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[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh no. The one last thing keeping me from buying lots of hentai games like crazy.

[–] Landless2029 13 points 10 months ago

Yeap... they released it too late. I didn't buy certain vr games that were on sale due to privacy...

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Porn games bout to start selling a lot better. Or, well, better than they already do.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

Lots of possible uses for private games, beyond the obvious. Off the top of my head: when working on mods I'll relaunch a game dozens of times and Steam will spam the in-game notification to my friends unless I sign out of chat. Now I can stay in chat and just make the game private until I'm done modding. Some games get left open a lot (like idle games) and I don't want them cluttering my profile's recent games. Sometimes I just want a dumb-fun game without advertising it to friends because I'm self-conscious about it. Some people have coworkers as friends on Steam so they can play socially, but some games may give away political/personal information that they would rather keep private (eg, LGBTQ+ focused games). I have young family members who are friends on Steam and I'd rather they don't see certain games in my library.

I wish it was implemented like an access control list instead of just private or not-private, but being able to keep the games I want to play with others public and keep other games private is absolutely brilliant. Now I can take private mode off, which makes figuring out which game to play with friends much easier since they can see my library and the "what games do we both have" library filter will work.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Wait a month or two before doing this. Don't want first day launch bugs to impact you.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Everybody up in here talking about porn games... I just want to be able to hide Stardew Valley so I can avoid the imaginary judgment of my friends playing much harder or competitive games.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Embrace it. It's a great game. Gaming doesn't have to be about bloodshot eyeballs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you're totally right. I've leaned into the "rather chill than sweat" gaming camp in the last few years. It's nice to play games that are friendly and non-violent. SDV and Talos Principle 2 have been my gotos recently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Cozy gaming is based

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your friends are self conscious of their own perceived skill and value. Or toxic masculinity, possibly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Nah, my friends don't actually care, this is tongue in cheek for all the times I'm playing SDV and they're all masochistically playing From Soft games. That's why I said "imaginary" judgement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bro, what? Stardew is the shit. I told all my friends about it, and yeah, most gave me some weird looks, but I don't care, I need to water my potatoes and feed my chickens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you on the beach farm? If not, invest in sprinklers! You'll have so much more free time!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I actually installed a couple of automation mods as well of the sprinklers, and it's so great now. I still have to tend to my crops, but now I can automatically turn all my eggs into mayo while I am doing other tasks.

[–] kaitco 0 points 10 months ago

I hear you. I just want to play Hogwarts Legacy without the added drama and commentary… 😬

[–] Donjuanme 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Would be nice to be able to hide the files for shared computer purposes XD

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey man hentai fps puzzle solver 3 tentacle dlc really brought my family together. You never know.

[–] pivot_root 3 points 10 months ago

Family fun night has taken on a whole new meaning!

[–] Chailles 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if those privated games are still shared via Family sharing. I would expect it not to be shared, but I didn't see it specified.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I just ran a quick check and private games (whether installed or not) are still shared. Seems like a weird oversight.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Legitimately good updates to the shopping cart but holy shit are they overdue.

[–] MeatPilot 6 points 10 months ago

My trick is I don't have friends.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Eh, my profile has been private since pretty much forever, but the inline buy for friends thing is cool since I sometimes buy stuff for my wife and kids from my account.