Hi

Wouldn't it be cool to have more social-features in GOG?

I would love to be able to follow friends and see what they're up to - which games bought recently, which there are playing? I'd like to post screenshots from games to that service - cause I'm just tired of keeping this things around all the time on my own.

Simple stating - just make some features of Steam available for GOG users.

I even started to look into the possible options of creating such features on top of GOG on my own, but there are at least two major show stoppers.

I found out, that there is a GOG unofficial API - for installer. It is described at length here: github.com/lhw/gogdownloader/wiki/API Sadly, this offers incomplete operations, like operation "get_user_games": "...api.gog.com/en/downloader2/user_games/", not returning anything. Since I'm able to log in and get my user's data it would be just sufficient to get my games through this api too. I can't.

This API is implemented as OAuth 1.0. This forces its users to pass plaintext user and password to the service. Implementing a separate service around such API would look _VERY_ insecure to users.

So, It would be great if GOG released a proper API to the whole service. Only this step would allow me or anyone interested to implement a social service on top of it.

What do you think? Is it possible in the foreseeable future?

Regards
Marcin

Short answer: NO.
Long answer: Hell no!

More social features have been requested. For such a good community, its strange there isnt anything more than forum threads and just plain messaging. Only admin's know if (or when) any changes will be forthcoming.

Please no.

All this social crap is what annoys me greatly about Steam and many internet sites of today. All the time I have to be so fucking social.

And now someone says: don't use the social features. Well I don't, but I still have to look at it all the time, one can't avoid it.

GOG website is nice and clean now as it is, don't break it.

Yupp.. this^
If you feel the need to share stuff, there always is facebook and other social crap.

wouldnt the GOGwiki + barefoot essentials
get you a step of the functionality you wanted?


i as well am not really 'for' the whole 'social' features concept.

at most id go for shared wishlists off a 'friends list' kind of thing, or if something funny happened in a game having a screenshot upload thread by user / friend list sort of thing.

it would annoy me if everyone could tell what im playing, how long im playing, if im in-game. all the time.

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a feature i would like would be a check-box you can tick when you've completed a game. (a counter for multiple replays)
alternately a slider/dial so you can guesstimate your % of the game completed (for those of us playing too many games simultaneously).

but none of that would have to be public.

Ugghhhhh.... don't ruin GOG...

Does it strike anyone else as strange that a member since 2009 with no rep wants better social features?

To answer the question, Steam does all you ask and more. It seems like it's your ideal service!

Definitely. The operational word here is OPTIONAL! Like PM messaging, make that stuff optional so people who want to ignore these features can safely turn them off in their profile settings. Besides that I just can't see any harm in this, and it would make GOG users attached to the site on more than one level - there is a reason why these features are so successful on Steam, and I would definitely wish similar success to GOG as well. No.

GOG's community as it is is a community of anti-socialists. Isn't that kind of an oxymoron?

I have something stupid like 8 people on my Steam friends list, and five of them are people I don't know (one is a development support rep, the other four people I traded with once about four years ago). One is Momo. The other two people never use Steam anymore - both have "More than a year ago" as the last log in date.

If I want to game with my friends, I'll visit them. Playing multiplayer over the internet with complete strangers is just pointless.

That being said, a lot of people seem to have become hopelessly dependent on Steam's social functionality for their social lives, so if social features would drive more people to GOG, I'm all for it.

Okey, so I see this feature is not that much anticipated by the community.

That's fine with me :)

However, please look at this in a different manner. I'm not proposing that GOG team add some features to gog.com site. On the contrary, I'd like to utilize GOG's API (preferably) to build my own page with social features. If one would like to use it, it would be possible to log in with GOG credentials. That's it.

The current situation is that available OAuth api is old and not working. Wouldn't it hurt anybody if the API got better and people could build apps around gog.com content? Just treat it as a way to make GOG even better

As for the suggestions of me not being social enough - with reputation = 0. Those are probably grounded :D As I've stated above I'd like to have a place to put my screenshots on. And facebook is not the place I want those to be seen.

optional would work as well.

wait did we get marzooker'd??? O_o

edit:
whew ninja'd and not a marzookering.
you're up to 1 now!
congrats ^_^


Barefoot Essentials + GOGwiki thread

TBH i dont chat very much at all (not that im defending myself!! hehe). I added 100 people on Steam (yeah naive and for some stupid Xmas comp), had 4 real friends who used Steam (none of which do anymore), and a handful i added from trading. I think only 1-2 GOGgers are on mine (including the ever popular Momo haha). I just figure its a useful option for those who are so inclinded - and there were quite a few during the Insomnia sale...

Thanks for making me laugh :-D