GOG has added user profiles, persevering with the DRM-free digital video games retailer’s cautious steps in introducing Steam-like social options. If you need to share your GOG gaming exercise with the world, publish photos, examine achievements, and all that, you now can. If you don’t need to share with the Internet, properly, the privateness settings will allow you to flip off a lot–however not all–of it.
Similar to Steam, GOG’s person profiles are accompanied by a Feed exhibiting what your friends have been as much as – what they’ve been enjoying, achievements they get, posts and photos they put up, discussion board posts, and so forth. You can customise your profile with backgrounds, write a little bit profile. And it exhibits the video games you personal, how a lot you’ve performed them, the achievements you’ve bought… , it’s a profile.
If you don’t need to share all the things with the world, it does have allow you to lock bits down. Your profile web page, full recreation library, and mates listing will be set to seen by everybody, solely your friends, or solely you. It additionally has a visibility setting so randos can’t discover you.
The privateness settings are imperfect, thoughts. As some forum posters have identified, some social and play data remains to be seen even with all the things supposedly locked down. And I do assume that if a service doesn’t have profiles from the beginning, when it does add them they need to default to personal.
Social stuff on GOG feels a little bit unusual. The retailer stood aside from Steam by being stripped-down and DRM-free. Social stuff feels pure on Steam as a result of the shop and shopper grew in its early days due to Counter-Strike, whereas GOG was all about decades-old singleplayer DOS video games. But ah, what the hey, it’s comparatively minor and I’m positive many will get pleasure from all this. If GOG repair the privateness points, I’ll fortunately disable and ignore profiles whereas leaving others to social their hearts out.
