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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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Mr_GeO: 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?
They fired the Common Sense team.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Alaric.us: [...]
That said, to some of us it seems that the reaction on the part of some users is so disproportionate to GOG's "transgression", so grandiose and full of pathos, that it seems almost comedic. I for one can understand being annoyed by this if simply out of principle, but if you read some of the posts it would seem that the world is ending because of some vile act of treason, which condemned all of humanity.
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Two things that might serve to understand "the other side" better: Firstly, most CS kind of people are immune towards mild disapproval, quietly voiced concerns and "could you perhaps please"s. As a buddy of mine told me just yesterday: "If you want people to take your issue seriously and take action, you go full hog."

Secondly, try to look at the issue from a different granularity. Not from the immediate "who cares if someone can see your logged play time? It's not that interesting." Try to take a broader view: This is a company that thrives on their customers' trust, on our desire to be viewed as customers instead of cattle. That's what a lot of the "DRM-free" rhetoric is about: A gentleman's agreement to not subvert their trust in us, and in turn, they do not restrict our purchases as other services do.

For such a company now to be so lax when it comes to their customers' privacy, how they handle our data, that is cause for concern for me. As I laid out in an earlier post: The upcoming GDPR requires a lot even from a simple landlord like me: I can only even gather data that directly relates to tenancy (e.g. I may ask a candidate for a tenancy if they have pets, but not their faith). I also have to log who has access to that information, and have to delete it as soon as I do not need it any longer.
In short: The GDPR's purpose is to minimize data accumulation, and keep customers in control of what data is available on them.

And from how I perceive it, that does not seem to be a concern for GOG right now. They appear downright careless when it comes to "who can see what data". It troubles me.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Mueslinator
Posted April 24, 2018
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MysterD: 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.
You can take screenshots with Galaxy, then you can upload them in the profile page, there is a section where you can upload pictures or write something.
Posted April 24, 2018
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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.
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darkangelz: 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?
I was just trying to point Jeysie to that corner of the profile that's making people angry, because, while both sides were starting to acuse each other of trolling, I genuinely think they were just looking at different parts of the screen :-)

Having said that, since you ask, yes, by that same logic I agree. Actually in the beginning I found it odd that on this forum the number of posts of a user is not displayed. Now I see how some people wouldn't want it displayed, because it would give away how much time they've spent here...

But anyway, I'm quite neutral to have my games and play time displayed. I'd rather not, but it's no big deal for me. However, I totally understand people who don't want that to be public, and I think the argument here is not exactly what data should be shown (as you said, if we go down that path, we could start discussing even the registered date), but that previously private information has been made public by GOG, without giving the choice to revert to the previous situation if somebody wishes so.
Posted April 24, 2018
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cstuckma: [...] 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. [...]
Yeah, Steam's recent profile change was opt-in and many people didn't like that either because those who don't care either way won't bother turning it back on. (which borked Steamspy, a valuable source of sales info)
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Cresset
Posted April 24, 2018
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Mr_GeO: 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?
To be fair, there was a thread about this created 4 days ago by a blue. However, I don't go digging through the forums and I'm not alone in that. Shoot, this is the first day in months that I've bothered posting.

Edit: Thread in question.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Ophelium
Posted April 24, 2018
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Nice to see the crybabies attack my comment when with downvotes they started it themselves. GG.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Lecutter: 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.
At the moment you cannot completely disable your profile or make it "invisible". But you can send a support ticket to gog.com
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us
and request that they make your profile invisible - and hope for the best. I also have created a feature request
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/disable_view_profile_function_for_customers_who_care_for_their_privacy
and hope that somebody at gog will care enough about their customer's requests (and the upcoming EU privacy and data protection laws) to add an option to our user accounts to opt out of the visible user profiles.
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?
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AmethystViper: 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.
Tell me please

Who is supposed to be allowed to decide what is important to me, what is meaningful for me, to show or not, to want displayed or not, to be uncomfortable with being displayed or leaked or not ?
Who is supposed to be allowed to have the sole discretion of deciding that and choosing the level of visibility or hiding i want or need ?
Who is supposed to be allowed to decide what i am to like, think or such ?

One wrong answer is: YOU...
One other wrong answer is: GOG, at whim
The only correct answer.. the only person who is allowed to decide what is important or not to me, what is meaningful or not, what i like, what i want and what i need... is ME... just me !

As such, i expect to be given the CHOICE, the choice to set the visibility of all that, from 0% to 100%, not 95%, not 80%, not for the next two weeks until one next update or feature revert it to whatever default that would be different from the settings i would have choosen

Especially when giving ME this choice will have ABSOLUTLY NO IMPACT on YOU and on YOUR own user account andthe way YOU are to experience and use GOG services on your own.

You and GOG are not my parents, my tutors, my boss, my teacher, my whatever ascendancy authority.
I'm a full grown adult, i am to be the only one to decide and choose those things !

Thank you...

As Breja said: it's not about having something to hide, it's just about having no desire to have anyone know what i dont want others to know.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Djaron
Posted April 24, 2018
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AmethystViper: Nice to see the crybabies attack my comment when with downvotes they started it themselves. GG.
Completely missing the point and telling people to shut up and get on with their sad and overly paranoid lives might have had something to do with that. But who knows!
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?
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AmethystViper: 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.
You and a few certain other users remind me on DRM brigade from other websites. "It doesn't affect me at all" , "It just prevents piracy" "It doesn't do anything that I can notice" "It just extra protection that we consumers can't see at all" and so on and on. DRM doesn't affect any of your points either, so why don't you like it? (I don't expect real answer it just to point out how they are "similar"). Next time you want to explain someone why you like non-DRM remind yourself why you think its "foolish for people to throw a hissy-fit up over playtimes, achievements, and games they own shown on their account" . For you it is foolish that people want completely private profile, for someone it is foolish to have non-DRM game "that does not bother them at all".
Replace DRM with privacy and you have the same people here that are telling others how their privacy should be and what should they see on their own profile page. My profile page is my own business and I should have the right to pick what to choose for others to see. How about if I want to know how many books, adult toys, collectibles you have in your house? It is privacy and both internet and real life privacy are related.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Djaron: ...
I see nothing at all wrong with your argument. You are entirely correct in what you expect, and I hope that GOG provides you with it as soon as possible. In fact I am sorry that this oversight caused you to feel upset. This should never have happened.

The way in which the discontent is being expressed by a lot of posters in this thread, however, makes it very difficult (if not altogether impossible) to relate to them. When the victim's reaction is worse than the transgression, the victim (who still is, of course, a victim) becomes a very unsympathetic figure.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Alaric.us
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Djaron: <snip>
Claiming to be an adult yet acting like a spoiled brat over this... *facepalm*
Posted April 24, 2018
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CARRiON-XCII: 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.
Dude. Duuuuuude.

It was September 2010.
I was homeless.
I had my games stolen.
I was celebrating my birthday.
On shitty wifi, I signed up for GOG, bought six games and was trying (and failing) to download them.

And then they shut down the website.

And it wasn't as terrible as this.
Posted April 24, 2018
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RainbowDragon: At the moment you cannot completely disable your profile or make it "invisible". But you can send a support ticket to gog.com
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us
and request that they make your profile invisible - and hope for the best. I also have created a feature request
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/disable_view_profile_function_for_customers_who_care_for_their_privacy
and hope that somebody at gog will care enough about their customer's requests (and the upcoming EU privacy and data protection laws) to add an option to our user accounts to opt out of the visible user profiles.
Account > Settings > Privacy > Visibility: hidden (nobody can find me [by email or username])

Should do it?
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