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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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Tallima: That's a lot of time on Hunie Pop I see there n your profile. Care to explain that? ;-p
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Greenlynx: Truthfully I'm gonna need an explaination from you as I don't own that game.
Hunie what? Me? Here? Look! A bird! *Runs away*
Posted April 24, 2018
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Jeysie: Wait, so... wait. All this screaming about how GOG is baby-eating evil that's going to be sued into oblivion by the EU and insulting me left and right is because... people can see that you own games and play them sometimes? Like, you know, literally every single other gamer in existence? For real?

Yep, I'm done here, I can't even.
Jeysie, I won't enter the merit of the fact that you react mostly the same way you lament people doing. I understand that sometimes things get out of end on both parts.
I understand you don't dislike the new feature.
What I don't understand is why you can't be sympathetic with the users that didn't want their informations shared, even if meaningless one, and that wish to have control over those features. It's good design to leave new features as opt-in one to avoid unwanted changes, expecially if not properly advertised like this case. I believe that those users requests are fair, if they want to continue to use GOG the way they used it before they should be allowed to do that. It could be done in a way that don't hinder users that enjoy this feature but respecting users privacy and ownership of their own information.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Don't really get the reason why people are upset. I think this is fine, besides it is not like they are showing where you live or anything personal. A previous user said that your profile being viewable by anyone by default was a dick move by gog. I don't think so because of one simple reason, no personal information is on there. Unless you put your own personal information on your page than yes, your info is out there. I personally think this is great, I mean you can show off all your games to your friends.
Posted April 24, 2018
Ah, I see. The "opt-out" is under the "user" menu, and "privacy & settings" - Just took a little digging. Could have been easier and should have started as an "opt-in" feature.

GOG can spend a few goodwill points and I'll overlook it, but people are getting uppity after recent news-hyped privacy issues (not that the issues are not worthy of being put in the forefront). This might not be the best time to launch a "hey, you have a profile" promotion.

I understand the urge to make it opt-out; it is a way of getting those that don't care to let it slide, those that don't know might also let it slide for a while, and those that want in are already in. It is also the way "everybody else" would do it.

But, man, I want GOG to be better than "everybody else". Could there have at least been a time period where it was a news item and profiles could be edited and settings could be set prior to the "public" part being live?

Just my opinion. I'll move on soon.


**updated 2018/04/14 8:58 AM CDT**
Sorry, it was also mentioned in the GOG news article - I just thought I'd find the link to Privacy and Settings in my profile. When I read it, I missed that it was even simpler - in the drop down under the user name...
Post edited April 24, 2018 by cstuckma
Posted April 24, 2018
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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.
GOG is a big boy. He doesn't need white knights defending him. If you can't take the criticisms aimed at GOG non-personally and if this show of legitimate concern "scares you", you have no need to stick around. This isn't even the "worst" that it has gotten. I'll never forget the backlash they received with their shut down stunt, and at least with that they actually learned something and apologized.
Posted April 24, 2018
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CARRiON-XCII: GOG is a big boy. He doesn't need white knights defending him.
Sweetie, I don't think you're jackass whackjobs because you happen to not like something GOG did, I think you're jackass whackjobs because you're being jackass whackjobs in how you express your upset.

I miss the days when people understood how to express concerns and criticisms at a level other than Mass Hysteria and Outrage, since this isn't the only fandom who no longer is capable of that.

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MIK0: What I don't understand is why you can't be sympathetic
Why should I feel any sympathy for people who not only have hysterical hyperbolic responses to things but are also insulting to anyone who doesn't have similarly hyperbolic responses?

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xyem: Maybe if people would stop flaming the dicussion by dismissing people's concerns out of hand and/or insulting them, that could happen.
Well, yes, the fact that people kept flaming the discussion by dismissing everything me and other reasonable folks say out of hand and lowering the discourse level via insulting us by telling us we're "brainwashed", "pitiful", "trolling", "enablers", "sheep", etc. for being reasonable about the matter is exactly why you come off as jerkass whackjobs. Glad you noticed.
Posted April 24, 2018
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fierysonic9: Don't really get the reason why people are upset. I think this is fine, besides it is not like they are showing where you live or anything personal. A previous user said that your profile being viewable by anyone by default was a dick move by gog. I don't think so because of one simple reason, no personal information is on there. Unless you put your own personal information on your page than yes, your info is out there. I personally think this is great, I mean you can show off all your games to your friends.
The thing is, different people have different opinions about what "personal information" is. Speaking for myself, I may not particularly care that the profile thing forces you to show the amount of games in your library, but I would be pretty annoyed if, say, my wishlist was made public since I do consider that personal information.

The fact is that there are people who consider even stuff like what's now forcibly displayed publicly "personal information" and imo it is their right to be able to make that information private if they want to.

