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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 24, 2018
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While I think this thread has a lot of paranoia in it, I do agree setting everything to private should actually set everything to private. Hopefully sure GOG will add that option in the coming days.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Riiiight, I've semi-randomly checked 56 profiles of various persons, including these who keep saying "oh, it's nothing, stop overeacting, why you bother?" and among them 44 were set to block EVERYTHING. This is not the default state of profile, so these "it's nothing" persons must go there and change these settings... to show nothing.

I found this delightfully ironic.

The majority of the rest were set to block eveything except friend list, but said lists were... empty. Like containing zero, null, nada entries. I've actually find only 5 profiles set to show something different than "This profile's section is private" in all three sections (and one of these profiles belongs to tinyE, so I have some doubts if this should count... The Lego photo is awesome, btw:) ).

Conclusion? Looks like GoG by its own sloppiness completely killed the feature and make it uterlly useless before it even get off the ground. People almost en masse are blocking everything, rendering your "profiles" nothing but empty screens with the user name on top and some numbers which are doing nothing but additionally pissing off people who want privacy. Good job, GoG. In you history of creating the fuckups this one got the serious biscuit.

Scott Adams work seems to be a perfect summary of this PR trainwreck.
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Posted April 24, 2018
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Mr_GeO: Riiiight, I've semi-randomly checked 56 profiles of various persons, including these who keep saying "oh, it's nothing, stop overeacting, why you bother?" and among them 44 were set to block EVERYTHING. This is not the default state of profile, so these "it's nothing" persons must go there and change these settings... to show nothing.

I found this delightfully ironic.

The majority of the rest were set to block eveything except friend list, but said lists were... empty. Like containing zero, null, nada entries. I've actually find only 5 profiles set to show something different than "This profile's section is private" in all three sections (and one of these profiles belongs to tinyE, so I have some doubts if this should count... The Lego photo is awesome, btw:) ).

Conclusion? Looks like GoG by its own sloppiness completely killed the feature and make it uterlly useless before it even get off the ground. People almost en masse are blocking everything, rendering your "profiles" nothing but empty screens with the user name on top and some numbers which are doing nothing but additionally pissing off people who want privacy. Good job, GoG. In you history of creating the fuckups this one got the serious biscuit.

Scott Adams work seems to be a perfect summary of this PR trainwreck.
nice cartoon :D

Had to captcha myself through security , haven't seen the ugly login captcha for a quite a few days now but it is back ....
The bad thing is the games i hid also show up if the profile is shared , i mean i hide the games so they dont clutter up my good games, but if i dont hide it in my profile the entire world can see ALL my games ? this is bad...
Post edited April 24, 2018 by gamesfreak64
Posted April 24, 2018
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StingingVelvet: While I think this thread has a lot of paranoia in it, I do agree setting everything to private should actually set everything to private. Hopefully sure GOG will add that option in the coming days.
There should always be one button to hide everything like an ON / OFF switch from the start, thats the first thing to add, if and when you decide to show some info then the extra switches should be visible you can see it as one light switch switching of the entire basement but if you put some nightlights into a walloutlet you can get some light but only that part will be lighted by the lamp plugged into the walloutlet, leaving the rest of the basement dark or poorly lit until you switch on the main power :D
Posted April 24, 2018
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Posted April 24, 2018
A quick look and this thing is not working well yet.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Breja: So take a good look at that number of games in my library that everyone can see. Because as long as everyone can see it, that number is not going to change. I'm not going to buy a single, solitary game from GOG untill this is resolved. Not even with a 99% discount on my entire wishlist. A line has to be drawn somewhere. GOG has to do better.
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Mueslinator: Dito. Not even a week ago, I had resolved to fill up my wallet come first of May. Won't do that now, obviously. Additionally, I've started downloading all of my games as a precaution in case something goes even further south (which I don't discount any more). As long as this mess isn't sorted, this account remains frozen.

To the dude that claimed that all is fixed: Nothing changed for me. I call bull.
Same.

I am sick and tired of online companies thinking they have the right to do whatever they want with our private data just because we use their service.

