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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 April 23, 2018
Can you guys fix the issue with the backgrounds wallpaper? I am seeing duplicate images and some that are with x boxes. I wanted to use shantae and the pirates curse but it is using the same image as shantae risky revenge. :(
Posted April 23, 2018
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Another step in long way from GoG to JAGD (just another game distributor)
Posted April 23, 2018
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WebJunkie: Couldn't be bothered to read through 21 pages but can I bypass this profile junk and not be forced to have it?
No. You only can adjust your account settings to remove some of the information from that profile page.

But you can vote for an option to disable your profile page:
Disable "view profile" function for customers who care for their privacy!
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Posted April 23, 2018
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Jeysie: People are sitting here filling the thread about how a 100% voluntary option that does literally nothing but show what games you own and have played and forum into that's already public, and is an option that Steam and most other gaming venues have had for a long while now, and a feature that a large number of people asked for, means that GOG has betrayed them and violated their privacy in horrific and unforgivable ways they want to delete all their games and retain a lawyer for.

How am I supposed to respond to that without being patronizing? I mean, I actually tried being calm and understanding, and in return I got a barrage of posts about how I must be brainwashed if I can't understand how a people finding out what games they play is such a massive violation of their well-being and how the sky is falling that it happened. So.

Likewise, what originally started out as a reasonable "Hey GOG can you make sure the default setting is max privacy" has turned into a barrage of posts with people saying "turn this shit off" and "I wonder how the EU is going to feel about this" and generally screaming and crying about how GOG has betrayed them. It's getting to be actively secondhand cringe inducing at this point.
You realize most of the people in this thread are still on the "we want a setting for max privacy" side of the debate and don't need or want the profile feature to be removed entirely, right?

And what I and many other posters were actually angry (or disappointed in my case) with is more that, yet again, GOG implemented a major feature without any testing (as evidenced by the fact they broke the forum reply notification system), no feedback and no warning. Despite the fact that they had several PR disasters by doing exactly the same thing several times before.

Seriously, how hard would it have been to just send a survey to every GOG user when they decided to implement profiles, and then take into account the opinions of both the people wanting complete privacy and those wanting more features? That's really all I, and many other posters, want.

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Jeysie: I wonder if people ever realize that screaming bloody murder because GOG did nothing but implement a feature that was requested by a lot of users and that's been common in just about every other gaming platform is way, way, WAY more likely to draw mockery than owning 1000 games.

I mean, I definitely cringe at having to explain this to my Steam friends. "Yeah GOG finally got the same game-sharing feature that Steam has had all this time, but everyone's screaming like GOG just murdered and ate their firstborn child for doing it." I wish all those people who say they want GOG to be taken seriously as a gaming platform would realize this is sort of reaction is going to achieve the exact opposite.
No offence, but I couldn't care less whether GOG is "taken seriously as a gaming platform". All I want is for it to stay a DRM-free store, and become more consumer-friendly instead of always springing new features out of nowhere and implementing them in a half-assed way.
Posted April 23, 2018
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This is to you GoG, directly; (I'm not reading 21 pages) -- I don't like you making a bunch of stuff public that mayt not have been before. I don't want people to know what games I'm playing, especially when because this information can be scraped and used against me (advertising, profiling).

Rule of thumb -- you want to add new features? Don't ever make it on by default. Don't make stuff public that wasn't before *ever*, and don't assume everybody wants it.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Pheace: Are you this dense? It's not a 100% voluntary. That's what people are complaining about. Before you showed nothing. Now your profile shows your total games/achievements/time played without the ability to hide it.
You guys do realize that you are always going to be able to see your own profile, right? I'm starting to think that's the real cause of a lot of the so-called "People can still see everything!" screams going on.

Like for instance, in going to your profile, absolutely nothing is visible; all I get is a "this user's info is private" message. So that makes me even less inclined to take everyone's "GOG isn't respecting my privacy!" complaints seriously.

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Yepoleb: As everything GOG announces it came with a few stupid decisions that ruin the thing for the vocal minority, but that's nothing new really.
I noted in one of my posts in this mess that despite having been here almost since the site opened I rarely come to the forums, and now I'm starting to understand why I never spent time posting here. Is this sort of extreme overreaction to everything really that normal an occurrence? That's kind of... offputting.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Jeysie: You guys do realize that you are always going to be able to see your own profile, right? I'm starting to think that's the real cause of a lot of the so-called "People can still see everything!" screams going on.

