The idea of a "friend"-based community is a somewhat new idea here, I'd say. In the past it was more of a "regulars" thing, the forum being like the bar from Cheers (sort of). I also think it'll take more time and more changes and improvements to the site to "sell" the idea of GOG friends in a way similar to Steam.

And people are wary of being taken advantage of by "friends", and others are crotchety and grumpy.

No one I know in real life plays games.

Who needs friends when you can get Followers in Oblivion?

true.

Player profiles should not be client dependant on the first place.

+1 for Zeo being the only helpful person here XD

And.. see? You're so friendly here, compared to other places lol.

Want me to send you some of our PMs. :P

I KID ZEO! I JOKE!

O_o

Whatever you do, don't tell Phaolo the tales about the people in the sacks.

I think what you are saying I most GoGladytes are still using the pre-21st century definition of Friend, meaning someone you actually have some degree of affinity with, rather than the new 21st century definition of Friend which is "Some complete stranger that LoL'ed at a post I made 3 years ago and continuously posts pictures of cats on my facebook page"

Ohh tank you for all friend requests :) The biggest problem for me is, i like so much to check other profiles and compare them with mine. I mean, when you have someone in friends you can see how much time he spent in a game comparing to you. I'm a math mind. love numbers and this is big fetish for me :)

I love collecting achievements, love to see how my numbers are growing up, and with friends it's so much fun sometimes :)

I think, GOG Galaxy is still poor in this field and i hope it will change someday, cause i love this platform :)

Nothing. :P I don't have anyone friended but I have no one blocked and my lists are all open to everyone, so no difference.

If you're running Galaxy, you can see when your friends are starting / playing a game (which might inspire you to play the same thing, or chat to them about it?) and you can also see how long your friends have been playing on each game page under your own total time (so you might find out someone is a big fan of a game you like?)

edit: I didn't read your post properly so ignore what I just wrote about Galaxy lol

A lot of people I knew before used steam but a lot of the time making actual friends from the web never last long from what I experienced, only people I know in person. hope one day making some net friends won't have that bad experience :P