Games @lemmy.world inclementimmigrant @lemmy.world 3 days ago

Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page

www.pcgamer.com Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page

Hope you're not bashful about the data in your 2024 Steam Replay!

PC Gaming @lemmy.ca inclementimmigrant @lemmy.world 3 days ago

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That picture is spot on
"Wow you've got a lot of 40 minute sessions on Sims 4, Fallout 4, and Skyrim."

"Yeah I'm a completionist."

"Do you play with mods?"

"What? No. Why? What have you heard?"
- Friend is now playing Skyrim. *few minutes pass* Friend is now playing Skyrim. *few seconds pass* Friend is now playing Skyrim. *two seconds pass* Friend is now playing Skyrim. *30 minutes later* "Oh looks like they finally got it work-" Friend is now playing Skyrim.
- Baldurs gate 3 doesn't need mods. There's also no one stopping you when walking into a sex toy shop in cyberpunk after configuring your breasts and penis size (because you can have both), without mods. And boy do they have some nice toys.
  
  I have been playing Cyberpunk all wrong it seems.
- Skyrim, I heard from hearsay Sims 4, I watched someone defend Wtf is happening in fallout????
  
  All of the games listed have porn mods. A LOT of porn mods.
  
  To clarify they can all be played perfectly normally without any adult content unless the user installs mods.
Ohno, my twin will see what games I play. Although they already get the friends popup saying what I'm playing when I start playing it.

They also wander into the computer room frequently to ramble at me so see what I'm playing them.

In short, we all play Dwarf Fortress and it's not a secret.
- Dwarf Fortress is my favorite abstinence method. I abstain from leaving the house on the weekends.
I don't care a lot that people know I play Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress and Skyrim.

... please don't share the mod lists though.
- Ah yes, my favorite mod, Rimjob World
  
  the forbidden mod
  
  Someone defended having it in their modlist and I'm just curious why???
  
  Sure it's a game about war crimes but ugh
"make sure your pops doesn't see you spent 400 hours in futa games." (I don't know what that means and I'm not gonna Google it while I'm logged in at work.)

Why would you not look it up from this context, it seems to be a generic "don't let them see" , why would you be so terrified unless you already knew what it was?

My mans denial game is a bit too forthright
- For some reason, your comment made me think of a video game idea... Futa ball! Football where all the players are... yea!
  
  If someone actually makes this game, no need to credit me. Game idea is yours to keep my friends
  
  I bet the huddle sections would ... have more code and or animations than most football games.
  
  Not sure what my comment has to do with football, but sure...?
  
  I mean, if any of my comments would have inspired Futa Ball, I would have expected it to be this one :
  
  https://lemmy.world/comment/13700568
  
  Islands at the end of something looking like boot : exists
  
  Brazillians : 👀 o fute bal detectãoinho!
  
  EDIT : I got inspired from the way Gremio spell out football :
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grêmio_FBPA
  
  "Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense"
Valve has always been pretty awful at granular privacy. For the longest time, no settings between "hide literally everything" and "broadcast to everyone I know every time I purchase or play anything."

Still no setting between those two options, but at least it's on a game-by-game basis now.
- Also the fact that on the steam deck there is no choice to add a pin before purchases is mind boggling to me. Hand it to a kid and they could run up serious bills.
  
  As a matter of principle, I don't save my credit card number anywhere. It's a little more tedious when I make a purchase, but I've got my number memorized anyway, so it's not a big deal, and it's definitely more secure in that respect.
  
  At least that one has a simple solution: delete your saved card.
  
  Do you not need to put your CCV in on most purchases? I'd say it's more often than not that it asks
  
  I think that's store driven. I recall having to input my PIN on my Deck multiple times, but there was at least a few days between each purchase.
- Also in several games my ability to join friends in-game broke if I turned my profile completely private. As soon as I set it to friends only I could join them again.
Oh no! My wife is going to see that I played Baldur's Gate 3 and Crusader Kings 3! Two games that end with 3!
- Oh come on, we know what you're trying to say to your wife here...
  
