Remove Profile Name

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Some of the games I play show my profile name and avatar in the game. Is there a way to remove that? I stream games and I don't want my profile being displayed on every game.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

It's up to the game Dev to hide such things.

If game Dev allow family sharing for their game, could family share game to alt account. Otherwise could use some kind of blur effects, or something to block spots with some kind of picture, frame, or something.

[mimizukari]

Solution is to either A. Use a super common name, one with thousands of results and no clear indicator of who's who also without using a custom Steam URL, so it's just the long string of numbers...
Or...
B. Use the name you want but use special characters. People aren't going to go out of their way to search how to produce each of the special characters in your name.

There's no way to fully turn off your Steam display name being shown in Steamworks games, so I'd recommend option A for maximum security if you don't want to be flooded with requests and such (though it's very easy to ignore all requests on Steam)

[lightwo]

If you really want to, you could use your steamID64 as the profile name (obtain by adding ?xml=1 to your profile URL, it's on top; example) and use the default avatar. It's possible to distinguish if you try to do it solely to hide away, but it is also roughly the same result as having your name or profile picture banned.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Wreez:

Some of the games I play show my profile name and avatar in the game. Is there a way to remove that? I stream games and I don't want my profile being displayed on every game.

Most people streaming that are trying to hide their Steam profile identity use a 2nd public account. Just like famous personalities have separate social media accounts to keep their private and public lives separate.

If that's not something you want to try and manage, you would need to learn how to use different overlay objects on screen to block information that you don't want others to see. Streamers use this technique most often to hide server details or in-game maps to prevent stream sniping, but you could do the same to cover your Steam name/pic.

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Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Originally posted by Wreez:

Some of the games I play show my profile name and avatar in the game. Is there a way to remove that? I stream games and I don't want my profile being displayed on every game.

Most people streaming that are trying to hide their Steam profile identity use a 2nd public account. Just like famous personalities have separate social media accounts to keep their private and public lives separate.

If that's not something you want to try and manage, you would need to learn how to use different overlay objects on screen to block information that you don't want others to see. Streamers use this technique most often to hide server details or in-game maps to prevent stream sniping, but you could do the same to cover your Steam name/pic.

Doesn't that mean I will have to buy all my games again on the other account?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Wreez:

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Most people streaming that are trying to hide their Steam profile identity use a 2nd public account. Just like famous personalities have separate social media accounts to keep their private and public lives separate.

If that's not something you want to try and manage, you would need to learn how to use different overlay objects on screen to block information that you don't want others to see. Streamers use this technique most often to hide server details or in-game maps to prevent stream sniping, but you could do the same to cover your Steam name/pic.

Doesn't that mean I will have to buy all my games again on the other account?

If the game Dev allow family share, then no, if not then yes if want to use alt account to play multiplayer games with friends.

Now people that does video recording instead of live streaming, it would matter because can change name, picture all you want, play, then change it back, and upload video with no way of being able to figure you out.

So for live streaming, only other possible way, is using some kind of blur, or cover up to hide names and pictures, if don't want to use alt account.

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I'll try creating a second account, but does Steam allow that? From what I can see there is a lot of different opinions on whether you're allowed to have a second account. I mean it's more money for them, but I know some companies get tilted if you sign up for more than one account.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Wreez:

I'll try creating a second account, but does Steam allow that? From what I can see there is a lot of different opinions on whether you're allowed to have a second account. I mean it's more money for them, but I know some companies get tilted if you sign up for more than one account.

- You can have many accounts you want. If you make more than one account, it ideal to have password manager for this to help you remember the accounts you have.

- You can use same email, and phone number for multiple accounts.

- You're not allow to share account's with others that mean leading it to someone, selling, or giving it away.

- Not all games support family sharing. Doesn't hurt to check on it.