MariusHispano: Yours is worrisome. I agree that gog should allow profile data to be private but most users are not going to waste time with what you are trying because we are sure that cd projeck is already working on solving this problem. [...]

toxicTom: *hugs* :-)

RainbowDragon: For your convenience: the pdf file in the link above contains these e-mail addresses - feel free to use as many of them as you like :-)

Moonbeam: There should be an option to opt out of 'GOG Profiles' all I want to see is
my list of games in alpha order, sweet and simple.

groundhog42: The only reasons I can see is that either they didn't foresee the backlash it would cause, in which case they don't seem to understand a proportion of their customer base and why they buy here. Or they did foresee the response and they just don't care.

Charles.Surge: Are people actually supposed to spam 31 countries that are not their relevant authorities? I don't know, but I would expect not.

No, people can read the .pdf and contact their relevant authorities. I recommend you edit this post and remove the spam list of 32 different countries' contacts.

Vainamoinen: “The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.”
~Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven

Tauto: Is Mueller in here?

Breja: I'm sorry, but I think you're being entirely ridiculous. You're so invested in having a moral high ground you're seeking people to look down on in the wrong place.

drmike: I just realized that with the new profiles, there's still no way to tell if a poster is male or female.

Vainamoinen: Calm down. I just happen to think there will be better results with a more informed user base, no wild goose chases like the legal angle, and with hands less dirty.

thomq: [...] This is just too much all at once. Now I'm wondering whether GOG will pull that stunt, too, and close but not delete accounts. [...]

Still thinking about doing it, though. Besides, GOG might not actually delete and remove accounts, like the way other companies also don't. Even still, if I decide to get away from this extra management of a profile and its auto-updating every time I get a product at GOG, then I will initiate closure anyway. And if such a profile still remains after that, then I definitely will never partake in GOG services again. Though, that has more to do with my decision to never sign up for anything new online. I've tired of these Internet shenanigans over the years. This isn't how I want to do business. And this wasn't how I started business with GOG.

I would have been fine with the profiles being an option for me to turn on if I ever wanted to turn it on, and for me to delete at my will the instant I feel like it. But not like this, not the way it has come about after I had already believed I had a different relationship with GOG as a store. I'm too busy with other things to finalize this decision, and I'm not appreciating being spurred.

thomq: I wasn't expecting GOG to make me into a trophy customer, sort of like the phrase "trophy wife". Stuffed, mounted, and the points on the antlers counted and documented in the form of the number of games purchased, number of "achievements" stumbled upon by accident in a game, and number of hours a computer game application is left running after opening it even if not played.

That's not what I expected from buying a product at GOG years ago and since then. Nor having tallies of my personal possessions and activities on m computer in my home collected to be shared with the Internet willy-nilly. I was using their Galaxy software simply to sort and manage my files. If I knew this was going to happen, then I wouldn't have bought anything at GOG, and I wouldn't have bothered trying out Galaxy for managing my files.

Yahoo! email services also are changing policies recently, about a week or two ago. I didn't find out until a few days ago because I hardly ever bother with it. People who need to contact me know how do so. Email is like voicemail: always outdated, already known, and thereby unimportant.

Oddly, amongst the emails of recent weeks this month of April were suddenly lots of notices of policy changes from other services that I hadn't even heard of for several years. Like Etsy (an eBay or Amazon clone?). They still had my email address because of some account I made. I vaguely recall having been acquainted with someone who made crafts of some sort and they tried it out for selling their stuff. Interesting any of those companies are still existing, let alone changing their policies all at the same time.

Maybe companies keep reporting all the unused accounts in their totals to impress their investors. Wouldn't surprise me considering when I tried to delete those accounts most companies said they only close them, won't delete them. In case I change my mind? That wasn't likely to happen, but with that refusal of deletion now I definitely won't be interested in returning.

This is just too much all at once. Now I'm wondering whether GOG will pull that stunt, too, and close but not delete accounts.

Over the decades I've pared down any superfluous Internet accounts like the so-called "social" mediums, and various national store brands. Handle most everything in person, and get real. I'm down to just email and GOG.

At this point I'm thinking I'll ditch my email soon and start over, again. It's been too long, and I usually ditch most everything just to reduce the random junk email that always show up, even with email accounts that I never use. It's gotten better lately, no junk email in my most recently created email accounts, probably because I've chosen random names. So, I'll likely drop everything down to just one of those and delete that ancient Yahoo! email account and it's new partnerships it's trying to share with me.

Which brings me to my consideration about GOG. Why am I bothering with this betrayal of my original business expectations with GOG? Maybe because I'm wondering whether I'm suppose to delete all my purchases if I close my GOG account. *sigh* So different from the days when computer software purchases were untethered transfers. But I've decided I'm not interested in this sudden extra management of a webpage about myself. If I were, then I would have had one elsewhere. However, I got rid of everything else years ago because the upkeep wasn't worth my time, wasn't worth my life. I hate micromanagement, it's busywork, it's for nothing. Over a dozen years of public education during the first couple decades of my life was too much busywork already.

On the other hand, this was casual and on my terms.

So, I've decided I really don't care whether I am supposed to delete all my purchases from GOG if I were to cancel/delete my account. I'll appreciate the extra free space on my computer. And on my mind. Less to manage. Freedom.

Still thinking about doing it, though. Besides, GOG might not actually delete and remove accounts, like the way other companies also don't. Even still, if I decide to get away from this extra management of a profile and its auto-updating every time I get a product at GOG, then I will initiate closure anyway. And if such a profile still remains after that, then I definitely will never partake in GOG services again. Though, that has more to do with my decision to never sign up for anything new online. I've tired of these Internet shenanigans over the years. This isn't how I want to do business. And this wasn't how I started business with GOG.

I would have been fine with the profiles being an option for me to turn on if I ever wanted to turn it on, and for me to delete at my will the instant I feel like it. But not like this, not the way it has come about after I had already believed I had a different relationship with GOG as a store. I'm too busy with other things to finalize this decision, and I'm not appreciating being spurred.

MariusHispano: What is the problem that Gog adds achievements or profiles that have been so requested in the community?

MariusHispano: Beyond the issue of privacy that you have to solve

MariusHispano: I do not know how it affects some users that others have those options when they are not mandatory. Does someone force you to use gog galaxy? To use achievements, clud save ...? . They are optional¡¡¡

MariusHispano: The gog problem is the small group of users who are trying to impose their orders on others when gog galaxy is optional.

I do not force you to use the achievements, who are you to force others not to use them? You can buy your game and not use gog galaxy, why do other users have to do the same? Respect others as others respect you.

MariusHispano: However the subject of privacy have to improve it seems to me very important