Remove idle games from steam recap play time

[Charlus]

It would be nice to have an option to mark certain games as idle games and not use them to calculate the percentage of time played.

[✨Saint✨]

"Play stupid games, win stupid prices" , that is how the cookie crumbles, no pun intended.

[Charlus]

Originally posted by ✨Saint✨:

"Play stupid games, win stupid prices" , that is how the cookie scrumbles, no pun intended.

:saint:

There's something satisfying about watching big numbers get bigger without doing anything. Just a thought, I don't really care if I come out as a fan of biscuits this year.

[Pscht]

No need for games, just watch https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Lots of big numbers.

[✨Saint✨]

Originally posted by Charlus:

Originally posted by ✨Saint✨:

"Play stupid games, win stupid prices" , that is how the cookie scrumbles, no pun intended.

There's something satisfying about watching big numbers get bigger without doing anything. Just a thought, I don't really care if I come out as a fan of biscuits this year.

I get it, it is nice to see those big numbers, but I rather play different games myself to see this happen.
The removal of idle games from the recap wont happen, a game is a game after all.

[kitt]

you expect Valve to use logic? lol

[rawWwRrr]

It wouldn't be much of a recap if exclusions have to start being made to hide certain games.

[nullable]

"I don't like my recap, Valve should let us edit it so it's what we want to see."

It's just data, it's a report that represents the data that actually exists, that's the point. It's history, not a work of fiction you'd prefer instead.

If you want to micromanage it to that extent, play idle games on an alt account so you can manage the fiction you want to see on your main account. Because I mean why stop at idle games? Why not just make all the data displayed user editable fields? After all someone else wants to put a thumb on the scale in their own way. And there's 100 million thumbs... so from Valve's perspective the simple answer there is zero thumbs, here's what happened, for better or worse.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by kitt:

you expect Valve to use logic? lol

About as much as I expect us users to.

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

It wouldn't be much of a recap if exclusions have to start being made to hide certain games.

Exactly. I was saying just as much in another thread, that was requesting the same thing.

Originally posted by nullable:

"I don't like my recap, Valve should let us edit it so it's what we want to see."

It's just data, it's a report that represents the data that actually exists, that's the point. It's history, not a work of fiction you'd prefer instead.

If you want to micromanage it to that extent, play idle games on an alt account so you can manage the fiction you want to see on your main account. Because I mean why stop at idle games? Why not just make all the data displayed user editable fields? After all someone else wants to put a thumb on the scale in their own way. And there's 100 million thumbs... so from Valve's perspective the simple answer there is zero thumbs, here's what happened, for better or worse.

That and displaying it, and even having it public, is optional.

[Charlus]

Mehh, I'm not ashamed and I don't want them to be hidden. I don't care if I get a whole section with them. I would like to remove them from the percentages of time spent because in the end they are in the background. Nothing else.
Take it easy people, I'm happy with the recap.

[Septet]

It's just dumb to have them in there. I don't even look at the thing 90% of the time, I'm no more playing it than I'm playing Discord, or Firefox. I want to know how much time I actually spent gaming, and Idler Georg here is an outlier and should not have been counted.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Septet:

It's just dumb to have them in there. I don't even look at the thing 90% of the time, I'm no more playing it than I'm playing Discord, or Firefox. I want to know how much time I actually spent gaming, and Idler Georg here is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Play time is play time regardless of how that play time accumulated.

[Septet]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Play time is play time regardless of how that play time accumulated.

Trash opinion, tbh. I'm only playing a game when I'm actually playing it. I wanted to know how much time I actually spent playing my games instead of having one program take up all the space because it's running in the background due to the nature of the program.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Septet:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Play time is play time regardless of how that play time accumulated.

Trash opinion, tbh. I'm only playing a game when I'm actually playing it. I wanted to know how much time I actually spent playing my games instead of having one program take up all the space because it's running in the background due to the nature of the program.

There is no way to tell the difference once you started X program.