  That they want HL3?
  
  Haha! Noice.
- I dunno, I might side-eye my partner a lil bit if it turned out they were really good at CK3's schemes.
  
  Unfortunately there's not really anything I'm really good at in CK3, despite like 300 hours of gameplay. Perhaps open warfare, but that has other consequences that I'm not great at dealing with.
Thankfully all those hours I put into Anomalous Coffee Machine will probably confuse people since the title doesn't really give away what it is.

It's porn in case that wasn't obvious.
- It wasn't. I thought it would be a sort of horror game based on the title. I'm slightly curious about how a game about/named after a coffee machine turns into that but I'm okay not knowing.
  
  Speak for yourself I'm intrigued
We won't charge for family sharing, but there WILL be a price!
Sweet Story Wet-Bottom Pie 18+ Adult Only Content

OK, that has almost enough syllables for me to be interested
- https://steamdb.info/app/1382940/charts/#max
  
  There's a dedicated fan base of one apparently.
  
  Is it just me or does this not exist on Steam anymore? This SteamDB page just redirects me to the Steam homepage when I click on the game's store page.
  
  Yes, I was curious enough to click for more information. 😒
While I don't get why Valve did this, if your Steam Replay is starting arguments it's time to kick the arguing party from the family share lmao
Oh! This is just the year in review thing, not your steam gameplay recordings. I don't want my family members to hear me demolishing a burger while I watch my factory grow
I’m curious whether that new feature, Hidden games, appears in this summary. I think it had some early missteps because it would disappear from some views but appear in others.
- I checked mine, and it doesn't include hidden games on mobile at least
This is why I don't share my steam tag with anyone.

I hate people being able to analyze my habits.
I don't have any games that would be too uncomfortable to talk about in my library, so this wouldn't be an issue for me. Sure I might not want to talk in public about the furry dating sim Amorous, but pretty much anything else I've played would definitely be fair game. Especially Ardor and talking about collecting teeth to confuse people walking by.
You guys don't share your Steam Relay publicly and put it in a showcase on your profile?

/s... but I totally do that. I'm not ashamed of my gameplay.

EDIT: I just read the article and saw the mention of the "Dwarf" category. It's maxed out on my spider graph, and I've only played 2 games with dwarves this year, out of 180 individual games I've played.
- "Dwarf" getting added as a category was a publicity stunt write in campaign by Deep Rock Galactic players, if I recall correctly.
  
  There's not a ton of games with the tag, but both DRG and Dwarf Fortress tend to get a lot of play hours by their players, I think.
  
  I used to be big on Deep Rock's Galactic, but I've hardly played it at all this year. The other dwarf game I played was The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria.
- I've only played 2 games with dwarves this year
  
  Rock and stone!
  
  Rock and stone!
They're just jealous cause I always have Atlyss launched and they can't play my copy.
- I played it (almost done) with a friend, had it wishlisted since the IronPineapple video. But on god, finding normal players to do content as a group is nigh impossible, this thing is full of gooners and chat is full of uwu RP, I just left at some point and did the bosses solo.
  
  Like:
  
  I have no idea what this is about, but the German guy's reaction is hilarious
  
  LOL that's hilarious. The game looks legitimately fun, so I picked it up, but I had no intention of playing it online. Maybe now I'll check it out hah
  
  Yeah you gotta do private matches. Scrolling through the public lobbies really shows ya why this game was made.
  
  Edit: Lmao, fatatouille
My worst offender would be the Neptunia games I've played (which I genuinely liked for gameplay lol) but honestly, if your gaming family can't accept you at your Nep, they don't deserve you at your NepNep.
- I'm going to try those games now! (For the gameplay, of course)
"How come the only thing you played in September was Amorous, Kolanaki?"
- Cos you finished adastra lolll
I find it fascinating how prude other people are from what is the level of "normal" in my social circle.

As if I don't proudly rock that Subverse and Aurelia on my Steam Library! 💗

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