Thread 721197413

Why do you do it /v/?

im just a husk of my former self

I don't

>>721197413 (OP)
I don't want to annoy people when I'm trying out mods and settings

>>721198104
this

No need to hide if you didn't have friends to begin with

Don't have the hardware for latest multiplayer games. Don't want to deal with time constraints imposed by other people.

>>721197413 (OP)
I don't want people to know I play video games.

>>721197413 (OP)
I don't even load steam anymore.

The only people who get upset at this stuff are needy autists who start pestering you when they can see you're online like some obsessed ex girlfriend

>>721197413 (OP)
Are you really invisible when your achievements are still clogging up your friends activity feed?

>>721199256
No, but you're not the FAGGOT IS PLAYING FAGGOTRY pop up dude

>>721199045
my nieces do it because of petty girl drama and i assume anyone else that do it are the type of people to invite that type of drama into their life

>>721198104
low test

Because I want to be in control of which conversations I have while online. I don't want someone to message me when I don't want to talk to them, it would be rude to leave their message unanswered.

>>721197413 (OP)
Cause I want to play vidya alone

I don't want to use Steam as though it were a social media platform.

The people who are offended by this are also the reason it's a feature

>>721197413 (OP)
Because I am avoiding you. Specifically you. Nobody else.

>>721197413 (OP)
Because I started modding Skyrim once and like 5 of my friends asked me wtf I was doing

>>721198093
>brb going for a smoke
>last online 15 years ago

>>721197413 (OP)
this >>721199045
some people cannot fathom the idea of me wanting to play a game with multiplayer alone

>>721197413 (OP)
I’m just kind of a mysterious dude.
Just a real man of mystery.

>>721197413 (OP)
to hide from autists that want to monopolize my time every waking hour of the day

>needing invisible mode
>not simply being invisible

normalfags begone

>>721197413 (OP)
One time I added a (now ex) coworker to my friends list and forgot about it when I played a porn game. I couldn't look him in the eyes the entire rest of the time I worked there.

I do something similar

>>721200854
>One time I added a (now ex) coworker
Why would you do that in the first place?

steam just isn't about making online friends to me anymore. it never used to be, either, if i really think about it.
i didn't talk to these people, i used them as a way to notice when my favorite tf2 server was full.
if you played any multiplayer source game you definitely recall having a similar experience.

>>721197413 (OP)
because you're fun to play games with every once in a while but overall an annoying faggot

>>721197413 (OP)
I don’t have anything to say anymore. I just go to work and come home. Even if I set it to Online I’d never get a message. Being a weeb and pissing everyone off was fun on here in 2011 but those days are just gone.

>>721197413 (OP)
sto pattacking me..

>>721197413 (OP)
This >>721197620
Plus my friends list is full of randoms from when I was a teenager.
Half of them have trooned out, one of them tried to ERP (eww) with me when I hoped onto Warframe for the Yareli update.

>>721197413 (OP)
I don't.

>>721197413 (OP)
Because when you are going to play a single player game or simply have steam running on the background it's a waste of time for everyone to think you are available if you're not.

>>721202260
You do know that you can remove friends, right, anon?

>>721197413 (OP)
The second I come online I get messaged by retards pretending to be my friends because they want stuff from me.
Its aggravating.

I don't like the idea of having everything I do on steam announced to everyone, and I don't want to dance around hurt feelings or get ensnared in wearisome guilt trips if I don't feel like playing with them right now.
I just want to play games.

>>721197413 (OP)
I just don't have anything in common with the people that I used to play with. It's been 15 years, I moved on and many of them just didn't.

It's too sad. The only things we have to talk about are all times, "glory days" and I just get the sense that their life has not moved on.
And it's at the point where I feel like I need to apologise for having become a normie and moved on, I need to downplay my life and how happy I am with my circumstances, because my friends failed to launch. Some of the happiest memories I have are being neet with them.

But it just seems sad to me now.

>>721203529
This describes my job

>>721200558
Based

The only reason I can see someone doing that is if they still rp on Steam and are waist deep in autistic faggots (their own fault).

>>721197413 (OP)
No one talks to me anyway, i also don't want to reach out to anyone. So what?

>>721197413 (OP)
I don't think I have ever used Invisible. I'm online 24/7 and I'm always playing games, I have a huge friends list with lots of IRL people, old co-workers and online friends and they can always see when I am playing a game I guess.

What's the worst that could happen?

>>721197413 (OP)
I don't want people bothering me to play the next friendslop game of the month.

>>721201156
Probably because the coworker asked him for his steam account and anon somehow couldn't say no

>>721203364
Its just easier to stay offline, instead of trying to sift through 100+ friends.

I stay invisible for a few reasons:
1) I just want to play what I like without getting dogpiled. Stuff like Forspoken or Metal Gear Survive aren’t “cool” online, but they’re still very fun. One guy even threatened to shoot me in the head just because I played a non‑Kojima Metal Gear game. That’s how unhinged people get.
2) Half the time I don’t feel like talking. If I’m visible, there’s a 99% chance someone drags me into a chat I don’t have the energy for.
3) Some people get weirdly attached after a single match. Win once together and suddenly they act like we’re best friends and want to know my life story. No thanks.

>>721197413 (OP)
I do that when I'm testing a game and restart it multiple times so that I don't pester people with the "XYZ playing ABC game" notification spam.

>>721204742
this is me, i don't have the heart to remove the people i erp'd with because at times it felt like they genuinely cared about me

>>721197413 (OP)
what sucks about invisible mode is that it doesn't reset when you restart steam, I once was appearing offline for months because I forgot, until a friend sent me a message asking if I was okay

>>721206895
there's a setting to turn off signing in to friends network when you sign in to steam

>open game
>that one guy instantly joins

>>721206959
read my post again, I want the exact opposite...
Also, if you go offline you will be reconnected when steam restart, but if you go invisible you will stay invisible until you change again, so if you forget people will think you died.

IRL friend out of nowhere got super social on Steam to the point of annoyance. He links trailers from every literally who video game coming out saying how awesome it looks. Like seriously dude, just wait for it to come out, I don't have $5000 a year to spend on vidya.

>>721207429
Also adding more. He pulled a "did you even watch the whole thing?" after linking three 20 minute videos while I'm playing a game. I actually was still watching it and making a comment halfway through the video. Been using offline feature more since then.

>>721207159
i get what you meant now. you must be in your 20s with a bunch of 20s kids as friends.
when you get older it's perfectly normal to see one of your friends go offline for 200+ days and think
>welp he's finally killed himself, good for him
then it turns out he's just been on a vodka binge and homeless the whole time

originally I used it because I was on wifi that, despite otherwise being perfectly fine, would apparently cause me to spam "x has started playing game" notifications. Someone told me and I immediately opted to do invisible mode.
Coincidentally, staying invisible all the time is about the time I started drifting away from my friends. Would not recommend.

>>721197413 (OP)
i dont kno