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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
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gryffondor95: I just can't understand the people complaining about "muh my privacy". Just remember that Internet is a public space. If you decide to take a piss in the middle of the streets, are you going to yell about your right to privacy at those who tell you you're gross ?

Now, if GOG starts sharing your email adress or private informations like those around without your consent, then we have a problem. But until they do, everything's fine. And let's drop the slippery slope fallacy immediately - there's a hard line between what's important, private stuff, and what's not, and your game statistics are of the latter kind.
No, parts of the Internet are public. Many other parts are private (or are supposed to be anyway). Obviously, if you decide to get an account on a social media site like Facebook, then you have no right to complain if they make some of your information public.

GOG, on the other hand, is a store. Stores, by definition, are supposed to keep their customers' private information private unless they agree to make it public. In this case, GOG forces users to share some of their private information whether they want to or not, which is not a good thing, no matter whether you or I care about said information being made public.


In summary, do I care whether anyone can know how many games I own on GOG and that I don't use Galaxy? Not really, to be honest. But I do care that other people care about it and that it is their right to keep that stuff private. It's mostly a matter of principle at this point.
Posted April 23, 2018
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gryffondor95: I just can't understand the people complaining about "muh my privacy". Just remember that Internet is a public space. If you decide to take a piss in the middle of the streets, are you going to yell about your right to privacy at those who tell you you're gross ?

Now, if GOG starts sharing your email adress or private informations like those around without your consent, then we have a problem. But until they do, everything's fine. And let's drop the slippery slope fallacy immediately - there's a hard line between what's important, private stuff, and what's not, and your game statistics are of the latter kind.
No, the Internet is not a public space. There are plenty of private spaces on the Internet and the accounts that people have with companies are private. And that includes ALL information in a person's account, not just what YOU think is important. And that's a matter of law, especially for European companies. Notwithstanding your approval of this breech, GOG has created a very serious legal liability for itself and they don't have the muscle of Facebook or Google to fight it or pay millions in punitive fines. When European regulators fall on their heads over this, the fines could cripple them. And, by the way, all that's needed is for people to complain to the commissioner and the thing takes on a life of its own. They won't be able to say, "Oops, sorry. We'll fix it now." Under EU rules, they would still be liable for fines for all the information they leaked before the fix. They might be able to get some consideration if they fix it within hours and try to pass it off as an error, but if they wait for weeks or months to fix it and they let the damages accumulate, we might be looking for games elsewhere in the not too distant future. And the fact that you think that "everything's fine" won't factor into how it goes down when they're sitting in front of the commission trying to explain why they ignored demands from their customers to desist from these illegal acts.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Jeysie: 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.
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Djaron: but the fact that GOG still fails to deliver to a dev studio enough/any GOG keys for them to provide their game to their customer nearly a week after release is SURE helping GOG to be taken seriously as a gaming platform ? (while the sheer exact needed volume had been known for months)

or initially curating out the latest game of a studio that so far released every of their previous games on this platform's catalog ?

was just to make sure i understood correctly what makes a gaming platform to be taken seriously or not to either customers and/or partners
With my history, i'd be doubting that dev /studio more over gog since none of my KS backed games that had a gog option failed to deliver one "before" launch. Latest case being Battletech for wich i already have a key since saturday.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Gersen: Also anybody knows what the whole : [username] shared a thought thing is ? is it a private message ? or is it when you enter something in the "what's up" edit box ?
It is the "what's up" message.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Please add an option to completely hide your profile.
Please add an option to turn off activity feed notifications.
Please add an option to hide your online status.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Honestly, what are you guys up to that you'd be so concerned about people seeing you played some Eurojank RPG for like 3 1/2 hours?
Posted April 23, 2018
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Olauron: It is the "what's up" message.
Ah ok, thanks.
Posted April 23, 2018
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If this was so desperately needed, it should have been opt-in through a pop-up. I left Facebook and now GOG is turning into it.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Ophelium: I would like to delineate my virtual lawn and have people get off it.

