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Sage103082: As the title says. I have seem a ton of members - most are not new but they only have one or two rep- looking for friends to add. I am all for new friends and this galaxy thing is new. I get wanting to play around on it. But why not play here and chat here as well. Maybe I am seeing to much in it.

Any ideas?
Because you need to collect all of the friends to win at GOG.

Because they were told that there would be punch and pie.
I LOLed. +1 (to help get your rep to the Norman Invasion!)
What Cyraxpt said.

These threads are getting pretty annoying. I wish I could filter out everything with the word friend on the title.
On the bright side it shows there are a lot more GOG members than you can see on the surface.
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Sage103082: As the title says. I have seem a ton of members - most are not new but they only have one or two rep- looking for friends to add. I am all for new friends and this galaxy thing is new. I get wanting to play around on it. But why not play here and chat here as well. Maybe I am seeing to much in it.

Any ideas?
They probably didn't participate in forums before and had to post so that they can friend each other.
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P1na: Because in real life, you think you have a friend. But you can't be certain. Like this, people excplictly declare themselves friends with a written contract, and that gives you peace of mind and a fuzzy feeling inside.
Thing is the "Avatars who post strings of text in threads and could possibly be humans" was too long a name, so they opted for "Friends".
My guess is that beta software with communication features is a potential target for hackers looking to exploit software that is developmental and might have security holes, bugs to exploit etc. and that a large number of people out there online when faced with friend requests from unknown people will blindly accept them.

Or they could just be newbies to GOG that have different online socialization habits they're used to from elsewhere bringing their traditions here and it seeming out of the ordinary to what we're used to seeing.

Whether it is bad guys up to no good or history repeating never-ending September though, it will demonstrate the need for additional privacy and security measures on site and within Galaxy, filtering controls/blocklists in the forums and chat features etc. So the party probably wont last for too long I suspect. :)
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P1na: Because in real life, you think you have a friend. But you can't be certain. Like this, people excplictly declare themselves friends with a written contract, and that gives you peace of mind and a fuzzy feeling inside.
^ This, surely.
Can't be sure you have friends unless their name is on some list or other!
If you can't amass 100+ friends on some pretty list you must be a smelly, disgusting loner that nobody cares about... Not like me, of course. I have friends, I swear! No, honestly, I do... I can list them and everything...
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WildHobgoblin: ^ This, surely.
Can't be sure you have friends unless their name is on some list or other!
If you can't amass 100+ friends on some pretty list you must be a smelly, disgusting loner that nobody cares about... Not like me, of course. I have friends, I swear! No, honestly, I do... I can list them and everything...
*sniff*, *sniff*, you're right, I'm smelly. That's probably why I'm such a loner too. Damn.
I need to get more rep. Gotta go to the rep store.
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Zardos: I need to get more rep. Gotta go to the rep store.
+1 for shopping online.
Rock Spiders...
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Cyraxpt: I blame Gog, the system is dumb and i'm pretty sure that it's because they rushed galaxy so that it would be available for The Witcher 3 launch......
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yyahoo: There is much truth in this statement, but I honestly can't *blame* GOG. I can understand why they feel that it is very important that Galaxy be up in some form for the Witcher 3 launch. And, of course, they certainly couldn't delay W3 just because Galaxy isn't ready yet.

I've been involved in some very large, very complicated software development roll-outs in my business career. Never, absolutely never, has the project launched in a completed state. More often than not, the product makes it to about 50%, important people get impatient and they force the product to be released as is and "finished" on the fly while live. The projects I've worked on have been internal business projects. But it's a similar circumstance here. You can see how this has all developed. They hit their deadline and they had to put out what they had as a beta and move forward.

You can't really say "that's life." But the similar cliche "that's business" definitely applies.
Well, most "living" software systems are in a state of constant development, as new business requirements surface over time. New features, new integrations, the occasional bug fix. It all adds up over time, and generally every running business system is a permanent work in progress, be it a game client, a web site, a CRM system or something else.
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gunsynd: Rock Spiders...
Rock Lobsters. :)
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Wishbone: Well, most "living" software systems are in a state of constant development, as new business requirements surface over time. New features, new integrations, the occasional bug fix. It all adds up over time, and generally every running business system is a permanent work in progress, be it a game client, a web site, a CRM system or something else.
Very apropos, any thriving business which holds any software assets usually decides its fate.
Post edited May 09, 2015 by JDelekto