i c u playing secrets of the magic crystal... and hunie pop...
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Not usually, though occasionally I go offline because I don't want certain friends seeing that I'm playing games (but not any particular one).
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They still see it in your history once you go online. So why trying to hide it. Start being fabulous.
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Steam while in offline does not log hours,so unless you play a game while online they will never know you play it,as it will never show any hours have been played.
So you can still play Barbie in secret...
What you can not hide is that you own said game...unless you beat it and then delete it,and hope nobody noticed.
I think it depends on what someone means by offline,as there is true offline,and then there is just hiding in offline mode while still being connected online.
I am thinking the OP is meaning offline from friends list but they could still mean true offline mode.
Still what i said about going total offline still stands.
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Offline mode DOES log in-game hours and it's a good way for idling cards so no one will send messages (and never get responded) while you are not at the computer. While running game in offline mode you can still play multiplayer as long as Steam is connected to Internet.
Completely offline requires things like unplugging Ethernet cable / disconnecting from wireless network. In that case hours are not logged.
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Simply go under Steam and click on go offline,when you do that it will restart Steam and you will not be logged into Steam servers,there for it can not log hours.
At least that is how i thought it was for logging hours,but still you do not need to unplug any cables or any of that to be in complete offline mode i do know that much.
I just tested it with Jet Set Radio,while it showed i played 3 minutes while being in offline mode,not just hiding that i am online but restarting Steam in offline mode...and guess what when i logged back on,the 3 minutes i played did not show when logged online.It also does not show under recent games played.
Again like i said there are 2 ways to offline mode,one where you restart Steam and it does not log into servers,the other is just hiding the fact your online,that one you can still be in a chat,play online games and so on,as all that does is hide the fact your logged in,nothing else.
So it does log hours while offline but when you sign in after being in offline mode it does not show it.And there is no way to idle cards without being connected to Steam,as that how it updated on hours played for the game and so on.
P.S. if you have no internet be it down or none available that is how Steam logs you in,is in offline mode,so no need for unplugging anything and so on as you can do the same even if you have active internet.
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Actually yes, you are right. "Go offline" is the "real" offline mode. In that mode Steam should be disconnected and even downloads are not made.
As of idling cards what I did was just set my status to "Offline" for Friends, which is "hiding" and different from the offline mode by "Steam - Go Offline". My bad.
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It is alright,i was not doing it so much to be right,as much as trying to inform you that there is two ways to it and two different ways it works..
So if i did come across as trying to be just right that was not my intention....we all will be wrong at times and make mistakes,,,hell i have been wrong in these very forums lol...
I just wanted people to know there are 2 ways to being offline and how they both worked.You where partly right about it logging hours it just does not transfer when going online.I just forgot that it still counted hours while in offline,just not when you logged back online.
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So no achievements for games get logged in the real "Go Offline" mode either? I know they do in the hiding one.
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You still get them,they just will not show until you log back online,and then they will all show unlocked at the same time.
So say you unlock 5 of them while offline,when you log back on,they will pop up like normally online but the difference is they will all show unlocked at the time and date of when you logged back on.
So sometimes people will say you cheated them with something like SAM because they where all unlocked at the same time.
Of course if the chevos are server side then they will only unlock while online and that can cause other issues,like with Payday 2.As it could cause you not to earn some chevos if for some reason your playing offline and do not notice steam going offline.Which then causes Chevos to get out of order.
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I thought at one time it did but i could not remember though that was before i was even on Steam,i do wish it still logged hours in offline mode.As my internet is sometimes sketchy and drops out and i do not notice.
Also it a pain for chevos if your offline and earn some then go online and all pop at the same time,actually been called out on cheating a couple times because of that,i wish they worked offline or saved some kind of time stamped of when they where earned,so when you get back line it would show the real time it was unlocked.
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I've been playing offline most of the time and Evilislurking is not wrong.
