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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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xyem: But they have done exactly that before.
Okay, particularly as I'm writing a German blog entry right now that addresses pretty exactly that, could you give me a link to where they did that, i.e. gave a concise explanation about what their values are?
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joppo: Heck, I'm considering that Steam is "not that bad after all" now. At least they aren't changing the rules after you're invested in it.
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PrivateProfile: Depends, how you define that (and how far your definition goes):
Steam can (and will, as has been proven in the past) change the games, you bou....sorry, rented there, after you paid for them (remove songs, etc).
Ah yes, I stand partially corrected. They can change what they provide you, they didn't change their behavior. You get in expecting the worst (barring criminal activities with our credit cards and malware) and when bad things like those game changes happen you're not taken by surprise.

GOG on the other hand pulled this crap when we didn't ever expect them to fall this low. I guess I was too naive.

Lesson learned, GOG. Now I know to expect the worse from you as well.
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Vainamoinen: Okay, particularly as I'm writing a German blog entry right now that addresses pretty exactly that, could you give me a link to where they did that, i.e. gave a concise explanation about what their values are?
I can't give you one link because they have done it around the place, hence why I keep linking to relevant bits that I find in this topic.

You are what matters, and we will be sure to involve you all more in what we're doing and why we're doing it., which is from their "Getting back to our roots" post, but that touches on the pricing side.

Finally, we’re always very sensitive of our users’ privacy. which is from when they disabled geo-ip.

EDIT: Also some links to job posts here, where you can see what the company (supposedly) values as they explicitly ask for it
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PrivateProfile: Depends, how you define that (and how far your definition goes):
Steam can (and will, as has been proven in the past) change the games, you bou....sorry, rented there, after you paid for them (remove songs, etc).
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joppo: Ah yes, I stand partially corrected. They can change what they provide you, they didn't change their behavior.
To be fair to Steam - in cases of removed songs, it was the publishers, who demanded that change (or maybe the right-holders to the songs in question), and they had to follow that demand.
But - with a good old offline retail version, that would've not happened, a.k.a. would've not been possible at all.
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In only a few days, the wishlist asking Gog to disable the "view profile" function has now reached almost half of the wishlist asking for profiles in the first place (which took six years to amass).

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/disable_view_profile_function_for_customers_who_care_for_their_privacy

It's time, Gog. enough already. This is snowballing, and the outside world is taking notice.
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SpiderFighter: It's time, Gog. enough already. This is snowballing, and the outside world is taking notice.
But some get it wrong:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/gog-user-profiles

Quote "GOG make it very clear that they have new privacy settings to deal with this new feature, so if you don’t want to share your gaming details, you don’t have to."

https://www.neowin.net/news/gog-store-becomes-more-social-introduces-user-profiles

Quote "In addition, alongside the profiles, GOG has introduced several new privacy settings to help users manage their data. Users are able to individually set who can see their profiles, their game libraries, as well as their friends lists, to private, friends only, or all GOG users."

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Others do it better:

https://www.slashgear.com/gog-profiles-launch-at-the-worst-possible-time-23528295/

Quote "GOG Profiles hold a similar treasury of information about your gaming activities, from your latest achievement to the time you spent on your games. It also has a friends list that lets you take a peek into their activities and vice versa. Pretty normal. Part of the problem seems to be in the implementation.

All GOG users immediately get their Profile without lifting a finger and, unfortunately, the settings default to making those pieces of information public by default. You have to switch them to private yourself and some users report that not everything can be turned off. Given how fresh it is, GOG will likely make some adjustments along the way. Hopefully not after receiving some heavy backlash."

edit: had one link screwed up.
Thanks to HypersomniacLive for making me aware of it.

(that happens, when you have too many links open) :)
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Vainamoinen: And on that note, no need pestering any "blues", GOG officials & community management personel AT ALL.

They have no choice but to toe the line of the higher ups. This is a nightmare particularly for them, and it's_not_their_fault.
It's not a question of fault. They are paid to be the representatives of the company in both directions. Management doesn't read our complaints and they don't talk to us. The "blues" and customer support are the people we talk to and it's their job to listen and forward our complains to their superiors and then come back and keep us informed. If they can't do that, they're useless. Perhaps not through any fault of theirs, but useless nonetheless.

So, DO pester any GOG employee you can get your hands on.
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puviani: So, DO pester any GOG employee you can get your hands on.
I don't think we should pester "any" GOG employee. Most of them really have nothing to do with this, it's not their job to deal with any of this, and even if they wanted to answer they don't know any more than we do.

But if someone is present on the forum as, let's say "that PR guy", then yeah, dealing with us and the fallout of this mess is pretty much exactly the job description of such a entirely hypothetical employee.
In any event, I'm out. I wish everyone the best.
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Breja: But if someone is present on the forum as, let's say "that PR guy", then yeah, dealing with us and the fallout of this mess is pretty much exactly the job description of such a entirely hypothetical employee.
You mean "That PR Guy", elcook?

EDIT: Whoops, misread what you wrote :)
Post edited April 27, 2018 by xyem
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Jobdone123: You are ridicolous, I hope gog will start soon the banhammer on you all, so you stop to pestering the forum with your shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zANvYB93u2g
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xyem: You mean "That PR Guy", elcook?

EDIT: Whoops, misread what you wrote :)
You (and Breja) make the assumption that PR stands for public relations. Perhaps that's wrong. It might be pub relations and therefore elcook is responsible for beer.
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xyem: You mean "That PR Guy", elcook?

EDIT: Whoops, misread what you wrote :)
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mk47at: You (and Breja) make the assumption that PR stands for public relations. Perhaps that's wrong. It might be pub relations and therefore elcook is responsible for beer.
In that case she still fails. My mug is empty!
Post edited April 27, 2018 by tinyE
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mk47at: You (and Breja) make the assumption that PR stands for public relations. Perhaps that's wrong. It might be..
pretty redundant?
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mk47at: You (and Breja) make the assumption that PR stands for public relations. Perhaps that's wrong. It might be..
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xyem: pretty redundant?
Yeah, right. Or particularly run-down.