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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 24, 2018
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Jeysie: 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.
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AmethystViper: The overreaction of this feature in a nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMysOjwB43Y
Says it all.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Is there any point to this if you don't use Galaxy or Facebook or whatever? Like, I don't see how this actually improves the site at all, but as I said, I don't use Galaxy.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Greenlynx: Here here! I have very bad anxiety and I enjoy GOG because I have my own little bubble of games that nobody needs to know about besides me. I feel violated now that I have any history visable to the public just because I used GOG galaxy to play them and can't turn it off or purge it to all zeros.
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Tallima: That's a lot of time on Hunie Pop I see there n your profile. Care to explain that? ;-p
Truthfully I'm gonna need an explaination from you as I don't own that game.
Posted April 24, 2018
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CARRiON-XCII: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/04/23/gog-adds-user-profiles/

Even RPS took note of this thread.
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Breja: From the comments:

"Thanks for reporting on this so that I could change my privacy settings."

Is any more proof of what great a job GOG is doing informing the users about important changes necessary, when they have to learn about it from a news site?
"Not exactly loving the fact that I found out about this here rather than through an email from GoG. If you’re going to do something like this, especially with opt-out instead of opt-in display of my data, maybe tell me about it."

Tell me about it.
Posted April 24, 2018
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I apologize for un friending you guys/gals I know who you are so no worries (:
Can you do the same for me. Thanks so much!

GOG: You have no permission from me to give out my statistics along what I've posted throughout the years to anyone especially facebook period.

I joined gog to buy drm free games and That's it!

P.s. Gog; Please erase all of my activity Log and my Profile since It's PRIVATE!
Posted April 24, 2018
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Breja: Apparently this needs to be repeated on every page.

"It's not that I have anything to hide. I just have nothing I want you to see". That's how real privacy works. Just because something isn't important, incriminating of sensitive, doesn't mean it's ok to have it be made public without your express permission.
Yarp. The issue is not "I have nothing to hide", it is "nobody has a right to know."
Posted April 24, 2018
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xyem: Then leave? Participation in the forums is 100% voluntary. Stop complaining!
I guess I just miss the days when people had a sense of shame and so the response to "you all are frightening away long time users who wanted a friendly conversation by behaving like a bunch of jerkass whackjobs" was to have some kind of self-reflection and consideration that maybe there needs to be a wee bit of change in folks' behavior.

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AmethystViper: The overreaction of this feature in a nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMysOjwB43Y
Yeah, no kidding?

Especially when I found out as of late that apparently the mass hysteria lately was now all because... people can see they own games and play them sometimes.

Like this started out as "Well I can totally understand you want the privacy settings to default to maximum but some of you are maybe carrying on a wee bit too much about it?" and at this point has degenerated into "You are apparently an Unpleasable Fanbase Who Hates All Change and Wants GOG to Magically Fix Everything Wrong With the Internet".
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Jeysie
Posted April 24, 2018
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Tallima: Now I'm off to find these schnazzy background profile images folks are talking about.
You find them at the far right of the Profile page, just under the 'cheevos, hours, played, and games owned. It's called 'Personalize'. I didn't notice it at first and was wondering what people were talking about for a while.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Jeysie: 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.
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AmethystViper: The overreaction of this feature in a nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMysOjwB43Y
Do you have any idea just how condescending you sound? You don't care about those admittedly minor breaches of privacy, fine, it's your right. But other people have the right to care about them and ask for a change so they can fixed, whether you like it or not.

And honestly, if you think the concerns expressed in this thread are pointless and nothing but bitching, why the fuck are you still here posting in it?
Posted April 24, 2018
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HeartsAndRainbows: Despite the flood* of users expressing their concerns <span class="bold">beforehand<span class="bold">, it seems like this feature was launched with privacy settings set to visible to everyone by default. The fact that someone would need to take a few minutes to create a throw-away GOG account to see a user's gaming related information doesn't serve as any kind of relief.
"Hope you don't mind your friends and family seeing how many hours you're wasting away with those video games."

Of course I am not blind to the fact that there are people who really don't mind and I am genuinely happy for the 1,275 users that specifically asked for Public GOG profiles on the wishlist as well as the users who wanted the other features. You waited forever for this and now it's finally here. Good for you.
What I am criticizing is not the introduction of these "optional" features but rather the way they were introduced: As obligatory features.
There should have either been an email, informing GOG's users well ahead of time about this upcoming update or the privacy settings should have been set to private.

Having your previously private information made public is something users would have to opt in for - not opt out of. Consent is nothing you ask for after the fact! You don't forcefully grab someone's wrist, take them for a dance, step on their toes and then ask "May I?" when you're done with them. (If you feel like I avoided another fitting analogy really really hard, you're right.)

This is not the first time GOG handled their users' right for privacy poorly and it will probably not be the last. However, I currently considering to make it the last time this happened to me by deleting my account. Given GOG's general attitude this seems to be the only way to be sure.

* by GOG's userbase standards and taking into account that the previous "Announcement"/"Warning" was hidden away in a regular forum post that was made 5 days ago.
This!

Handling of privacy regarding this is alarming. I understand why they went with it, but I do not agree at all. At least set it to friends only and show a popup one that tells you about the feature... Guess all se GoG through our rosy glasses and in the end it is no better than FB GOGL and the like.
Posted April 24, 2018
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xyem: Then leave? Participation in the forums is 100% voluntary. Stop complaining!
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Jeysie: I guess I just miss the days when people had a sense of shame and so the response to "you all are frightening away long time users who wanted a friendly conversation by behaving like a bunch of jerkass whackjobs" was to have some kind of self-reflection and consideration that maybe there needs to be a wee bit of change in folks' behavior.
Maybe if people would stop flaming the dicussion by dismissing people's concerns out of hand and/or insulting them, that could happen.

People get defensive when attacked. News at 11 :D
Posted April 24, 2018
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Nice, now people can see how many games I own and how much I time I spend playing them. This wasn't exactly information I wanted to share with the world. No matter what I do with my privacy setting that info is always public too :(
Posted April 24, 2018
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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.
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nepundo: I'm asking seriously. Don't you see Pheace's number of games, achievements and hours played in the screenshot you've posted? Upper right corner.

That's what people are complaining about.
Going by that same logic, shouldn't the Reputation, Registered date and location also be hidden on forum posts, since that is also personal information and publicly availible since forever even for non logged users?
Altough to be fair only the Registered can't be manipulated afaik?
Posted April 24, 2018
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Tallima: Now I'm off to find these schnazzy background profile images folks are talking about.
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GR00T: You find them at the far right of the Profile page, just under the 'cheevos, hours, played, and games owned. It's called 'Personalize'. I didn't notice it at first and was wondering what people were talking about for a while.
Thank you! I couldn't find them for the life of me.
Posted April 24, 2018
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timppu:
Not touching Chrome, no way (nor Win 10, on the other hand - there's something similar between the two, forced updates... also more "calling home" and less (easily accessible and clearly explained) user settings). Firefox was secondary till they overhauled it. Very "secondary" once they made it require a plugin to even customize your new tab page. Now haven't updated it past 47, so hardly ever use it.
Otherwise, I keep saying go back to simpler sites, and incidentally sites that adhere to standards. Try to put sites now through the W3C validator, see what happens... (For gog.com it ends with "Fatal Error: Too many messages." after 1000 errors! ... pardon 6 of them are warnings, so 994 errors before it has enough of it)
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