• kbal@fedia.io
    81·
    11 months ago

    I look forward to browsing by “games most often marked private”.

  • Wirrvogel@feddit.de
    75·
    11 months ago

    The more control over your privacy the better.

    I was once (long ago) sick on Monday and my employer called me and told me that I should be able to come to work when I was able to play World of Warcraft on Sunday, because he looked my character up in the armory and saw me getting a boss kill or something.

    I was sick, because I had my wisdom teeth removed on Monday morning…

    People can get in all kinds of trouble because of their gaming habits. A game critical of religion or religious, a game about sexuality and/or gender, a political game about dictatorship or capitalism or unionizing. A historical game about something your country doesn’t want you to know or a game that mentions Tian’anmen and Winnie-Puh. A game from a Russian developer that fled Russia when the war against Ukraine started and you are a gamer in Russia who wants to play it.

    Good if Steam allows more control over our privacy, it took them long enough.

    • aksdb@feddit.de
      33·
      11 months ago

      told me that I should be able to come to work when I was able to play World of Warcraft

      From your name I assume you are German. In that case your employer could suck it, even if you played on Monday. You can do whatever the fuck you want if it doesn’t conflict with you getting better. So if the doctor advises to stay in bed and sleep and you run around town for fun you could rightfully get in trouble. But if you have a broken leg you might not be fit for (your particular) work but could of course still play computer games. If you are on sick leave for mental problems you could even go on vacation because that might even benefit your mental health.

      • sock@lemmy.world
        9·
        11 months ago

        go a step further who cares if hes out and about while sick your employer has you for the time youre working no more and usually less. the employer can suck a dick, your situation is probably different but if my boss was like “yo i see u gaming come to work”, id quit on the spot.

        always work the quality of your wage and remember that you arent paid enough.

  • AdmiralShat@programming.dev
    301·
    11 months ago

    Fuck yeah, now I can enjoy Sex with Hitler 2 in peace

    (For the love of God please know this is a joke)

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
        31·
        11 months ago

        I wasn’t funding a transphobic piece of shit, I was funding Avalanche Studios. They did good work on Disney Infinity and later they did good work on Hogwarts.

        Sides JK Rowling made more from ticket sales today from Universal Studio then she will from the lifetime sales of this game.

  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    14·
    11 months ago

    This will make me more likely to buy certain games, absolutely. And it’s really not that I feel ashamed or whatever about them, but more like, I know some people are judgey, and I’d rather not have them in the know lmao. Also work/professional stuff.

  • Lamb@lemmy.zip
    142·
    11 months ago

    I mean, my friends know my sexuality so they already have the concept of me being sexual in their mind. No one has ever commented about me playing Carnal Instinct or Cloud Meadows. I started turning myself into offline so they don’t get a popup.

  • Dettweiler@lemmyonline.com
    8·
    11 months ago

    Now I can finally hide all of those hours I spent playing Farming Simulator! Every 100 hours crossed just makes the guilty pleasure feel more guilty when I admit it.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
    52·
    11 months ago

    If you have some kind of niche fetish, Valve is the last company you should expect to keep it private.