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Posted November 12, 2015
So, in GOG galaxy, are there profile options where you can see your friends libraries, wishlists, etc. like in Steam?

No particular reason, just curious.
Posted November 12, 2015
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Hammercorps: So, in GOG galaxy, are there profile options where you can see your friends libraries, wishlists, etc. like in Steam?

No particular reason, just curious.
not really - you can hover over an avatar and see a wishlist (if the settings of the user allow) - at least on the forum - havent tried in galaxy.
presumably more social features will be added though.
Post edited November 12, 2015 by Sachys
Posted November 12, 2015
What do you want to know? Ask me anything,


ANYTHING! :P
Posted November 12, 2015
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tinyE: What do you want to know? Ask me anything,

ANYTHING! :P
What's your profile pic? :P
Posted November 12, 2015
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tinyE: What do you want to know? Ask me anything,

ANYTHING! :P
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Hammercorps: What's your profile pic? :P
That is my profile pic! What, are you insinuating that couldn't be me because it's so strange!? Do you think it's easy to go through life looking like this!?

YOU BASTARD!
Posted November 12, 2015
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Hammercorps: dnip
Galaxy suffers from drawbacks. It has to be an extension of the GOG website for people who want to opt out of it, meaning any features need to be dually-available without it. Which makes it difficult for them because there are more things that you can do with software than with website functionality.

So tldr: it'll be added to the website and Galaxy simultaneously, and one isn't going to possess features over the other. It's simply going to attempt to make them more conveniently accessible.
Posted November 12, 2015
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Hammercorps: dnip
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MaximumBunny: Galaxy suffers from drawbacks. It has to be an extension of the GOG website for people who want to opt out of it, meaning any features need to be dually-available without it. Which makes it difficult for them because there are more things that you can do with software than with website functionality.

So tldr: it'll be added to the website and Galaxy simultaneously, and one isn't going to possess features over the other. It's simply going to attempt to make them more conveniently accessible.
Okay, thanks for the info, it's not a feature I want, just curious if it had been added so I could disable it if it had :P
Posted November 12, 2015
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Hammercorps: What's your profile pic? :P
Don't mind tinyE -- his response wasn't serious (MOST of his comments aren't). : )
And to answer your question for him, I think his avatar (I assume that's what you meant?) is related to Space Invaders.
Posted November 12, 2015
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HunchBluntley: Don't mind tinyE -- his response wasn't serious (MOST of his comments aren't). : )
And to answer your question for him, I think his avatar (I assume that's what you meant?) is related to Space Invaders.
All this time I was genuinely under the impression that it was a pixel art Cthulhu. Now that I've gotten a good look at it, I can't believe I didn't notice that I was wrong before.
Posted November 12, 2015
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Hammercorps: What's your profile pic? :P
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HunchBluntley: Don't mind tinyE -- his response wasn't serious (MOST of his comments aren't). : )
And to answer your question for him, I think his avatar (I assume that's what you meant?) is related to Space Invaders.
Oh, I knew he was joking, I just didn't have something lined up to shoot back at him. ;)
Posted November 12, 2015
You can't view anyone's libraries, you can see the wishlists of those who decided that their wishlists are to be public, and there is this one tidbit where you can know what games your friends are playing. Right now, the client's in beta, and as MaximumBunny said, the lovely thing about GOG Galaxy is that its simply an extension to this website's functionalities, meaning that the feature will be added to both the software and the website because the main point of Galaxy is that its optional.

But heh, this means all the functionality of GOG Galaxy will be available in the website too. Take this and that, Steam.
Posted November 12, 2015
What is a Porfile? Is that some new weird shit that kids smoke these days?
Posted November 12, 2015
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MaximumBunny: Galaxy suffers from drawbacks. It has to be an extension of the GOG website for people who want to opt out of it, meaning any features need to be dually-available without it. Which makes it difficult for them because there are more things that you can do with software than with website functionality.

So tldr: it'll be added to the website and Galaxy simultaneously, and one isn't going to possess features over the other. It's simply going to attempt to make them more conveniently accessible.
In particular for the features that the OP asked for (seeing friends and their libraries, wishlist) - this is probably something one could easily implement in both since displaying lists is something that browsers and desktop programms are both quite capable of.

From a software design point of view: One could have an internal engine providing the services (get list of friends, ...) and then both, the website as well as Galaxy, are connecting to this service and display similar information in a slightly different way. And if Galaxy has the edge for some social features that cannot be conveniently be displayed in a browser (like video chats maybe) - just make them Galaxy only. As long as I can download the installers and get meaningful notifications of updates also through the website, everything would be fine for me.
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Hammercorps: So, in GOG galaxy, are there profile options where you can see your friends libraries, wishlists, etc. like in Steam?

No particular reason, just curious.
Unfortunately it's still not very good in that regard. It's still beta and the progress is kind of slow lately. Judging from the speed GOG showed lately it may well take another year before these things work reliably.

Basically searching for members is pain in the ass. Wishlists are okay, you can decide for yourself in the options (website or Galaxy I don't remember) if you want to share the wishlist with everyone, friends only, noone (and hopefully this is the default) and library sharing is not possible afaik unless you use a dedicated third party service like barefoots essentials and then share library to gogwiki (or so).
Post edited November 12, 2015 by Trilarion
Posted November 12, 2015
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blotunga: What is a Porfile? Is that some new weird shit that kids smoke these days?
Someone who really likes vampires...

Ok, I will explain that. One disease linked to "vampirism" is Porphryia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyria
Lack of iron in the blood, bes source is blood, hence some people drank blood.
-phile in latin means someone who loves or enthusiast.
So a Porphile, lover of vampires.
Posted November 12, 2015
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Hammercorps: What's your profile pic? :P
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HunchBluntley: Don't mind tinyE -- his response wasn't serious (MOST of his comments aren't). : )
And to answer your question for him, I think his avatar (I assume that's what you meant?) is related to Space Invaders.
I always thought it was of the Great Deep One, Cthulhu
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