Careful of which game you review because steam will send that to your friends!

[Sarulle]

I am older and play adult games. My 21 year old daughter came to me and asked me why I am recommending her to play a sex game! That was an awkward moment. My daughter is too old for me to limit what she sees on steam but that still don't mean I want steam to send her messages saying I recommend that she plays a sex game.

When I play a game and give it a good rating, evidently steam takes it on themselves to send everyone a message telling them I recommend this game to them. I put my privacy settings on private for a reason.

Is there any way to stop steam from this stupidity? I am not in Law but boy does this seem really unlawful to use my name against my will for advertising.

Edited name of of this topic.

[Count_Dandyman]

What did you think it meant when asked if you would recommend the game and when it asked you to put in the reason you would and decide if that review should be visible to everybody or just to those on your friends list?

[Washell]

Sarulle の投稿を引用：

I am not in Law but boy does this seem really unlawful to use my name against my will for advertising.

You gave them permission.

6. USER GENERATED CONTENT ⏶

A. General Provisions

Steam provides interfaces and tools for you to be able to generate content and make it available to other users and/or to Valve at your sole discretion. "User Generated Content" means any content you make available to other users through your use of multi-user features of Steam, or to Valve or its affiliates through your use of the Content and Services or otherwise.

When you upload your content to Steam to make it available to other users and/or to Valve, you grant Valve and its affiliates the worldwide, non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, transcode, translate, broadcast, and otherwise communicate, and publicly display and publicly perform, your User Generated Content, and derivative works of your User Generated Content, for the purpose of the operation, distribution, incorporation as part of and promotion of the Steam service, Steam games or other Steam offerings, including Subscriptions. This license is granted to Valve as the content is uploaded on Steam for the entire duration of the intellectual property rights. It may be terminated if Valve is in breach of the license and has not cured such breach within fourteen (14) days from receiving notice from you sent to the attention of the Valve Legal Department at the applicable Valve address noted on this Privacy Policy page. The termination of said license does not affect the rights of any sub-licensees pursuant to any sub-license granted by Valve prior to termination of the license. Valve is the sole owner of the derivative works created by Valve from your User Generated Content, and is therefore entitled to grant licenses on these derivative works. If you use Valve cloud storage, you grant us a license to store your information as part of that service. Valve may place limits on the amount of storage you may use.

If you provide Valve with any feedback or suggestions about Steam, the Content and Services, or any Valve products, Hardware or services, Valve is free to use the feedback or suggestions however it chooses, without any obligation to account to you.

https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/

[Sarulle]

On a review they ask who can view it public and friends or friends only. There was nothing on there about sending personal messages with my name. If there was, I didn't see it.

My only option would be to not support games and give them a thumbs up. I was hoping for an option of not allowing steam to send messages as if they were from me to everyone on my friend list just because I am trying to support a game.

Just because I am an old pervert and like a game and leave a review on their store page doesn't mean I wanted steam to send my daughter and sister a message as if it was from me saying you need to play this adult game.

With so many adult games now on steam this is a feature they need to add. I will never review another game until I get an option to not spam messages with my likeness to everyone saying I said they need to play this game. I think there are a lot of people who would feel the same way.

[Crazy Tiger]

Reviews you create get put in the activity feed, which only people on your friends list can see. There is no stopping that.

Personally I don't consider that "advertising".

[Sarulle]

Washell の投稿を引用：

Sarulle の投稿を引用：

I am not in Law but boy does this seem really unlawful to use my name against my will for advertising.

You gave them permission.

6. USER GENERATED CONTENT ⏶

A. General Provisions

Steam provides interfaces and tools for you to be able to generate content and make it available to other users and/or to Valve at your sole discretion. "User Generated Content" means any content you make available to other users through your use of multi-user features of Steam, or to Valve or its affiliates through your use of the Content and Services or otherwise.

When you upload your content to Steam to make it available to other users and/or to Valve, you grant Valve and its affiliates the worldwide, non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, transcode, translate, broadcast, and otherwise communicate, and publicly display and publicly perform, your User Generated Content, and derivative works of your User Generated Content, for the purpose of the operation, distribution, incorporation as part of and promotion of the Steam service, Steam games or other Steam offerings, including Subscriptions. This license is granted to Valve as the content is uploaded on Steam for the entire duration of the intellectual property rights. It may be terminated if Valve is in breach of the license and has not cured such breach within fourteen (14) days from receiving notice from you sent to the attention of the Valve Legal Department at the applicable Valve address noted on this Privacy Policy page. The termination of said license does not affect the rights of any sub-licensees pursuant to any sub-license granted by Valve prior to termination of the license. Valve is the sole owner of the derivative works created by Valve from your User Generated Content, and is therefore entitled to grant licenses on these derivative works. If you use Valve cloud storage, you grant us a license to store your information as part of that service. Valve may place limits on the amount of storage you may use.

If you provide Valve with any feedback or suggestions about Steam, the Content and Services, or any Valve products, Hardware or services, Valve is free to use the feedback or suggestions however it chooses, without any obligation to account to you.

https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/

I was just thinking they had protections in place for such things. Thank you for showing me. Just because they can doesn't mean they should.

