") of people both in RL and on other platforms (just not Facebook or Twitter). I know for a fact that some of these people created an account and spent money here, because I know them personally. I would assume that more people I don't know that well at least turned their attention here and it's probable at least some are now customers.

Now, after the latest stunt with the public profiles I will have to stop recommending GOG for a while. Like Trilarion said - the trust is gone. And recommending a company with bad business practice in the end falls back on me. I won't risk that.
only 500 games sofar ... thats because of limitation to play any game, besides even if i could play them like 3d and fpp i would not buy them because its not my type of game, and i also dont care or like profiles, it doesnt add anything to me as an old classic gamer :D i have a nice number of games elsewhere but no profile shown :D because its only "eye candy " ...
avatar
KnightW0lf: as for me even having this old account i never actually though there was privacy to start with, i thought it was just another store like steam, origin, uplay,... the only difference it had drm- free games and thats all, that was the only difference as well classic games
avatar
OldOldGamer: Well, I got here to grab classic games. This is mostly gone now. Very little joy anymore.
As for DRM-free: I'm becoming more sceptical now.

We are speaking of downloaded games. No nice boxes, manuals, maps and props.
Whatever they add as free goodies, is just vaporware.
I have my ~1000 boxes (actual number) in my house, as an open museum, and that what I'm looking at.

I can't see myself backing up all these TBs of downloaded games anyway.
It's completely unpractical, will break my budget (yes, having TBs of HDDs is a cost and HDD break too) and, in 10 years time, they could even not run at all; possibly not even the installer will run.

So why I'm here anymore?
Not sure.

And yes, GOG is obviously slacking lately.
Things are poorly done. Poorly advertised and executed.
I own most of the games I care about and prices seems to grow (sales are much less attractive).
I understand , i always wonder how silly people are: they collect 1,000s of games ... but what will happen when we oldies are gone to the spirits in the sky ? imagine all those digital games and maybe even 1.000s of retal cd.dvd and maybe a lot of movies on dvd? some might even collect many books....if our kids /grandkids find that stuff after we went bybye to the sky they will khave a good laugh : D
Anyway its weird to see us collecting and collecting :D
Post edited May 03, 2018 by gamesfreak64
Posted May 03, 2018
Shit, now I have the terminal purple dot. :P

I think it might be for something in the game specific forums but when I click on Forum Replies I get The Bear.

It's gonna take me all day to track this down.
Posted May 03, 2018
Thanks again GOG for this feature and for adjusting it so it can be turned off totally! :)

I like that it's optional just like the client! :)
Posted May 03, 2018
avatar
toxicTom: Yes maybe... but I doubt most customers coming here for DRM-free games actually care for profiles. Or at least people caring about DRM-free will tend to be caring about privacy issues too - it's both about control in a digital world. Control we DRM-free enthusiasts and privacy aware people want in OUR hands, and not in the hands of some company.

This thread an a few others have seen quite a few posts of (often long time) customers which I have never seen on the forums before. And almost all feedback from those people was negative, not necessarily about the profiles themselves, but about how GOG dragged them out in the open without a warning and (at first) no way to shut them off.

Many of those "non-forum" accounts I had a chance to look at had hundred of games, in some cases >1,500... (before they made themselves invisible again). I think those people are the important customers - mostly silently spending a lot of money here building large libraries and always coming back for more. Pissing those people off will be really harmful for business.

The next thing is "multipliers". I can only speak for myself, I have recommended GOG to hundreds, maybe thousands (counting in "lurkers") of people both in RL and on other platforms (just not Facebook or Twitter). I know for a fact that some of these people created an account and spent money here, because I know them personally. I would assume that more people I don't know that well at least turned their attention here and it's probable at least some are now customers.

Now, after the latest stunt with the public profiles I will have to stop recommending GOG for a while. Like Trilarion said - the trust is gone. And recommending a company with bad business practice in the end falls back on me. I won't risk that.
avatar
gamesfreak64: only 500 games sofar ... thats because of limitation to play any game, besides even if i could play them like 3d and fpp i would not buy them because its not my type of game, and i also dont care or like profiles, it doesnt add anything to me as an old classic gamer :D i have a nice number of games elsewhere but no profile shown :D because its only "eye candy " ...
avatar
OldOldGamer: Well, I got here to grab classic games. This is mostly gone now. Very little joy anymore.
As for DRM-free: I'm becoming more sceptical now.

