I would’ve liked to have seen a timeline of periods as to when you played a game. Like it could be displayed in a bar like picture, that shows the time you’ve bought the game and every dot afterwards, details when you’ve played the game after that point up to the recent point of time.

To expand a little on this idea. The timeline could go by a month within a year. So, it’d be like you played a game at a point in 2024, on December. It doesn’t have to be specifically as to what time but if needed, either way works. It could show how many times too during that day on the month of and year of, you launched the game for.

Another idea that just dawned upon me of remembering is - the ability to recycle games. I envy Europe because over there, you have the ability to resell games from your own library. Can’t do that here in the US. But I would’ve preferred recycling because even though my current library is over 630 games, I know when accounting the “graveyard” of games I’ve removed from my library, I’m easily over 1,100.

It would just be nice to give back to the community of games I know that I’ll never give the time of day to and never have given the time of day to. Just so it’d be in the hands of someone who would play it. But they’re all just going to sit there, collecting virtual dust, reminders to me of bad purchasing decisions and so on.

I understand too as to why maybe we can’t have a feature, is because some people may get opportunistically devious about the idea.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I thought of another one I care about more than my last.

    An actual functional community forum that contains actual moderation and filter tools. The current one is a cesspit to navigate.

    Currently all it has is the most basic forum in the world, with a search menu that doesn’t even search by post title just comments.

    what it could improve on:

    • A user side feature to toggle if you can see comments and posts from people who do not own the game – this alone would clean up almost all of the trolling and garbage on the discussion forums. It’s wild that steam doesn’t have as basic of a feature as this client side, and instead leaves it up to the publisher.
    • A complete rehaul of the search system so you can specify date range, search areas such as post or comments and category that its in
    • A filter system to filter by (or against) keywords in the post title or body.
    • the ability to ignore a thread so it doesn’t show when navigating the forum
    • A followed post system (not the notification one) where you can easily go into community and see posts you are following
    • The ability to just straight ignore a user. Currently you can block but it shows a dumb Topic by a blocked user or blocked user message on the threads and the comments.
    • the ability to just hide steam awards if you want. Most of the time the system is used toxicly.
    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 minutes ago

      A user side feature to toggle if you can see comments and posts from people who do not own the game – this alone would clean up almost all of the trolling and garbage on the discussion forums. It’s wild that steam doesn’t have as basic of a feature as this client side, and instead leaves it up to the publisher.

      My number one use case for the Steam forums for years, and the only reason I’ll bother with them today, is to ask a question about a game I don’t have yet. It’s one of the few places where I can reasonably expect to get a response from a developer, even today. Filtering me out would make that even worse, as I rely on users to respond about things like whether or not a game supports LAN, because the tags on the store page don’t list it reliably.