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«Gғм» Kid Of The Century Dec 4, 2015 @ 1:22am
Apparently you are now able to remove games from your account.
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There's a new option on the Support page of a game of yours that says "I want to permanently remove this game from my account". It takes you to a page where you can see which games it will affect (bundled games can be removed only altogether, as it always has been) and you can confirm or abort the operation.

As of now seems just an additional measure for those who do not just hide their games. Not sure if and how public stats will be affected, and for sure it isn't a way to hide game stats for games you want to keep but do not want to publicly show.

I believe, hope, beg them that in case of removal after an hijack episode Support will be able to restore everything. EDIT: An option to restore games is already built-in apparently.[i.imgur.com]. Thanks Pheace.

I've mixed feelings about this.

Thoughts?
Last edited by «Gғм» Kid Of The Century; Dec 4, 2015 @ 3:05am
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One-HiT KiLLeR Dec 4, 2015 @ 1:22am 
Nice, i have like 300 games to remove. xD
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IceBear310 Dec 4, 2015 @ 1:26am 
Not sure if it isa VERY good idea.
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One-HiT KiLLeR Dec 4, 2015 @ 1:35am 
Originally posted by Ice Bear. #TakeBackTheFalls:
Not sure if it isa VERY good idea.

It is. I can finally remove all my crappy bundle games. :)
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LAZY Dec 4, 2015 @ 1:40am 
nice
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«Gғм» Kid Of The Century Dec 4, 2015 @ 2:01am 
Originally posted by One-HiT KiLLeR:
It is. I can finally remove all my crappy bundle games. :)

Note you can't remove a bundled game without removing all the other games it came along with.

And unless it's confirmed that stats are removed also, it has basically no difference from the Hidden category.
Last edited by «Gғм» Kid Of The Century; Dec 4, 2015 @ 2:01am
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Perrywinkle Dec 4, 2015 @ 2:05am 
I think this is a very bad idea,with more problems than benefits
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Pheace Dec 4, 2015 @ 2:13am 
Recovering 'permanently' deleted games seems to be built into the system so that's something at least. Though it might not work for games that aren't on Steam anymore.

Recovery example:
http://i.imgur.com/QXDxuJJ.png
Last edited by Pheace; Dec 4, 2015 @ 2:15am
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«Gғм» Kid Of The Century Dec 4, 2015 @ 3:03am 
Originally posted by Pheace:
Recovering 'permanently' deleted games seems to be built into the system so that's something at least. Though it might not work for games that aren't on Steam anymore.

Recovery example:
http://i.imgur.com/QXDxuJJ.png

Good to know, thanks.
I believe that since you can still download games which are no longer sold in the Store you'll be able to recover them anyway. Unlikely for those games who are completely erased from Steam (only one so far, Order of War: Challenge). Though I don't want to risk my copy of Prey to test it out. :steammocking:

Can you confirm that stats (ownership/playtime/achievements/etc.) gets removed from profile as well?
Last edited by «Gғм» Kid Of The Century; Dec 4, 2015 @ 3:04am
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MadDoggyca Dec 4, 2015 @ 3:46am 
I made a topic at the same time u did.. THIS SHOULD NOT EVEN BE A OPTION for any user... the amount off issues this will is crazy...
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DanTheKraut Dec 4, 2015 @ 3:54am 
After all the bad decisions Steam has made in the past months this is a good one.
Last edited by DanTheKraut; Dec 4, 2015 @ 3:57am
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MadDoggyca Dec 4, 2015 @ 3:57am 
Originally posted by DanTheKraut:
After all the bad decisions Steam has made in the past months this is a good one.

no its not... its one of the worst ever... and good reason why its a super bad idea
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Almighty Pirate Dec 4, 2015 @ 4:02am 
Awesome, some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ games may ruin your steam master race library. But you can now deal with them :D
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TheStoryteller01 Dec 4, 2015 @ 4:02am 
This is actually a feature a lot of people have asked for.

As far as I understand, so far with 'deleting local content' you still kept keyboard settings, saves and anything in the registry. Will this new option now kill every trace of the game on my PC? Because this could come handy for a clean new install.
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Vitdom Dec 4, 2015 @ 4:02am 
Either:
1. Fully remove the feature to permanently remove games from your account.
2. Allow a single irreversible choice to opt-out and omit this feature from your account.

If someone gains access to my account, either by using my password, "recovering" my account or physically accessing my PC; I do not want them to be able to remove games from my Steam account.

This feature is honestly so stupid.
Last edited by Spawn of Totoro; Dec 4, 2015 @ 6:01am
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MadDoggyca Dec 4, 2015 @ 4:05am 
Originally posted by TheStoryteller01:
This is actually a feature a lot of people have asked for.

As far as I understand, so far with 'deleting local content' you still kept keyboard settings, saves and anything in the registry. Will this new option now kill every trace of the game on my PC? Because this could come handy for a clean new install.
NO it dosen't . IT removes the game from your account and the ability to redownload..

You still have to uninstall the game and manually clean out any left behinds.. This will cause massive issues on users that get there support.steampowered accounts hacked..

to use this feature all a user as to do is sign into the Steam Support Web site THAT DOSE NOT USE steam guard or 2-way athentication and gives a hacker the ablitly to completely wipe out one account with not much effort...


btw this will do Jack #### for your "clean new install" since u wont be able to reinstall the program you just premently removed from your Steam account ....
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