Is it true that Valve is making it possible to delete games permanently??

[vedj]

I just read an article about Valve is making it possible to delete games permanently from your steam account. Why would they do this? Just uninnstall the game(s) or refund it, I mean whats the point whit deleting it permanently, might aswell just use money as toilet paper while we're at it... I really hope they dont do this, i can already see it... People getting their accounts hacked, friends on a lan party trolling thru ur steam library when ur on the toilet, phising hacks that will delete everything and etc etc... I hope they have tought this well thru,...
I've had my account hack before, lost items for over 3000$... Also the reason im scared of this new feature.

[Satoru]

1) yes it is true, you can go through the self-help and delete games

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/3vcmko/steam_now_allows_you_to_permanently_remove_games/

2) There is a restore function, in case you delete teh wrong game, or if hijackers delete them out of spite

3) So far I don't see any evidence that deleting a game removes any achievements or such. So any achievement hunters tyring to get their 100% by removing games will likely be disappointed

4) if you were 'hacked before' maybe you should exercise more caution ratehr than worrying about them deleting your games

[MSXCF]

What is the purpose of deleting a game?

[FFL2and3rocks]

Messaggio originale di MSXCF:

What is the purpose of deleting a game?

Nothing useful, really. Some people just don't want clutter on their profile.

Or maybe some people are being laughed at for having 500 hours in Sakura Spirit.

EDIT - I forgot, if you have a game that's only playable in another country, it could be useful to delete it so you can buy again from your country.

[Satoru]

Messaggio originale di MSXCF:

What is the purpose of deleting a game?

Who the hell knows

The only 'semi-not-so-much' reason is when a person activates a game that's not in their region via a VPN, then magically realizes that the game doesn't work outside of that region. So essentially they broke the rules, then got caught, then wanted an out. Thats the only real 'kinda' legit reason

The overwhelming majority of requests fall into

"OMG I HATE THIS GAME" - despite the fact thatyou can now simply hide games from your library if its THAT offensive

"OMG I NEEDZ 100% CHEEVOZ!!" - Because apparently now 100% means "100% that I can do without doing the actual work to get 100%". Note that deleting a game does not remove the achievements as far as I can tell

[Deadman]

Well I have Batman Arkham City and Batman Arkham City GOTY so there is no reason to have duplicated games. I will look into deleting the non GOTY edition.

[Asus]

Messaggio originale di FFL2and3rocks:

Messaggio originale di MSXCF:

What is the purpose of deleting a game?

Nothing useful, really. Some people just don't want clutter on their profile.

This would be my reason, and it would be 'useful' to me.

There are some free games I like to 'try out". If I don't like some of those games, it would be great to be able to get rid of them... period.

[Satoru]

Messaggio originale di Deadman:

Well I have Batman Arkham City and Batman Arkham City GOTY so there is no reason to have duplicated games. I will look into deleting the non GOTY edition.

But again iyou can just hide games in your library. Why delete them at all? Just hide it and presto you're done.

[Satoru]

Messaggio originale di Asus:

Messaggio originale di FFL2and3rocks:

Nothing useful, really. Some people just don't want clutter on their profile.

This would be my reason, and it would be 'useful' to me.

There are some free games I like to 'try out". If I don't like some of those games, it would be great to be able to get rid of them... period.

You can 'remove clutter' by simply hiding such games

You could already remove free games from your library before anyway

https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/

Find game. Click REmove. Done

[Asus]

Messaggio originale di Satoru:

Messaggio originale di Asus:

This would be my reason, and it would be 'useful' to me.

There are some free games I like to 'try out". If I don't like some of those games, it would be great to be able to get rid of them... period.

You can already remove free games from your library.

Okay, fair enough. I just always assumed 'HIDE THE GAME' was the only option.

[Naly]

Who cares why people want to delete games. If you don't want to, don't. Stop caring what others are doing.

I will support the idea that Steam should increase security for it however. I've tested it out on some games. I put a game in checkout that I deleted and steam didn't warn me that I own it (but deleted it.) This is unethical in my opinion. The option to restore exists which means there is still a record that you bought it. Steam should never profit off of you buying a game twice on one account without warning you.

[Asus]

Messaggio originale di Vanille:

Who cares why people want to delete games. If you don't want to, don't. Stop caring what others are doing.

I agree.

[Satoru]

Messaggio originale di Vanille:

Who cares why people want to delete games. If you don't want to, don't. Stop caring what others are doing..

The point being there are existing tools to address the necessity of 'deleting' games. Most reasons for deleting games are utterly uncompelling given the existing tools Steam has.

While its nice they allow it, I'm not super convinced it was necessary or whether 'game deletion hacking' is going to be a big problem with respects to account hijacks simply as a pure trolling mechansim. Given that existing tools pretty much addressed most issues, I'm wondereing why they bothered with an automated process to delete games,e ven if there is a recovery mechanism built in.

[Naly]

The reasons are uncompelling to YOU. Yet just about everyday we see posts asking how to permanently delete games and Steam support receives who knows how many tickets asking for it to be done.

Many have already stated their reasons for wanting this. Personally, I wanted to delete two games that someone played on my account and had so many hours that they were my top three played games. It seriously bothered me. I was attempting to farm hours in games I wanted by leaving them running 24/7 but my number 1 played game had 1,500 hours. That would have taken so long to get three games above that

I was psyched to delete them today.

[Asus]

Messaggio originale di Satoru:

Messaggio originale di Vanille:

Who cares why people want to delete games. If you don't want to, don't. Stop caring what others are doing..

The point being there are existing tools to address the necessity of 'deleting' games. Most reasons for deleting games are utterly uncompelling given the existing tools Steam has.

The word "uncompelling" is subjective. Like me for example, I don't find it 'compelling’ enough to merely 'hide' a game I no longer want to own.

To each their own I say. One has a right to one's personal preferences, and people shouldn't be forced to justify their personal preferences in the first place.

EDIT: Okay people aren't 'forced'... I get that.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Messaggio originale di Satoru:

1) yes it is true, you can go through the self-help and delete games

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/3vcmko/steam_now_allows_you_to_permanently_remove_games/

2) There is a restore function, in case you delete teh wrong game, or if hijackers delete them out of spite

3) So far I don't see any evidence that deleting a game removes any achievements or such. So any achievement hunters tyring to get their 100% by removing games will likely be disappointed

4) if you were 'hacked before' maybe you should exercise more caution ratehr than worrying about them deleting your games

How long does this restore option last for, and if in case someone were able to gain access to a user account, is there a limit to how many game can be restore, or to delete. Pretty much what I'm asking is there is any security protocol behind this? Because i'm not seeing any at all.