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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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kustridaren: 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
I know, that's why I said I like it ;)
Posted April 24, 2018
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kustridaren: 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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Rainbird: I know, that's why I said I like it ;)
oh sorry I read wrong thought you said you wanted customiization woops :P
Posted April 24, 2018
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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.
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darthspudius: Why are you telling me this? I can read.
Haha, sorry, after pages of responding to someone who clearly wasn't able to do just that I guess I was losing hope xD
Posted April 24, 2018
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How do we remove this completely useless feature ?
Posted April 24, 2018
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TearOfTheSun: Tell me what is a big deal that FRIENDS can see your game library or how much time you spend playing one of the games? If only friends can see this I don't see a problem here.
You didn't understand... When can I look at your profile I not only see your profile but also five of your currently online friends (which I don't need to be friend with too). And this regardless if they (your friends) want to stay hidden. That is the problem.

So if you want to respect your friends' wish for privacy, you either have to set your profile to "only me", or you have to unfriend them.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Was this profile thing really that necessary?
I could think of many other things which probably require less work to implement but would be more useful.

- "Go to the first unread message" on the forums.

- Links to game specific subforums on gamecards and links to gamecards on subforums.

- Customized ordering of your game shelf.


Unless you are trying to surprise gift someone something, why do you need to see someone else's games and stats for? And it's not like anyone is going to have something truly bizarre there anyway. We all know the catalog which those possible game permutations come from, no one's profile is going to have C64 games, visual novels, or something like that.
Posted April 24, 2018
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I don't know how representative the uprep and downrep are. They can be misleading, for technical or social reasons. But still, if they are valid (if both sides are symetrically as prone to use these post votes), they are telling something interesting. There is a strong divorce of opinion between gog and the "forum using" subset of their customers. And this wasn't the case when I first joined. The sensitivity of GOG and of its forum seemed to resonate well.

I wonder if the GOG staff itself has progressively changed. Anyway, if GOG and its customers are on the same wavelength, the forum population seem to be a dissonant minority. Funny how I assumed the divide had occured within the forums, lately, while it was also happening between the forums and GOG.

Strange times.
Posted April 24, 2018
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robertgg: How do we remove this completely useless feature ?
Unfortunately you can't - yet. But you can send a ticket to gog.com's support
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us
to complain about this violation of your privacy and add your vote to the feature request here
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/disable_view_profile_function_for_customers_who_care_for_their_privacy
Posted April 24, 2018
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IIHectorII: 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.
...except it pretty much is now. All that's really missing are the trading cards. As of this moment Steam does a better job at hiding your profile, and I honestly can't believe I'm saying that.

I'm really conflicted about the way this was handled. GOG initially thrived because it was about offering gamers their freedom back. That seems to not be as important anymore, and the lack of an official response 21 hours and nearly 700 comments in is sadly confirming that for me.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by SpiderFighter
Posted April 24, 2018
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ShawnHopscotch: ...
ok, what???

That you don't like that it display the amount of game you own with maximum privacy settings and you want an option to disable that, it's perfectly fine and understandable.

But saying that displaying the number of games you own and the number of hours you played will somehow be used by politicians as a way to ban/ control games is a pretty convoluted hyperbole... what kind of use those data could be to them ? to prove that on a online video game seller some peoples actually... buy and even sometime play video games ?
Posted April 24, 2018
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Telika: There is a strong divorce of opinion between gog and the "forum using" subset of their customers. And this wasn't the case when I first joined. The sensitivity of GOG and of its forum seemed to resonate well.

I wonder if the GOG staff itself has progressively changed. Anyway, if GOG and its customers are on the same wavelength, the forum population seem to be a dissonant minority.
Back in the day, GOG used to be a niche business and didn't even attempt to be anything else.
Nowadays, GOG thinks to be an equal alternative to Steam, minus DRM.

I suppose there are some newer customers who want all that Steam stuff, like achievement, profiles, and whatever.

But I also think your assessment about the forums is correct. People who use these forums (or forum type of communication at all!!) are more old school kind of people, and just want a reliable, legal source for games. I am certain that GOG Twitter (if such exists, I don't know...) would be much more accepting to Steam clone things.

People who use forums and email start to be kind of rare these days, and probably more conservative no matter where they are. When they are on a forum that once was more or less dedicated to bringing old games back from the grave, you kind of know what kind of people they (we?) are.
Posted April 24, 2018
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I'm also curious to see some statistics on how much this feature was wanted?
Who/how many requested it?

There are so many broken things with GOG, why spending time and resources (and outrage the community) for a, honestly, useless feature?
Posted April 24, 2018
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TearOfTheSun: Tell me what is a big deal that FRIENDS can see your game library or how much time you spend playing one of the games? If only friends can see this I don't see a problem here.
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toxicTom: You didn't understand... When can I look at your profile I not only see your profile but also five of your currently online friends (which I don't need to be friend with too). And this regardless if they (your friends) want to stay hidden. That is the problem.

So if you want to respect your friends' wish for privacy, you either have to set your profile to "only me", or you have to unfriend them.
Ah sorry I didnt understand the first time. Man I wish everythin was like before :) So simple and cool.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Chacranajxy: Honestly, what are you guys up to that you'd be so concerned about people seeing you played some Eurojank RPG for like 3 1/2 hours?
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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.
To use an old internet stand by, Quoted For Truth.


I'll add a tiny thought excercise as well (though I'm sure someone will decide it's great to troll over this, it's still the internet after all). Everyone poops, and everyone knows everyone poops, who here wants videos of themself doing it posted on line? And if you're totally fine with that, or subscribe to the "if you haven't done anything wrong you have nothing to hide" line of thinking, and assume "having something to hide" is the only reason for privacy, well then by all means send me - or post openly on the form - your login and account data for any/all e-mail and social media accounts you maintain, you don't have anything to hide right?
(full disclosure, this idea has been shamelessly paraphrased from here: https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters )
Posted April 24, 2018
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IIHectorII: 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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SpiderFighter: ...except it pretty much is now. All that's really missing are the trading cards. As of this moment Steam does a better job at hiding your profile, and I honestly can't believe I'm saying that.

I'm really conflicted about the way this was handled. GOG initially thrived because it was about offering gamers their freedom back. That seems to not be as important anymore, and the lack of an official response 21 hours and nearly 700 comments in is sadly confirming that for me.
Unfortunately you both could not be more right! I guess most people came here - myself included - because they just wanted to buy drm free games without being forced to use a client/third party software and all the downsides attached to that. This is a games store and not a social media platform. Now they have and heavily promote galaxy, refuse to give us an option to make the classic installer the default download, are rather slow in updating the account library with patches that sometimes have been available on steam for weeks, etc...

Initially they cared about their customers and for a few years this really was a great place to buy games. But now... just like you wrote: a support ticket without a reply within 24 hours, no comments from anyone at gog.com - whose forum staff and admins obviously have been present in other threads - and no statement after almost 700 (mostly) negative comments ...
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