How do I control visibility of games in my list?

[xtrasighsMAX]

Hello, as you could see for now, I spent a couple of weeks with RimWorld always on in my computer.

I struggle to find games I like. The exact genre of RimWorld is missing in a void at the moment. I had watched a video of someone playing it and put it on my wishlist for ages then bought it and after playing it for a week straight I realised I had been conned, and I don't use that word lightly. RimWorld was kickstarted for a quarter of a million producing the basic vanilla version after 3 years. It still advertises itself as an AI storyteller. It has pulled in millions off this advertising line... But there is not one word of dialogue in this "AI storyteller" and the game itself is outclassed by the likes of Sim City 2000.

But I really want a game like this one looks in its adverts. So I kept fiddling around with mods and stuff convinced that there was really going to be a game here I liked. But they all turn out to be crap, worse that Windows Vista for attacking your system, all crap not working in some way, I REALLY dislike this game.

And now it is at the top of my list of games as my second most played (which it isn't even, I play games offline for days and they do not register game time on that list). That list has been public for like ten years and it is one of my favourite ways to find games, sometimes I go to a profile and look for a games list and find a treasure trove... So I really do not want to make my list private, while at the same time I really do not want to advertise this one particular game. I don't want people I interact with online to think I play this game, let alone be to blame for encouraging them to waste their money and time on it..

How can I hide it from my public games list without hiding all of the other hundreds of games at the same time?

[rawWwRrr]

At present there is no ability to hide just one game from your games list. There's very little real reasons to do so. How people interpret your playtime is on them.

[xtrasighsMAX]

Ursprungligen skrivet av rawWwRrr:

At present there is no ability to hide just one game from your games list. There's very little real reasons to do so. How people interpret your playtime is on them.

Hold on a minute... Did you just say this isn't really real?

Well answer me this, would it hurt you or Steam, would it even take a major amount of effort, would it spoil anything, in this whole wide world, to let this piece of my profile, this piece of my public appearance, to be under my own control?

Well, there is even less reason, it is even less real, not to do so.

And yet, here we are. There you are right there.

You liked it the way it was didn't you, and here was I, didn't even think you were here. Didn't even think you really cared.

You know, Steam is not broke. It is not short of people. It is not short of motivation. Do you think that Steam sees this client in five years time, as the exact same thing it is now? No. Like any similar company, they intend to be busting out of the screens by this time next two years away. They have put down every other major online PC gaming outlet to the extent that people don't even know the old websites names any more like Gamespy and Gamershell...

They are doing more than just waiting to make Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo obsolete. I bet you they have meetings about challenging AMD and Nvidia all of the time, or merging with them. They are a huge big business. All they are on about at the hieghest level is what is the next big thing, what is the next best step, and what is the little adjustment. How does this thing refine into a fully streamlined customer experience.

Why in the name of holy guacamole would it be anything other than the best thing to do, than to just add this feature to the list, like, control of your own public appearance on their app.?

Why would anyone want to control their own public appearance? Just grow your beard raw, and if someone else doesn't like the look of it, let them shave it themselves. Amirite? Washing smawshing, if you don't like the smell, go and get a bucket and face cloth. I'll wait here. Jesis. RimWorld is a backside on one of my little pimples, and I want to remove it.

Thanks o/

[Smuggy]

Steam is not a social media platform. No one cares about your 'online appearance'.

[ReBoot]

What list exactly are you talking about here?

[ElvisDeadly]

If you are never going to play it again and don't want a record of it in your game list just remove the game via the support option.

Steam Support
Games, Software, etc.
SEARCH FOR GAME
I want to permanently remove this game from my account

[Jerry]

Ursprungligen skrivet av ReBoot:

What list exactly are you talking about here?

That would be the games list, that you can access on the right side of the profile. Possibly the one of recently played games on the bottom too.
From what I recall, even removing the game from your account may not work to hide it in this place.

I understand the intention, and it is an interesting approach to find inspirations for new games this way, but to most users, it would really be far too obscure to ever look there. Also keep in mind, that lots of playtime does not necessarily indicate a good game or, the other way around, little time spent a bad one. Some games simply eat more time than others by design and by genre (my idle time-eaters are certainly not my favourites, but end up on top unavoidably).
If you want others to be aware, that this game is not what you were hoping for, leave a negative review. That will be much more visible.

[xtrasighsMAX]

Ursprungligen skrivet av ReBoot:

What list exactly are you talking about here?

The same one I can see your 1,999 games on.

Most of those games are first person 3D. Most of those 3D are militarized shooters. And yet, only one of them is a Call of Duty game, maybe five years old or more, and instead of have being played between 50-500 hours... You have only played five hours of it. Even if you had managed to leave CoD switched on on your computer for 100s of hours, and even if you didn't really care what people saw on your list... wouldn't it be sort of wrong to make it look like CoD was your favourite game out of 1,999 games?

[xtrasighsMAX]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Jerry:

Ursprungligen skrivet av ReBoot:

What list exactly are you talking about here?

