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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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RainbowDragon: I know, thanks :-) and it really matters not (for me) where in the list I find myself. For all it's worth we can give away random numbers and add people up and downwards at both ends of that list as long as we get a fair number to make their stand until gog finally comes to their senses and sees that this whole affair is not only damaging their reputation but may also hurt them in a financial way.
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SpiderFighter: Well I wish they'd hurry up about it. There are a few games in this week's sale I really wanted to grab! :D
pssst:
I thought I might ask a friend to buy those and gift them to me later but please don't thell the crowd because that's not in the current mood of this "we are now being evil to gog as long as they are not doing what we ask them to do with our profiles" ;-)..
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Lukaszmik: Even if GOG introduces super-tight "privacy settings," they are, as somebody in another thread ingeniously pointed out, not "privacy" but "publicity" settings.

GOG will still gather and store that information, just not show it with any random user. That hardly gives me any consolation considering how much nowadays such information is worth to the right parties.
since you are rising this topic regarding profiles and privacy, what NEW information are they gathering in regard to profiles?
- reviews and topics posted - they were always gathering that, otherwise how can they display them on their pages? profile just works like a registry of your own reviews and topics written. the only difference is that forums are available to everyone and profiles to registered users only. nothing new gathered here.
- achievements, time played - these are optional even if you use galaxy. this aside how these features are supposed to work if they are not saved? also for a long time they were displayed to friends and again profile just shows them, nothing new collected here.
- posts or screenshots you are willingly sharing? its the same as your posts here on this forum.

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Lukaszmik: I skipped on Galaxy for pretty much the same reason - it was abundantly clear even at that point that it was a framework which would be extremely easy to abuse for the sake of data mining.
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Even if GOG does not outright start selling that information, they are building a future asset that can be easily transferred at will
sorry but you are making theories / accusations here without any proofs.
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If I'd like to share tons of info about me I'd create fejsbook account.
GoG, pls allow to disable profile or at least make it private only.
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RainbowDragon: #Number of users who will not buy from gog.com anymore until gog.com respects our privacy
Tbh, I'm not in. I've sworn to never use Steam and so my options for buying games are limited. I WILL however have a closer look at my itch.io watchlist (there's quite some interesting stuff there too) and pay more attention to the thread about other DRM-free stores.
Post edited April 26, 2018 by toxicTom
All,

Sorry if I'm late to the party with this (or if this has already been posted). I received this within the last two hours, from CD Projekt. The text of the e-mail is below. Links have been removed, as they didn't translate too well when I copied and pasted.

Happy reading (grimaces):




Dear gamer,

On May 25th, a new and important privacy-concerned regulation will come into effect across the entire European Union — the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). In a nutshell, GDPR requires all EU-based companies to pay additional attention to all personal data customers provide them with.

Together with the new law come a few formalities that require companies to implement changes in Privacy Policies and User Agreements — us included.

No action is required on your part. However, since we think privacy is an important aspect of everyone’s life, we do encourage you to read on.

We’d like to inform you that our Privacy Policies are now adjusted to be fully compliant with GDPR. Reading them will now give you a lot more information about things like data retention periods (i.e. how long we will keep your data), our Trusted Partners (i.e. entities that help us bringing you our games or services), or where we store your data.

GDPR also grants you new rights. Under GDPR, you have the right to access your data, correct it, restrict access to it, or transfer it to another entity. But not only that — you can find more details in the amended Privacy Policy.

Links to the amended documents:

User Agreement – CD PROJEKT RED

Privacy Policy – CD PROJEKT RED

Privacy Policy – GWENT

All the changes to the documents become effective on the 25th of May, 2018.

Using the opportunity, we’d also like to inform you that we’ve changed the age rating of GWENT: The Witcher Card game. GWENT is now a 16+ game. From the 25th of May, you need to be 16+ to play.

Here’s the amended User Agreement document for GWENT:

If you have any questions about how we take care of your privacy, you can always drop us an email at privacy@cdprojektred.com. We’re always happy to respond to any questions you might have.