And while GOG's breach of privacy is not as serious as Facebook's (and, yes, I was one of those who had my personal data stolen by Cambridge Analytics) it is still heading in that direction.

Not one more cent on GOG either, until they give us the option to delete profiles and keep them deleted.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Saying "it's not a big deal" and then setting your preferences to private is not ironic in the slightest. People may want to hide their activity, yet believe that those shouting about the end times are overreacting dramatically, considering they can simply turn these off.
Posted April 24, 2018
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drealmer7: people like you enjoy being slaves and say to the other slaves "oh c'mon! this house is nice!"
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Fairfox: i feel this is teh melodrama point where its gone too far in an argument
no, it's this exact mentality that exists in most people in society and why you're a bunch of oppressed automatons instead of real people

it's all part of the same systemic oppression wanted by the masses because they can't figure out how to be without someone telling them how to be

in short, if you don't understand the issue, you're part of the problem
Post edited April 24, 2018 by drealmer7
Posted April 24, 2018
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Breja: I just can't condone this bullshit anymore. So much of our feedback on this got blatantly ignored, default setting were outright wrong, information wasn't sent to users in advancem resulting in people learning about the change from news sites or not at all. And now we can't even get a response about the fact that despite setting every option to the most private setting some info is still publicly visable. No resposne whatsoever, not to mention a fix of the issue. Even when directly asked about it (twice), GOG's PR representative here just outright ignored me.
Why would it be another way? Any single change on GOG is greeted by ultimatums by boys crying wolf. Sooner or later GOG will just decide "Screw them". I know I would. What's the point of customers that can speak the language of ultimatums only?
Posted April 24, 2018
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Mr_GeO: Riiiight, I've semi-randomly checked 56 profiles of various persons, including these who keep saying "oh, it's nothing, stop overeacting, why you bother?" and among them 44 were set to block EVERYTHING. This is not the default state of profile, so these "it's nothing" persons must go there and change these settings... to show nothing.

I found this delightfully ironic.

The majority of the rest were set to block eveything except friend list, but said lists were... empty. Like containing zero, null, nada entries. I've actually find only 5 profiles set to show something different than "This profile's section is private" in all three sections (and one of these profiles belongs to tinyE, so I have some doubts if this should count... The Lego photo is awesome, btw:) ).

Conclusion? Looks like GoG by its own sloppiness completely killed the feature and make it uterlly useless before it even get off the ground. People almost en masse are blocking everything, rendering your "profiles" nothing but empty screens with the user name on top and some numbers which are doing nothing but additionally pissing off people who want privacy. Good job, GoG. In you history of creating the fuckups this one got the serious biscuit.

Scott Adams work seems to be a perfect summary of this PR trainwreck.
I checked JudasIscariot's profile, y'know the friendly blue that answers a lot of technical questions, and his is private. So GOG employees won't even use it? Are they afraid of the same things we are?
Posted April 24, 2018
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Breja: I just can't condone this bullshit anymore. So much of our feedback on this got blatantly ignored, default setting were outright wrong, information wasn't sent to users in advancem resulting in people learning about the change from news sites or not at all. And now we can't even get a response about the fact that despite setting every option to the most private setting some info is still publicly visable. No resposne whatsoever, not to mention a fix of the issue. Even when directly asked about it (twice), GOG's PR representative here just outright ignored me.
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Olauron: Why would it be another way? Any single change on GOG is greeted by ultimatums by boys crying wolf. Sooner or later GOG will just decide "Screw them". I know I would. What's the point of customers that can speak the language of ultimatums only?
I generally agree with your thinking.

The fact is, though, that GOG seems to have not clear ideas nowadays how to grow the business.
They look at the hugely successful Steam and say: we want to be like them. No, bigger!

The problem lie not in the ultimate goal, but in how they want to achieve it.

Up to a certain time ago, GOG promoted itself as a different kind of Game store: something more mature. Less restrictive and more user oriented.
A place that did everything to the bones, but in an efficient, transparent customer-oriented way.

By some time now, this is changing to look and feel more like the hated competitor.
Lots of features paying customers are crying for are plainly walked over, to implement something that could appeal to younger, less mature generation of players, like profiles.