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nope, I play what I want and dont care who likes the game or not
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Lol, isn't that what GOG is for? Sadly real life means I am offline alot. Earning a living (which pays for online stuff), socialising with family and friends, and the routine (cleaning, cooking, washing). But perhaps that is an age thing too. With the games, really do not care if they find out I am playing Woodle Tree Adventures..am big enough to handle the embarrassment.
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Not because I don't want my friends to see games, but I play in offline mode if I don't want to talk to anyone.
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yes. sometimes i don't want people to bother me, kills the minimal immersion i can have with it or i don't want to talk.
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No. I play the games I want to play, when I want to, without a single fuck given about what people think. The only reason I'd play offline would be if the game won't launch when online (I had to do this with TERA for a while, until I figured out a fix for the crappy launcher).
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+1
The above + when i don't have access on the web.
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Only if I don't want notifications popping up all the time, or I don't want to talk to anyone.
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The same way some say god is real despite nobody really knowing for sure....
Really though are friend's real? the only people you can trust is yourself,trust nobody well maybe the voices in your head..
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Yeah sometimes even the voices in my had get confused by each other....
Trust me it is no picnic when you have one voice calling the other one a idiot all the while you are wondering why you are listening to them argue..
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if i ever would play online would be cause i wouldnt want to be bothered and if someone talked to me i could sound rude when saying something like "hey this is a game i kinda wanna get lost in so talk to you later" but i wouldnt care if someone jusged me for a game a play its my choise
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I do not care if someone sees what i am playing,though at times when i do not want to be bothered or anyone know i am online or playing a game,i will select offline under friend's list,but once i am back on it will show i played it some time that day.
If you do not want anyone to know you really do enjoy Barbie games i am afraid true offline mode is the only way nobody will know you play it,but you can not hide the fact you own it,unless you beat it and delete it and hope nobody noticed that you owned such a game.
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If your friends can't accept that you like looking at catgirl titties, then they don't deserve your friendship.
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Lololo I want them to see what I play so they can send me lenny faces. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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The best way to avoid people knowing you're playing something you don't want them to know about is by creating another Steam account and Family Share to it. Don't add any friends on that other Steam account and then you can play all you want on that account and no one will ever know about all the hours logged into a game of shame.
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They've seen me playing Uriel's Chasm, after that I have nothing to hide
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No, but i block them sometimes so they don;t start bothering ''Let's play X'' when you want to be alone.
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Almost never, unless I'm playing without internet connection (and that happens very rarely).
I mean, @Dosh above already said words of wisdom. "I don't want to talk to anyone" is valid reason, but in this case I just tend to turn off steam overlay and steam sounds in the game, so I can answer later if needed.
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They can message me, but it doesn't disrupt me and I don't see those messages until I finish playing, so it's even better than offline mode because I'm not missing potential friends messaging me, while I'm still playing in peace.
Yes, I know that offline messaging works, but some people tend to message me when I'm online, and not anytime.
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Yeah,the same!
And when you don't want your friends to see what you are playing (which is strange if they are rly friends) you can just switch your Steam status to "Offline" =d
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Basically all of the badly-viewed visual novels. Seriously, visual novels have a HORRIBLE public reputation and some of them are pretty damn good from what I've played.
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Maybe they have bad rating because people expected porn from it. :P
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Well, yeah, probably. That's no excuse, though. Giving a game a bad rating because it wasn't what you expected is asinine. It's like me playing a Call of Duty game and expecting it to be some hardcore real time strategy or some kind of RPG-FPS game like Borderlands, only to find that it's a generic FPS game. My rating? Oh, y'know, a 0/10. Horrible game because it isn't what I expected!
99% of Steam reviews are ridiculous, ignoring the shit-posting ones. People are riding the game's ass like a jockey or they're burning it alive over a bonfire. There's generally no in-between reviews.
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+1 Same thing, some people can be very inopportune and annoying when you are concentrated in that hard level
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Do you ever play offline on steam because you're playing a game you don't want your friends to see?
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