We are speaking of downloaded games. No nice boxes, manuals, maps and props.
Whatever they add as free goodies, is just vaporware.
I have my ~1000 boxes (actual number) in my house, as an open museum, and that what I'm looking at.

I can't see myself backing up all these TBs of downloaded games anyway.
It's completely unpractical, will break my budget (yes, having TBs of HDDs is a cost and HDD break too) and, in 10 years time, they could even not run at all; possibly not even the installer will run.

So why I'm here anymore?
Not sure.

And yes, GOG is obviously slacking lately.
Things are poorly done. Poorly advertised and executed.
I own most of the games I care about and prices seems to grow (sales are much less attractive).
avatar
gamesfreak64: I understand , i always wonder how silly people are: they collect 1,000s of games ... but what will happen when we oldies are gone to the spirits in the sky ? imagine all those digital games and maybe even 1.000s of retal cd.dvd and maybe a lot of movies on dvd? some might even collect many books....if our kids /grandkids find that stuff after we went bybye to the sky they will khave a good laugh : D
Anyway its weird to see us collecting and collecting :D
I guess a lot depends on the relationship you have with your parents, and what you are collecting.
I see many passions transferred form parents to sons, if it make sense and done properly.

I can clearly see my old boxes as something valuable and historical.
I can definitely see my MG passed on.
I can barely see by downloaded games passed on.
Posted May 03, 2018
avatar
Telika: The gog customers with DRM concerns are now negligible.
Do you have real/hard evidence (not just conjecture and opinion as in the rest of your post) to back this up?
Posted May 03, 2018
avatar
tinyE: Shit, now I have the terminal purple dot. :P

I think it might be for something in the game specific forums but when I click on Forum Replies I get The Bear.

It's gonna take me all day to track this down.
Yup. Forum replies gives me a bear also, but if you can track down the reply then look at it, clearing the dot, forum replies loads perfectly fine.
Posted May 03, 2018
high rated
avatar
KnightW0lf: gog was always a drm-free store but as for privacy part gog never really said it was for or against privacy,
There are various quotes on the website saying otherwise. Example: "We respect your privacy, so does GOG Galaxy." from https://www.gog.com/galaxy
Posted May 03, 2018
avatar
tinyE: Shit, now I have the terminal purple dot. :P

I think it might be for something in the game specific forums but when I click on Forum Replies I get The Bear.

It's gonna take me all day to track this down.
avatar
paladin181: Yup. Forum replies gives me a bear also, but if you can track down the reply then look at it, clearing the dot, forum replies loads perfectly fine.
No luck.
I went through all 900+ game forums for what I own. I must have missed something.
Posted May 03, 2018
avatar
bouncedk: Jesus, you guys are trying so hard to be steam. What's next? DRM ridden games?
Yes.

avatar
tinyE: Shit, now I have the terminal purple dot. :P
You should see a doctor about that!
Post edited May 03, 2018 by Lifthrasil
Posted May 03, 2018
avatar
bouncedk: Jesus, you guys are trying so hard to be steam. What's next? DRM ridden games?
avatar
Lifthrasil: Yes.

avatar
tinyE: Shit, now I have the terminal purple dot. :P
avatar
Lifthrasil: You should see a doctor about that!
It's fine so long as the alarm bell top right doesn't ring...
Posted May 03, 2018
avatar
tinyE: No luck.
I went through all 900+ game forums for what I own. I must have missed something.
You should trust GOG, they always write buggy codes and provide buggy notification.
And the purple dot is not even a notification...
Posted May 03, 2018
high rated
avatar
Gersen: ... It's not "crapware" it's they own client it's not like they bundle real spyware or bitcoin miners; that there are very valid reason for wanting a version without it (i.e. because of bandwidth or storage reasons) is one thing, but it doesn't make it any sore "crapware / spyware" or whatever.
I know it's their own client. I just call it crapware, because the way the try to sneak on on your computer is the same strategy crapware uses. Having to opt out from their "completely optional" client was already borderline bad. Sorry, but I don't think they are the good guys anymore.

