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Activity Feed • Gameplay Stats • Personalization


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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yogsloth: Jesus Fuck, are you kidding me? Where's my shelf? Where are my games?

This horrible tiny list view is all that's left?
Your profile is not your library :p
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hummer010: This seems like one more indication that Galaxy is the future.

I don't really care about the privacy thing - it's not like me owning some games is a secret. Posts in the forum are already publicly available.

But it sure seems like another way to push Galaxy....

Of course, pushing Galaxy would probably work better if they actually made galaxy available on all platforms.
on other platforms... and less buggy, and with the right features, and with more of them, and with more settings options for said features (instead of galaxy going full bonkers out of control the first time you launch it and it start doing its crazy things wthout you being allowed to tell it to stop and do it the way you want or need)
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tinyE: Seriously, why are the "games recently played" games I haven't played in years?
I was wondering the same thing myself.
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You called? ;-)
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Darvond: It pulls from Galaxy. I haven't played FTL in months. but there it is.
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tinyE: I had Galaxy installed for five minutes after it came out. :P I didn't know I had even bothered to try playing on it before I screamed and uninstalled it.
we dont talk anymore

what happedned 2 us?
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well what about peopel who just want to be a customer, and not be part of a socialfest of all hugging and groping digital "friends", but also would like GOG to COMPLY to legislation and/or consumers laws instead of trying to bypass it or trick it crudely and grossly ?

of course such person are a damn whiny bitchy minority
but really if you want to bring the "majority/bigger number is always right" excuse, i may have nasty answers and punchline for you...
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Kadlin: My profile says I have 336 games, 10 achievements, and 0 hours played.

Nice! I think? I like how I played 0 hours, but I still have 10 achievements and so many games. I guess i just like to buy games and not play them.
That's what I do :)
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Djaron: well what about peopel who just want to be a customer, and not be part of a socialfest
Then those people are not obligated to use the feature. Nobody is forcing you to add "friends", to look at other people's profiles or even at your own profile. Those who want to avoid all interactions don't even have to use the forum... but then where would they complain about social interactions?

It's not about majority being right. It's that I'm ok with you not using a feature, but you are clearly not ok with me having a feature at all.
Post edited April 23, 2018 by Alaric.us
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The blunder is so obvious I'm almost sure it's a bug. And more so given GOG web development team less than stellar record...

I wouldn't be surprised if the heading with games/achievements/hours was added as an afterthought, or the guy who coded it just wasn't aware of (or told about) the privacy settings, which at least they seem to have worried about enough to take into account in the other sections.

- What do you mean number of games owned should be hidden? According to what setting?
- Privacy settings, you know...
- Ok, which one of the three, profile, games or friends?
- Oh wait...

Give them a little time and surely they'll figure it out.
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Thanks for the missing option to hide a profile. And I mean to hide it in total.
Thanks for showing data about my account i never wanted to share and not giving me the option to disable it.

I never wanted a profile webside but now I want an option to disable it...
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This is a ridiculous generalization, and you know it. As far as I've seen, nobody is saying "oh my gah, remove profiles immediately and never bring them back.i didn't want this and so nobody else should have it either.ever!!!1!!"

We're simply asking that we be given the option to make profiles completely private. I don't see why that should be an issue for you any more than you having a profile is an issue for me. We can actually have both.

(Edited to remove unintentional redundant word)
Post edited April 23, 2018 by SpiderFighter
So to turn it off as much as possible I go to account/settings/privacy and make everything "only me" is there anything else i need to do to get rid of it?
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randomuser.833: Thanks for the missing option to hide a profile. And I mean to hide it in total.
Thanks for showing data about my account i never wanted to share and not giving me the option to disable it.

I never wanted a profile webside but now I want an option to disable it...
I didn't know you existed until you posted this, but once I read your post I got curious and went to see your profile. Now I know that you have 751 games, 0 achievements, and 0 hours. All your base are belong to me.
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SpiderFighter: We're simply asking that we be given the option to make profiles complete completely private. I don't see why that should be an issue for you any more than you having a profile is an issue for me. We can actually have both.
I completely agree that this is a reasonable request. You should be able to hide your profile if you so desire. I see nothing wrong with that. My reply was to the statement that GOG supposedly only works on features that were not wanted by anyone.

In fact I too would like to see some changes. As I mentioned before I'd like to be able to share my profile with everyone on the Internet, not just GOG users. The profile feature is still brand new, though, so I'm sure both of our requests can be addressed.
Post edited April 23, 2018 by Alaric.us
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USERNAME:Djaron#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4#Q&_^Q&Q#LINK:248#Q&_^Q&Q#well what about peopel who just want to be a customer, and not be part of a socialfest#Q&_^Q&Q#LINK:248#Q&_^Q&Q#
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That's exactly the problem. You can not turn it off entirely. I like the new feature for those who want to use it and would welcome it with open arms. If it didn't force my data out there as well, that is. I personally even really enjoy seeing my accumulated playtime and other statistics like that. I just don't want to share it. I want it for my personal use.

And to those people belittling the ones who have concerns like that, yes, they are valid concerns and just because you don't care if that data is out there doesn't mean everyone else should be okay with it too.

Just an example: You know someone on this site who you also know in real life, they invite you to a party and you reject the invitation with some excuse, saying that you have to work or something like that. But you really just purchased a new game and want to spend your weekend with that rather than being at a party one day and hungover the next. With this public data they would see the played hours swell if they cared to look for it.
Yes, you could just forgo Galaxy to play that game by starting it out of its folder, but something like that shouldn't even be necessary. Just let my play my games without broadcasting my hours played or the number of games owned to anyone who has an account here.

And another thing: I am not one of the forum regulars, I am just annoyed by this situation enough that it makes me want to get my voice of dissent out there. Even in this small, insignificant way.