Best regards,
CD PROJEKT RED Team

CD PROJEKT®, The Witcher®, GWENT® are registered trademarks of CD PROJEKT Capital Group. GWENT game © CD PROJEKT S.A. All rights reserved. Developed by CD PROJEKT S.A. GWENT game is set in the universe created by Andrzej Sapkowski. All other copyrights and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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ranhg: Feel free to stop posting in the forums too! So GOG can realize their mistake, make them regret.
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toxicTom: No, we'll post walls of text to clutter the forum and take up valuable bandwidth (and TinyE will post Gigabytes of awesome Lego pr0n). That'll teach them...
Sorry to jump into your conversation but reading about bandwith and cluttering... do you see a way to... perhaps, hmmmm maybe add VIDEOS to our profiles? Now THAT might really hurt them :-).... a few hundred megs, hell maybe even gig uploaded per user's profile.... wow, maybe these profiles DO have a value for us *nasty grin*
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ranhg: Feel free to stop posting in the forums too! So GOG can realize their mistake, make them regret.
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toxicTom: No, we'll post walls of text to clutter the forum and take up valuable bandwidth (and TinyE will post Gigabytes of awesome Lego pr0n). That'll teach them...
No no, don't trust this guy. You should stop posting in the forums so GOG can miss you and go after you guys begging for your pardon.

TinyE is allowed to keep posting that awesome Lego pr0n as long as don't violates Leia's privacy.
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RainbowDragon: ...
I got a reply notification from you, but can't see anything in the thread...
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d2t: since you are rising this topic regarding profiles and privacy, what NEW information are they gathering in regard to profiles?
sorry but you are making theories / accusations here without any proofs.
It's not about GOG gathering the new information, it's other people being able to gather and/or use it because it is now public.

For example, you only own 4 games here, despite registering ~8 years ago. Why should we listen to your opinion on any matter regarding GOG?
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SpiderFighter: Well I wish they'd hurry up about it. There are a few games in this week's sale I really wanted to grab! :D
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RainbowDragon: pssst:
I thought I might ask a friend to buy those and gift them to me later but please don't thell the crowd because that's not in the current mood of this "we are now being evil to gog as long as they are not doing what we ask them to do with our profiles" ;-)..
Your secret's safe with me! ¬_¬
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The email feels like handing a third-degree burn victim a band-aid.
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RainbowDragon: Sorry to jump into your conversation but reading about bandwith and cluttering... do you see a way to... perhaps, hmmmm maybe add VIDEOS to our profiles? Now THAT might really hurt them :-).... a few hundred megs, hell maybe even gig uploaded per user's profile.... wow, maybe these profiles DO have a value for us *nasty grin*
Porn gifs?
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toxicTom: I got a reply notification from you, but can't see anything in the thread...
Thread broken, can see it now :-)
Post edited April 26, 2018 by toxicTom
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toxicTom: Porn gifs?
HuniePop screenshots.
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RainbowDragon: ...
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toxicTom: I got a reply notification from you, but can't see anything in the thread...
Hmm... sorry about that, let's try again.. the reply was to this post
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_gog_profiles_a393f/post1114
and it is - at least for me - now visible, but let's copy/paste it again:

Sorry to jump into your conversation but reading about bandwith and cluttering... do you see a way to... perhaps, hmmmm maybe add VIDEOS to our profiles? Now THAT might really hurt them :-).... a few hundred megs, hell maybe even gig per user's profile.... wow, maybe these profiles DO have a value for us *nasty grin*

And regarding that post
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_gog_profiles_a393f/post1112
about not wanting to be added to the list: no problem, I fully understand and guess many of us would miss to buy their games here but I just do not want them to get away with their violations of our privacy and will keep my word - as long as our profiles cannot be made completely private (or altogether removed) I will not buy anything anymore from gog.
Add me to the no buy from gog list; RainbowDragon untill GOG remembers its own principles on which they've started this platform, thanks.

Someone mentioned saboteur amongst CD Projekt staff before; let me guess..
-the CEO himself?!