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Now that Galaxy is exiting BETA...

Is there any way to reset the tracked statistics that it collects?

Specifically, can the time tracking and achievements progress be reset? How about the cloud saves, is there any way to manage those (eg delete them for whatever reason)?

I'm not too concerned about GOG being privacy-invasive (*puts on foil hat*), I can just see a few use-cases where it would useful to reset some of the tracked information, such as restarting a game and wanting to get the full experience of earning achievements along the way.
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Pseudoman: Now that Galaxy is exiting BETA...

Is there any way to reset the tracked statistics that it collects?

Specifically, can the time tracking and achievements progress be reset? How about the cloud saves, is there any way to manage those (eg delete them for whatever reason)?
I can see why some would want to reset achievements, but why would any Galaxy user want to remove their own cloud saves, if they can serve as backup?
You'd think that if they don't want it, they'd simply not use it.
Time tracking is similar to Steam's, it records automatically when you start a game. But this info isn't show publicly. I also don't know why you would need to reset this.
I don't think any of these can be reset, but I don't have Galaxy installed currently, someone else might be able to confirm.
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Pseudoman: Now that Galaxy is exiting BETA...

Is there any way to reset the tracked statistics that it collects?

Specifically, can the time tracking and achievements progress be reset? How about the cloud saves, is there any way to manage those (eg delete them for whatever reason)?
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almabrds: I can see why some would want to reset achievements, but why would any Galaxy user want to remove their own cloud saves, if they can serve as backup?
You'd think that if they don't want it, they'd simply not use it.
Time tracking is similar to Steam's, it records automatically when you start a game. But this info isn't show publicly. I also don't know why you would need to reset this.
I don't think any of these can be reset, but I don't have Galaxy installed currently, someone else might be able to confirm.
It is, for your friends only though but still.
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almabrds: I can see why some would want to reset achievements, but why would any Galaxy user want to remove their own cloud saves, if they can serve as backup?
You'd think that if they don't want it, they'd simply not use it.
Time tracking is similar to Steam's, it records automatically when you start a game. But this info isn't show publicly. I also don't know why you would need to reset this.
I don't think any of these can be reset, but I don't have Galaxy installed currently, someone else might be able to confirm.
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Prah: It is, for your friends only though but still.
I don't have Galaxy right now, I'm waiting for the 1.2 update.
It's probably something that was added in the beta for the new version.
I don't remember ever seeing other people's play time in the client, before.
Edit: It is, this appears in the new overlay, so it's something new:
https://www.gog.com/upload/forum/2017/03/88058d12e15e7a0d5fe7f86cc651c48693977f6d.jpg
Or I'm getting old and I'm starting to have memory issues. :P
Post edited March 27, 2017 by almabrds
I believe the time gets reset after uninstalling and then reinstalling.

I seem to be without games that have achievements, however I definitely would like to be able to start over the achievements when starting a new play-through. OTOH, I wouldn't mind also having a compilation of achievements across multiple play-throughs because some games might have such variety that it's impossible to experience everything in one play-through (like with dialogue trees). Uninstalling/reinstalling wouldn't be suitable for having both possibilities.

I've yet to receive the 1.2 update for Galaxy to try out the saves. Does Galaxy provide only one save per game in their Cloud Save? If not and they keep as many as you like, then I would figure they would provide a list of saves for a game when starting a game from Galaxy, and in that circumstance I'd definitely would want a means of deleting old saves for decluttering.

In the mean time, here's a couple of wishlist items for Galaxy that I found:

Achievement reset

Allow resetting 'Time Played' counter for individual games