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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!
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All those things are not on the first page of the community wishlist (50 entries).

I will assume it's just a way to attract new customers.

It's just unfortunate that by default, everything is shared.
An option to disable it completly would be nice too.
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Not too happy about this. The default option should be complete privacy and a completely hidden profile, and someone who wanted to share their stats would have to change the options, not the other way around.

I absolutely see the value of something like this, especially for those who have cultivated a big friends list on here, but for me, and as I see in the thread, many others too, these changes are more invasive than beneficial.

At the very least there should be exhaustive options regarding the information that's shared. Allow us to completely hide a particular game and all connected metrics from our lists while still sharing the rest of it. Let us share the fact that we own a game but hide the playtime or the achievements (or both). Introduce a Stealth-Mode that can be activated with a single click in the privacy options that would hide our online status and all other collected metrics of our profiles from a public view.

As it is now I find this invasive and creepy.
Post edited April 23, 2018 by Swampland
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Nicole28: There's something I realized! Wallpapers are limited to the games that you own. Only if you own the title, will the wallpaper for it show up in your selection.
Still better than having to buy it like on Steam.
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GDPR becomes enforceable from 25 May 2018.
Why didn't GOG wait until then?
Surely they will have to change default settings on 25 may, right?
As for these profiles themselves, I am rather indifferent. I don't care even if other GOG users can see how many games I have on my account, but I guess some others do.

As long as it doesn't affect my ability to install and play my GOG games offline, I am fine.
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I stopped using Steam in favour of GOG exactly because I had no control over who sees me playing what, when,etc. It was pain in the arse just to have someone in your friends list. I could remove them from the list, sure, but at the cost of some not really related functionality.


If you do the same, I might as well drop GOG and go back to Steam. I'm a player, not a goddamn exhibitionist. Don't make us do your marketing.
I really like this change! Thank you gog for enabling to use game background as our background! You're the best!
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Treasure: what forum topics they started e.t.c Now I feel like a stalker... :-( (and not the game one too...)
So yeah, showing this whole activity openly doesn't make me feel very comfortable, especially given that they in turn are probably going to see this very post though their profiles. And besides the "I feel as if I spied them" angle, I also might not even care about every forum topic they're going to pariticipate in
google.com "site:gog.com [gog user's username]"

Basically, everyone can already see every forum post you've made if they really want to, because like most forums on the internet, GOG's forums are public webpages. [shrug] Again, if you don't want something to ever be seen, the cure is still to not put it on the internet in the first place. A lot of times the information people are complaining about being "exposed" with this sort of option was already exposed to begin with because they posted it on a public or otherwise easily accessible web spot.

And I'm honestly kind of raising an eyebrow at people's reactions in general. From the way people are carrying on you'd think GOG just gave everyone on the planet your real name, home address, Social Security Number/National Identification Number, mother's maiden name, and firstborn child.

As opposed to just telling GOG users you own a few video games and played a few of them for a few hours. As a feature that many people like myself have asked for a long while now.

A feature that Steam and other gaming places have had for a long while now, which makes the whole "GOG will be in so much trouble with the EU!" so eye-rolling. It's like, not unless the EU is going to also fine almost every single gaming distribution place, they aren't.
Post edited April 23, 2018 by Jeysie
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Great, privacy is gone on GOG now. Everyone can see how many games everyone has and if using Galaxy also how many achievements he reached and how long he played games.

If you have friends which share their friends list, others can also see that you're a friend of him, regardless if you turned it off for your profile.

Well done GOG... Hoping that GOG will get some trouble with the European Union.
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What about the compatibility of the GOG Connect feature with the GOG profile ? Will we have to set it to public too to connect Steam games ?
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That is very cool and very well done, and it would have been awesome in a great community, a bit like the gog forum's before it split and crumbled under the unmoderated gamergate trash and trump elections and xenophobic talks and all that.

Anyway, now, how do we disable it completely ?

Because, you know, people may complain about Steam this and Steam that, but on Steam I have an account with no profile. May I have the same freedom here, please ? Or do you intend to out-steam Steam ?
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Esmeralda95: I really like the wallpapers for our profiles, but I hope you release more in the future!
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Nicole28: There's something I realized! Wallpapers are limited to the games that you own. Only if you own the title, will the wallpaper for it show up in your selection.
I actually like that.
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Treasure:
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Jeysie: And I'm honestly kind of raising an eyebrow at people's reactions in general. From the way people are carrying on you'd think GOG just gave everyone on the planet your real name, home address, Social Security Number/National Identification Number, mother's maiden name, and firstborn child.
Yes,and it is always the same one's.I think they should link it to Facebook,just for fun.lol..........oh wait!
Post edited April 23, 2018 by Tauto
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Fairfox: i put fox on. id love to upload mah own creation-stations
probs too big, tho. liek if everyone uploaded backgrounds gogie would be all, welp, NO MOAR DATA
Me too I would like to upload non gaming wallpapers. My cat, a Cthulhu picture... or a naked girl ! That's not I call personalization !