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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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darthspudius: Do I want the feature, no. But if others do, let them have it. Stop being assholes down voting those who like the idea. Says a lot about the people using GOG really.
The biggest complaints are not about the fact that there are now profiles but that there is information displayed on it that can not be hidden. Information that wasn't public before yesterday.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Pheace
Posted April 24, 2018
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Breja: "It's not that I have anything to hide. I just have nothing I want you to see".
This is a brilliantly succinct summation of the main issue with this update.

The "it doesn't affect me so how is it a problem?" and the shifting goalpost types in this thread really make me sick, It also makes me wonder why they're here... why does DRM free even matter to these people when their attitudes show they clearly don't have a problem with giving up control and their freedom of choice.
Posted April 24, 2018
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darthspudius: Tin foil hat, sir?
I'm just about the least susceptible person for conspiracy theories alive. To reiterate, GOG seems to think that profiles can not work when they don't send these three stats into the internet from every single one of their customers, with no freedom of choice by the customer.

Two of those stats remain at zero forever when the customer doesn't use Galaxy.

The third stat is utterly meaningless for customers who buy games because they like them and actually play them (!).

Why can I not hide these stats?

Do you have an answer, or just more insults?
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Vainamoinen
Posted April 24, 2018
Awesome. The profile is a very good idea. Hope for the linux client. Congratulations!!!
Posted April 24, 2018
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You know, I always thought that GOG had a goodminded and calm community. But the more I read these comments to their official statements (new releases, discounts, new Galaxy features alike) - the more I see overwhelming and unjust toxicity and hostility. And why? Everything you are afraid of will be fixed, I assure you. This is life improvement feature, not a means to spy on you people. They themselves have all the data they need on you, this profile is just for community. Calm your tits, Jesus Christ.
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Posted April 24, 2018
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Chiteki: You know, I always thought that GOG had a goodminded and calm community. But the more I read these comments to their official statements (new releases, discounts, new Galaxy features alike) - the more I see overwhelming and unjust toxicity and hostility. And why? Everything you are afraid of will be fixed, I assure you. This is life improvement feature, not a means to spy on you people. They themselves have all the data they need on you, this profile is just for community. Calm your tits, Jesus Christ.
THANK YOU MY GOOD SIR! I I just don't get it why some one so upset that someone could see their game library or achievements list. My gosh :D Like from those people don't even have facebook or twitter or instagram? Come on who you want to fool here in this day of age? The only thing I want to hide and dont show is play time overall. I dont need it. So plz gog remove it or make it private for yourself.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by TearOfTheSun
Posted April 24, 2018
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Chiteki: You know, I always thought that GOG had a goodminded and calm community. But the more I read these comments to their official statements (new releases, discounts, new Galaxy features alike) - the more I see overwhelming and unjust toxicity and hostility. And why? Everything you are afraid of will be fixed, I assure you. This is life improvement feature, not a means to spy on you people. They themselves have all the data they need on you, this profile is just for community. Calm your tits, Jesus Christ.
That same resistance has existed for a long time already but it used to be aimed solely at Steam. Now that GOG is encroaching more and more on similar ground you're seeing that resistance being aimed towards GOG as well.

As for information. People here don't care if GOG has their info. Of course it does. What people don't like is that now suddenly everyone else has that information as well, and because of the way they handled it it's now permanently out there if someone bothers to look for it, and possibly is already scraped by various big data sites like google.

Some people want to hide that they are big spenders for various reasons and now all of a sudden that information has been made public without their consent and with no way to stop it. That's what annoys people, partly because they still expect better from GOG.

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TearOfTheSun: Like from those people don't even have facebook or twitter or instagram?
None that I ever really use. Mostly alt-dump accounts for easy logging in to irrelevant sites. And I'm not even one of those people particularly sensitive about privacy.