I am not going to worry any more about it. I just will no longer review games. One of the consequences for what they are doing here. I hope people see this so they don't get caught by surprise like I did about what is done here. There are millions of us who enjoy a good adult game but I would bet a large amount of them people would rather not have it broadcast.

[Sarulle]

Crazy Tiger の投稿を引用：

Reviews you create get put in the activity feed, which only people on your friends list can see. There is no stopping that.

Personally I don't consider that "advertising".

Word of mouth is the best advertising on the planet. People are more willing to try a product based on people they trust. its a good tactic imo but I don't want to participate and give them anything more from me.

[Hanomaly]

Sarulle の投稿を引用：

There was nothing on there about sending personal messages with my name. If there was, I didn't see it.

No one got a "personal message" with your name on it from Steam.

Your daughter saw the recommendation due to your review on her activity Stream. Where it says you recommended the game. Maybe she doesn't know how the Activity Stream works and thinks stuff that ends up there is personal messages to her.

She may have also saw that you recommended the game when she went to the store page all on her own, the the atore page will tell her people on her friends list that own the game and will give info on people on her friends list that wrote a positive review, like you.

But i'm 99% certain that she did not get a "personal message" sent to her about your review or recommendation. Like no Steam Chat message sent to her, she did not get an email, or whatever.

She is mistaking some NON-personal message as personal.

[Crazy Tiger]

Sarulle の投稿を引用：

Crazy Tiger の投稿を引用：

Reviews you create get put in the activity feed, which only people on your friends list can see. There is no stopping that.

Personally I don't consider that "advertising".

Word of mouth is the best advertising on the planet. People are more willing to try a product based on people they trust. its a good tactic imo but I don't want to participate and give them anything more from me.

I should have been more clear, I don't consider it "advertising" as in "broadcasting a personal message with my name on it" as you refer to it. It's simply not.

It's what the activity feed is for, to have such things included.

[Sarulle]

You maybe right but she did show me a picture that said sarulle recommends you play "game name here". It may not of been a personal message but something was sent to her saying I wanted her to play this game.

Fortunately there is an easy fix of no more reviews.

A big thanks to everyone who gave me information on this!

[Hanomaly]

Sarulle の投稿を引用：

You maybe right but she did show me a picture that said sarulle recommends you play "game name here". It may not of been a personal message but something was sent to her saying I wanted her to play this game.

Fortunately there is an easy fix of no more reviews.

A big thanks to everyone who gave me information on this!

Again nothing was *SENT* to her.

Yes it will say that if *she* on her own went to the naughty-game's store page.

It may have told her this information on her Activity Stream (same as it showed your review to all your friends on their Activity Stream)

She may have seen the game on her Discovery Queue and it said "this game is being recommended to you because Sarulle gave it a good review"

But none of those are what i'd call "personal messages" and they certainly weren't "sent to her".

She more "happened across them", is how i'd define it. Or the message was "displayed to her" when she on-her-own looked at certain areas of Steam's Store Page/Site

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But ya.. reviews are public. If you don't want your daughter to see your reviews on naughty games, then ya.. don't review them.

[Sarulle]

Hanomaly の投稿を引用：

Sarulle の投稿を引用：

You maybe right but she did show me a picture that said sarulle recommends you play "game name here". It may not of been a personal message but something was sent to her saying I wanted her to play this game.

Fortunately there is an easy fix of no more reviews.

A big thanks to everyone who gave me information on this!

Again nothing was *SENT* to her.

Yes it will say that if *she* on her own went to the naughty-game's store page.

It may have told her this information on her Activity Stream (same as it showed your review to all your friends on their Activity Stream)

She may have seen the game on her Discovery Queue and it said "this game is being recommended to you because Sarulle gave it a good review"

But none of those are what i'd call "personal messages" and they certainly weren't "sent to her".

She more "happened across them", is how i'd define it.

~
But ya.. reviews are public. If you don't want your daughter to see your reviews on naughty games, then ya.. don't review them.

Well within an hour of my review I was questioned about it by my daughter. We can change the wording as you like but right after I left a review for a new game that I wanted to support my daughter just happened to see that I recommended this to her.

[Hanomaly]

She probably looked at her Activity Feed and saw it! Some people use their activity feed like scrolling their Facebook "wall", or whatever.

[ReBoot]

Explain your deaughter how a social,feed qorks, how its notma recommendation to her personally, but a general feed of stuff on the social side of Steam.

Drama level over 9000

[davidb11]

This is literally how Steam functions, and it makes perfect sense for it to function like this.
This is no different than you liking things on Facebook, or Twitter.

Once you make a public post, it is there for everyone to see, on those two services.

A recommendation on Steam is exactly like that.

You can avoid recommending or reviewing games now all you want, but the best solution is to not to have your daughter be on your friends list. :P

At least that will stop all awkward situations.

[nullable]

Assumptions are a hell of a drug.