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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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Jeysie: *snip*
Funny how you keep completely ignoring the posts that don't fit your "all you people who are against profiles are raging pro-privacy nuts" rhetoric, as well as all the posts that actually explained what we're complaining about (i.e. not being able to hide Galaxy activity or the size of your library).

While I thought you were merely a little obtuse before, at this point I have to agree with Pheace that you are trolling.
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Jeysie: IT SAYS NOTHING BUT "This profile's section is private
Pheace's current privacy settings limit visibility of their activity" FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE.
Trying to help.
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gryffondor95: [...] there's a hard line between what's important, private stuff, and what's not, and your game statistics are of the latter kind.
If only it was that easy. Data can be linked to other data via metadata. That means that the line between "personal data that can be traced to someone" and "cannot be traced back to anyone" is a blurry one at best. The best recourse to be certain that a data set cannot be traced back to you is to not create it. The second best would be to not publicly make it available.

I mean, take a gander at what the GDPR means for me as a landlord: I am held responsible for all of the data I collect from my tenants: I may only collect what I directly need for the tenancy, in the first place, I need to keep a list that shows who has access to that data, and I have to delete it as soon as I don't need it any more. I am also responsible that any third parties that use such data (such as providers for electricity) comply with the GDPR just as I do.

And here we have a company that, without need, collects data about me, opts me in to share it with third parties by default, and doesn't give me a way to completely opt out of it. It's not a question of my gaming habits of being of earth-shattering importance. It's about a company not having the right to collect (and share!) that data unless I give it to them.
Can I turn off the activity feed messages that show I've played a game for a certain amount of time? I discovered I can manually remove said messages, but I really would only want it to show I've put 50 or 100 hours into something.

Conversely, could you set it up so that only the most recently reached one is shown? If I have 50 hours in a game, I don't need my activity feed to show when I reached 25, 10, and 5 hours, respectively.

I'm happy with either option. I just came in and found my activity feed was clogged with a bunch of "played game X for 5 hours" messages.
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Ophelium: Eh, then I'd have to live with a bit of censorship I'm not used to.
That is certainly true. Though it mostly affects swastikas and holocaust denials, and I assure you, you don't really miss those when they're gone. On the other hand, when the press is getting sued for really fucking up, they're paying like 2,000, like 10,000 bucks over here and not 114 million. So that's one indirect but rather effective form censorship you actually don't have.

But, of course, we have our privacy eroded just like in every other country that takes their norms from companies that profit from see-through customers.
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Jeysie: snip
While I largly agree with you, you are waisting your time here. If people want to vent about the changes let them vent. GOG will either take the feedback and make some improvements or they won't. Sooner or latter the complaints will calm down and people will either accept it (or the changes) or move on.

I've done enough of my own arguing around here to know...
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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
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darkangelz: 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.
well your record was luckier than mine

out of the 5 projects that i backed up that included/proposed DRM free builds initially during the campaign, and/or gog ones specifically... battletech is the only one for which i got my gog key delivered in due time, flawlessly, without trouble, without having to send support emails here and there several times

and atm, i still cant play another game that is already released here and i already paid.

but that is off topic. i just wanted to explain that there were some priorities, as a store, to have, over the trendy social features.

but again, when they launched galaxy in beta, and until it exited beta, i too had several severe hiccup with GOG and its rech/customer support... because their priority is usually clearly with their whimsical galaxy and social trendy feature that sure the majority likes, but it shouldnt impede their regular working as a store, if you ask me.
the regular shopping, payment/checkout, sale/tech support should always be the priority for a store, and not sacrificed for the sake of whatever new golden goose to chase... or am i wrong ?

right know, all it looks like, from some distance afar, is some clumsy rushed attempt to force implementation of some features, even if flawed and buggy, soon enough to take effect before EU's GDPR legislation kicks in, as an obvious attempt to circumvene and bypass it... Which is, alone by itself, is already a clear shady behavior and that tells much about GOG. but that is only my opinion
i mean i had worked into tech jobs... and usually, when a company want to make some major tech changes, it is not rushed like that... therea are safeguardingprotocols, beta, internal tests, rollback infrastructures that could take hand if the launch is failing and such. I never saw any company i worked for, or some of my former study comrade in their own companies, displaying such level of recklessness
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https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/04/23/gog-adds-user-profiles/

Even RPS took note of this thread.
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Is my slip,showing?
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GOG, really...

You added a nice feature... and messed it up. For me it's okay to have profile visible to other users here. It's fine for me if people see how many games I own and how much time I spend with them (I must not forget to start HuniePop before I go tbed though...)...

But that's my choice. There should be a big red checkbox to disable this by default.... And actually it should be disabled by default.

A lot of people I know (not active on the forums here) are really pissed off that they suddenly have a profile and some information is shared by default - and some even can't be disabled.

I don't dislike the profile page per se, and will probably use it. But they way it's forced on people is really really wrong. You're pissing off a lot of "silent" customers here.
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BKGaming: Sooner or latter the complaints will calm down and people will either accept or move on.
Sooner or later, they will use Steam anyway...

Sooner or later, they will use Galaxy anyway...

Sooner or later, they will accept the way profiles work...

We'll see.
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CARRiON-XCII: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/04/23/gog-adds-user-profiles/

Even RPS took note of this thread.
If GOG fix the privacy issues, I’ll happily disable and ignore profiles while leaving others to social their hearts out.

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...made me laugh.
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toxicTom: GOG, really...

You added a nice feature... and messed it up. For me it's okay to have profile visible to other users here. It's fine for me if people see how many games I own and how much time I spend with them (I must not forget to start HuniePop before I go tbed though...)...
yeah, i still have the old machine on which i had galaxy installed (helped me also when there were some delay between galaxy updates and offline updates for antihero once)

maybe i should just launch hunie pop on it and let it run 24/7 through galaxy just for the sake of the joke
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I've disabled everything I could find after reading the announcement, but I'm definnitely not happy that you were sharing my info by default.

Pushing Galaxy and its unstable, nosy bloat was bad enough, but now there are things of mine that you give out to everyone without a way for me to turn it off? Dick move, GOG. Dick move.
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Tauto: Is my slip,showing?
To me - a total stranger - only things that show up is your profile pic, a backround (I guess), and the amount of games owned / achievements / hours played.
Everything else is -

"This profile's section is private
Tauto's current privacy settings limit visibility of their activity"

... So yeah, pretty private to me.
There is also option to add as a friend and send a message, so pretty sane at that, I'd say.
EDIT: Though I agree the former (games / achievements / time played) should work on badge basis, just as it works on steam - you should be able to decide which of them, if any, you'd like to display.
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