Choose games to hide

[Linukas164]

It would be cool, to allow users to use the public game library option, but giving them option to hide particular games, they don't want others to see.

(If I had a collection of horror games, I don't want my friends to see me enjoying, petting little bunnies and flower picking games)

[Draeka3]

I'd rather say for games you didn't like but don't want to remove from account (and loose money in a sense) or can't refund. Also the potential adult of meme stuff...

[Linukas164]

Yeah, or that. Different people have different reasons, I wrote this because I have the Russian version of the game, I actually never bought, and the only way for me to remove it would be with the original version of the game. I can't speak Russian, so there is no need for it to stay in my library. But I believe others have some games they are not so proud of playing, though they still enjoy them

[Draeka3]

"the game" ?
I get your point though.

[temps]

I agree.. the ability to hide certain specific games in your library from the view of people who might be looking at your profile would be a good thing. People who play adult games for example might not want their friends, family, and co-workers on Steam to know about it.

And while you can of course make your entire Steam profile private; that also means your friends, family, and co-workers won't see those Call of Duty achievements you want to show off to them on Steam.

It makes sense to offer an intermediate solution: keep your profile publicly visible but hide certain games from view.

[A Literal Potato]

Honestly, I wouldn't mind being able to split the Wishlist, achievements, owned games, and playtime stuff into different privacy categories, instead of ALL OF THEM together. I like my privacy, so I don't want everyone on my friends list knowing ALL of the games I have sometimes. I tend to no-life games and just dump 1000 hours into a game that's a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. Maybe I'd like to be able to hide playtime. So on and so forth.

I know a lot of people like to make the 'Grow up' statement about some of this, but the thing is, in an age of getting cancelled or fired for re-tweeting a JOKE, I don't want my manager at a decently well-paying job knowing I put 400 hours into POSTAL 4 or 1200 hours into GTA5. Some special souls might deem that a threat and try to get me fired.

There really is a legitimate reason for this feature. I don't really know why Steam hasn't gone through with it.

[Amy]

Originally posted by A Literal Potato:

There really is a legitimate reason for this feature. I don't really know why Steam hasn't gone through with it.

There is a very vocal minority of people who frequent the suggestions threads, that are very much against users having increased privacy controls. They prefer people to either be full private, or completely open.

Don't ask me why, because they don't seem to know why either. I'm yet to see an actually convincing arguement as to why increasing privacy controls for users so they can find their own happy medium is a bad thing, but I'm sure someone will bring some straws to clutch at soon enough. :)

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Yeah, there's two good ideas mentioned here:
* editing individual game display privacy
* separating display privacy for the different subsets of games/game data on one's profile: library, wishlist, achievements, playtime, etc.
I think that last one makes sense for at least separating wishlist and library. Library would be linked to achievements and playtime, naturally.