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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!
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tinyE: Seriously, why are the "games recently played" games I haven't played in years?
It pulls from Galaxy. I haven't played FTL in months. but there it is.
I have not (and will not) read all posts in here, so I am sorry if this was already discussed. Do I understand it correctly, that even if I never used Galaxy and set the settings to "only me", people can still see size of library etc?
Cool, will look into its features...
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animalmother2105: I have not (and will not) read all posts in here, so I am sorry if this was already discussed. Do I understand it correctly, that even if I never used Galaxy and set the settings to "only me", people can still see size of library etc?
Total games owned, Total achievements Earned, Total playtime (last 2 Galaxy only). There's no way to hide these
Post edited April 23, 2018 by Pheace
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tinyE: Seriously, why are the "games recently played" games I haven't played in years?
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Darvond: It pulls from Galaxy. I haven't played FTL in months. but there it is.
I had Galaxy installed for five minutes after it came out. :P I didn't know I had even bothered to try playing on it before I screamed and uninstalled it.
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animalmother2105: I have not (and will not) read all posts in here, so I am sorry if this was already discussed. Do I understand it correctly, that even if I never used Galaxy and set the settings to "only me", people can still see size of library etc?
Right, I can see the size of your library and your online status. See the attached image.
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Socratatus: Old man mode:

Why do they always have to change things for stuff nobody asked for? I mean...
I've always wanted this, and someone in the preview thread posted a wishlist item for this that had a large number of upvotes on it, so I'm far from the only one.

Which is part of why the hysteria irritates me so much, since people are basically castigating GOG for the crime of listening to their users and adding something a lot of people actively asked to have implemented.
This seems like one more indication that Galaxy is the future.

I don't really care about the privacy thing - it's not like me owning some games is a secret. Posts in the forum are already publicly available.

But it sure seems like another way to push Galaxy....

Of course, pushing Galaxy would probably work better if they actually made galaxy available on all platforms.
I don't feel like reading through 100s of posts about this, so I'll probably duplicate someone else's comments. Not that it matters, since gog probably won't read through these posts, either.

First, since I am exclusively on Linux and exclusively (via a private network namespace I run all games in) off-line, the "time played" is misleading at best. The top listed games for me are games I've not played in years, for example. Yet another major new feature that depends on galaxy instead of even the most basic of Linux support for galaxy (which, as it turns out, causes game devs to only release Linux versions on Steam, so it affects me even though I would never use it). It should've taken 2 days to at least produce a dummy version of the galaxy libraries for Linux, but I guess that's too much to ask.

Second, the "recent forum activity" apparently only includes newly created topics. Then again, "Topics I've participated in" doesn't count created topics unless I've posted in them, and doesn't get sorted in any usable way. I guess you guys just don't really care.

Third, when listing games from other users, rather than listing a statistic that is very likely wrong for a large number of people (play time), it might be nice to see what tags have been applied to various games by their users.

Not that I care, I suppose. I successfully ignored the forum for years, and I can ignore this new feature as well. I'm not that bored, and my game backlog is large.
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Socratatus: Old man mode:

Why do they always have to change things for stuff nobody asked for? I mean...
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Jeysie: I've always wanted this, and someone in the preview thread posted a wishlist item for this that had a large number of upvotes on it, so I'm far from the only one.

Which is part of why the hysteria irritates me so much, since people are basically castigating GOG for the crime of listening to their users and adding something a lot of people actively asked to have implemented.
The "hysteria" as you like to call it is because people's information suddenly went from private to public, even *if* they were aware of the upcoming profiles and related privacy settings.

Coming this short after CA scandals and the lauded upcoming EU privacy act, it's going counter to the current mood on the internet towards things like this (facebook introduction was horribly timed as well). Had they done this last year it would've been received a lot better. Right now it just seems like they're trying to rush these things in before the GDPR is enforced, in a way the GDPR is created to specifically discourage (even if it may not directly relate to the sort of information GOG shares).
Post edited April 23, 2018 by Pheace
Jesus Fuck, are you kidding me? Where's my shelf? Where are my games?

This horrible tiny list view is all that's left?
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animalmother2105: I have not (and will not) read all posts in here, so I am sorry if this was already discussed. Do I understand it correctly, that even if I never used Galaxy and set the settings to "only me", people can still see size of library etc?
if you NEVER ever used galaxy (congrats to you) and set every privacy option to "only me" (well, to only you) or "now hidden"... YES, people can see your library size of owned games and harass you on forum about it
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I didn't read the whole thread, but did search the word "number", and saw that plenty of people have the same complaint. :-D
I'll just throw in one extra voice, hoping to be heard...

I want the number of games in my library, achievements, and time played to be private, please.
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Socratatus: Old man mode:

Why do they always have to change things for stuff nobody asked for? I mean...
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Jeysie: I've always wanted this, and someone in the preview thread posted a wishlist item for this that had a large number of upvotes on it, so I'm far from the only one.
however, you cant use this argument... i mean, there are in the wishlist many other wishes that are easy to fullfill and yet with more upvotes than this one... that are still left buried and ignored for whatever reasons
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Jeysie: I've always wanted this, and someone in the preview thread posted a wishlist item for this that had a large number of upvotes on it, so I'm far from the only one.

Which is part of why the hysteria irritates me so much, since people are basically castigating GOG for the crime of listening to their users and adding something a lot of people actively asked to have implemented.
Agreed. I didn't ask for it, because I really only ask for bug fixes, but it's a nice feature and I like having it. If I was in the habit of asking for new features I'd certainly have asked for this one.

The thing is, there is a small set of forum regulars who feel (for no good reason at all) that it is them who are GOG's true and only customers and that their wishes must take priority over all business sense and the wishes of all users who aren't a part of their cozy forum clique. Fortunately GOG knows better that to let a dozen curmudgeons decide for hundreds of thousands (or maybe even millions) of users.
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