CarChris: Nothing can be deemed as low priority. If you want something to be there, at least fix it to work properly.
If you don't want it there, remove it completely.
It's like something I've seen in people who have a non-working clock on the wall!! Then why do you have a clock there? Either fix it/replace the battery/whatever, or hang a picture at the same spot!
You obviously don't work in the software industry :) Lots of things can be deemed as low priority, especially cosmetic problems like this one.
And yes, it's cosmetic. A clock has a function. This number does not. Nothing depends on it, neither downloading nor playing, nor posting, nor anything. Zhis is just a number without any effect. I would not even had noticed without these posts here,
You can still see the number of your games while hovering your mouse over the profile button.
It worked for many years. Now there's a very minor problem and people start to panic because of a missing number.
Ice_Mage: It took almost 2 months until
the update notification bug was fixed, so I don't know if the severity of the problem is the holdup here.
I didn't say that it hasn't been fixed because of the severity.
I say: Don't get your hopes up. The staff is well aware that they have more important things to do. And also don't act as if the world is ending because of a missing number (not to you in person, but generally speaking).
If you ask me, this is connected to the latest server synchronization problems. Some games could not be downloaded because of ipv6 Problems or problems with their ISP routing to the GOG servers.
I believe they have internally similar problems, the server hosting the profiles for example can't reach the server which manages which games were bought. So when he got the signal "Dude, something changed. Update your data", it could not retrieve the correct number and now displays 0. That would also explain, why people say that the change happened when they bought something or refunded something. Once GOG get that connection back up and running it will be fixed.