Why can't you see people's games anymore?

[Glam Stachee☆]

I noticed this some time ago but whenever I go to someone's profile who isn't on my friends list their entire profile except the name, country, avatar and description is empty. No games, no screenshots, no artwork.

[Moderate my posterior.]

GDPR

[Matt]

New privacy setting

[Glam Stachee☆]

Can I blame the SJWs or something for this?

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by Rosco Thunderpants:

Can I blame the SJWs or something for this?

No.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1667896941884942467

[Radene]

If people don't think you should see the games they play, they can now decide not to show them to you.

[Moderate my posterior.]

Originally posted by Radene:

If people don't think you should see the games they play, they can now decide not to show them to you.

Watch out, Gus is going to be mad at you for having an opinion :P

[Radene]

Originally posted by Popular Outcast:

Originally posted by Radene:

If people don't think you should see the games they play, they can now decide not to show them to you.

Watch out, Gus is going to be mad at you for having an opinion :P

Eh, Gus and me butt heads now and then but I believe there's no bad blood between us.

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Radene:

If people don't think you should see the games they play, they can now decide not to show them to you.

As of now, game details are private by default.

Newer users are not aware of this.

Some of them never check their privacy settings or sporadically have interest in doing so.

[Glam Stachee☆]

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

Originally posted by Radene:

If people don't think you should see the games they play, they can now decide not to show them to you.

As of now, game details are private by default.

Newer users are not aware of this.

Some of them never check their privacy settings or sporadically have interest in doing so.

:yinyangflip:

Exactly, kinda makes it difficult to tell if someone suspicious has over 2000 hours in a game or just got that one game and is cheating now-a-days.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Rosco Thunderpants:

Can I blame the SJWs or something for this?

If you're gonna blame someone, you should probably stop thinking about silly culture wars and instead suspect Valve for trying to screw with SteamSpy.

FWIW, GOG's recent profile thing defaults to showing one's games. (And they're literally actually European, even, so you can't point to the GDPR.)

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Rosco Thunderpants:

Exactly, kinda makes it difficult to tell if someone suspicious has over 2000 hours in a game or just got that one game and is cheating now-a-days.

While game-play has no direct correlation with that (or minimal); if you come across suspected cheaters — ensure to report them whilst in-game.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Eisberg:

Originally posted by Quint the Wolf on the Roof:

If you're gonna blame someone, you should probably stop thinking about silly culture wars and instead suspect Valve for trying to screw with SteamSpy.

FWIW, GOG's recent profile thing defaults to showing one's games. (And they're literally actually European, even, so you can't point to the GDPR.)

GoG's default is to show it to Friends only, which is what Steam's default is as well. GoG does not default to showing the games to the whole public, only to friends.

Not even recent activity?

[Harry Gumdropzap]

its was a much needed feature
people would base peoples skill off of their hours a lot, how many games they have, calling people a smurf because they installed steam for the one game they wanted to play

its better for the people new on steam, if you want any game information from people just ask them or add them

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Eisberg:

Originally posted by Quint the Wolf on the Roof:

Not even recent activity?

Activity Feed is set to "GoG Users" by default.
Games list is set to "GoG friends" by default.

Well, considering that making an account is free, "GoG Users" is de facto public. But fair enough.

[Glam Stachee☆]

Originally posted by Quint the Wolf on the Roof:

Originally posted by Rosco Thunderpants:

Can I blame the SJWs or something for this?

If you're gonna blame someone, you should probably stop thinking about silly culture wars and instead suspect Valve for trying to screw with SteamSpy.

I was joking, geez, why does nobody ever notice when I do sarcasm?

Originally posted by Builderman:

its was a much needed feature
people would base peoples skill off of their hours a lot, how many games they have, calling people a smurf because they installed steam for the one game they wanted to play

its better for the people new on steam, if you want any game information from people just ask them or add them

Hours do matter a whole lot, I'm supposed to expect someone who freshly installed a game and is abosolutely destroying everyone else isn't suspicious? Adding people is a tedious process, they may or may not accept the request, and besides I just want to quickly check something. And asking people has two main drawbacks: 1.) They can lie about it, and 2.) I live in Europe, we got about 20 different larger languages, and a lot of people don't speak english, and I don't speak each and every one of those.