Speculation for the first part, the part you bolded is a fact. Galaxy has desktop notifications which pop up when you receive a message or notification so unless you're literally AFK you should see a message or reply coming through (and hence be considered to be online)

People playing games also show as online, so if you play a game in full screen, do these desktop notifications still pop up in a manner you get to see them? And can they be turned off?

There's a blue post elsewhere saying they'll look into changing that tomorrow.

I don't remember seeing them when I'm playing games, let me check the Galaxy options to see.
But people playing games also show what game they're playing, so you should know they are not 'available' online.

You can turn them off completely I'm sure, but I can't remember what other customisation options are available.

Edit: Ok, Galaxy finally loaded up.
Options for notifications are:
If Overlay is off (or presumably doesn't work for the game you are playing) you don't get notifications.

You can choose (individually) whether to get notifications at all, desktop only, overlay only or both for:
Messages received
Friend invites
Game invites
Friends coming online
Friends starting a game
Installing and updating status
Wishlist alerts and sales
Forum replies
Unread notifications

I believe regardless of what option you choose things like messages and forum replies will always give you a normal notification similar to the ones we get on the site (but without the pop up in the corner of the screen)

And in order to "know" that they're not really 'available' online, I must be told which game exactly they're playing...


If only GOG gave the same options for applicable notifications on the site. Don't get why they don't.



Sorry, changing what exactly? Can you provide a link, please?

Well, as I understand these are only the separate pop up notifications that you can turn on and off, they will all always show in the bell notification menu in Galaxy.

But yeah, it would be nice to be able to have the option to turn on and off various things.

Maybe in another 6 months.

Is that always shown or can you switch it off?

Exactly that!

Perhaps because it's a "premium" feature reserved exclusively for Galaxy. ;)

You're such an optimist. Cheers for the chuckle nonetheless.


It would if it applied to the bell notification, but see what adaliabooks said, it only applies to desktop and overlay notifications; elcook also confirmed it in the official, non-news, GOG thread.

Always on as far as I'm aware... though I did think they might be working on changing that nothing has materialised as of yet so I might be wrong.

And quite frankly the last thing we need is Gog trying to offer desktop notifications through your browser...

Heavens forbid! *shivers*


And still waiting for that message. ;-)

New games from yesterday to today are not listed in NEW and ON SALE tabs in homepage.
They are not listed in https://www.gog.com/games?price=discounted neither.

POPULAR tab is broken too.

I understood that just fine from adaliabooks post #1115, cheers, and that's why I'm saying that such options/settings should be available on the website (and in Galaxy). BE had a feature to disable notifications by type (forum replies, chat, friends, game updates) with the previous notification system we had, and it seems that it's still possible with the new one, so I don't get why you (GOG) don't offer them. Just like there should be an option to clear individual notifications. I don't get GOG's "all or nothing" implementation, and in the case of receiving notifications there's not even a "nothing" choice.

If offering such options is planned and on GOG's To Do list, even if soon™, it'd be appreciated if GOG just said so, would spare us all the time and energy debating over it. And if it's not, telling us would be equally appreciated; it wouldn't make a portion of us happy, but at least we'd know where we stand and what to expect, or not expect.


And I'd still appreciate a reply to this post, as well as some clarification on this matter.