Discord’s exercise monitoring possibility, which shows the sport you are at present working below your title, received an improve within the newest patch. Well, it is an improve for those who do not thoughts your pals figuring out that you have simply spent 20 hours in Runescape, or that you have logged in to Final Fantasy 14 day-after-day for the previous month. It’s not an improve for those who’d slightly hold your gaming habits between you and the huge, non-judgmental universe.
Previously, Discord’s exercise characteristic solely confirmed which sport you are at present working. With this replace, the PC shopper now additionally exhibits your latest gaming historical past, with a timer that shows how lengthy you’ve got been working no matter you are at present taking part in, “streaks” which point out how incessantly you come back to a sport, and different particulars about your historical past. It solely shows info from the previous 30 days.
“Server member lists on desktop now showcase a member’s latest exercise, together with the video games they’ve performed and any jams they’ve listened to,” reads Discord’s August 28 changelog. “Now you will know when your buddy relaunches your favourite coop sport for the primary time in ages!”
It’s only a restricted model of Steam’s playtime monitoring, but it surely does change the character of Discord’s exercise sharing characteristic. It’s one factor to let everybody know what sport I’m at present working in order that they will presumably resolve to hitch in or ask a query. It’s one other to interrupt down how I’ve spent the previous 30 days of my gaming habits. Do I really need everybody to know the way lengthy I’ve spent in a ’90s journey sport nostalgia gap lately, hypothetically?
You can flip off Discord’s exercise characteristic within the “Activity Privacy” part of the settings menu, however no less than for now, there isn’t any option to hold exercise sharing on whereas disabling the latest historical past characteristic.
The feeling among the many PC Gamer staffers who pointed this out to me right now is usually alongside the strains of: Oh god no, I hold my Steam profile non-public for a purpose.
