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Posted May 09, 2010
Good Old Games should have a gamercard that people can put in their forum signatures, on websites, on blogs, etc. Several other services have gamercards, such as Xbox Live, Steam, Xfire, Raptr, Wii, PlayStation Network, Heroes of Newerth, Spearstats, and various other services.
Posted May 09, 2010
I, for one, would be against that. Not that the idea itself is bad, but it would not fit this service. Too much flash and makeup and little hard gains, and it's usually a sign of corporate public management.
Posted May 09, 2010
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ILoveSky: Good Old Games should have a gamercard that people can put in their forum signatures, on websites, on blogs, etc. Several other services have gamercards, such as Xbox Live, Steam, Xfire, Raptr, Wii, PlayStation Network, Heroes of Newerth, Spearstats, and various other services.

Why copy everyone else? Just because Timmy is doing it doesn't mean everyone should.
GoG already has userbars (in the spread the word link at the bottom of the page) that people can use on other sites, thats all something as great as GoG needs.
Posted May 09, 2010
Considering that gamercards basically track your usage and achievements in the games/platforms they belong to, they would be a waste of time for GOG to have. GOG doesn't track anything we do with the games we buy here, so what information could they possibly share? Also, to set up the kind of "infrastructure" GOG would need for that would stray dangerously close to what many people here would consider DRM and we can't have that. Just stick with the userbars GOG already provides, as carlojuero mentioned.
Posted May 09, 2010
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carlosjuero: Why copy everyone else? Just because Timmy is doing it doesn't mean everyone should.

Timmy did it, and now I'm here.
Posted May 09, 2010
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cogadh: Considering that gamercards basically track your usage and achievements in the games/platforms they belong to, they would be a waste of time for GOG to have. GOG doesn't track anything we do with the games we buy here, so what information could they possibly share? Also, to set up the kind of "infrastructure" GOG would need for that would stray dangerously close to what many people here would consider DRM and we can't have that. Just stick with the userbars GOG already provides, as carlojuero mentioned.

It would track the games that we purchased from GOG and played.
Posted May 09, 2010
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ILoveSky: Good Old Games should have a gamercard that people can put in their forum signatures, on websites, on blogs, etc. Several other services have gamercards, such as Xbox Live, Steam, Xfire, Raptr, Wii, PlayStation Network, Heroes of Newerth, Spearstats, and various other services.

You just said it. Just use Raptr or Xfire or whatever.
Posted May 10, 2010
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ILoveSky: It would track the games that we purchased from GOG and played.

You missed the point. GOG does not track anything like that so why would they bother to create a gamercard? They don't have any info to put in it.
Posted May 10, 2010
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ILoveSky: It would track the games that we purchased from GOG and played.
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cogadh: You missed the point. GOG does not track anything like that so why would they bother to create a gamercard? They don't have any info to put in it.

They do know which games we bought from them, and could track latest download. Not played though without some major reworking, creating a new client or something..
Posted May 10, 2010
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cogadh: You missed the point. GOG does not track anything like that so why would they bother to create a gamercard? They don't have any info to put in it.
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Miaghstir: They do know which games we bought from them, and could track latest download. Not played though without some major reworking, creating a new client or something..

Which would then lead to the inevitable dries of "DRM!" GOG will never risk that, they've put too much stock in the whole "DRM free" aspect of the service. Michaelleung had it right, the OP already provided his own solution: use Raptr or Xfire or any other service that already provides a gamercard if you really want that feature.
Posted May 10, 2010
What's DRM?
Posted May 10, 2010
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ILoveSky: What's DRM?

Digital Rights Management (DRM).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
Posted May 10, 2010
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ILoveSky: What's DRM?

Developers/distributors illegal method of maintaining control over product they no longer own, ie. games and music customers have paid for. ;) (yeah, yeah, in my dreams :P)
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