Again, the biggest issue is not that there are profiles. The issue is that they made it impossible to disable the sharing of previously hidden information.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Pheace
Posted April 24, 2018
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Pheace: The issue is...
compounded by the fact that people don't understand or care about the principle and precedence that such things set and the implications towards overall society, which is just getting worse and worse and those who are aware of certain issues see things getting worse and worse and more people becoming part of the Borg (and that is saddening and maddening)
Post edited April 24, 2018 by drealmer7
Posted April 24, 2018
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Nice feature as long as its optional (like the client).

As is often the case with GOG the most important information came right at the end

"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."

Set to only me. I wish it was an opt-in thing instead of opt-out though. GOG plays all the dirty tricks others do too. That's a bit sad to see.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Trilarion
Posted April 24, 2018
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darthspudius: Do I want the feature, no. But if others do, let them have it. Stop being assholes down voting those who like the idea. Says a lot about the people using GOG really.
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Pheace: The biggest complaints are not about the fact that there are now profiles but that there is information displayed on it that can not be hidden. Information that wasn't public before yesterday.
Why are you telling me this? I can read. People are still being assholes.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Just one thing...: When a game is hidden in ones library it is for a reason! It should stay hidden (both the game and the stat concerning it) everywhere. You know what I mean? I don't want the whole world know that I bought Lula the sexy empire, OK?
Posted April 24, 2018
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Dear GOG, how about asking your customers first about such things. I'm very disappointed. The reason I'm only buying games on GOG is because it is NOT steam.
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TearOfTheSun: I I just don't get it why some one so upset that someone could see their game library or achievements list.
That is because you haven't been paying attention to current events, sorry. :|

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TearOfTheSun: Like from those people [who] don't even have facebook or twitter or instagram?
That would be me, hello.

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TearOfTheSun: The only thing I want to hide and dont show is play time overall. I dont need it. So plz gog remove it or make it private for yourself.
Other people evidently have other privacy needs. You don't get to tell them which of their data is irrelevant.

Three stats to go until you can actually set a profile to private.

To ask for that is not unreasonable, it's not toxic, it's not hostile, it's not change averse, and judging from current events, it's absofuckinglutely not a hyperbolic stance towards personal data protection.

Insisting on this level of privacy is, of course, quite disastrous towards the way e.g. facebook functions, to the way facebook makes its money, by making customer data the product that they sell. And those facebook buttons have been popping up on GOG like tribbles on viagra.

The struggle for truly "DRM free" games and privacy concerns are interlinked, they form a symbiosis. Dismantle one, you dismantle the other.

I, and I guess so many others, would have expected that GOG stands by its values. To lead by example instead of licking Valve's and facebook's toenails.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Vainamoinen
Posted April 24, 2018
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I just want to throw in my 2 cents.

Things I like:
+ Wallpapers in my profile (and assorted customization)
+ Those that want SoMe interactions on GOG can now do so, without the rest of us having the feature shoved in our face when we use GOG

Things I dislike:
- Data sharing is on by default. (It should be off by default, possibly with a way to tell users ONCE how to activate it and why)
- Not all data sharing can be controlled. (I want full privacy)
- Not all data can be managed. (I have just disabled data collection of game time in Galaxy, and I want to delete any game time that was previously recorded)

Overall this is not a feature I care about, but the upside is that it highlights that we the users probably had too little control over our data to begin with. I hope to see GOG rectify this, so I can continue being a happy customer :)
Posted April 24, 2018
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Rainbird: I just want to throw in my 2 cents.

Things I like:
+ Wallpapers in my profile (and assorted customization)
+ Those that want SoMe interactions on GOG can now do so, without the rest of us having the feature shoved in our face when we use GOG

Things I dislike:
- Data sharing is on by default. (It should be off by default, possibly with a way to tell users ONCE how to activate it and why)
- Not all data sharing can be controlled. (I want full privacy)
- Not all data can be managed. (I have just disabled data collection of game time in Galaxy, and I want to delete any game time that was previously recorded)

Overall this is not a feature I care about, but the upside is that it highlights that we the users probably had too little control over our data to begin with. I hope to see GOG rectify this, so I can continue being a happy customer :)
you can personalize your profile you go into your profile then you press personalise in the top right corner and get themes to choose from
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