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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!
Man, the activity feed looks really nice. Good work, guys. It's one of those subtle niceties that kinda enhances the whole experience.
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What bothers me most is lack of Softporn Adventure background..
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AutisticTitan: In the meantime, there's a new community wishlist item called "Disable "view profile" function for customers who care for their privacy!" that I suspect a lot of people here would like to vote for.
Right here: https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/disable_view_profile_function_for_customers_who_care_for_their_privacy
Post edited April 23, 2018 by SpiderFighter
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Breja: I wonder if GOG will maintain dead silence, or promise us an option to turn off our profiles in hopes of shutting us up, and proceed to never deliver, just like with setting classic installers as default. Place your bets!
Or any number of other unfulfilled promises....
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This is awesome. Slowly the platform is evolving and maturing. Well done!
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mike_cesara: What bothers me most is lack of Softporn Adventure background..
And no "Larry" background as well. I guess we'll have to wait.
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mike_cesara: What bothers me most is lack of Softporn Adventure background..
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Olauron: And no "Larry" background as well. I guess we'll have to wait.
At least "HuniePop" has a wallpaper background, better than nothing. :)
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MIK0: I think as usual they'll wait for thing to settle down and become less relevant, that how usually they handle things. As much as this matter is important it is unlikely that users will post for days about it. At some point they'll stop doing it and GOG could cover it up.
Yes, unfortunately you are right. With some issues they (gog) seem to try to just sit them out. And yes, they CAN wait before they answer us.... for approximately 1 month now. Then the new EU privacy and data protection laws (and gog.com is a European company) will come into effect on May 25th and can be enforced by customers and with a simple complaint. This may create a lawsuit for them that may cost them a fine of up to 20 million EUR or 4 % of their annual turnover, whichever is higher.

So come on gog.com where are the blue forum admins today? No answers at all? Having an attack of bad conscience? And what about my support ticket from 7 hours ago? Are you already drowning in requests from customers who do not want to have their profiles visible? Their data illegaly published?

Don't get me wrong, I do not care if those of your customers who were waiting for this function still have their profiles visible. That's ok, they can post their profiles, games, friends, pictures of their cats and dogs, whatever. But you must not disclose any data of your customer without their consent. That should be the policy of any reputable company and even if you don't care about your reputation or future sales it's still the law, there is no way around that.
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Torval: This is awesome. Slowly the platform is evolving and maturing. Well done!
Oh fuck mature!

My whole life people have been telling me that I need to grow up, starting acting more mature, be an adult.

I say to them, "Fuck you, Adults built the atomic bomb."

I was just fine sitting here with my Play-Doh and picking my nose.
I was happy. I was pure.
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KnightW0lf: well this is going to be diffrent and it's opposite of gog most people on steam who are low levels 0-5 with private profiles are most likely scammers, as for trade scams there usually after your ingame items like tf2, cs-go items. even with 100s of cards you will most likely be ignored unless you have like 500 cards then you might get there attention.

the whole trading system is done in there inventory so someone can buy a gift and keep it in there inventory those on steam you can actually hide
Agreed that an 'aged' profile lessens the chances of someone being a scammer.

Buying Steam Gifts of games for trading later is a thing of the past though, that's not possible anymore. You can now only gift directly and whomever receives can only accept the gift, instantly activating it on their account or decline it at which point it'll be refunded to the person who originally bought it.
Post edited April 23, 2018 by Pheace
Nice that we can finally see what games our friends own, but not having any way to sort to see what you both own is a little annoying.
Post edited April 23, 2018 by Leonard03
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MIK0: Well said.
It's not a matter of unwanted feature (even if there are a lot of much requested ones). As always it is a matter of freedom of choice, transparency, listening to feedback and professional implementation. Things that apparently are outside of GOG's scope. They have all the means to do good and willingly choose to do otherwise. The post of a couple of day ago, which I found by luck, seems a joke now for how useless it was. For my point of view GOG should disband the entire pr team.

I also noticed that the best way to solve part of the issue right now is to remove friends from my list. I have you on my list and I was fine even if we chatted a couple of time. I had no reason to remove you. Now I have you on my activity feed, without a way to choose what to display or not.
On my profile I have infos even I don't want to display. I see a list of recently played games which I did not play as all my games has 0h but still figure out as played somehow.
I'm truly sorry for cluttering your activity feed, I mean it.

I was considering of keeping only those friends that don't leak anything about me, i.e. have all these new social features set to "only me", but if any of them would prefer to unfriend me because of the activity feed noise, I'm totally fine with it.



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Ixamyakxim: Not my kind of thing but neat if you like it. I just turned my privacy settings to "Only Me" - should be set yes? Also, "Recently Played?" - a little bit off there - Republic Commando was ages ago!

I do like the listed background pictures and gradient coloring. Tempting, but I'll keep mine at default.
If you have people with public profiles, be prepared to be listed on their for all to see five friends list sooner than later. After a few days, we'll probably know as much as you do who your friends are.
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Torval: This is awesome. Slowly the platform is evolving and maturing. Well done!
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tinyE: Oh fuck mature!

My whole life people have been telling me that I need to grow up, starting acting more mature, be an adult.

I say to them, "Fuck you, Adults built the atomic bomb."

I was just fine sitting here with my Play-Doh and picking my nose.
I was happy. I was pure.
I'm totally snagging this. This is so true.
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RainbowDragon: [...]
And yes, they CAN wait before they answer us.... for approximately 1 month now. Then the new EU privacy and data protection laws (and gog.com is a European company) will come into effect on May 25th and can be enforced by customers and with a simple complaint. This may create a lawsuit for them that may cost them a fine of up to 20 million EUR or 4 % of their annual turnover, whichever is higher.
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As far as I know, the GDPR affects any company with customers in the EU, so even if you're Valve or Facebook, you can still get taken to court. Apart from that: Yes - the new profile and its current implementation opens GOG up to a royal reaming from the EU's court system because those profiles violate the regulation in multiple ways.
I keep reading GDPR as "Good PR" and laughing at the irony