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Posted April 30, 2018
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!
Posted April 23, 2018
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kroc: @Jeysie: Ask yourself this -- what is the benefit of this? Having a page that now tells everybody everything you're doing on GoG and when benefits who, exactly?
I frequently have friends ask what games I own/am playing, and when you have almost 400 games and are often circling between about a dozen at a time, trying to type it all out is daunting.

I can already show them my Steam games, but since my Steam library is incredibly small this doesn't do a whole lot for me.

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kroc: Nobody asked for this,
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/public_gog_profiles

That's an awful lot of "nobody".

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Telika: it's not a 100% voluntary option
Yes it is. You have options varying from "nobody" to "everybody" that you get to choose any one you want. How is that not voluntary?

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Telika: precisely because it shows info that's not already public
If you set it to do so. And if you set it to private, it is indeed private. Again, not seeing the issue.

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Telika: and because this display is compulsory.
Uhm, nope. I see plenty of people who have been totally free to set their profiles to private, and in looking at their profiles I can see they are indeed private and essentially a blank screen with a username.

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Telika: So your apology of this system is as dishonest as the hysterical outrage is ridiculous.
[shrug] I can't stop you folks from not liking when someone tries to post facts and proportional and calm reactions to things and tries to ask for people to react with rationality versus hysteria and hyperbole, but I can feel kind of sad and disappointed about it.

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Pheace: Yep, when everyone around you is telling you you're wrong the problem's clearly with them. Pointless
Yes, when everyone is claiming that what I can see with my own two eyes is right, is somehow really wrong, the problem is in fact clearly with them.
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Posted April 23, 2018
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I just can't understand the people complaining about "muh my privacy". Just remember that Internet is a public space. If you decide to take a piss in the middle of the streets, are you going to yell about your right to privacy at those who tell you you're gross ?

Now, if GOG starts sharing your email adress or private informations like those around without your consent, then we have a problem. But until they do, everything's fine. And let's drop the slippery slope fallacy immediately - there's a hard line between what's important, private stuff, and what's not, and your game statistics are of the latter kind.
Posted April 23, 2018
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kroc: @Jeysie: Ask yourself this -- what is the benefit of this? Having a page that now tells everybody everything you're doing on GoG and when benefits who, exactly?
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Jeysie: I frequently have friends ask what games I own/am playing, and when you have almost 400 games and are often circling between about a dozen at a time, trying to type it all out is daunting.

I can already show them my Steam games, but since my Steam library is incredibly small this doesn't do a whole lot for me.

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kroc: Nobody asked for this,
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Jeysie: https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/public_gog_profiles

That's an awful lot of "nobody".

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Telika: it's not a 100% voluntary option
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Jeysie: Yes it is. You have options varying from "nobody" to "everybody" that you get to choose any one you want. How is that not voluntary?

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Telika: precisely because it shows info that's not already public
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Jeysie: If you set it to do so. And if you set it to private, it is indeed private. Again, not seeing the issue.

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Telika: and because this display is compulsory.
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Jeysie: Uhm, nope. I see plenty of people who have been totally free to set their profiles to private, and in looking at their profiles I can see they are indeed private and essentially a blank screen with a username.

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Telika: So your apology of this system is as dishonest as the hysterical outrage is ridiculous.
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Jeysie: [shrug] I can't stop you folks from not liking when someone tries to post facts and proportional and calm reactions to things and tries to ask for people to react with rationality versus hysteria and hyperbole, but I can feel kind of sad and disappointed about it.

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Pheace: Yep, when everyone around you is telling you you're wrong the problem's clearly with them. Pointless
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Jeysie: Yes, when everyone is claiming that what I can see with my own two eyes is right, is somehow really wrong, the problem is in fact clearly with them.
Are you just being dishonest ? Just trolling ?