Can I have this established as a right?
The way our chancellor views the internet, I'm pretty sure you can over here, but only if that virtual lawn is literally on German soil.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Point of interest I haven't noticed before, so don't know how long it's been there - the popup that shows up when you hover your mouse over someone's username says at the bottom exactly when that user first joined GOG - that popup shows up even without being logged into GOG, so everyone on the Internet can see it.

I'm not entirely sure that's information I want to share with everyone on the Internet. And there's no way to turn it off, just like all that other user information that's shared with everyone without me having a choice in the matter... nice wallpapers though.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Yepoleb: How is this the quote you choose to illustrate your point?
Sorry, I didn't mean to make it seem like I was including you as being part of the overreaction.

You just offered a point for me to work from to express my disappointed exasperation with finding out the hard way what the GOG community apparently behaves like. If the wider gaming community picks up on the reaction people are having here to such a bog-standard normal feature being added, I'm probably ironically start empathizing with the desire to pretend you don't have a GOG account.

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Pheace: You're clearly trolling at this point.
At this point I'm convinced all of you are trolling me.

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Pheace: what used to be private before and it's right there on that picture
IT SAYS NOTHING BUT "This profile's section is private
Pheace's current privacy settings limit visibility of their activity" FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE.

Forget trolling, I'm pretty sure you anti-profile folks are actively gaslighting people at this point. Somehow blank profiles magically are showing private data, somehow user-customizable privacy profiles magically means profiles are compulsory. I give up, there's no debating with you people when we can't even agree on reality.

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gryffondor95: I just can't understand the people complaining about "muh my privacy". Just remember that Internet is a public space. If you decide to take a piss in the middle of the streets, are you going to yell about your right to privacy at those who tell you you're gross ?

Now, if GOG starts sharing your email adress or private informations like those around without your consent, then we have a problem. But until they do, everything's fine. And let's drop the slippery slope fallacy immediately - there's a hard line between what's important, private stuff, and what's not, and your game statistics are of the latter kind.
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AmethystViper: Thank you.
Yeah, seriously. It's good to know not everyone on these forums is nuts, though I'm still really regretting finding out what the GOG community is actually like.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Ophelium: I would like to delineate my virtual lawn and have people get off it.

Can I have this established as a right?
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Vainamoinen: The way our chancellor views the internet, I'm pretty sure you can over here, but only if that virtual lawn is literally on German soil.
Eh, then I'd have to live with a bit of censorship I'm not used to.

I authentically debated moving there for a while after Herr Drumpf was elected.
Posted April 23, 2018
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MattHornet: Point of interest I haven't noticed before, so don't know how long it's been there - the popup that shows up when you hover your mouse over someone's username says at the bottom exactly when that user first joined GOG - that popup shows up even without being logged into GOG, so everyone on the Internet can see it.
Not sure what you mean, but if you mean the month/year when registered on Gog it was always displayed right under your name (i.e. Registered : ....) and it was visible without needing to login.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Chacranajxy: Honestly, what are you guys up to that you'd be so concerned about people seeing you played some Eurojank RPG for like 3 1/2 hours?
It's the GOG/gamer way to whine about something inconsequential.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Chacranajxy: Honestly, what are you guys up to that you'd be so concerned about people seeing you played some Eurojank RPG for like 3 1/2 hours?
Some of us are weird introverts who dislike most people. It's not about the numbers, the time or the cheevos. If I play X game and some other person plays X game as well, that other person will think "Oh, I have something in common with them, maybe I should message them". And there is a subset of us weird introverts who don't feel like we should forbid communication because there are a few nice people worth talking to. And now, this other person will invade our personal space when we have no desire to interact with them.

My friends on Facebook, Steam and here are people that I have a separate connection with outside of those fora. I don't want random folk asking me about Hollow Knight and if it's worth buying.

I understand that this may be a logical leap of some magnitude, but it's happened to me before and it probably could happen again.
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