That would be the games list, that you can access on the right side of the profile. Possibly the one of recently played games on the bottom too.
From what I recall, even removing the game from your account may not work to hide it in this place.

I understand the intention, and it is an interesting approach to find inspirations for new games this way, but to most users, it would really be far too obscure to ever look there. Also keep in mind, that lots of playtime does not necessarily indicate a good game or, the other way around, little time spent a bad one. Some games simply eat more time than others by design and by genre (my idle time-eaters are certainly not my favourites, but end up on top unavoidably).
If you want others to be aware, that this game is not what you were hoping for, leave a negative review. That will be much more visible.

Just tell me, what exactly do you think the point of having the public games list is?

You tell me that, and I will tell you why it is a good idea to let me control what can be seen there, even if you never even thought you were looking for games there.

In reality, even though you say it is too obscure to even imagine someone would look for games in that list... That is the ONLY thing people do with that list, they look to see what games a person has and which ones are their favourites. Obscure? You have looked at those lists your self, haven't you. Oh, but you don't look at them every time you are looking for a game? Oh well ti doesn't matter then please, excuse me while I go and delete the whole thing and take up scuba diving instead.

So let's say you take up scuba diving instead. The most popular scuba diving place in town is called Deep Sea Fun. You go there every day for a couple of months. The instructors turn out to all be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The equipment is mostly ugly and shoddy and old. They only manage to get you out in the water 5 or 6 times in those two months. They don't get you out past 5 feet deep of water. One of your friends drowns because the club is so crap. It is like everybody in the whole town is raving on about how fun and new this club is, but in reality it is old and dangerous and not very fun at all. So you leave Deep Sea Fun and try out with the other more realistic scuba clubs. Except when you go to them you are forced to wear a Deep Sea Fun Club badge on your scuba suit. You get in touch with your national scuba association and complain, being forced to wear this badge is putting you off scuba diving with clubs completely because you don't want to wear a badge of something you hate like as though you were trying to promote it.

A member of the association walks up to you and says, "I see what you are saying. It seems reasonable not to want to display this badge when you are swimming with your club. But I don't think it matters because only strange people look at each others badges when they are going scuba diving."

You tell me, who is that guy who walked up to you and said that? Would it have spoiled that guys day if he walked up and said, "Don't see why they don't let you just wear whatever badges you like as long as they are legal and all. A good day to you, sir, and good luck with your pursuit of happiness and scuba diving."

[Crazy Tiger]

The only way to do so is what is posted in post #5 by ElvisDeadly. People have been suggesting to be able to hide individual games in other ways, but so far there seems to be no interest by Valve to change something about it.

Ursprungligen skrivet av uMbLaHng.BOOM:

Why in the name of holy guacamole would it be anything other than the best thing to do, than to just add this feature to the list, like, control of your own public appearance on their app.?

Everybody that makes a suggestion says their suggestion is the "best thing to do". What people seem to forget is that there is always the very real possibility that Valve does not consider a suggestion an actual priority, or even interesting at all. And in the end the only thing that truly matters is what Valve is interested to do with their platform.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Jerry:

From what I recall, even removing the game from your account may not work to hide it in this place.

Removing a game via the support pages removes the game from the public game list, but not the recently played list. Though games on the latter drop off after a month, or at least I think the cutoff point is around a month.

Ursprungligen skrivet av uMbLaHng.BOOM:

Ursprungligen skrivet av ReBoot:

What list exactly are you talking about here?

The same one I can see your 1,999 games on.

Most of those games are first person 3D. Most of those 3D are militarized shooters. And yet, only one of them is a Call of Duty game, maybe five years old or more, and instead of have being played between 50-500 hours... You have only played five hours of it. Even if you had managed to leave CoD switched on on your computer for 100s of hours, and even if you didn't really care what people saw on your list... wouldn't it be sort of wrong to make it look like CoD was your favourite game out of 1,999 games?

No, it wouldn't be.

[Pocahawtness]

When you think about it there is absolutely no reason for a games list other than Steam forcing you to share information with other people. I suppose steam think that sharing that information sells games...there can't be any other reason for it. Certainly as far as I am concerned lists like the "Recently Played" should not even exist. I mean why would that be interesting to anyone other than some kind of freaky stalker? There is some information that is handy for other people to know. Like when you are playing a game you might want other team players to know you are playing. But mostly it has no reason whatsoever other than marketing.

[xtrasighsMAX]

Ursprungligen skrivet av 🤪 Pocahawtness:

When you think about it there is absolutely no reason for a games list other than Steam forcing you to share information with other people. I suppose steam think that sharing that information sells games...there can't be any other reason for it. Certainly as far as I am concerned lists like the "Recently Played" should not even exist. I mean why would that be interesting to anyone other than some kind of freaky stalker? There is some information that is handy for other people to know. Like when you are playing a game you might want other team players to know you are playing. But mostly it has no reason whatsoever other than marketing.