Benefit of doubt, one last attempt :

The profile does display your number of games, achievements and hours played, WHATEVER your setting. And people are unhappy about that.
Posted April 23, 2018
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Jeysie: Yes, when everyone is claiming that what I can see with my own two eyes is right, is somehow really wrong, the problem is in fact clearly with them.
You're clearly trolling at this point. Or blind as a bat, and lack reading comprehension on top of that. It's been stated tons of times to you now exactly what's being publicly shared now, what used to be private before and it's right there on that picture you mistakingly think is proving your point

Cue moving the goal posts to "It's not that big a deal to see that information"
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Posted April 23, 2018
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AmethystViper: People complaining about the introduction of a feature they don't have to use yet here I am...
Nice gif. How you liking freedom planet? I am stoked for the next one to come out!
Posted April 23, 2018
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gryffondor95: I just can't understand the people complaining about "muh my privacy". Just remember that Internet is a public space. If you decide to take a piss in the middle of the streets, are you going to yell about your right to privacy at those who tell you you're gross ?

Now, if GOG starts sharing your email adress or private informations like those around without your consent, then we have a problem. But until they do, everything's fine. And let's drop the slippery slope fallacy immediately - there's a hard line between what's important, private stuff, and what's not, and your game statistics are of the latter kind.
Thank you.
Posted April 23, 2018
I neither can use BBCodes in my personal diary nor commenting on friend's confessions it seems..
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DreamedArtist: Nice gif. How you liking freedom planet? I am stoked for the next one to come out!
Thanks, and I've finished Freedom Planet years ago but I sadly lost my save file sadly since I had it before the cloud saving feature of Galaxy but sadly the game doesn't use cloud saving at all. I'm hoping Freedom Planet 2 will be good since trying the demo out.
Post edited April 23, 2018 by AmethystViper
Posted April 23, 2018
Seems like a copy of facebook timeline, but certainly interesting.
Posted April 23, 2018
What? There's notifications for the activity feed? Can I turn that off somewhere?
Posted April 23, 2018
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Pheace: What? There's notifications for the activity feed? Can I turn that off somewhere?
Unfortunately you can't.
Posted April 23, 2018
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gryffondor95: there's a hard line between what's important, private stuff, and what's not
The facebook/Cambridge Analytica disaster has clearly shown what a complete fabrication that "hard line" is, and that literally any data that can be used for targeted marketing will be used for psychological manipulation.

I have made clear in no uncertain terms how e.g. the display of zero achievements and zero time spent is a blatant attempt at manipulating the way we perceive the 'necessity' of the stupid client. I've also made clear how the hyper-consumerist accumulation of games you'll never play is made a competitive game by showing the number of owned games in the profile.

Neither is acceptable.
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Posted April 23, 2018
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Jeysie: I wish all those people who say they want GOG to be taken seriously as a gaming platform would realize this is sort of reaction is going to achieve the exact opposite.
but the fact that GOG still fails to deliver to a dev studio enough/any GOG keys for them to provide their game to their customer nearly a week after release is SURE helping GOG to be taken seriously as a gaming platform ? (while the sheer exact needed volume had been known for months)

or initially curating out the latest game of a studio that so far released every of their previous games on this platform's catalog ?

was just to make sure i understood correctly what makes a gaming platform to be taken seriously or not to either customers and/or partners
Posted April 23, 2018
I would like to delineate my virtual lawn and have people get off it.

Can I have this established as a right?
Posted April 23, 2018
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GOG.com: ...
Playing a little with the feature, I would say :

First I do agree that peoples should have a way to disable it completely if they decide to, while I don't consider that the number of game you own to be a privacy sensitive information, it shouldn't be displayed if users chose the maximum privacy setting.

There should be more granularity in the privacy option, you might want to display the number of games you own and may achievements but no necessarily the number of hours played; or allow peoples to search for you using your username but not using your e-mail, etc...

There should be more customization option in the feed: For example you might be interested in knowing what / when your friend posted on the forum but not caring what games they are playing or what achievements they just unlocked, being able to select what appear in the feed would be great, currently it's IMHO too cluttered to be really of any use.



Also anybody knows what the whole : [username] shared a thought thing is ? is it a private message ? or is it when you enter something in the "what's up" edit box ?
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