Option to disable Rich Presence

[Darth]

Could there be an option to disable Rich Presence? I want friends to see what games I'm playing, I don't want them to see what I'm doing in those games.

[Darth]

Publicado originalmente por Crazy Tiger:

Is it also visible to people outside the friends list, so for example when I visit a random profile that is in-game? Cause I certainly can envision mocking happening and it then certainly needs a toggle.

Yep! If your profile is public your Rich Presence is visible to anyone who hovers your avatar. Another reason why Rich Presence needs a setting! People may be happy to share what game they are in to everyone, but want to restrict what they're doing in it to their friends, or to not show it at all.

[Darth]

There are games on Steam with broken options to disable Rich Presence, which go unfixed despite reports to the developer. Wouldn't it just be easier to have an option in Steam itself instead of every single game?

[Start_Running]

The developers of that game might not have implemented such an option. Say that in the game's Discussions if you want them to do so. I've never played DOOM personally.[/quote]
This. Because I have never seen this feature in any of my games. Or in any game my friends play.

So it is clearly something the developer has to implement. BEcause lets face it, STeam doesn't really know what you're doing in any given game. Ask the devvs to give an option to disable. Or just ask around the forum. There may actually be a way to disable it.

Publicado originalmente por Darth:

There are games on Steam with broken options to disable Rich Presence, which go unfixed despite reports to the developer. Wouldn't it just be easier to have an option in Steam itself instead of every single game?

They might not be broken but rather what the dev/pub desires.

[Crashed]

At the same time there are some games that could benefit from Rich Presence which happen to be bundles of classic games within a unified launcher.

[Darth]

Publicado originalmente por Crashed:

At the same time there are some games that could benefit from Rich Presence which happen to be bundles of classic games within a unified launcher.

That would be nice to have as an option too, allowing compilation games/launchers to specify which game is running and override the launcher name.

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:

They might not be broken but rather what the dev/pub desires.

Tower Unite's option is actually broken. It's saving the setting but doesn't correctly re-apply it on game launch. It says it is disabled in settings but you have to re-enable it then re-disable it to actually disable it, upon each game launch. I reported the bug multiple times but gave up. All of that could be avoided if Steam itself just had a setting.

[Start_Running]

Publicado originalmente por Darth:

Tower Unite's option is actually broken. It's saving the setting but doesn't correctly re-apply it on game launch. It says it is disabled in settings but you have to re-enable it then re-disable it to actually disable it, upon each game launch. I reported the bug multiple times but gave up. All of that could be avoided if Steam itself just had a setting.

I can believe that. WOuldn't be the first time. But again. That's for the dev/pubs to fix.
Valve generally isn't going to mess with how devs make their games. Since it affects the functionality and operation of their product.

Pester the dev/pubs and if the dev/pubs do not respond ...just move on. and make note of those dev/pubs for future reference.

[Darth]

It doesn't make sense for users to individually ask thousands of developers to add a toggle and then explain why it should be a setting every time. Thousands of games on Steam don't get updated any more either. The option should just be part of your Friends settings.

[Darth]

Lets say it takes takes 5 minutes to write up a request specific to the game, figure out if they use Steam Discussions or their own forum or discord or reddit or twitter or trello or issue tracker, register for that forum or join that discord or reddit or whatever, and post the request. But you've got 1000 games on Steam so that's over 83 hours of just requesting this feature. Not including the many extra hours to respond to the "just ask Valve to add it" or "just go offline" comments.

Or Valve could add it and it's all sorted out.

[Bathynomus]

This should absolutely be a feature.

[Darth]

The only current option is to disable the green 'in-game' status completely but then friends can't see I'm in a game at all. I'm not trying to turn that bit off. Valve added a "Hide Community Awards on my profile" setting at some point since community awards were added, so it would be great to get similar for rich presence.

[GOf--=D]

Yes, add that option - I want to play sex games without my mom bursting into my room every time I launch some cool game by Illusion

[hanzo]

no tak

[Darth]

Valve really needs a proper issue tracker so an actual Valve employee can either accept or deny this sort of thing

[JD777]

Publicado originalmente por RedLightning:

I had no idea this was a thing..... seems Valve loves to 'leave it up to the developers'

They change the graphic orientation and leave the transition up to the developers.. and now this..

Nice.

I think I might just enter offline mode and stay there.

This is getting WAY too facebook-like for my tastes.

Thats why I stay offline now. I don't have FB and Twitter and any of the other ones for a reason. Now it's seeping into gaming. Just add a toggle.

[RiO]

I'm wondering how the hell something like this is even compatible with legal frameworks like the GDPR.

Don't recall ever having been informed of this 'Rich Presence' thing, or having been asked for consent to have it activated. Does Valve simply consider this a 'legitimate interest'? If so: then where's the legally required info-blurb informing you that you have a right to object to it; and the means by which you can make your objection known to them?