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?

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

Maybe...

[Naly]

İlk olarak Altima tarafından gönderildi:

I think its just for F2Ps that are installed on your computer. Once you uninstall it, then you remove the F2P license from your account.

I was able to delete CSGO and Loadout, but not Firefall

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

I was able to delete all the F2P crap I installed.

[Naly]

İlk olarak Nele tarafından gönderildi:

It might be a difference if you have bought ingame stuff or DLC for that F2P game.

Good point.

[Tev]

Does anyone have any gifted licenses they could try risking to remove and retrieve that's been bought in 2014 but less than 365 days ago? It would have to be a license between December 6th to 31st, 2014. I would do it myself, but I've only got expensive gifts in that time period. I apologize!

Make sure it's a license you don't mind getting possibly permanently removed.

Just asking so I can add to this, I would greatly appreciate the feedback:

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İlk olarak Vanille tarafından gönderildi:

Thanks for that info Teutep

Nah, it was partially incorrect after all. The gift of mine was from 2012. I tried a new one just now and that one worked. :) Edited above.

Of course, I still can't return Bad Rats but.. Not a big loss. Just felt like pointing it out.

So basically right now to me it looks like.

Retail can be retrieved back (2011) [i.imgur.com]
Bought can be retrieved back (2012) [i.imgur.com]
Bought can be retrieved back (Dec 18th, 2014) [i.imgur.com]
Bought can be retrieved back (2015) [i.imgur.com]
Gifts can be retrieved back (2011) [i.imgur.com]
Gifts can be retrieved back (2012) [i.imgur.com]
Gifts can be retrieved back (2014; over 12 months ago) [i.imgur.com]
Gifts can be retrieved back (2015; over 6 months ago) [i.imgur.com]
Gifts can be retrieved back (2015) [i.imgur.com]

EDIT: and it's not just that it doesn't work retroactively with gifts. A gift from June 2015 still works with the retrieving. November 28th, 2014 doesn't work. Maybe it works only with gifts received within the last 365 days?

EDIT 2: Over 6 months ago tested in accordance to a previous policy: http://i.imgur.com/TJ4VXI2.png Seems to still work.

EDIT 3: Bought games have this issue as well, December 18th is retrievable. I'll see how the situation is in 13 days when it becomes 365 days old.

[Oxgo]

cool.

[Satoru]

VAC bans are permanent even in the previous system of manual removals of games by Valve

Game bans were similar

The new system is just automated but vac/game bans are on a different db and thus are not impacted by game license removal. If it was, you could cheat during a free weekend nad have the ban 'removed' when the game is 'removed' after the free weekend.

[Satoru]

İlk olarak Vanille tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Altima tarafından gönderildi:

I think its just for F2Ps that are installed on your computer. Once you uninstall it, then you remove the F2P license from your account.

I was able to delete CSGO and Loadout, but not Firefall

Firefall is F2P isn't it? Just delete F2P games from your account settings

[Charlie]

İlk olarak Teutep tarafından gönderildi:

Does anyone have any gifted licenses they could try risking to remove and retrieve that's been bought in 2014 but less than 365 days ago? It would have to be a license between December 6th to 31st, 2014. I would do it myself, but I've only got expensive gifts in that time period. I apologize!

To my knowledge you can remove any product on your account regardless of how long ago you purchased/activated it... I do wonder though if there is a limit on how long you could recover a game, i.e. if I remove Assassin's Creed now I could recover it immediately, but what if I wanted to recover it in 6 months, a year, two years etc... etc... There isn't any documentation explaining the new feature.

[Satoru]

İlk olarak GhostMotley tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Teutep tarafından gönderildi:

Does anyone have any gifted licenses they could try risking to remove and retrieve that's been bought in 2014 but less than 365 days ago? It would have to be a license between December 6th to 31st, 2014. I would do it myself, but I've only got expensive gifts in that time period. I apologize!

To my knowledge you can remove any product on your account regardless of how long ago you purchased/activated it... I do wonder though if there is a limit on how long you could recover a game, i.e. if I remove Assassin's Creed now I could recover it immediately, but what if I wanted to recover it in 6 months, a year, two years etc... etc... There isn't any documentation explaining the new feature.