Also, for me the number of games I own is similarly private information like my name, less but still very private. I'm fine with anyone wanting to display anything about themselves, but one probably cannot assume that every customer of GOG wanted that. This thread is full of examples of customers who didn't want that but their data was published nevertheless. If GOG was the good guys they would have asked and respected the wishes of those who do not want that. They didn't. And although they rowed back after all, I really don't want to witness another of this special GOG stunts.

It doesn't have to matter anything to anyone else, I'm just disappointed by GOG.
Posted May 03, 2018
high rated
avatar
Gersen: Also let's not forget that we are talking about the number of games owned, achievements, etc.. that you want an option to hide those information that's perfectly fine, but on the other side it is hardly any "sensitive" data, they probably don't fall under the "opt-out by default" part of GDPR; it's no like they suddenly decided to release every Gog users real name or home address.
Games owned are a reformulation of your transaction records. They are no more allowed to publish that information about you than your grocery store is allowed to publish how many pounds of butter you buy. GOG is allowed to publish the aggregate of all its users, but specifics of your transaction records, even if they're rounded or approximated, are private information that is legally protected, even before GDPR. The moment there's a linear relationship between the data published and money spent, it falls under financial disclosure laws that are a lot more severe than disclosure of your e-mail address.
Posted May 03, 2018
avatar
Gersen: ... It's not "crapware" it's they own client it's not like they bundle real spyware or bitcoin miners; that there are very valid reason for wanting a version without it (i.e. because of bandwidth or storage reasons) is one thing, but it doesn't make it any sore "crapware / spyware" or whatever.
avatar
Trilarion: I know it's their own client. I just call it crapware, because the way the try to sneak on on your computer is the same strategy crapware uses. Having to opt out from their "completely optional" client was already borderline bad. Sorry, but I don't think they are the good guys anymore.

Also, for me the number of games I own is similarly private information like my name, less but still very private. I'm fine with anyone wanting to display anything about themselves, but one probably cannot assume that every customer of GOG wanted that. This thread is full of examples of customers who didn't want that but their data was published nevertheless. If GOG was the good guys they would have asked and respected the wishes of those who do not want that. They didn't. And although they rowed back after all, I really don't want to witness another of this special GOG stunts.

It doesn't have to matter anything to anyone else, I'm just disappointed by GOG.
Opt out ? as long as they dont auto download/install the galaxy client when starting the setup i'm okay...
It would be wrong if the client got installed by default if you don't tick off the square during install . meaning the button is ticked and client will be autoinstalled unless you click it of....

Basically that would be forbidden, with a flashplayer update download you will see a text warning you that extras will be installed like Mcaffee antivirus and or other extra garbage stuff Adobe affiliaites with.

Anyway , this one is offtopic but similar:

how do many people in EU countries really feel if they would be automatically be marked as donor by default with a line like: " don't mind ..." (geen bezwaar in Dutch)

I bet many don't care about that, some Dutch did thats why they want to start a referendum ( befor Govt remove the referendum (consultative referendum).
Post edited May 03, 2018 by gamesfreak64
Posted May 03, 2018
low rated
avatar
puviani: The moment there's a linear relationship between the data published and money spent, it falls under financial disclosure laws that are a lot more severe than disclosure of your e-mail address.
Well except there is no such thing here, knowing that somebody own 100 games doesn't gives you any financial information; and it doesn't tell you that this person spent twice the amount of money than somebody only owning 50.

If all the games were the same price and were never part of sale then yes it would be a linear relationship, but here games can vary from 1$- to 80$+, you have gifts, free games, regional pricing, sales. Knowing how many games somebody owns, even knowing which one he owns doesn't gives you any real info about the amount of money he spent. (e.g. somebody owning 100 games he bought full price might have spent a lot more money than somebody owning 300 he only bought on sales)
Post edited May 03, 2018 by Gersen
Pages:
1
25
50
75
100
125
145
146
147
148
149
159
This is my favourite topic
Community
General discussionUPDATE: Introducing GOG Profiles(2385 posts)(2385 posts)
(2385 posts)