According to the FAQ, in order to log out from GOG, you need to go to the My Account page.

It is really bugging me, am I the only one? Once you start owning hundreds of GOG games, it can take quite awhile over a slower mobile connection (or if GOG is slow and unresponsive due to load) before GOG has loaded the icons for all your GOG titles, and only after that it shows the "Logout Now" icon.

Why isn't the logout icon also in e.g. the main screen and forums?

This has been mentioned before. In fact, it's clear the entire My Account section absolutely needs an overhaul; it did not scale with the site's growth at all.

GOG is still looking for web developers, apparently; they need them pretty badly, if you ask me.

The question is, do you regularly log in from computers that are not yours that you need to log out so often?

I think that that's a pretty low issue priority wise compared to the other problems the website and forum is having.

Frankly, I wasn't sure how to do that on the Android phone which I borrowed shortly earlier today to access GOG.

The way the domain is structure is rather eloquent i love the simplicity of the site and navigation... its much less a jumbled mess then other sites and they use decent enough encryption that its no issue to me... but i must agree the account section would be nice with a few more bells and whistles ^_^

Irrelevant to my question. So I guess the logout button could just as well be removed from the My Account page, right?

A while ago I made a greasemonkey script to add a logout button when you're in the forums. If you're using Firefox then grab it here. Of course that won't help you on mobile.

Another thing you could do is add a bookmark to http://www.gog.com/myaccount/logout/ - visiting that page will log you out instantly.

Where did I say that it should be removed completely?

I wouldn't mind a on-hover on the My account button with options to take me to my games, my settings, logout etc, but that wouldn't help with the mobile issue anyway.

Just took a look at that page. GOG is using MySQL?

That's probably part of the problem then. MySQL isn't necessarily scalable enough for larger enterprise-level operations, and it just isn't as reliable as enterprise RDBMS. Does a fine job for lower loads, but there's a point where it stops being very effective, since it doesn't come with many of the more complex tools for limiting site-DB interaction. You'd get exactly the behavior we've seen from the GOG forums/site - unpredictable unreliability after a huge surge in traffic.

That, or the GOG site and DB are badly optimized. Probably a bit of both. :)

Where did I say you said so?

So, do I need to be able to access the logout button, or not? Make up your mind already.

Anyway, it appears it is not bugging only me. Too bad GOG hasn't implemented it yet.

That's what I gathered from: considering that that's the only place where it's currently available.

I get that you're angry, but you need to take a break, cool down and re-read what I wrote. I never said that you're not supposed to be able to access the logout button, I just found it weird that you log out so often that it annoys you to have to go to a separate page in order to do so.

There's only three computers I ever sign onto GOG from. My home laptop, never logs out. My home computer, sometimes I give my brother access so he can put through GOG codes for me on here, or get steam codes for his account there. My university has a private network and log-in system. In other words, I never need to sign out. Besides, even if someone gets access to your account there's not very much they can do with it. They don't have a password to change access, card numbers aren't stored on here, and they've no reason to close the account or screw about in the forum except if they're trollish dicks. The most they get is an email and possibly an age.

You don't have much reason to worry about signing off your account while you're at home, and if you do then you can just set yourself up as a second user with password protection on the computer.

Where did I say he said what you said? Isn't it what she said? And where does it come in?

OK, timppu, I have no idea why GOG was designed without a logout button - aesthetic reasons probably come into it. I do know that the "Logout now" button takes so long to appear on the account page because of the way that GOG's design is implemented using very intricate background image tricks. I understand your problem and really think that bookmarking http://www.gog.com/myaccount/logout is your best bet, assuming your phone supports bookmarks.

For Firefox users I have a new present :-) It adds a dropdown menu with links directly to your shelf, game list, messages, wishlist and logout. If anyone wants this translated Opera or Chrome it shouldn't be much of a problem.