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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 25, 2018
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xyem: "Head to the left and cough for me please?"
Damn, how did you do it?
Posted April 25, 2018
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Zrevnur: In EU EULAs do have limited power.
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Lukaszmik: The problem is the amount of time, effort, and money requiring to enforce consumer rights in any jurisdiction that is, at best, indifferent to them. I have little faith in courts of law when one side boasts of retainer lawyers and war coffers comparable to lifetime income of an average family, and the other is some poor schmuck that got ripped of for a small amount.

Hell, telecoms in the US have been ripping off people by posting false charges on the cell bills (as an example), and after years of federal prosecution the end result was a "fine" that was a tiny fraction of the estimated gains from the practice.
Thats bad and very sad to hear.
A small comfort might be that we EUropeans are slowly going in the same direction :D ...... everything is pointing in that direction thats why 2 captitals in the word Europeans above :D
Anyway soon we will know exactly how you feel cause we will be feeling and geting it aswell in 5 to 10 years top ? ( 2020-2025)

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HypersomniacLive: I also got a reply to my ticket, I bet nobody can guess what it says.
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xyem: "Head to the left and cough for me please?"
Nah thats only when they need some sample to store in the DNA banks for later (ab)use .... :D
mixing up stickers/labels on samples and it happens a lot ( Google on it)


well i'm off : D
gonna play an OFFline game now :D
Post edited April 25, 2018 by gamesfreak64
Posted April 25, 2018
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HypersomniacLive: snip
You have been quoted:
https://www.cnet.com/news/gog-debuts-profiles-feature-users-flip-out/
Posted April 25, 2018
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xyem: "Head to the left and cough for me please?"
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gamesfreak64: Nah thats only when they need some sample to store in the DNA banks for later (ab)use .... :D
Fun fact - in the US you can:

Get DNA-sampled during a routine traffic stop for no reason whatsoever
Get DNA-sampled during any, no matter how minor, surgery (any tissue taken from a patient has to be submitted to a lab tied into national database - sorry, can't find a quick and handy summary in a decent article right now)
Get DNA-sampled when you're born, no opt-out
Get DNA-sampled when you are arrested (the police have the right to put you under arrest between 24-48 hours with no validation for it other than "because we wanted to)

That's hardly an all-inclusive list. Hell, recently there was a push to allow corporations demanding the right to DNA-profile their employees...

And before somebody comes up with "well, why bitch on GOG then if everybody is doing the same if not worse" - because at least GOG might do something in our favor, therefore limiting the inevitable future "well, everybody is doing the same" "arguments" in other cases!
Posted April 25, 2018
Received an email from GOG.com:

Hi GOG users!

We’ve updated our Privacy and Cookie Policies and User Agreement and we wanted to explain why, what, how and when. Please make sure you’ve read these so you can see the changes that may be important to you.
Why update the legal documents?

(1) To reflect the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - a legal act created to enhance your privacy rights; (2) To reflect the new functionalities on our Services; (3) Generally to keep up to date with the best practices.
What is being updated?

In Privacy Policy we’ve added some wording about what information we collect, how we collect it and how it is used in relation to our GOG Services. In the User Agreement we have adjusted the minimum age use for GOG Services to meet the new GDPR legal requirements. You can see updated documents here linked in .PDF as a pending version under the text of the Privacy and Cookie Policies and User Agreement.
How are the updates being implemented?

We are notifying you here about these changes and providing with updated versions on the GOG.com website . The changes will take effect within 30 days from that date of notification (more information about that is in the User Agreement).
Do I need to do anything?

This is just a notification to let you know about the changes. You don’t have to do anything to continue using GOG.
What if I have questions?

Please contact us at privacy@gog.com and we’ll be happy to help.

https
:// support.
gog.com/
hc/en-us
/articles/
212632089-
User-Agreement
(have to send the link this way, because: new account.

:)

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"3.2 You can use your GOG account to set up a public profile accessible by other people.
You can also use your GOG account to connect with other GOG users.
Please act sensibly and remember you are responsible for your own actions"

It's so laughable...smh
Post edited April 25, 2018 by PrivateProfile
Posted April 25, 2018
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PrivateProfile: Received an email from GOG.com:
<snip>
It's so laughable...smh
Yeah, it's not even complete. For example:

5.3. GOG Connect. When you use our cool and optional feature GOG Connect we will be retrieving limited information from your Steam account. We explain this in more detail in section 10.3 below

10.3. In general, we don’t share information about you to third parties. There’re exceptions like our Trusted Partners, that help us deliver our Services and functionalities to you. Please rest assured that we always provide our partners with the minimum information necessary for them to help us. They may have potential or actual access to limited data about you and process it on our behalf (they are formally called “Data Processors”):
• CD PROJEKT S.A – our most trusted company to enable
you accessing GWENT;
• Third party vendors that provide us with internal
management and data sharing tools;
• Third party vendors that provide us with analytical tools;
• Third party vendors that provide us with email marketing
tools to help us managing our email communications;
• Third party vendors that provide us with error tracking and
crash reporting tools;
In general, we don’t share information about you to third parties. There’re exceptions like our Trusted Partners – these are companies that help us do our thing. They usually help us with things like data analytics, processing payments, internal tools or running a variety of marketing activities.
• Customer Service Software & Support Ticket System to help us manage your requests;
• Dynamic Site Delivery and Content Delivery Networks to provide GOG Services or to optimize content delivery
(although we share only IP addresses because CDNs deliver the content based on the geographic location);
• Our professional advisors dealing f.ex. with legal, tax, audit or accounting matters;
• Social media platforms for the purpose of personalized and targeted communication;
See anything missing?
Post edited April 25, 2018 by SpiderFighter
Posted April 25, 2018
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Well, evidently, all is right in the legal world of daily privacy invasions. :( So maybe the "EU will sue you GOG" angle could be abandonned altogether, as it is, my apologies, quite silly. This has never been a legal issue.

