And how long according to them AM I SUPPOSED to restrain from fulfilling MY NEEDS of off MY FAVORITE Hitler porn games?!
Doesn’t steam have a “hidden games” tab?
Ohh its to protect my kid from whatever twisted porn game I find.
There are only two people on my steam friends list, one of them is my kid I buy games for, and the other is my wife. My kid doesnt care that I’m playing BG3 or Satisfactory for the 1,000th time, and my wife’s reaction to finding I was playing a porn game would probably be “You know, we could just do that for real”.
If Valve weren’t hellbent on trying to leverage social networks to sell games, the default for everything would be private. How many people want to notify everyone they know about their game collection, how many hours they’ve spent on each, whether they have their computer on and Steam client logged in at any given point in time, or what they’re playing at the moment? It’s not as if one’s grocery store, bank, library, car dealership, stockbroker, electrical utility, video streaming service, or any other vendor has a mechanism to broadcast purchases or useage statistics, much less defaults to having it enabled.
There is a legit need for matchmaking with friends in multiplayer games, sure, but that’d be readily doable as an opt-in on a per-game basis and visible to people who have the same game.
And even for that case, I’d also wager that there are people who would prefer to have different profiles for different friends groups. Like, maybe you want to have a different public face when hanging out with a handful of real-life friends, your spouse, your six-year-old kid, and your guildmates in some video game, even if you might, at some point, want to play one game or another with any one of them.
About freaking time, they should have been added 10-15 years ago! this is a good change
Got drunk, installed a hentai game, fell asleep with it running. Next day it looks like I have 7 hours spent and I can’t remove it from my account. Thanks steam!
