Can we please hide our adult games?

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Squashbuckler Dec 25, 2020 @ 11:07am

I don't need people knowing the depths of my depravity..
Thank you,

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce Dec 25, 2020 @ 11:09am

You'd better delete your reviews of those games then. Otherwise, people can still know.

mimizukari Dec 25, 2020 @ 11:22am

Steam allows you to have multiple accounts (I'm pretty sure you can even use the same email for more than 1 account based on what I've seen people post?), so just make a second account to buy those games on if you want to hide it so badly.

Last Owlgument of Kings Dec 25, 2020 @ 9:29pm

Would really appreciate the ability to hide individual games so that others can never see my activity. No reason that such a feature couldn't be implemented, and workarounds like 'get another account' aren't helpful.

B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t Dec 25, 2020 @ 9:40pm

I guess it would be fine to allow users to choose what game to show or not to, but overall you should not care what others think of you or what you play. Everyone likes weird stuff here and there and everyone has something that they are embarrassed about.

Gus the Crocodile Dec 26, 2020 @ 12:19am

Can’t say I own any ‘adult games’ myself, but yeah, people should be able to edit the list of games they show if they want to, rather than making it all or nothing. There are things people might keep in a bedroom drawer and not on a shelf in their living room, that’s okay.

Callahan420 Dec 26, 2020 @ 12:23am

Just don't buy games that you are too embarrassed to have in your library or get a second account for such games.

Supafly Dec 26, 2020 @ 12:46am

Use a separate account then. Not like people keep their adult videos next to all the non adult discs for every one to see. People keep them stored out of sight

Washell Dec 26, 2020 @ 3:07am

Originally posted by Last Owlgument of Kings:
and workarounds like 'get another account' aren't helpful.

A second account is far more secure than a feature that hides them, and might break or have vulnerabilities exposing your games while you think you're fine.

Second, from Valve's point of view the options are these:
- Sink a ton of (highly paid) manhours into a hiding feature, maintaining it, and dealing with the (inevitable) bad PR when it fails one way or another
- Tell people to get a second account. It does every thing their hiding feature does, with none of the vulnerabilities.

It really isn't a tough decision for them. Especially when you consider the fact plenty of people will already have a second account by now and will keep using that out of ease. And, if and when a hiding system would exist, the smarter people won't use it because a second account is more secure. So all that development would be only be appreciated (until it fails) by a smallish amount of people.

Originally posted by Gus the Crocodile:
There are things people might keep in a bedroom drawer and not on a shelf in their living room, that’s okay.

Right, keep it a different room in a different piece of furniture. So basically, keeping it in a different account, and on a different PC if you really want to be paranoid.

Gus the Crocodile Dec 26, 2020 @ 3:16am

Oh please, entirely hypothetical “vulnerabilities” are not an argument against the privacy options Valve have added in the past and they’re not an argument against further improvements they can make in the future. There’s no reason to advocate for Steam being less functional; if they added this and you didn’t want to use it, you could just not, same as every other optional feature they’ve added in the past.

Washell Dec 26, 2020 @ 3:36am

Originally posted by Gus the Crocodile:
Oh please, entirely hypothetical “vulnerabilities” are not an argument against the privacy options Valve have added in the past and they’re not an argument against further improvements they can make in the future.

It's all fun and games until someone's fired from their job and sues Valve for lost income because their feature failed. They absolutely are an argument.

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Max Stone Dec 26, 2020 @ 3:55am

I haven't heard any compelling argument here as to why a person shouldn't be able to hide adult games.

It is in Valves financial interests to let people do this, allow people to have a shadow library and hide achievements etc. If Valve doesn't do this then less people will buy adult games. The option would very likely pay for it's own creation.

Setting up secondary accounts is a huge amount of faff as is switching accounts so for many people this is not a good option.

There is a hide games option, it doesn't work, what is the point of having a hide games option and then plaster the fact you played the game on the persons profile and activity feed, all it really takes is to fix that which is very broken.

I not saying this for myself, I have multiple accounts and I doubt that the people I know would care what games I play (Mirror and sakura dungeon are good ;-).

Last edited by Max Stone; Dec 26, 2020 @ 3:56am

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B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t Dec 26, 2020 @ 4:02am

Unfortunately that has been proven wrong to a point as the adult, anime, nudity genres are one of the top selling in steam regardless of this feature.

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Gus the Crocodile Dec 26, 2020 @ 4:38am

Originally posted by Washell:
Originally posted by Gus the Crocodile:
Oh please, entirely hypothetical “vulnerabilities” are not an argument against the privacy options Valve have added in the past and they’re not an argument against further improvements they can make in the future.
It's all fun and games until someone's fired from their job and sues Valve for lost income because their feature failed. They absolutely are an argument.

Its all fun and games until Voldemort and the Death Eaters lay siege to Hogwarts. You’re right, better not add any new features, there could always be a vulnerability and that could be dangerous.

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