Posted August 19, 2015
Since this is more directed to the gog blues, I'm not sure how to do this. Should I have (or even should I now) contacted support instead?
Anyhow, I was the only gogger in my family (that I know of). So on this PC, although it is a "family PC", all the gog info on it was mine, sign-ins, accounts, wishlist, etc.
My sister used to enjoy the old Sierra games when we were kids, and she saw me playing one of them and seemed interested, so I figured I'd help her out. I logged out of my own account, set up an account for her and then began browsing the games with her tagging what she might be interested in as wishlisted.
However, it turns out that for games I own (even though I'm not signed in), they can't be wishlisted by her on this PC. I'm assuming it is a cookie issue, and the wishlist is somehow saved locally as cookies (not sure why, that sounds like a ridiculous way to do things..might have even been okay if account info was also saved in the cookie). I could probably fix all this up by clearing my gog cookies, but even if that is true, it is still an annoying workaround.
Now I know that gog is cool, and would probably have no problem with an account being shared by family on one PC, but the thing is, I'm often not home for months at a time, and sometimes my sister isn't staying here either, so we couldn't really share the account properly -unless gog is also cool with family in geographically separate locations also sharing an account...but even then, it'd be a bit weird because of payment methods and 2 people posting as one on the forums (if she ever posts). I understand gog galaxy might be a solution for this, but I don't really use gog galaxy so I don't know much about it, and my sister would also prefer to be spared the complications and hassles of using a different client (she's not a regular gamer, and has no knowledge of steam or galaxy or such things).
Also, not really relevant to her (since I don't think she'll be using the forums much), but I've also noticed that replies to me (the little star circle with the arrow inside it) show up even when I'm logged out and someone else/no one else is logged in.
Anyhow, I was the only gogger in my family (that I know of). So on this PC, although it is a "family PC", all the gog info on it was mine, sign-ins, accounts, wishlist, etc.
My sister used to enjoy the old Sierra games when we were kids, and she saw me playing one of them and seemed interested, so I figured I'd help her out. I logged out of my own account, set up an account for her and then began browsing the games with her tagging what she might be interested in as wishlisted.
However, it turns out that for games I own (even though I'm not signed in), they can't be wishlisted by her on this PC. I'm assuming it is a cookie issue, and the wishlist is somehow saved locally as cookies (not sure why, that sounds like a ridiculous way to do things..might have even been okay if account info was also saved in the cookie). I could probably fix all this up by clearing my gog cookies, but even if that is true, it is still an annoying workaround.
Now I know that gog is cool, and would probably have no problem with an account being shared by family on one PC, but the thing is, I'm often not home for months at a time, and sometimes my sister isn't staying here either, so we couldn't really share the account properly -unless gog is also cool with family in geographically separate locations also sharing an account...but even then, it'd be a bit weird because of payment methods and 2 people posting as one on the forums (if she ever posts). I understand gog galaxy might be a solution for this, but I don't really use gog galaxy so I don't know much about it, and my sister would also prefer to be spared the complications and hassles of using a different client (she's not a regular gamer, and has no knowledge of steam or galaxy or such things).
Also, not really relevant to her (since I don't think she'll be using the forums much), but I've also noticed that replies to me (the little star circle with the arrow inside it) show up even when I'm logged out and someone else/no one else is logged in.