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Ninethousand Apr 19, 2019 @ 7:47pm

Your game status is hidden from friends because of your privacy settings

WTF is this crap and how do i fix this?

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𝔇ave Apr 19, 2019 @ 8:09pm

View my profile -> Edit Profile -> My privacy settings

Ninethousand Apr 19, 2019 @ 10:46pm

Doesn't work, the only option in the dropdown menu is "private"

𝔇ave Apr 19, 2019 @ 10:48pm

that's because you need to set your profile to friends only or public

Ninethousand Apr 19, 2019 @ 11:02pm

But that makes no sense, what has my profile to do with me being able to have friends join my games?

I don't want my Profile visible, i just want to invite friends to my games. Those two things have nothing to do with each other.

𝔇ave Apr 19, 2019 @ 11:04pm

that's how it works.. use the friends list invite people to your games.

rawWwRrr Apr 19, 2019 @ 11:55pm

Private means private from everyone.

Friends only means private from everyone except those that you have added to your friends list. This is what you're wanting. Now if you have people on your friends list that you can't trust enough to know what game you're playing then perhaps they don't belong on your friends list.

The End Apr 20, 2019 @ 12:10am

Originally posted by Ninethousand:
But that makes no sense, what has my profile to do with me being able to have friends join my games?

I don't want my Profile visible, i just want to invite friends to my games. Those two things have nothing to do with each other.

That makes perfectly sense.
If you choose to have your profile set to "private" not even you friends can see your profile, if you want them to be able to see your gaming activity, you have to set your profile to "friends only" that's the only way it will work.

Last edited by The End; Apr 20, 2019 @ 12:13am

Ninethousand Apr 20, 2019 @ 12:45pm

For like 10 years, it worked perfectly with my settings, NOBODY was allowed to see my profile, and FRIENDS ONLY were allowed to see what i am playing. It makes no sense that it changed. Valve needs to fix their crap.

Muppet among Puppets Apr 20, 2019 @ 1:06pm

Steam broke it.
It does not make sense.

To invite people you have to do a very complicated workaround now.
First start the game ready to invite.
Then open your own profile with overlay browser.

Right click the green join game, copy link address.

Paste that join link into chat.

The friend has to paste that link in overlay browser.

Anyone who says this makes sense has no idea.

Also contact support and tell them private profiles need a setting to show ingame status.
Dont tell them the workaround, they might break that as well.......

The End Apr 20, 2019 @ 3:40pm

Originally posted by Ninethousand:
For like 10 years, it worked perfectly with my settings, NOBODY was allowed to see my profile, and FRIENDS ONLY were allowed to see what i am playing. It makes no sense that it changed. Valve needs to fix their crap.

Why have friends on your profile if they are not allowed to see anything or communicate with you?

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Muppet among Puppets Apr 20, 2019 @ 7:02pm

Originally posted by Rockon:
Originally posted by Ninethousand:
For like 10 years, it worked perfectly with my settings, NOBODY was allowed to see my profile, and FRIENDS ONLY were allowed to see what i am playing. It makes no sense that it changed. Valve needs to fix their crap.
Why have friends on your profile if they are not allowed to see anything or communicate with you?

Its like having friends in uplay....... Or like playing games with people.
What has communicating to do with this?

He can not invite people anymore. So you know why he has friends in steam.

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The End Apr 20, 2019 @ 7:07pm

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:
Originally posted by Rockon:
Why have friends on your profile if they are not allowed to see anything or communicate with you?
Its like having friends in uplay....... Or like playing games with people.
What has communicating to do with this?

He can not invite people anymore. So you know why he has friends in steam.

Ok, all he can do is wait and hope Valve makes it possible at some point.

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