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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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Thanks for bearing with us for the last week, we have an important update to the GOG Profiles.

For the whole last week, we’ve been gathering feedback regarding the new feature on GOG. The news about profiles has spread across plenty of websites forums and communities, and we took our time to track all of them, and gather all of the feedback. The reception of the new feature we saw in the comments on Reddit, under different global and local media publications, as well as on social media, was really positive and this proved to us that we released a new feature that most of our users were waiting for. On the other side, some of you guys here in the forums, have felt differently about this new addition, and stated it clearly here.

At this point, we’d like to thank for all the feedback we received - the good as well as the constructive one. You bring a lot of important feedback regarding GOG, as you are very devoted to the platform, even if you're not the biggest crowd out there. And while we understand that there will be always different opinions, we definitely do not focus only on the positive mentions we come across, and always consider making changes if these changes are beneficial for the whole GOG community.

Taking it all into account, we decided to tweak a bit the Profiles settings, and add another option to the Privacy settings - from now on you can entirely turn off your profile on GOG, so no one can see any kind of information that is shown on the profile page. This will also mean, that when you turn off your profile, you won’t be visible on your friends’ friends lists, if they decide to keep their profiles visible.
The option to enable/disable your GOG Profile can be found in your account „Orders & Settings” options, under Privacy tab. Hope this will address your and others concerns regarding GOG Profiles.
Post edited April 30, 2018 by elcook
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JAMVA: Hi GOG!

Little bug to fix ,

When you disable the profile in the privacy settings , it used to be that clicking directly on username would take you to the profile page , unfortunately as the prolife is disabled it will now take you to a 404 error GOG bear page.
Thanks for pointing it out. Forwarded it to the team.
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elcook: [...] from now on you can entirely turn off your profile on GOG, so no one can see any kind of information that is shown on the profile page. This will also mean, that when you turn off your profile, you won’t be visible on your friends’ friends lists, if they decide to keep their profiles visible.
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Mueslinator: Thank you for this. Seems I have to refill my wallet after all...

On a related, general note: What with the upcoming GDPR and all, I think that it would be prudent to have the profile set to disabled by default. This doesn't apply to me personally, I'm merely suggesting it because I think it's the right thing to do. Maybe that will also entice you to finally shoot out a notification email about profiles being a thing (which I still haven't received, I think). You know, to get people to activate them ;-).

On a second note: For those who wish to have profiles enabled, maybe add an option to toggle their online status both in what that status is ("bored", "busy", "waiting for players", etc.) as well as its visibility to others ("invisible", "friends only", etc.). It adds a bit of granularity and would make the profiles more attractive to use for some users.
In terms of visibility, we're keeping the profiles enabled as it is right now.

As for the other features (like you're mentioning toggling status), we will be developing GOG Profiles more in the future, and will be adding more stuff to it. But that's too early to discuss atm.
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elcook: Thanks for bearing with us for the last week, we have an important update to the GOG Profiles.

For the whole last week, we’ve been gathering feedback regarding the new feature on GOG. The news about profiles has spread across plenty of websites forums and communities, and we took our time to track all of them, and gather all of the feedback. The reception of the new feature we saw in the comments on Reddit, under different global and local media publications, as well as on social media, was really positive and this proved to us that we released a new feature that most of our users were waiting for.
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OldOldGamer: You are hinting that most of GOG users, the one that counts, use different boards. They are happy, and that what matters.
While only the useless ones are on main GOG forums.

Well done.
No, I'm saying there are lots of different places where other GOG members are also active and give feedback regarding what we do.
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elcook: Thanks for pointing it out. Forwarded it to the team.
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Lexor: Another question - can I get my profile back but visible "just for me only"?
I really liked the profile page but I did not want it to be shared with anyone else.
Not at the moment.
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elcook: [...] we have an important update to the GOG Profiles. [...]
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HypersomniacLive: I have a question about this, and I do hope you will clarify, and in a timely manner too.

The update in the OP here says [emphasis added]:

[...] 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.
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HypersomniacLive: The update in the respective OP in the German speaking forum says [emphasis added]:

[...] Dadurch wirst du auch nicht mehr auf den Freundeslisten deiner Freunde angezeigt, wenn diese ihre Freundesliste sichtbar machen.
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HypersomniacLive: The part I highlighted translates as [emphasis added]:

you will no longer appear on your friends' friends lists when they make their friends lists visible.
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HypersomniacLive: There are two friends lists related to profiles - one is the actual friends list (the separate tab), and the other is that "Friends" section of five friends on the profile page itself.

The German text reads as referring to the former list, while the English text as referring to the latter one.
Could you clarify which one a disabled profile actually affects?
It's for both. If you disable your profile, it won't show up on your friends' list in the Profile tab (short list of recent active friends), nor on the Friends tab.
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elcook: It's for both. If you disable your profile, it won't show up on your friends' list in the Profile tab (short list of recent active friends), nor on the Friends tab.
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HypersomniacLive: Any chance for a reply to this post of mine? And in case it doesn't link correctly:

Does a disabled profile also exclude one from friend recommendations? And if not, shouldn't it? Otherwise the friend recommendation feature, which is based on non-mutual friends of common friends, defeats the purpose of all the above, doesn't it?
The visibility setting does that. Profile disabling is about disabling the profile functionality.