You aren't forced to show the games but it is forced to be all or nothing. I have of course realised before that I would not like a game I do not like at the top of my most played list, but I haven't sat here for ten years of Steam thinking... "Remember the list! Remember the list!" I don't need that worry on me. I want to be free.

And as to the other guy above, it is wrong depending what angle you have to look at it from and nobody is suggestion Steam should do anything differently with this. The suggestion is that they should make it so that I can do things differently, i.e., control my appearance.

There is a heavy social media element to Steam. If I look like someone I am not but have no control over that look, then the social media element is broken. Is feeding RimWorld the crime for which Steams purpose is to see me exposed and punished.? I doubt that.

Look at it this way, any time someone sees my Steam profile and says, "Oh you play RimWorld a lot huh?" and I am going to say no, I hate that game, I wish it didn't exist etc and try my best to put them off buying it... which is not a very good advertisement policy for Steam is it.

The games list should be something we love. When someone looks at my games list I want to be able to say, "I love playing games, and these are the games I love..."

I don't want to be saying, "Watch out for the dead guy on the second step. Just walk around it, you'll get used to it."

[xtrasighsMAX]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Smuggy:

Steam is not a social media platform. No one cares about your 'online appearance'.

Steam IS a social media platform, not an anti-social platform.

People who can't care about what it is like, or if it is good or not, don't have an opinion on what is best either, do they.

[rawWwRrr]

Ursprungligen skrivet av uMbLaHng.BOOM:

Ursprungligen skrivet av rawWwRrr:

At present there is no ability to hide just one game from your games list. There's very little real reasons to do so. How people interpret your playtime is on them.

Hold on a minute... Did you just say this isn't really real?

Well answer me this, would it hurt you or Steam, would it even take a major amount of effort, would it spoil anything, in this whole wide world, to let this piece of my profile, this piece of my public appearance, to be under my own control?

Well, there is even less reason, it is even less real, not to do so.

And yet, here we are. There you are right there.

You liked it the way it was didn't you, and here was I, didn't even think you were here. Didn't even think you really cared.

You know, Steam is not broke. It is not short of people. It is not short of motivation. Do you think that Steam sees this client in five years time, as the exact same thing it is now? No. Like any similar company, they intend to be busting out of the screens by this time next two years away. They have put down every other major online PC gaming outlet to the extent that people don't even know the old websites names any more like Gamespy and Gamershell...

They are doing more than just waiting to make Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo obsolete. I bet you they have meetings about challenging AMD and Nvidia all of the time, or merging with them. They are a huge big business. All they are on about at the hieghest level is what is the next big thing, what is the next best step, and what is the little adjustment. How does this thing refine into a fully streamlined customer experience.

Why in the name of holy guacamole would it be anything other than the best thing to do, than to just add this feature to the list, like, control of your own public appearance on their app.?

Why would anyone want to control their own public appearance? Just grow your beard raw, and if someone else doesn't like the look of it, let them shave it themselves. Amirite? Washing smawshing, if you don't like the smell, go and get a bucket and face cloth. I'll wait here. Jesis. RimWorld is a backside on one of my little pimples, and I want to remove it.

Thanks o/

jfc.... You read a lot into my response. Is that your jester award for me? Thanks, I could use the extra points.

If Valve implemented every suggestion that the community wanted in terms of turning visibility on and off, it would be a nightmare of little toggles not to mention to actually code.

You have a game that you don't want anyone to see how many hours you've played. Then turn your privacy controls on. That's why they are there. Yeah, it's going to hide details for all your games.

That's the solution. If you are wanting something else, you'll have to wait as it's not possible yet, may never be, as I explained in my first reply that you went nuclear on.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

OP goes on some stupid rant about a social media platform, refuses to use the tools available. Typical poster that things their idea is the best thing since sliced bread.

[xtrasighsMAX]

Ursprungligen skrivet av rawWwRrr:

jfc.... You read a lot into my response. Is that your jester award for me? Thanks, I could use the extra points.

If Valve implemented every suggestion that the community wanted in terms of turning visibility on and off, it would be a nightmare of little toggles not to mention to actually code.

You have a game that you don't want anyone to see how many hours you've played. Then turn your privacy controls on. That's why they are there. Yeah, it's going to hide details for all your games.

That's the solution. If you are wanting something else, you'll have to wait as it's not possible yet, may never be, as I explained in my first reply that you went nuclear on.

No I didn't give you a jester award. Didn't think you were joking.

There is absolutely no negative side, as things stand now, to letting us hide games off that games list. It would not take a site breaking change. It would not bog down 100 developers for six months. It's the sort of change they could finish today and test tomorrow and have rolled out by next week without customers even noticing.

The only people who would take notice, would be people who were glad of it.

Steam has gone a long way the last couple of years in letting us customise our profiles.

I would like to hear any idea, a genuine idea not just "Oh the gods are deffo busy," ... why it would not be a good idea to give us that control over the games list.