That online reference is toward the friends & chat you can see at the bottom right. You log into your client every single day but you do not log into the social media side of the client, which is sending messages and participating in voice chat etc.

It is seriously not a big deal. The only reason why I ever use it is when I need to fire it up to play coop games and short of that I would probably not have been "online" for years.

Originally posted by Bavanity:

My profile says I was last online 210 days ago! Also, find my forum posts?

I am logged in every single day and I log out and in regularly, maybe once a week to refresh cookies. So how is this possible?

It has no bearing on anything on Steam, so what does it matter?

@Eagle

Ok thanks for clearing that up at least.

But it makes no sense that my comment history is empty and I can't choose filters to see if I can find it. I made a post about login issues yesterday and I can't find it anywhere cause there are so many topics. It should be in comment history.

Thanks again by the way, Eagle. Much appreciate. Hopefully you can see how "online 210 days ago" was initially confusing though.

PS I found a setting in my account to enable subscribed forum replied notification, it must be something they changed a few months ago and defaulted everyone to off, so now I did get an alert to this reply, but anything earlier is still gone.

At least 2 out of 3 issues quickly solved though!

Edit, just added who comment was towards.

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Originally posted by Bavanity:

My profile says I was last online 210 days ago! Also, find my forum posts?

I am logged in every single day and I log out and in regularly, maybe once a week to refresh cookies. So how is this possible?

It has no bearing on anything on Steam, so what does it matter?

Yes, pressing comment history and it being empty IS not only an issue for someone active on the forums, it is a massive issue. As far as the 210 days thing, as I explained, because of the timing, I thought it might have meant that steam was not logging my presence and therefore not cataloguing any of my forum posts and I thought it may have caused 2 other issues (no notifications and no comment history).

As EAGLE politely explained, like a NORMAL person, it is not an issue. Your reply was completely uselessly unhelpful and did nothing other than be condescending for the sake of it.

If I click "View Posts" up there next to your avatar, I get a full list of your posts, plenty of things in July & June (which is as far as I looked backwards). So your post history is there.

Originally posted by wesnef:

If I click "View Posts" up there next to your avatar, I get a full list of your posts, plenty of things in July & June (which is as far as I looked backwards). So your post history is there.

My hero. I was following Google's AI answer of pressing activity under profile at the top of the steam app page. THANK YOU!

I'm happy I could help you. I find that being recognised is more often about when you find the post and being the first to offer advice rather than actually know what you are talking about. But I appreciate it all the same.

I did not speak about the view post history thing because in my own experience it is very inconsistent. For example if I click on the down arrow next to my avatar here in the forums I have access to it but I've searched for a long time how to do it via access to more normal and traditional methods (like the [Your User Name] menu at the top, after "Community") and have found absolutely no way to do it that way. I've read others in the past claiming there is "easy ways" to do it without having to jolt down into a forum post you've already done but I'm at a loss both to do it myself or explain how it could be done. I prefer to leave the spotlight for others who actually know about what they are talking about on this one.

Hi Eagle, I wasn't having a go at you but the poster below you. I really appreciated your reply and this one you just did too. Good to know I am not the only one having difficulty finding the posts through other methods.

Being online with the friends and chat at least once a week counts towards booster pack drops. It's not just logging into your account. It is being seen as online.

im just trying to figure out why you buy games and play them for a minute and never touch them again

Originally posted by Stryfe:

im just trying to figure out why you buy games and play them for a minute and never touch them again

Cause I buy in bulk on sales and have maybe over 1000 to get to. A lot are Switch double dips when I moved to PC and I bought them to support specific devs, but check idle slayer and my hours on that. 6 months taken away from gameplay of all other games which really set me back. I am over 400 hours I think now and decided to stop as I couldn't do it anymore.

My backlog queue is large, I am now on Doom 2015, something I bought years ago but it shows you how behind I am. Now at 8 hours into the campaign on that, will finish soon then move onto the next.

Then there are the oddities I had on gamepass that I then bought when they left it, only to not visit them again, like SOR4 and Shredder's Revenge. I was at about 20 hours on that as I kept playing through it online and since buying the Steam version I have never been able to get a random online game so just gave up on it.

Sure, it's an addiction and I buy more than I can play, always on sale in batches, but I will get to them eventually. The short play time you are talking about is the demo to decide whether to return or keep them, I do that with every title straight away then uninstall it and put it in the queue :)

Hey, it's better than spending money on bad stuff, I don't drink, I don't do drugs, I spend my disposable income on games.

But yeah, Doom 2015 gives you a rough idea of where I am chronologically in the queue of games to play, so, very far behind.