Steam Invite Notifications

  • TheGennarator
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    Hello Sea of Thieves Team and Community,

    I'm a moderator for a streamer that loves and adores your game. They often stream SoT on the steam version and has recently experienced people who create racist gamertags spamming invites to his gamertag, causing the racist gamer names to show up as "******* sent you an invite" on stream and shows up for multiple times. This can cause a streamer to get banned from twitch and possibly SOT for having it show up. I'm sure many people feel the same about this concern. It's frustrating and can cause major issues for many streamers and players.

    Can we please get an option to turn off the invite overlay? Similar to turning off the island banners in game. Or maybe the option of full invite "******* sent you an invite", simple invite "You've received an invite to a game" and show nothing.

    This would help with the issues of players targeting SoT streamers during their streams.

    Thanks! TheGennarator

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  • D3ADST1CK
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    Rare doesn't control this, but Microsoft does because it's their gamebar showing the notification popups. You can turn this off in the gamebar settings.

  • Musicmee
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    @d3adst1ck Ahoy matey!

    Even when notifications are disabled in the Game Bar, because steam has a fancy unique UI for dealing with Invites they still pop up...

  • D3ADST1CK
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    @musicmee Hmm, yeah I guess there is a toast message in the game. There must be a way to disable invites from random players.

  • Look Behind You
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    @thegennarator As a mod for some SoT Partners myself, the 'best' solution, for now, is for them to have a Source hot keyed/StreamDeck'ed/TouchPortal'ed to show a picture/message/blocking feature so that, if it happens, it can be obscured quickly.

    Definitely not the best solution by a long chalk but best available at the moment.

    Luckily, they get bored quickly when they don't get the attention they crave and as long as all precautions are taken to prevent/limit the potential ToS violations (especially those out of the control of the broadcaster), bans should be few and far between and ultimately quickly resolved.

  • RealStyli
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    Yep, this is just one reason I know of why some SOT streamers have gone back to the MS Store version and use Game Capture (so notifications don't show from Game Bar).

    It seems like a bit of an naive oversight from Rare.

  • TheGennarator
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    @triheadedmonkey

    That can work but not for everyone. I know for a lot of the streamers I've been in contact with have switched back to the MS version of SOT cause they can control the notifications from the game bar.

    That is a mild solution. Ideally SOT would look at this and come up with some solutions.
    The person or persons do get bored easily and move onto the next streamer and spam them. Doesn't seem like they are getting hardware banned or IP banned as of yet because we've had multiple occasions happen.

    Here's hoping!

  • Look Behind You
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    @thegennarator no argument from me! The player should have full control of all elements of UI that show over their game, streaming or not.

    It is sad to think that something as simple as playing a game can be interrupted by ignorant folk.

    I would like to hope that there is an update somewhen soon for it, though more sad as to the reason why it is currently needed.

  • Malahayati5564
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    Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this would be a steam overlay option, not a sea of thieves option.

    unfortunately steam doesn't support disabling steam invite notifications, but if the streamer were to buy it on the Microsoft store I think you can disable invite notifications on the xbox app for windows

  • TheGennarator
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    @yyyyuuuuupppppp

    It's not Steam notifications. SoT works of of Xbox game bar and in this case Steam version has a "You've received and invite" which shows up in game on screen in a large box as well as the username in invites under "Invites" in the esc key settings menu.

    There is no settings to turn this off and it will always show the name. Even if the person has streamer mode on, it will still show the username of the person inviting. Invites are for sure mutable in the xbox game bar and windows system but that does not effect the in game invites that show up while playing the Steam version.

    I personally switched from Microsoft to Steam and find I have no lagging issues or freezing issues thus way some streamers have been using it as well.

  • Malahayati5564
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    @thegennarator Ah ok, I haven't had any ingame invites so I was thinking it was just the steam popup.

  • TheGennarator
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    If anyone is curious, this is what the invites show up as on the Steam version. If someone is getting spammed while streaming the game, ideally they shouldn't have to toggle hud or toggle an overlay for it.

  • ExpSnailer
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    @thegennarator Sound like multiple things can be done to solve, MS needs to filter out these racist profile names, steam need to have settings to stop notifications or even invites all together, and SoT should have its own setting as well.

    I'm surprised these names even pop up, I figured they had a system to prevent such tags.

  • QuietRobot
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    Just mute notifications and problem fixed.

  • TheGennarator
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    @quietrobot No, it's not that simple. Might be for the MS store but I'm talking about the steam version which there is no option to disable the in game invites.

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