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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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HeartsAndRainbows: I'm currently in a similar position as yourself. My advice would be: Buy a new external harddrive. In my experience those are very robust, reliable and still fit for year-long everyday use. I've been watching movies or installing games directly from my HDD and it has been very handy when visiting friends. (I can both vouch for WD and Seagate and while I'm aware that someone in this thread had troubles with their Seagate overheating I literally never had any complains concerning their products.)
You've been lucky. I've had problems with IBM (when they made HDDs), Seagate, WD, Maxtor and Samsung.
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HeartsAndRainbows: I'm currently in a similar position as yourself. My advice would be: Buy a new external harddrive. In my experience those are very robust, reliable and still fit for year-long everyday use. I've been watching movies or installing games directly from my HDD and it has been very handy when visiting friends. (I can both vouch for WD and Seagate and while I'm aware that someone in this thread had troubles with their Seagate overheating I literally never had any complains concerning their products.)
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mk47at: You've been lucky. I've had problems with IBM (when they made HDDs), Seagate, WD, Maxtor and Samsung.
Tried Hitachi yet?
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mk47at: You've been lucky. I've had problems with IBM (when they made HDDs), Seagate, WD, Maxtor and Samsung.
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iRevolt: Tried Hitachi yet?
Reliable, but very noisy in my experience.
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iRevolt: Tried Hitachi yet?
They bought IBM's hard drive branch.
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mk47at: You've been lucky. I've had problems with [HDDs produced by] IBM (when they made HDDs), Seagate, WD, Maxtor and Samsung.
Wow! I've been using my WD one (2 TB) since about 2012. Must the power of love...! ;)
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I'm still reading through, just wanted to share a couple of things.

I stepped into the German speaking forum, and in the pre-launch thread, someone posted the reply they got from support. Translation*:
I'm sorry for the belated response.

Thank you for your feedback, I forwarded it to our web-devs team so that it can be considered for future profile improvements.
*by me.

Not sure if those that sent their tickets in German got similar replies, and if German speaking support hasn't got wind of the serious concern and disagreement on how privacy is handled by GOG, and think it's that sort of feedback to pass along to the techs.
Mentioning it to contrast the wording with that of the replies we received in English.


Another thing that was pointed out in the German speaking forum is this:

User A has a public profile, but a friends list set to "friends" or "only me". The "Friends" section of their public profile states, for all to see:
It's quiet... too quiet... User A hasn't added any friends yet
Brilliantly done, GOG.
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HypersomniacLive: Not sure if those that sent their tickets in German got similar replies, and if German speaking support hasn't got wind of the serious concern and disagreement on how privacy is handled by GOG, and think it's that sort of feedback to pass along to the techs.
Mentioning it to contrast the wording with that of the replies we received in English.
No, most got a verbatim translation of the default message that almost everyone (including me) got.
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Lexor: [...] I do know that currently in Poland is a week long "free weekend" so probably we won't get answers during the next week. [...]
Oh you think the reason we probably won't get answers this coming week is because of the week long weekend? You're cute.



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mk47at: No, most got a verbatim translation of the default message that almost everyone (including me) got.
Cheers.
Post edited April 29, 2018 by HypersomniacLive
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HypersomniacLive: Cheers.
Franky, I do not understand how GOG can operate at all. We (in the German Forum) have been told countless times by both German employees that they are informed several days after Konrad/elcook/Fables post something on the English forum.

GOG seems to be bad a communication with the customers and the people that are payed to communicate with the customers.

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Btw., this reminds me of the song from Portal. The “we do what we must because we can” part.
Post edited April 29, 2018 by mk47at
https://www.pcgamer.com/pick-up-the-first-witcher-game-for-free-at-gog

Subscribing to GOG's newsletter gets you a free copy of the first Witcher game plus some Gwent cards.. (You can then unsubscribe but keep your games)
A part of me wants to subscribe for the news, but the other doesn't want to get any game from them until this privacy issue is resolved...

Edited because link was acting weird ._.

Edit 2: Privacy issue resolved, thanks! :o
Post edited April 30, 2018 by I.No
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HypersomniacLive: Oh you think the reason we probably won't get answers this coming week is because of the week long weekend? You're cute.
Unfortunately that could be their excuse, yes.
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HypersomniacLive: Oh you think the reason we probably won't get answers this coming week is because of the week long weekend? You're cute.
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Lexor: Unfortunately that could be their excuse, yes.
Yeah, I can see the post of a blue: "Sorry guys, that it took so long for us to respond to your concerns, but as you all know, we're based in Poland, and here we had a full week free due to ...blabla"
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mk47at: GOG seems to be bad a communication with the customers and the people that are payed to communicate with the customers.

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Btw., this reminds me of the song from Portal. The “we do what we must because we can” part.
User profiles - I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
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SpeedBo: Well... There's always FireFlower Games. Not a big catalog, but at least it is DRM free and private.
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Telika: Cool. But will they become horrible when they'll grow ?
Has there ever been a company that hasn't become "horrible" as they've grown? :P They use tactics people consider "horrible" to grow.

Idea: former GOGlodytes band together to create their own store, one that has a small library and never grows but doesn't compromise on their principles
Post edited April 29, 2018 by tfishell
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Breja: User profiles - I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
*lol*