{"id":126222,"date":"2024-03-05T09:26:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T07:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=126222"},"modified":"2024-03-05T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T07:26:56","slug":"new-steam-update-lets-you-private-individual-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/126222-new-steam-update-lets-you-private-individual-games","title":{"rendered":"New Steam update lets you private individual games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Steam has officially rolled out an update that lets users private individual games in their library along with improvements to the shopping cart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to this <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/593110\/view\/4149575031731807335?l=english\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/593110\/view\/4149575031731807335?l=english\">update<\/a><\/strong>, users were able to private their entire library but not specific games \u2013 meaning that if you have a title you\u2019d rather your friends not see, you had no choice but to private everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, however, you can mark a game as private on your library to ensure that it and all its details will only be visible to you \u2013 this includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Ownership of the title.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>DLC.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>In-game status \u2013 you won\u2019t appear to be playing it when you are.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Playtime.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Activity.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Purchasing the title \u2013 you can mark games as private before even purchasing them.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Steam notes that it rolled out this update specifically to allow you to let your friends see what you\u2019re playing and join in while enabling you to keep a few games \u201cjust to yourself\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the improvement to game privacy, the update included a few upgrades to the shopping cart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This includes inline gifting, which lets you purchase multiple items for you and your friends without needing to make different carts, and one unified cart across all your devices \u2013 meaning you can update your cart from any device if you\u2019re signed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gift messaging has also been streamlined to make it simpler and quicker during the checkout process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This official update comes after a beta period where Steam fixed and made multiple improvements for the new features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/126219-ghost-of-tsushima-pc-port-update\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/126219-ghost-of-tsushima-pc-port-update\">Ghost of Tsushima PC port update<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Steam update lets you private individual games from your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":126223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12549,85,26471,14844],"class_list":["post-126222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-privacy","tag-steam","tag-steam-cart","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}