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KieSeyHow Aug 7, 2017 @ 7:04pm
SUGGESTION: See what friends actually have installed
I would like a Steam feature that shows what your friends have actually installed, not just in their library. This would save time asking to play a game only to find they have not installed it, or their SSD is full, or they finished it, etc etc. Can you do this Valve?

EDIT: can someone move this to the Suggestion forum please?
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The Giving One Aug 7, 2017 @ 7:06pm 
There is a suggestions forum here, but I would recommend you search first to see if that has not already been suggested.

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/
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Falro the Great Aug 7, 2017 @ 7:07pm 
No thanks, I'd rather not sacrifice my privacy in this way.
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XBL Laberbacke Aug 7, 2017 @ 7:24pm 
Originally posted by Falro the Great:
No thanks, I'd rather not sacrifice my privacy in this way.
If they did it they would let you opt out, making the whole thing utterly useless anyway.
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KieSeyHow Aug 7, 2017 @ 7:25pm 
Originally posted by The Giving One:
There is a suggestions forum here, but I would recommend you search first to see if that has not already been suggested.

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/

I actually clicked the suggestion forum before posting, and it went here... not my fault
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KieSeyHow Aug 7, 2017 @ 7:26pm 
Originally posted by Falro the Great:
No thanks, I'd rather not sacrifice my privacy in this way.

Yeah, I can see that, but I don't add people to my friends list that I am paranoid about them knowing what games I play .... LOL!
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XBL Laberbacke Aug 7, 2017 @ 7:27pm 
Originally posted by kieseyhow:
Originally posted by Falro the Great:
No thanks, I'd rather not sacrifice my privacy in this way.

Yeah, I can see that, but I don't add people to my friends list that I am paranoid about them knowing what games I play .... LOL!
You, maybe. And it's not about playing, but about the contents of one's hard drive. Yeah, nah.
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KieSeyHow Aug 7, 2017 @ 7:36pm 
Originally posted by XBL Laberbacke:
Originally posted by kieseyhow:

Yeah, I can see that, but I don't add people to my friends list that I am paranoid about them knowing what games I play .... LOL!
You, maybe. And it's not about playing, but about the contents of one's hard drive. Yeah, nah.

I am not sure what your fear is based upon. If you are that worried, you should be buying games on DVD and take your PC offline. Your fear is unfounded, and honestly I doubt anyone cares what you have installed. I agree completely with you about random people knowing this, but I don't see why you would have "friends" added who are a threat? If you have stalkers and such, it is usually a personality issue, rather than technical. If you need help with what people can and cannot do, just message me on an IM service. I have worked in IT off and on since 1986.
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Falro the Great Aug 7, 2017 @ 7:39pm 
Originally posted by kieseyhow:
Originally posted by XBL Laberbacke:
You, maybe. And it's not about playing, but about the contents of one's hard drive. Yeah, nah.

I am not sure what your fear is based upon. If you are that worried, you should be buying games on DVD and take your PC offline. Your fear is unfounded, and honestly I doubt anyone cares what you have installed. I agree completely with you about random people knowing this, but I don't see why you would have "friends" added who are a threat? If you have stalkers and such, it is usually a personality issue, rather than technical. If you need help with what people can and cannot do, just message me on an IM service. I have worked in IT off and on since 1986.
It's not really about fear, but principle. It's my drive, only people I allow - i.e. no one - should be able to see its contents.
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The Rock God Aug 7, 2017 @ 7:43pm 
So this would be a dynamic list that gets updated every time you get on Steam, and wouldn't show what games you have installed if you're not logged in at the time?
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KieSeyHow Aug 7, 2017 @ 8:50pm 
Originally posted by The Rock God:
So this would be a dynamic list that gets updated every time you get on Steam, and wouldn't show what games you have installed if you're not logged in at the time?

Yes, and only to your friends, who are actually "online" at the time. Or, even better only to others who have the same feature enabled. So a sort of "show me yours, I'll show you mine" setting. I think that would be the most fair.
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G.O.A.T Aug 7, 2017 @ 10:08pm 
0.
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Captain Pentium Aug 8, 2017 @ 3:30am 
I've suggested this long back but it never got good feedback.
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KieSeyHow Aug 8, 2017 @ 2:04pm 
Originally posted by 󠀠:
You really can't be bothered just ask someone 'Hey what games do you currently have installed? I see you have X in your library, install it so we can play sometime?"

http://steamcommunity.com/id/kieseyhow/games/?tab=all
http://store.steampowered.com/recommended/friendactivity/

Plenty of other tools to figure out what people have ahead of time.
https://www.steamcompanion.com/games/
http://steam.tools/games/
Not something Valve really needs to waste time on imo

Hey thanks Captain Obvious, but obviously I know about these tools, and they really don't give me what I am looking for.

I want to know what games friends actually have INSTALLED, so that saves having to annoy them with tedious questions and logistics of who is playing what and when. The data is already available in the steam database, just not utilised or presented in the Steam Client. The http://store.steampowered.com/recommended/friendactivity/ comes the closest, but it still does not list everything someone may have installed. All it needs is icons like in that list, to show up in my library so that I can plan what to swap in and out of my SSD, to and from my NAS server. Thanks for trying though.
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wuddih Aug 8, 2017 @ 2:15pm 
will not happen.

plan ahead, buy faster internet, bigger hdds. done.
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BlackGhoast Mar 13, 2023 @ 6:40am 
A tool like this would actually be really useful, especially if you're planning something for large groups of people, and even if you plan ahead you'd be locked into certain games when there might be alternatives you don't know about.

And since only friends would see the data, I don't quite understand why you're so upset about privacy. Unless you're the kind of person who sends friend requests to everyone you meet. And even if you have a bunch of friends that you don't really consider friends, just start cleaning up. You're going to have to do it eventually, so why not make it an incentive?

I know there are still a lot of things that need to be fine-tuned when it comes to this project, but there is some great potential here and I think we should "capitalise" on it and make it something useful for individuals as well as communities that might want to organise big gaming events together.
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