Like for instance, in going to your profile, absolutely nothing is visible; all I get is a "this user's info is private" message. So that makes me even less inclined to take everyone's "GOG isn't respecting my privacy!" complaints seriously.
Yep, when everyone around you is telling you you're wrong the problem's clearly with them. Pointless
Posted April 23, 2018
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@Jeysie: Ask yourself this -- what is the benefit of this? Having a page that now tells everybody everything you're doing on GoG and when benefits who, exactly? It's inane, of no relevance to other users and it's only outcome will be mass scraping by shady advertisers.

Nobody asked for this, and I don't even know what GoG thinks this is going to be useful for.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Jeysie: People are sitting here filling the thread about how a 100% voluntary option that does literally nothing but show what games you own and have played and forum into that's already public, and is an option that Steam and most other gaming venues have had for a long while now, and a feature that a large number of people asked for, means that GOG has betrayed them and violated their privacy in horrific and unforgivable ways they want to delete all their games and retain a lawyer for.
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Telika: Yes, people do react as if their most intimate privacy had be violated and all their moves are now being monitored and sent right to Cambrige Analytica, while it's just their number of games (and time played and achievement if they use galaxy, but if they use galaxy then complaining now is about as ridiculous as complaining about facebook privacy abuse).

But no, it's not a 100% voluntary option, precisely because it shows info that's not already public, and because this display is compulsory. And no, it's not even something that Steam already has, because Steam profiles are not obligatory.

So your apology of this system is as dishonest as the hysterical outrage is ridiculous. It's not the end of the world, it's not the end of all privacy, but yes it's imposed information sharing, and this is enough to deserve criticism. Especially on a website that was presenting itself (long ago) as an alternative to the internet social integration trend (which is the most common customer-side justification of DRM).
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Posted April 23, 2018
Thanks for the nice system GOG. Now where are Mad Dog McCree, Space Ace, Dragon's Lair, etc so I can show them? ;)
Posted April 23, 2018
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Yepoleb: [...] As everything GOG announces it came with a few stupid decisions that ruin the thing for the vocal minority, but that's nothing new really. Hopefully they fix this soon so we can all enjoy the new profile pages.
Spoken like a politician who lost votes. Sorry for the language, but "vocal minority" my ass! How do you determine that this is a minority when the majority of GOG's userbase does not use the forums? The silent majority never made a post and is probably pretty happy about that right now...
Posted April 23, 2018
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Yepoleb: As everything GOG announces it came with a few stupid decisions that ruin the thing for the vocal minority, but that's nothing new really.
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Jeysie: I noted in one of my posts in this mess that despite having been here almost since the site opened I rarely come to the forums, and now I'm starting to understand why I never spent time posting here. Is this sort of extreme overreaction to everything really that normal an occurrence? That's kind of... offputting.
How is this the quote you choose to illustrate your point? My full comment is pretty well balanced being about 50% positive but also pointing out that GOG has done a few easily avoidable things recently that alienate the vocal part of their userbase. I'm not judging these reactions, just pointing out a fact that's also perfectly illustrated by the rest of this thread.
Post edited April 23, 2018 by Yepoleb
Posted April 23, 2018
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People complaining about the introduction of a feature they don't have to use yet here I am...
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AmethystViper: People complaining about the introduction of a feature they don't have to use yet here I am...
What you and Jeysie seem to be missing is that even if you set your profile to private and every privacy setting to only me, people can still see how see how many games you own and how long you've played games on Galaxy. Not a big deal, sure, but still too much for people who really care about keeping their privacy.

Edit: There are also apparently some problems with stuff like friends being able to display your activity feed to everyone if you set it to "friends only" and they set it to "public", but I didn't test that so I'm not sure how it works.
Post edited April 23, 2018 by mystral
Posted April 23, 2018
I think it is an interesting concept that should have been set to private first and then lets people tweak what they wanted from it. I do like that you can change background and colour scheme.
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