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GOG changed the default some months back, regardless of what your settings were before then. The idea was to combat spam, although I question how effective it was.
Granted.

The crazy thing was not that GOG changed the default setting - no matter how effective it was to combat spam. The strange thing was that your own setting actually can prevent you to contact another user as well.

I guess I explained badly; as it works now, you realise something is wrong but if you would be able to send messages but not recieve you might not understand why you never ever get any replies.

How is that a strange thing? If your setting is at "friends only" and they're not on your friends list, let's say you DO contact them somehow:
How are they supposed to contact you back?
You could argue "Well, I only want it to work with this one person!", but in that case, wouldn't you just add them as a friend (if only temporarily)?

+XCI.

It's a strange thing because normally I KNOW who I want to contact and who I do not want to contact. So why should I even WANT to contact somebody who is not on my friends list if I want to only have contact with friends (hence the setting?) I don't need no setting to remind me who I do want to contact and who I do not. Normally this setting is meant to prevent that everybody is able to contact YOU not the other way around.

I feel like I'm missing something here.
If you know who you do and don't want to contact, again, isn't that as simple as adding those you want to talk to on your friendslist and keeping the rest of the riffraff off it?

I did not mean that it would be a complicated thing or anything like it I just think that it is completely unnecessary to prevent myself to contact another one with my own settings.

I think they could just alleviate it if they had an indicator as to whether the chat were disallowed by your own settings or the other person's.
Like, I get what you're saying here, but that's gotta be miserable to code. In theory, you want to be able to set your chat to "friends only" making it so that nobody who isn't a friend can contact you. However, if you want to contact somebody else who doesn't have their chat set to such, wish to be able to do so. So...how do they send a chat back to you if you have it set to restrict all incoming chats to friends-only? It'd have to be rigged in such a way that it gives them some sort of one-time pass that lets them reply since you messaged them first. So what if you want to cut off contact after that (i.e. you were only doing it for a trade deal or something)? You'd have to ban them after you're through. Either that, or the coding would have to have some sort of time limit on it such that they can only chat you for X number of hours. What would be the difference between this and just adding them as a friend, saying whatever you need to say, and removing them after you're done (if you want to)? The current friend-adding method actually seems less complicated than the alternative. Unless you're suggesting it automatically add somebody to your friendslist whenever you send a message to someone.

Okay thanks.

Ginormous thanks to zeogold and MarkoH01 for The Walking Dead.

Happy Zombie hunting :)

i thught the zombies hunted you

You have to defend yourself as well and this might as well mean shoot first before you are bitten. But of course you are right that the game is mostly about survival and not a Zombie hunting game. Happy surviving does not sound that good, though :)