GOG was born as "Old" games and, even if they decide to go for just "GOG" they couldn't.
Is not like a flip of a switch.

Your current customer base is grounded in something that they don't want.
The wast majority can care less to show-off how many games they have in the library or they care even less what the fellow account is playing at the moment.

All this while they seems not enabling developers to update games in a more reliable way, just to name a neglected feature (as more than one dev have pointed at).

Now: I will not stop buying games at GOG. No sir.
But true is that I'm buying more in steam, as I feel GOG is not going in the right direction.
Posted April 24, 2018
I notice that in the "Privacy" section there is a checkbox for "your visibility". This was checked by default yesterday and said "NOW PUBLIC - Others can find me by email or username". Does this mean that people could have seen my email address before I unchecked the item? I assume this isn't the case as this would surely have been the greatest violation of privacy, and I haven't found anything mentioned about email addresses being exposed on this thread. Any input would be appreciated.
Posted April 24, 2018
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Breja: I just can't condone this bullshit anymore. So much of our feedback on this got blatantly ignored, default setting were outright wrong, information wasn't sent to users in advancem resulting in people learning about the change from news sites or not at all. And now we can't even get a response about the fact that despite setting every option to the most private setting some info is still publicly visable. No resposne whatsoever, not to mention a fix of the issue. Even when directly asked about it (twice), GOG's PR representative here just outright ignored me.
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Olauron: Why would it be another way? Any single change on GOG is greeted by ultimatums by boys crying wolf. Sooner or later GOG will just decide "Screw them". I know I would. What's the point of customers that can speak the language of ultimatums only?
That's true. I remember the introduction of GOG Galaxy - a similar outrage took place back then ("You're not going to support the downloader anymore?! You bastards!!", "This is becoming more like Steam, I'M LEAVING", etc). As much as I love GOG, its community is terrible at times.

Let's face some facts, will we?
Yes, GOG should definitely give us an option to hide the three stats that are currently available to everyone with no regard to privacy settings.
Yes, it's controversial that privacy settings are set to public by default - it would be much better if they were private until the first login since the profiles' introduction, at which point the user would have to choose them.

No, GOG is not devil incarnate now.

So, GOG, please DO change the stat display and default settings, but overall good job with the profiles! They look marvelous and the placement of various elements is spot-on. Once you've fixed these few issues that people are overracting about (although they are valid concerns), this may be one of the best features yet introduced on the platform.

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OldOldGamer: By some time now, this is changing to look and feel more like the hated competitor.
Lots of features paying customers are crying for are plainly walked over, to implement something that could appeal to younger, less mature generation of players, like profiles.
The thing is, GOG has advertised itself as the DRM-free platform since forever. It was perhaps an assumption of some people that lack of any modern social features like those of its competitors are its feature, but in reality it was simply a lack of a feature. GOG never once said, to my knowledge, they're not going to introduce such a thing.

And once the privacy issues are dealt with, as I hope they are (without the unnecessary contempt for the platform), those who'd rather not engage in these social features will be free to do just that.

Do I like Steam? I don't. In fact, I make effort to make sure I don't buy any games on Steam at all, even if they're not on GOG.
The reason, however, for my dislike for Steam is its DRM. I appreciate the social features (as well as I appreciated the overlay before it was introduced in Galaxy) and am very happy about them coming to GOG. In short, "You're now more like Steam!" is not a convincing argument, because Steam does make many many things right - they would not become the monopoly they are today if that was not the case.
Post edited April 24, 2018 by Taro94
Posted April 24, 2018
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The_Hampton: I notice that in the "Privacy" section there is a checkbox for "your visibility". This was checked by default yesterday and said "NOW PUBLIC - Others can find me by email or username". Does this mean that people could have seen my email address before I unchecked the item? I assume this isn't the case as this would surely have been the greatest violation of privacy, and I haven't found anything mentioned about email addresses being exposed on this thread. Any input would be appreciated.
Your email address is never shown (thanks gods!). This option means that people who know your email address already can search for your account (in case they don't know your username).
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