Hey doods I bought more tomato soup from the store yesterday than you! Praise me!

Thank you once again for not listening to all the feedback here, for leaking private information despite of all account options set to the most private value and thank you for not informing your customers in advance about this privacy change.

When a nation has systemic dysfunctionality, catastrophic failure is imminent. The "sociopolitical landscape" you refer to is a wasteland comprised of self-destructive obsessive-compulsives marching towards the extinction of this world's evolved lifeforms -- and for all we know we may have already gone past the point of no return. Revolution is the only hope this world has at present. So no, I have zero interest in dialogue with the lunatics that are in charge of this madness.

We're the Americans, they were the Norwegians.

Addendum:
Friends leak on the feed page, even if friends are disabled.

The consequence of the current implementation is that I unfriended everyone. That seems to be the only way to contain the information leakage at this point.

I did it thirty five minutes ago.

Ok, actually I did it much earlier today. But I see I was right to be paranoid. Good job on a social feature that makes people delete their friends list :D

I'm not surprised at the hysteria and hyperbole, since all of society nowadays has degenerated to engaging in mass hysteria and hyperbole and Max Level Outrage to just about literally everything to the point where I'm getting drained and tired.

I'm just really really disappointed. I remember when people actually behaved halfway more sane and reasonable. I miss when people actually cared about at least seeming to approach things with sanity and civility and so could be appealed to on that level.

I must concede that the fact that people nowadays indeed often don't care how embarrassing and secondhand cringe inducing they look to everyone outside their circle is the cause of a whole variety of recent societal issues, including those issues exhibited by pretty much everyone on the right-wing side of the US.

In the end, I mostly just feel weary that this whole event is a microcosm of how Outrage Culture society has gotten in general, because I'm really tired of Outrage Culture. Especially since being outraged at everything no matter how minor often takes away from the issues life and death enough to actually merit outrage.

Irony much? o.O

The times I've seen GOG as a more customer friendly store than others are long gone for me. I also see GOG as a DRM-free game store now and I'm here only because the games are still DRM-free. But that's exactly why I at least want to have the option to use GOG as a store only and not as a social media hub for games, as a normal store which does not publicly display my purchases or the amount of time I have spent on them.

PS: I don't think most people here blindly downvote posts just because they do not agree with them. Posts which are well explained and understandable are still respected, even when people do not agree with them, as your post shows.

And we are just very, very tired of your unfortunate inability to understand very simple matters and obnoxious manner of labeling everything you don't understand as "hysteria" so you can easily handwave it away and persist in your perfect bubble of a brave new world.

However, there is no need for you to feel bad. Total erosion of privacy is progressing smoothly on all fronts, one little step at a time. Your brave new world you are so vehemntly defending agains us hysterical hordes is doing fine. So smile - you're on camera!

You're missing the bigger picture. Yes people want total and complete privacy, something that GOG doesn't offer yet. When you set your profile to private on Steam, all that remains is a picture and name. That's it. No numbers, stats or any other info. That's what people want. Also profiles should really be opt-in not opt-out, that's a major problem that can fuck GOG over if they don't fix that.

But really, the anger you see is from GOG's tiresome and clumsy nature they've had for some years now, and how they just seem to refuse to learn from past mistakes. People are just tired of how everytime they release a major feature or update, it's unpolished, has a ton of issues that could have been avoided had it not been from the lack of communication, something that GOG used to shine with. And the fact that they are slow to fix things, have awful game curation, have awful dev game patching problems, break more things then they fix, introduce bugs that should have been obvious, and overall just create more work for themselves and their dedicated community. It doesn't help that as they continue to be clumsy and continue to give us radio silence about our concerns, that their show of flying people down to their offices from this community to say "You guys matter! Honest!" looks more and more like an empty PR attempt.

IDK what's going on, but they really need a better team coordinator, or more staff, or something. It almost feels like they don't even communicate with each other.

So yeah. People are pissed off and tired of it. What a shocker. All they want is more options and a smoother experience. GOG will typically take a couple small steps forward then almost immediatly take 10 steps backwards. Repeatedly. For years.

@Jeysie

In an earlier post here
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_gog_profiles_a393f/post430
you mentioned that a lot of people requested public profiles:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/public_gog_profiles

Fine, I grant you your "I-want-my-profile-visible" wish and you can have your public user profile show your games, friends, etc. to all the world. It must be nice for you and all those others that after waiting for 6 YEARS almost 1300 gog users now got their wish fulfilled and they can now have a pubic profile - good for them, great for you.

BUT have a look at this
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/disable_view_profile_function_for_customers_who_care_for_their_privacy
and ask yourself why within LESS THAN ONE DAY almost 10 % of the number of customers who voted within 6 years in favor of the public profiles have now already voted for PRIVACY?! Let's say this feature request tops at 120 votes today and continues to generate the same amount of votes within the next 6 years. This would mean that it would get a lot of votes (120/day x 365 x 6 = 262.800) more in favour of invisible profiles...

Please mind that these people are not against you or your public profiles, you can have them, we do not want to take them away from you. But they - myself included - are against the fact that gog illegaly violated our privacy by creating public profiles without asking us. If they would have allowed people to OPT-IN and not just made their customer's data public without their consent nobody would have made an issue out of this. Now it is - again - a complete disaster for gog and I hope that a lot of pressure will make them do the right thing - if a little bit late - and offer the best of two worlds: public profiles for those that want them, and invisible profiles for all others.

A competent web designer should have been able to create and include that option into our account settings within a day but then, considering that they have not been able to create an option for the "classic installers" as default download within the last years... let's just hope they do the right thing this time...

Gosh, you're right, when someone says that a 100% voluntary, bog-standard, and requested feature that does literally nothing but list what games you own/play means "total erosion of privacy", how dare I see that as hysteria and hyperbole.

Clearly I just need to understand the "simple matter" of how a 100% voluntary, bog-standard and requested feature that shows zero incriminating or personal data whatsoever means GOG has betrayed and violated all of us.

At this point I'm really regretting finding out what the GOG community is like. I mean I guess I can understand why people who act like total assholes to anyone who is halfway sane and rational would be embarrassed to have the wider net see how they behave, though. Sheesh.

Oh, and how about actually hiding the profile? It's accessible no matter what through the forum (click on username -> view profile)

So I have to delete all my forum posts now to disable access to my profile?

EDIT: Oh right, wouldn't help.
https://www.gog.com/u/USERNAME works, no matter what your settings are. Even with"Your Visibility: NOW HIDDEN - Nobody can find me"

I have one wish. Please stop talking to Jeysie.