Resetting game play time.

[ClappingFetus]

I am trying to find a way to reset the play time on Garry's Mod. I used to let my son play on my Steam account but he has his own now. All he ever played was Garry's Mod and he has over 2000+ hours played on there. Now that he doesn't use my account I want to be able to look at my profile stats without these hours included. Is there a way to reset it OR will removing the game from my account work?

[Cathulhu]

You are aware that sharing accounts is a severe violation of the Steam Subscriber Agreement, right?
Not exactly a good idea admitting that on the public forum.

The stats including playtime are pemanent on your account, even if you remove the game.

[ClappingFetus]

My son lives in my house and was 8 years old at the time. I am sure Valve has bigger fish to fry.

[HikariLight]

They don't care. Account sharing even with family is forbidden. If someone wants to play a game make them their own account and library share with them. Also game time can not be removed due to the refund system.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

They don't care. Account sharing even with family is forbidden. If someone wants to play a game make them their own account and library share with them.

What exactly is the difference between letting your kid play games that were bought for the family,
and letting your kid play the games through family share?

[hCerisu ❤]

There is currently no way to reset in-game hours on Steam, unfortunately. If you don't want others seeing that you have 2000+ hours in Garry's Mod, there's an option to make your playtime statistics private in your profile settings.

[shiel]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Originally posted by HikariLight:

They don't care. Account sharing even with family is forbidden. If someone wants to play a game make them their own account and library share with them.

What exactly is the difference between letting your kid play games that were bought for the family,
and letting your kid play the games through family share?

This ^
I don't think the intent of the rule was to punish people for letting their young children play on their account lol.

[Taebrythn]

not to mention if people were allowed to reset their times i'm sure they would use it to abuse refunds.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

You are aware that sharing accounts is a severe violation of the Steam Subscriber Agreement, right?
Not exactly a good idea admitting that on the public forum.

Originally posted by HikariLight:

They don't care. Account sharing even with family is forbidden. If someone wants to play a game make them their own account and library share with them.

This is a completely silly take, and I challenge either one of you to find a single instance of action taken against an account in which a parent allowed their own small child to play a game on their account in their own house. Remember that Steam also requires someone to be at least 13 years old to have a Steam account. I really, really don't think Valve cares at all if someone lets their eight year old kid play Lego Batman on their computer, even if it is technically against the rules.

To the OPs question, I don't think so. I've got some games I idled for trading cards years ago, and Steam thinks I have 40+ hours of play time in them even though I've never actually launched them.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by ClappingFetus:

I am trying to find a way to reset the play time on Garry's Mod. I used to let my son play on my Steam account but he has his own now. All he ever played was Garry's Mod and he has over 2000+ hours played on there. Now that he doesn't use my account I want to be able to look at my profile stats without these hours included. Is there a way to reset it OR will removing the game from my account work?

There no time reset. If you're mainly don't want to look at the total playtime of garry mod, you can remove the game from account which is actually just adv form of hiding game on the account, via help section, and if you want to readd it, you simply revist the help section, and readd it back to library that about it, you will need to remember the game name, as there no way to find out what games you removed via help section if you happen to forget.

Originally posted by ClappingFetus:

My son lives in my house and was 8 years old at the time. I am sure Valve has bigger fish to fry.

That's irrelevant, if by chance it happens, you can't cry about it really, and Steam isn't only store that does it, nearly all of them have this policy agasint account sharing.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Originally posted by ClappingFetus:

My son lives in my house and was 8 years old at the time. I am sure Valve has bigger fish to fry.

That's irrelevant, if by chance it happens, you can't cry about it really, and Steam isn't only store that does it, nearly all of them have this policy agasint account sharing.

Every responsible parent knows the account details of their 8 year old kids if they even have accounts (And likely these kids do not know these details, for their own safety).
So the account details of the account /or the account are / is "shared" anyway.

Furthermore under the age of 13 any account must be created by the parents. So the rule "dont use an account you didnt make" was "broken". If you were right.

If you were right, there is no possible way to let your kids play the disney game in the time frame they are excited about playing that game.

Do you see the problem in your view?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

That's irrelevant, if by chance it happens, you can't cry about it really, and Steam isn't only store that does it, nearly all of them have this policy agasint account sharing.

Every responsible parent knows the account details of their 8 year old kids if they even have accounts (And likely these kids do not know these details, for their own safety).
So the account details of the account /or the account are / is "shared" anyway.

Furthermore under the age of 13 any account must be created by the parents. So the rule "dont use an account you didnt make" was "broken". If you were right.

If you were right, there is no possible way to let your kids play the disney game in the time frame they are excited about playing that game.

Do you see the problem in your view?

Re-read what was said instead of over thinking. What I said is advice, means don't yell out to everyone you're sharing your account, that just put target on your back.