This has always been a moral issue.

The stance towards DRM free and the stance towards privacy are not separate. They are one and the same thing. You either have customers that give a shit about this kind of maybe antiquated, maybe outdated, maybe obsolete, maybe irrelevant freedom.

Or you don't have these customers.

We'll need a sign here, GOG folks, preferably quickly. One that says you stand by the values that have always been your USP and as of right now have ceased to exist.
Posted April 25, 2018
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Zrevnur: In EU EULAs do have limited power.
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Lukaszmik: The problem is the amount of time, effort, and money requiring to enforce consumer rights in any jurisdiction that is, at best, indifferent to them. I have little faith in courts of law when one side boasts of retainer lawyers and war coffers comparable to lifetime income of an average family, and the other is some poor schmuck that got ripped of for a small amount.

Hell, telecoms in the US have been ripping off people by posting false charges on the cell bills (as an example), and after years of federal prosecution the end result was a "fine" that was a tiny fraction of the estimated gains from the practice.
You have a US perspective. The consumer vs company balance here (in Germany) is very different from how it works in the US. And if a case is taken up by a consumer protection group or agency then there is no need at all for an individual person to have money. Those groups usually are after "more important" targets though.
And the laws themselves are often very anti-company and pro-consumer to the point that it hardly makes any sense anymore.
Posted April 25, 2018
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SpiderFighter: Yeah, it's not even complete. For example:


5.3. GOG Connect. When you use our cool and optional feature GOG Connect we will be retrieving limited information from your Steam account. We explain this in more detail in section 10.3 below

See anything missing?
Well, I don't use GOG connect and/or Galaxy, so...
Posted April 25, 2018
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OK fellow GOGers, I have been away for a while and now tried to read up what I missed in the last few hours.

Obviously
- some of you have received e-mails (I did not get anything from gog)
- and maybe even answers to their support tickets (my ticket remains without reply since I have created it)
- and finally there is still no change to the options of the privacy settings of my account.

So I now have to assume that they (gog) really believe that they CAN get away with this. Now this calls for a little revolution and beside the great support of you all in voting for the privacy feature request
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/disable_view_profile_function_for_customers_who_care_for_their_privacy
I would like to take this one step further. How many of you would like to tell gog.com (in some cases again) that from now on they will not buy ANYTHING anymore from gog.com until they have changed the privacy settings according to our request?

For lack of a fakebook page (I don't use that) or other social media please let's start counting right here in the forum where gog can watch their customer base dwindling away. Just add +1 to below number and let's see how far we can carry this, thank you:

#Number of users who will not buy from gog.com anymore until gog.com respects our privacy
#1 RainbowDragon
#2 PrivateProfile
#3 SpiderFighter

So who's #2 :-)? #3? And so on...

OK the first numbers have been added, thank you!
Post edited April 25, 2018 by RainbowDragon
Posted April 25, 2018
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah gog gog gog, gog.

So close, yet so far.

It's a bit baffling. The tool itself is good. And, if you just had made it optionnal, or even, just made all its data display optionnal, people would have growled a bit, thrown a few sarcasms, and that would be all. The "but it's optional, just don't use it if you don't like it" argument would have held. The thread would have died.

The baffling part is : why didn't you ? Honestly, what would it have cost you, to just allow these to be toggled on/off by a user ?

Sometimes I do genuinely wonder if you don't have a cheeky saboteur within your board. It looks so deliberate, the way you go the extra mile to turn a nice feature into a catastrophy. So easy to avoid.
Post edited April 25, 2018 by Telika
Posted April 25, 2018
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RainbowDragon: #Number of users who will not buy from gog.com anymore until gog.com respects our privacy
#1 RainbowDragon

So who's #2 :-)? #3? And so on...
I could add myself to that list, but as you can easily see - I made a new, totally private profile, that has absolutely no games attached to it.
So, my vote may not impress them that much. ;)

And I sure as hell won't post anything under my original accountname, because every post is an invitation to everyone, to look at my profile, which is a thing, I'd rather want to prevent.

But hey...for whatever it may be worth:

#2 PrivateProfile
Posted April 25, 2018
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RainbowDragon: #Number of users who will not buy from gog.com anymore until gog.com respects our privacy
#1 RainbowDragon

So who's #2 :-)? #3? And so on...
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PrivateProfile: I could add myself to that list, but as you can easily see - I made a new, totally private profile, that has absolutely no games attached to it.
So, my vote may not impress them that much. ;)

And I sure as hell won't post anything under my original accountname, because every post is an invitation to everyone, to look at my profile, which is a thing, I'd rather want to prevent.

But hey...for whatever it may be worth:

#2 PrivateProfile
Well I (and several others) have already committed to this elsewhere in the thread, but add my name to the list. (I won't add my own # because someone else might be posting at the same time).
Posted April 25, 2018
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Posted April 25, 2018
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Fairfox: i liek you buuut i feel we hate each other in real profiles? this makes me weepy but i feel its teh wine talkin'...
Nah, don't worry - I don't hate other people so easily.
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