1y ago

Steam Beta now allows marking games "private", which will hide them from other users and your profile

steamcommunity.com Steam :: Steam News :: Shopping Cart updates and Private Games

Starting today, users who have opted into the Steam Client Beta will see a new version of the shopping cart when checking out on the Steam Store. These users will also be able to mark games in their library as private. Shopping Cart Updates The Steam Store's updated shopping cart includes some handy...

PC Gaming @lemmy.ca

alessandro @lemmy.ca

1y ago

you can hide "certain" Steam games now... No reason

steamcommunity.com /games/593110/announcements/detail/3901870709962551196

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Games @sh.itjust.works

nanoUFO @sh.itjust.works

1y ago

Steam: Shopping Cart updates and Private Games

steamcommunity.com /games/593110/announcements/detail/3901870709962551196

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I always wondered about the people who were playing porn games and just letting that show on their profile. I know most of us look at porn and that's fine, but I do like some privacy. When a dude on my friend's list broadcasts he plays "Toon Tit Tapper" for 12 minutes before signing off, it's a bit of unwanted information.
- Many either don't know or don't care. More of the first than the later.
  But, well, I used to run a raid guild in WoW and had this one dude where you could clearly hear porn playing in the background whenever he spoke. With him I've always verged on the side of thinking he must've had some sort of fetish for having people hear he was watching porn. Some really peculiar version of exhibitionism.
  
  Did y'all ever mention it to him or was it just a commonly accepted "Oh yeah, that's just 'Background Porn Brad' haha" type thing?
- Lmao your friend is a total Chad

I spent good money on all those hentai games. I'm not hiding them.

Y'all laugh about the obvious h-game hiding but a friend of mine got bullied for a certain game he bought and played. It's actually kind of useful next time you wanna play a game someone shits on you over.
- What non-lewd game would someone get bullied over?
  
  Anime games maybe? Stuff like Hyperdimension Neptunia isn't hentai, but I could definitely see someone getting bullied over it
  
  Bad Rats
  
  Regular anime games tbh. If your friends are normies in any way then I could see that happening.
  
  Floras fruit farm which I accidentally left running for 36 hours many many years ago. (Would've enjoyed it much more if one could queue actions, but devs said 'yeah that's not really the focus of our game' which I understand, but it was enjoyable up until it got too micro-managey. I only played it for 2 of those 36 hours.
- Yep that's my reasoning too.. I got some games I've always wanted to try, but I know my friends on steam would never let me hear the end of it.

Nobody tell my boyfriend this information
- Just to be sure we don't tell him by accident what is name and contact info again?
  
  His username is Redditluver69 please make sure you don't tell him.
- Does he go to different lemmy instance?

Entire profile set to private These are not the games you are looking for. Move along.

People can see my games?
- Yeah. Just click on Games when you're on someone's profile page.
  
  Brb, I gotta go... return some video tapes.

I have one stupid slightly lewd anime game in my library on Steam because it was literally €0.10. I got shit for ages in my first tear of college because one of my friends saw it and thought it was hilarious. Valve should have made this a feature ages ago. For me it was just something I had to laugh along with. I'd hate to be the kind of person who has a ton of those games lol.
- Yeah, I have a couple games like that from bundles. Ultimately I just set my profile to private and hid those games from my library.
  
  "Hide this game" only hides it from yourself.
- Same, I have one single one I played once 6 years ago and a friend saw it, lucky it was a chill person, but I can fully see how it could be bad for a lot of people
- They deserve to be mocked.

Now I can stay logged in while my idle games go brrrr....
- Plural? How many idle games are we talking here?
  
  Usually 3, sometimes 5, other times only 1.
  Potatoe Farmer, Cookie clicker, ngu idle, leaf blower simulator, and exponential idle.

Fucking finally! Now when will they let me transfer all the games I had to put on an alt account back to my main?
(Ok really it's just 1 game that I haven't played in ages. I'm not that horny. I just hate having multiple accounts as it eats up headspace)

God's Grace, I can finally unprivate my Steam.

Time to play the Coffin of Andy and Leyley :)
- I hope steam makes a top 10 most privated games sale after this goes live, CoAL would be up there for sure
  
  I wanna play "sex with hitler"

I can hide some crap that plays my cousin like tabs or goat simulator...

Are they going to create an API so that the private game data can get ingested by every third party data/stats application that I have to unhide and rehide my fucking shit every time bc they're forced to scrape my fucking profile?
- You seem annoyed at either possibility here. Which would you prefer?
  Because if they let third party scrapers access the private data without user action, it's not private and they may as well not do this at all.
  
  Right now, one must manually allow scraping and make profiles public, to share their data with a third party. If Valve would let developers use an API, this wouldn't be necessary.
  Now that they're letting us hide games, the third parties will miss them, while scraping. So this seemed like the right thread to make these comments. Now, a true solution, seems more "necessary," because of this new scenario.
- If you want anyone else to have access to your private game data, why is the game set to private in the first place?
  This is a fantastic update. You can public your CSGO and TF2 stats without having to publish any anime games etc that you might have.

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