"friend" on steam hiding from me?

[Tyty]

Ok so i have a certain steam friend that hides his online status from me, but he's online in his steam profile. Im curious why even be friends then if your just going to end up hiding from them? I say if you dont like someone just remove them and end of story...this always just baffles me.

[Amarian]

If you didn't know before, even if you are away or snooze your steam profile shows you as "online". So stop being paranoid for no reason

[Boomie]

Originally posted by amarian:

If you didn't know before, even if you are away or snooze your steam profile shows you as "online". So stop being paranoid for no reason

If you block someone, you appear as offline to them. However, their Steam profile shows them as online.

[profile name]

Originally posted by Boomie:

Originally posted by amarian:

If you didn't know before, even if you are away or snooze your steam profile shows you as "online". So stop being paranoid for no reason

If you block someone, you appear as offline to them. However, their Steam profile shows them as online.

if someone blocks you, and they appear offline to you, does it still say when they were online?

[Black Blade]

I do it a lot as i am really busy, and as i cant really play with any one, as well as i am going off and on the PC all the time, i prefer to be Offline, then changing my mode every few minutes when i go to test something or what ever
I also keep my account at times offline mode when i am out of the house, but the PC keeps running

If it really boder you, why don't just ask him?

[Tyty]

Originally posted by Black Blade (Card Idleing):

I do it a lot as i am really busy, and as i cant really play with any one, as well as i am going off and on the PC all the time, i prefer to be Offline, then changing my mode every few minutes when i go to test something or what ever
I also keep my account at times offline mode when i am out of the house, but the PC keeps running

If it really boder you, why don't just ask him?

they ignore me

[Adibou Progamer]

bonjour

[wuddih]

if someone has blocked communication with you on Steam, they appear offline to you in the friendslist but you can see their real status on their profile page.

so, you are blocked.

[Tyty]

Originally posted by wuddih:

if someone has blocked communication with you on Steam, they appear offline to you in the friendslist but you can see their real status on their profile page.

so, you are blocked.

all the better reason to remove them, then.

[Black Hawk Jesus]

[Start_Running]

If your friend is hiding then maybe they are not your friend.

[Surah]

Another sign you are blocked if I remember right is if you go to their profile and look at their friends list, your profile has likely been pushed to the bottom of it. That tends to be organised in the order in-game, online, offline. If your'e blocked then I'm pretty sure your profile comes after all of those despite still showing online.

Either way, it sounds like they've blocked you. If you want to be sure then if you have any mutual friends, you could always ask them.

[fluxtorrent]

I've got a lot of "friends" that aren't really my friends, they've added me because I'm a hub moderator and want to talk about the game or ask me to pass a message along to the developers. While I'm fine with this normally sometimes I just want to play games so I put the more "persistent" ones on block when they can't respect that. While the reasoning behind it isnt always the same its certainly possible that this person just wanted to be left alone at a given time and its not impossible to imagine you are not the only one theyve hidden from.

[Normality117]

Same thing happens here