Hide Adult Games

[btyrellb125]

Steam already has the ability to make all games you have/play private, it would be nice if there was a function to hide adult only games, people have family on steam, and maybe you dont want to broadcast to them that you are playing those types of games.

[carlchan1994]

Does the Steam platform encourage users to use a SECOND account or even NOT to buy a game? It makes no sense. I just want to purchase an adult game for masturbation, while maintaining normal social communication with my friends. Both are basic human rights, isn't it?
"Sexual Content" is an official category from the Steam platform.

[Pierce Dalton]

carlchan1994 eredeti hozzászólása:

Does the Steam platform encourage users to use a SECOND account or even NOT to buy a game? It makes no sense. I just want to purchase an adult game for masturbation, while maintaining normal social communication with my friends. Both are basic human rights, isn't it?
"Sexual Content" is an official category from the Steam platform.

Wait, you want to talk to your friends *while* you masturbate?

Now seriously, yes, it encourages you to use a second account. Because that means more users in their statistics. If that was planned, we will never know.

[eram]

i think the filters do a good job at hiding adult games, i have them filtered and some of the links to games on steam i get sent as jokes/memes that i dont see are amazing.

[Amy]

Tito Shivan eredeti hozzászólása:

Amycakes eredeti hozzászólása:

This was going to be my point exactly; having a user completely lockdown their profile as full private means less links for people to click, less exposure to games, less cross-interests being discovered, etc. I have all these fun profile things unlocked which would be neat to display, but I can't, because I have to have EVERYTHING on full lock instead of just some things.

And probably, in rhe grand scheme of things the people doing that are a minority and most people simply don't bother.

The social pressure for being public and the stigma making things private carry ('you have something to hide') means there's a minority making the decision to go full private for a few adult games. Social networks have made a good deal to pressure people into making everything public.

Although individually may be persons doing that, there's more than 20 million daily users on Steam.

So my understanding of this is a small percentage of 20 million users (lets say, what... one million users? 500,000 users even?) will really enjoy an easy to implement feature that has no negative impact on other users and if anything, enhances other users experiences by having less full-private profiles around on Steam which are boring/anti-social to have.

I'm just struggling to see where the opposition to this is coming from. People are really against this for no reason at all. It reminds me of a time when I made a suggestion for a game to implement (it was mass deconscripting troops or something) and people were SO angrily against it just because... well, just because. It eventually got put into the game and a few months later everyone enjoyed it, even the original haters had no complaints later in time.

TL;DR - This has only benefits, no negatives on anyone, and people still don't want it for some reason.

[Tito Shivan]

Amycakes eredeti hozzászólása:

So my understanding of this is a small percentage of 20 million users (lets say, what... one million users? 500,000 users even?) will really enjoy an easy to implement feature that has no negative impact on other users and if anything, enhances other users experiences by having less full-private profiles around on Steam which are boring/anti-social to have.

But having an impact in certain games getting reduced visibility, probably resulting in reduced sales.
Remember Developers are as much Steam customers as we are.

Amycakes eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm just struggling to see where the opposition to this is coming from.

Explaining something doesn't imply agreement. As I said earlier:

Tito Shivan eredeti hozzászólása:

From a privacy perspective it's a must have and something I agree on. But in the reality of where we are... I don't see a store shooting itself on it's foot for the sake of John Smith not displaying his playitme in 'Hentai Visual Novel #442'

Amycakes eredeti hozzászólása:

TL;DR - This has only benefits, no negatives on anyone.

Only if you're accounting for Steam users. Steam has to cater two kind of customers in their service:
-The users who buy games
-The developers who sell them.

It's a difficult balance.

[Nx Machina]

Amycakes eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm just struggling to see where the opposition to this is coming from.

You deem others as opposition because they have an opinion in direct conflict with your own.

Are their opinions therefore worthless? No they are not simply because they are pointing out "alternatives" based on two factors - Valve Time and if Valve see no value in it they will not implement it irrespective of whether you see it as only having benefits and no negatives.

[Teefa]

Amycakes eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm just struggling to see where the opposition to this is coming from. People are really against this for no reason at all.

Welcome to the Steam Suggestions / Ideas forum. This is just part of the culture that the mods have cultivated here. Don't take it personally. Every new OP has the exact same experience with the exact same group of people.

[☎need4naiim☎]

I think there should be an option to hide ANY game we want, not just 18+ games.

Some friends keep asking to join their game that you both own but it is possible that you lost old motivation to play that game after a while. Hence, it can work nicely to circumvent those possible not-ideal situations by just hiding them when you lose all interest in some games.

[Garou]

Honestly, there's nothing wrong with playing adult games when you're an adult.. I embrace it fully.

[how bout i do anyway]

reaper eredeti hozzászólása:

Honestly, there's nothing wrong with playing adult games when you're an adult.. I embrace it fully.

The issue is not with whether or not it's socially acceptable to play the game, but a simple matter of privacy. Steam currently only allows you to either show all games you own and play, or hide them all. There should be a middle ground where you can show some and hide some. I can't imagine a downside to that beyond some edge cases with places like SteamGifts, which could be ameliorated by having some kind of notice like "some of this user's games are hidden", which SteamGifts and co. could use to disqualify you until you unhide your games.

[Garou]

how bout i do anyway eredeti hozzászólása:

reaper eredeti hozzászólása:

Honestly, there's nothing wrong with playing adult games when you're an adult.. I embrace it fully.

The issue is not with whether or not it's socially acceptable to play the game, but a simple matter of privacy. Steam currently only allows you to either show all games you own and play, or hide them all. There should be a middle ground where you can show some and hide some. I can't imagine a downside to that beyond some edge cases with places like SteamGifts, which could be ameliorated by having some kind of notice like "some of this user's games are hidden", which SteamGifts and co. could use to disqualify you until you unhide your games.

Definitely yes, I understand. I would never deny someone their privacy.

[Pierce Dalton]

reaper eredeti hozzászólása:

Honestly, there's nothing wrong with playing adult games when you're an adult.. I embrace it fully.

I completely agree. Also, c'mon, everyone knows men watch porn lol. Sure, not all of them, but like 95%. You're not commiting a crime, there's nothing to be ashamed of.

[Pierce Dalton]

TDPS eredeti hozzászólása:

Amycakes eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm just struggling to see where the opposition to this is coming from. People are really against this for no reason at all.

Welcome to the Steam Suggestions / Ideas forum. This is just part of the culture that the mods have cultivated here. Don't take it personally. Every new OP has the exact same experience with the exact same group of people.

Can confirm.

[Garou]

Pierce Dalton eredeti hozzászólása:

reaper eredeti hozzászólása:

Honestly, there's nothing wrong with playing adult games when you're an adult.. I embrace it fully.

I completely agree. Also, c'mon, everyone knows men watch porn lol. Sure, not all of them, but like 95%. You're not commiting a crime, there's nothing to be ashamed of.

Besides, some of these games are very difficult, despite being "lewd". I've not been able to get 100% achievements in some of them and trust me... i've tried

[Pierce Dalton]

reaper eredeti hozzászólása:

Pierce Dalton eredeti hozzászólása:

I completely agree. Also, c'mon, everyone knows men watch porn lol. Sure, not all of them, but like 95%. You're not commiting a crime, there's nothing to be ashamed of.

Besides, some of these games are very difficult, despite being "lewd". I've not been able to get 100% achievements in some of them and trust me... i've tried

Oh, that's interesting. What is the hardest one you've found?
Usually they're not even "games", so a good challenge is welcome.