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The new GOG profile system is out, looks quite slick

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DRM free store GOG has just released their new profile system and it's surprisingly slick to look at.

So you now get a customizable profile, an activity feed to see what friends are up to and what they've been playing*, share random messages to show up in your friends feeds like Twitter. Just remember to check out those new privacy settings, so you can be sure you know what they're showing to the world.

Just look at how fancy I made myself look:

It might be old news to some, but I didn't even realise GOG actually had a built-in webchat system to talk to friends. This new profile system certainly makes it more apparent that's for sure, as you hover over a friends name and get greeted with the message option. It works quite well too! You can find their announcement on it all here.

*Now then GOG—how about Galaxy on Linux next yes? We've been pretty patient on that I think…

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Shmerl Apr 23, 2018
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Quoting: obscurenforeignThanks, guess I'll try and figure out how then.

You need to contact support for that.
Unshra Apr 23, 2018
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Well looks like I have a lot to look forward to if GOG Galaxy is ever released for Linux.
bolokanar Apr 23, 2018
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Quoting: UnshraWell looks like I have a lot to look forward to if GOG Galaxy is ever released for Linux.
Well they will… just don't expect it to be like this year. Maybe not even the other…

But to be realistic their client is nothing to wait for.
I would rather see Lutris integrate GOG support. Last I checked they were working on it, but were not completely ready at the time.


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obscurenforeign Apr 23, 2018
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Quoting: obscurenforeignThanks, guess I'll try and figure out how then.

You need to contact support for that.

Thanks. In the intervening time since my last time I managed to figure it out, (my browser wasn't displaying the support pages right) contacted support and they already changed it for me. That's pretty nice! :)
LungDrago Apr 23, 2018
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Back in the day in my teenage years I used a software called Xfire which had a "gaming" profile showing the hours I poured into games. Back then I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Now I just feel old.
Asu Apr 23, 2018
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Quoting: LungDragoBack in the day in my teenage years I used a software called Xfire which had a "gaming" profile showing the hours I poured into games. Back then I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Now I just feel old.

there was no review bombing back then. Now that's a thing, you need to combat it.
Avehicle7887 Apr 23, 2018
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I'm pretty much divided in 2 with GOG, on one side I love them, great people and great support for Linux games that make it to the store. On the other hand the lack of Galaxy on Linux is even affecting singleplayer games and that is what I'm not happy about.
throgh Apr 24, 2018
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Why should I even care about such nonsense? Another profile telling me how long I was active within a game? Not needed. Just something for the digital self-imagery and even though I think this is dangerous because we don't care about each other using more and more of such false "social media". Come on: A company telling us being friendly about that? They wouldn't even care, when most people wouldn't be that reactive and could be reduced to that data. Once it was fun hunting for a highscore in a game together, now it is also about hunting, but for own data being sold out, alone.
Scattershot Apr 24, 2018
Quoting: x_wingI mean, it's just a game downloader launcher, there is no technical difficulty for doing so (well, at least if you don't start your project using .net technologies :/).

Nothing to do with .Net. .Net Core is fully supported by MS on Linux and is fast too.
Arehandoro Apr 24, 2018
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Now that we are talking about GOG support. I contacted them to remove certain games from my account and the agent mainly told me that it was a difficult task for them to perform and didn't want to do it for me. They suggested then that I should hide the games and get on with it xD


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