Star icon is now a Heart icon when adding a game to your Favorites in Library

[Pharaoh]

Why was this changed out of pure curiosity?

[Chika Ogiue]

At a guess, and that's pretty much all we can do, is guess, because most social media associates a heart mark with "liking" things. And marking something as a favourite is essentially saying you "like" something.

Or perhaps someone at Valve was bored and decided they wanted to make this change.

For that matter, the star was fairly similar to the cogwheel (properties) icon, so for low-sighted people, this is a good change.

[Pharaoh]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

At a guess, and that's pretty much all we can do, is guess, because most social media associates a heart mark with "liking" things. And marking something as a favourite is essentially saying you "like" something.

Or perhaps someone at Valve was bored and decided they wanted to make this change.

For that matter, the star was fairly similar to the cogwheel (properties) icon, so for low-sighted people, this is a good change.

The star looking like a cog wheel makes the most logical sense for poor vision. Though I think if they simply implemented an accessibility feature for the entire program that highlighted things more for those same people would be even better. But a heart is where it stopped.

okay. anyway - thanks for taming my curiosity.

[EliteEndermanzz]

It still shows a star for me

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Continuity across the board. Even streaming sites have a heart that denotes favorites.