My concern would be something more insidious. Say you get hijacked and the hijacker only deletes a couple of games.

Hell I almost rebought like 5 games during the winter sale I 'thought' I didnt have yet. I'd have no way to know if a hijacker deleted even 100 of my games. I'd probably not notice it for years.

[Tev]

İlk olarak GhostMotley tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Teutep tarafından gönderildi:

Does anyone have any gifted licenses they could try risking to remove and retrieve that's been bought in 2014 but less than 365 days ago? It would have to be a license between December 6th to 31st, 2014. I would do it myself, but I've only got expensive gifts in that time period. I apologize!

To my knowledge you can remove any product on your account regardless of how long ago you purchased/activated it... I do wonder though if there is a limit on how long you could recover a game, i.e. if I remove Assassin's Creed now I could recover it immediately, but what if I wanted to recover it in 6 months, a year, two years etc... etc... There isn't any documentation explaining the new feature.

No, I meant the retrieving.

I can't retrieve deleted gifts I activated in 2011, 2012, November 2014 for example. The pictures are in the table.

That's why I'd like someone to test if they can retrieve something from 2014 that isn't 365 days old yet.

If they can, then the reason I can't retrieve my Nov. 2014 gift is probably because it was activated more than 365 days ago; if they can't, then there's a time period I'm not aware of (which would have to be between 7 months[i.imgur.com] and 12 months then) or it's the fact it's 2014 and not 2015.

Or I'm extremely unlucky with the gifts I chose to test the retroactivity with.

İlk olarak GhostMotley tarafından gönderildi:

i.e. if I remove Assassin's Creed now I could recover it immediately, but what if I wanted to recover it in 6 months, a year, two years etc... etc... There isn't any documentation explaining the new feature.

The retail license in the picture is 2011 (Pheace's picture) and the bought game I retrieved was from 2015.

The only issue I have is with gifts. I actually do have this with a 2012 bought DLC that I can't retrieve after removal.

Edit: If all else fails, I'll just wait until a cheap gift license turns a year old and retry before and after that happens. (And that would be on February 17th, that's why I'd like someone else to test this.)

[Pheace]

İlk olarak Satoru tarafından gönderildi:

My concern would be something more insidious. Say you get hijacked and the hijacker only deletes a couple of games.

Hell I almost rebought like 5 games during the winter sale I 'thought' I didnt have yet. I'd have no way to know if a hijacker deleted even 100 of my games. I'd probably not notice it for years.

While I can see the issue that might arise in a situation like that, are we imagining a new generation of 'troll hackers' or something like that? Hackers devious enough to work their way into your Steam account but not sinister enough to leave a trace of their attempts behind (including stealing anything of value)?

[Satoru]

Given your sitation they probably need a separate UI interface for "I may have deleted a game can you show me which games were deleted"

[Satoru]

İlk olarak Pheace tarafından gönderildi:

While I can see the issue that might arise in a situation like that, are we imagining a new generation of 'troll hackers' or something like that? Hackers devious enough to work their way into your Steam account but not sinister enough to leave a trace of their attempts behind (including stealing anything of value)?

Why not do both. Wipe out the inventory and their libray. Who cares its not the hackers problem. Users would be so terrified of their inventory they'd probably forget that half their games are gone.

Famous streamers our youtubers would easily be targets of such 'trolling' attempts as well

[TheGhostGalleon]

This features worries me because it's too easy to delete games. I deleted a few to test it out, and it's way, way, way too easy to do. I think it just needs more added security measures (phone number, email address, security questions, anything).

An upset sibling, or friend, or even just someone who thinks it's funny and has access (allowed or not) to an account can easily delete something.

Another thing that can be done would be to have the game's cost in the store page for it be at $0 for that account when purchasing for itself, and at the retail price when purchasing as a gift. That way, Steam doesn't get that many issues to need to fix, and users who later regret their actions can easily go back on them. Though, I don't know why having a game as hidden isn't enough.