And I don't understand all the people in this thread who keep belittling the ones who want that option. How does it hurt you if GOG provides an option for more privacy, exactly? When it comes to social stuff like profiles, more options are always better.
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Jeysie: Well, yes, the fact that people kept flaming the discussion by dismissing everything me and other reasonable folks say out of hand and lowering the discourse level via insulting us by telling us we're "brainwashed", "pitiful", "trolling", "enablers", "sheep", etc. for being reasonable about the matter is exactly why you come off as jerkass whackjobs. Glad you noticed.
And can you show us where people have insulted you in this thread? Specific posts please. And I'm not talking about the other thread either.

As far as I can see, the only one who's been insulting is YOU.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by mystral
Posted April 24, 2018
Nice @ profiles now on GOG.

I would love to be able to take screenshots within GOG program of my game and then be able to post them to a Screenshots Page on My GOG Profile.
Posted April 24, 2018
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MIK0: What I don't understand is why you can't be sympathetic with the users that didn't want their informations shared, even if meaningless one, and that wish to have control over those features.
I'm not him but I'll try to answer. It seems that everyone is on board when it comes to the necessity of more granular privacy controls. Those of us who like the new feature have nothing against the rest of the users hiding their data including games, playtime, etc. I mean, you are right, it's your data and you shouldn't be forced to share it.

That said, to some of us it seems that the reaction on the part of some users is so vastly disproportionate to GOG's "transgression", so grandiose, so full of pathos, so overly dramatic ... that it seems almost comical. I for one can understand being annoyed by this if simply out of principle, but reading some of the posts it would seem that the world is ending because of some vile act of treason most vile, which condemned all of humanity.

We argue because we are experiencing a sever cognitive dissonance. The disparity between the action and the reaction is blowing our minds. It's like when Alex Jones is flipping out over frogs turning gay, even if you don't really care about him, that very display is enough to make others want to troll him.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Alaric.us
Posted April 24, 2018
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Jeysie: Well, yes, the fact that people kept flaming the discussion by dismissing everything me and other reasonable folks say out of hand and lowering the discourse level via insulting us by telling us we're "brainwashed", "pitiful", "trolling", "enablers", "sheep", etc. for being reasonable about the matter is exactly why you come off as jerkass whackjobs. Glad you noticed.
Instead of just agreeing with me (seeing as I didn't mention which group was doing it for a reason), you had to make it about your opponents. Perhaps you should take your own advice and engage in some self-reflection?
Posted April 24, 2018
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mystral: 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?
If me pointing out how foolish people are throwing a hissy-fit up over playtimes, achievements, and games the own shown on their account is condescending to you when they could ignore it, then I don't what to know what your definition of modesty is. Are you seeing the following at all whether or not they were on a user's discretion?

• E-mail address of the users being made public
• The users' home address
• Credit card information
• Order numbers and billing information on store transaction
• Social security number, birth certificate, and other personal/medical information

If the answer is "no" to any of these, then would you kindly shut up and move on with your sad and overly paranoid life? And to answer your "question", you already answered that one yourself.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Nope, I am not into this. I hated Steam for this, and i was happy that I have the opprotunity to turn off my profile but what has me so annoyed with this is it open you up for hackers out there wanting to find out who has what so they can hack in, and grab what you have.

NO, remove this feature. Any information on here is for me, and me alone. This is one of the things that causes so many issue's with being online. How I hate this sharing personal info for the sake of companies to push their games because if your friend has it so should you.

Take this off GOG. I hate steam for it, and now I am about to hate you for it as well.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Jeysie: Sweetie, I don't think you're jackass whackjobs because you happen to not like something GOG did, I think you're jackass whackjobs because you're being jackass whackjobs in how you express your upset.
I'm not even upset with this update other than it should be opt-in, GOG communicated poorly again, and I feel people should have the right to as much options and privacy as they want.

Regardless of how they portrayed their dismay, I still support them even if the three numbers at the top right corner of my profile don't mean much to me. Who the fuck cares how dramatic some people are? The point still stands and is speaking for itself. I see tons of usernames in these threads I'd never seen before telling GOG they feel like their privacy is being breached or they didn't even know this was happening in the first place.

So if that makes me a jackass whackjob, so be it, I'll take that over being completely dense and thin-skinned about people screaming on the internet. Get over it, as I shall now.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by CARRiON-XCII
Posted April 24, 2018
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How do you disable these profiles? I don't want one. Period. It's no one's business what I'm doing at any time. I don't use social media, I don't even carry a cell phone. My time and privacy I value above all things, and so do a lot of other people. Something GOG has utterly failed to consider, much less respect.
Posted April 24, 2018
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So, another potentialy usefull - but also potentially irritating for many users - GoG feature and/or change communicated in very sloopy way and introduced in ill-considered, careless manner.

Did you people fired your PR team or something?
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