Steam not showing me playing game to friends.

[kofcsAAaaszsz]

I have been trying to get steam to try and show games that I am playing but it isn't doing anything so my friends can't join me at all and I cannot invite them. Is there anything to do to fix this problem?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Change your privacy settings.

Steam News Announcement    Apr 10, 2018

New Profile Privacy Settings 

Today’s update expands on your Profile Privacy Settings Page, giving you more control over the privacy of your Steam account.

There is a known bug with private profiles unable to invite/join.

[pete]

In your privacy settings you have to set your games to public.

[Bob]

Apparently steam doesn't let purely private profiles interact with friends anymore. The private to friends settings (the typical, old private profile) now hides the game you are playing, which disables the interface... including invites.

Crappy system/oversight, not sure if it is intended or not.

[Voza]

I got this issue after participating in BETA! Now, my chat is not working and friends are not showing up! I already opt out BETA under settings but still it dosn't work on my end. Any help on this is much appreciated! Cheers!

[Petrus249]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Change your privacy settings.

Steam News Announcement    Apr 10, 2018

New Profile Privacy Settings 

Today’s update expands on your Profile Privacy Settings Page, giving you more control over the privacy of your Steam account.

There is a known bug with private profiles unable to invite/join.

:qr:

Didn't work on me. I still cannot respond to any invites anyone else sends to me and I still cannot see if they are not ingame.

[Bob]

Originally posted by StormRaiser245:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Change your privacy settings.

Steam News Announcement    Apr 10, 2018

New Profile Privacy Settings 

Today’s update expands on your Profile Privacy Settings Page, giving you more control over the privacy of your Steam account.

There is a known bug with private profiles unable to invite/join.

:qr:

Didn't work on me. I still cannot respond to any invites anyone else sends to me and I still cannot see if they are not ingame.

If they haven't fixed it by now, then they aren't going to. I send them tickets every few weeks and they always say the same thing in regards to them being aware (been over 5 months now)... but how long could it possibly take to fix such a seemingly minor issue?

It is what it is I guess.

[demi]

I have the same problem, even if I set my options to public, when I'm playing Monster Hunter World it tells me that I'm not in game but just online.

[demi]

We have solved the problem
Since the key of the game that we took was russian, now we're using a vpn to play and it works.

[s t i k Σ︎ r ⭕⃤]

Thank you very much, changing the privacy settings on my profile to Friends Only solved the problem for me!

[Muzed]

Had the same issue and had to toggle big-picture-mode and all the filters again after.

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.