It does not mean you get a free pass because you said so, the policy is there for a reason if you stop to think, hence if you happen to use an excuse saying "My child" "My brother" "My Dog" you realize the excuse does not hold. This is their service right to fight agasint abusers, that may be lying about what they're doing with their accounts, hence the policy is just cover the whole ground, if they give wiggle room in that policy, people can use that as leverage as a legal right to do more with their account then normal, hence the point why nearly most services have this same, or similar policy. This is basic legal ground for both protection agasint abusers of the consumer side, and partner side that could want action taken. AKA covering themselves like most services, and can't blame them either, and people can't cry if they get caught abusing service either, hence the point.

Real world it overlooked in most cases when comes from same IP, or location, but when comes to hey you were just in the Russia 1 minute ago, and all of sudden in US you think they wouldn't react to that if they took a notice of such on going activity? So I recommend think logically, instead of only looking at one point of view.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Every responsible parent knows the account details of their 8 year old kids if they even have accounts (And likely these kids do not know these details, for their own safety).
So the account details of the account /or the account are / is "shared" anyway.

Furthermore under the age of 13 any account must be created by the parents. So the rule "dont use an account you didnt make" was "broken". If you were right.

If you were right, there is no possible way to let your kids play the disney game in the time frame they are excited about playing that game.

Do you see the problem in your view?

Re-read what was said instead of over thinking. What I said is advice, means don't yell out to everyone you're sharing your account, that just put target on your back.

It does not mean you get a free pass because you said so, the policy is there for a reason if you stop to think, hence if you happen to use an excuse saying "My child" "My brother" "My Dog" you realize the excuse does not hold. This is their service right to fight agasint abusers, that may be lying about what they're doing with their accounts, hence the policy is just cover the whole ground, if they give wiggle room in that policy, people can use that as leverage as a legal right to do more with their account then normal, hence the point why nearly most services have this same, or similar policy. This is basic legal ground for both protection agasint abusers of the consumer side, and partner side that could want action taken. AKA covering themselves like most services, and can't blame them either, and people can't cry if they get caught abusing service either, hence the point.

Real world it overlooked in most cases when comes from same IP, or location, but when comes to hey you were just in the Russia 1 minute ago, and all of sudden in US you think they wouldn't react to that if they took a notice of such on going activity? So I recommend think logically, instead of only looking at one point of view.

I pointed out that not all that can be seen in wide regulations that try to cover certain things
are actually meant by those regulations.

Some peoples views even made me ask, if they forbid friends to take the controller, or what happens if they go to the kitchen and their friend still holds the controller. Or if its actually allowed to play split screen games (this one is funny).

Tried to add some common sense in the conversation. Because a father was accused of wrong doing for letting his kid play games.

[ClappingFetus]

Thanks for the feedback everybody. I might try removing the game from my account just to test it.

As far as the no sharing policy goes. I am just gonna say this. I don't give a sh*t what the policy is. If my child wants to play a game on my account I am going to let him and Valve can eat a d*ck if they have a problem with that. Sorry not sorry. Cancel my account if you want.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by ClappingFetus:

Thanks for the feedback everybody. I might try removing the game from my account just to test it.

No need to test it, the time will stay.

Refunds are based on time. Thats why its safe to assume already, time stays.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

I pointed out that not all that can be seen in wide regulations that try to cover certain things
are actually meant by those regulations.

Some peoples views even made me ask, if they forbid friends to take the controller, or what happens if they go to the kitchen and their friend still holds the controller. Or if its actually allowed to play split screen games (this one is funny).

Tried to add some common sense in the conversation. Because a father was accused of wrong doing for letting his kid play games.

That why I explain in last part that give this point. There no way of known whom on other side of the screen, but still does not mean you get a free pass if caught breaking their policy if they choose to follow it to take action.

Now do you know OP personal. Can you vouch for every person online on this earth not to abuse any service ever. Do you see the problem why that being pointed out? Now I'm not calling OP a liar, but giving you realism of reality, that when someone points out something, it something that may be worth noting about, in some cases some people may not know about these polices, or understand fully.

Now the advice for OP is don't shout out doing something that could get into trouble, doesn't matter the excuse is, there reason why don't put a target on yourself just because you say so, or think so, as it does not go above their stance of their policy, and decision if taken, that is the bottom line, there is no magic rewording things, nor is there get of jail free card, if they choose to do something, they're going do it simple as that.

Originally posted by ClappingFetus:

Thanks for the feedback everybody. I might try removing the game from my account just to test it.

As far as the no sharing policy goes. I am just gonna say this. I don't give a sh*t what the policy is. If my child wants to play a game on my account I am going to let him and Valve can eat a d*ck if they have a problem with that. Sorry not sorry. Cancel my account if you want.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/57A7-503C-991F-E9A8

The point of policy is agasint abusers of the service, such as people going out of their way to rent out accounts, sell accounts, or etc... They have their own right to protect themselves agasint such things, hence the point, does not matter you caring, or not, swearing up and down, it does not put you above their terms of service simple as that.

Also FYI this does not remove playtime period, as soon you restore it you see the same playtime as before. Note that when you remove it, you no longer can play the game, until game is reactivated on account.