How do I opt-out of all of Steam's gimmicks?

[Donut Steel]

The library is a mess. The storefront is a mess. I get emails and notifications I don't want despite opting-out of everything I could years ago.

I just wanted to play games.

[rawWwRrr]

You can turn these off: https://store.steampowered.com/account/emailoptout

Transactional emails cannot be turned off.

[FFL2and3rocks]

Create a filter in your email for whatever emails you don't want.

[Donut Steel]

Escrito originalmente por rawWwRrr:

You can turn these off: https://store.steampowered.com/account/emailoptout

Transactional emails cannot be turned off.

The moment i made the error of using the 'award points' gimmick, I started getting spammed with emails. These are not transactional.

Escrito originalmente por FFL2and3rocks:

Create a filter in your email for whatever emails you don't want.

I just wanted to play games.

[Crazy Tiger]

Escrito originalmente por Bengis:

I just wanted to play games.

Then press the Play button and ignore the rest.

[Donut Steel]

Escrito originalmente por Crazy Tiger:

Escrito originalmente por Bengis:

I just wanted to play games.

Then press the Play button and ignore the rest.

It's literally designed to be distracting, by people literally trained in how to distract people so they 'engage' with what Steam wants them to so they spend more money without realising it.

If it didn't work, they'd keep changing it until it did. I know this because that's what they did do, and now it does.

[crunchyfrog]

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Escrito originalmente por Crazy Tiger:

Then press the Play button and ignore the rest.

It's literally designed to be distracting, by people literally trained in how to distract people so they 'engage' with what Steam wants them to so they spend more money without realising it.

If it didn't work, they'd keep changing it until it did. I know this because that's what they did do, and now it does.

Well here's the thing.

We can simply ignore them so anyone else can. I get awards all the time. I only recenelt yfound out just because I was looking through my account for something else, that I had over twoo hundred awards. Hadn't noticed and you know why ?

Because I ignored such notifications. It's dead easy to do.

I know, it's not perfect but you seem to be making amountiain out of a molehill. Do you shout at the managers of supermarkets for daring to stock food you have no interest in?

[rawWwRrr]

Escrito originalmente por Bengis:

Escrito originalmente por rawWwRrr:

You can turn these off: https://store.steampowered.com/account/emailoptout

Transactional emails cannot be turned off.

The moment i made the error of using the 'award points' gimmick, I started getting spammed with emails. These are not transactional.

Technically the Steam Community Awards are transactional. But as others have said, an email filter is probably what you really need. I run a filter to suppress market emails as sometimes they can be overwhelming at times.

[Donut Steel]

Escrito originalmente por crunchyfrog:

Escrito originalmente por Bengis:

It's literally designed to be distracting, by people literally trained in how to distract people so they 'engage' with what Steam wants them to so they spend more money without realising it.

If it didn't work, they'd keep changing it until it did. I know this because that's what they did do, and now it does.

Well here's the thing.

We can simply ignore them so anyone else can. I get awards all the time. I only recenelt yfound out just because I was looking through my account for something else, that I had over twoo hundred awards. Hadn't noticed and you know why ?

Because I ignored such notifications. It's dead easy to do.

I know, it's not perfect but you seem to be making amountiain out of a molehill. Do you shout at the managers of supermarkets for daring to stock food you have no interest in?

You're taking the time to post in this thread. You didn't ignore it and only you know why. All I know is that what you're saying doesn't fit with what you are doing.

Escrito originalmente por rawWwRrr:

Escrito originalmente por Bengis:

The moment i made the error of using the 'award points' gimmick, I started getting spammed with emails. These are not transactional.

Technically the Steam Community Awards are transactional. But as others have said, an email filter is probably what you really need. I run a filter to suppress market emails as sometimes they can be overwhelming at times.

The email service I use often filters important emails into my junk folder. The 'noreply@steampowered' email address sends me actually important stuff like purchase e-receipts; Steam does not use a separate one for this and the distracting gimmicks.

Not meaning to be rude, but none of the suggestions here have been helpful nor do they come across as genuine attempts to be helpful. The thought that maybe Steam should be improved somewhat isn't acknowledged, which might explain why it keeps getting worse: there's a pool of users who tell others to simply 'deal with it' under the guise of being helpful.

Thread is done.

[rawWwRrr]

Escrito originalmente por Bengis:

Escrito originalmente por rawWwRrr:

Technically the Steam Community Awards are transactional. But as others have said, an email filter is probably what you really need. I run a filter to suppress market emails as sometimes they can be overwhelming at times.

The email service I use often filters important emails into my junk folder. The 'noreply@steampowered' email address sends me actually important stuff like purchase e-receipts; Steam does not use a separate one for this and the distracting gimmicks.

Are you not able to set up a filter by subject? I guess it's possible an email service wouldn't offer it, but it should be fairly standard to set up filters beyond simple email addresses. Maybe they don't offer that functionality depending on the platform you're using, like I can't filter messages in great detail with GMail on mobile despite being able to filter them however I like via desktop.

That's how I filter the community market messages. I don't run a filter on the email alone because of the same reason you do. I match the email address of [e-mail] and subject of "Thank you for your Community Market purchase!". You would just have to filter the subject of "Congratulations - You've received a Community Award!" Or whatever batch of emails Steam sends out. All this is assuming you get the emails in English.

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Not meaning to be rude, but none of the suggestions here have been helpful nor do they come across as genuine attempts to be helpful. The thought that maybe Steam should be improved somewhat isn't acknowledged, which might explain why it keeps getting worse: there's a pool of users who tell others to simply 'deal with it' under the guise of being helpful.

You did post to the Help and Tips forum and not the Suggestions forum. The best any of us in the community can do is provide you with solutions that should work in Steam's current state. If you'd rather enact change, your conversation would be better suited to Suggestions and re-worded so that it doesn't appear that you're only venting for venting sake.

Do keep in mind that Valve tends to do whatever it wants with Steam despite how the community may feel about those changes. Rarely does Valve bend to the will of the community. For instance, there has been overwhelming interest to select specific level badges to display on profiles instead of defaulting to whatever is the highest level crafted. Despite that, it has yet to be implemented. However, even though there was a lot of opposition to extending the Steam Community Awards to the forums, Valve did just that within months of introducing them for reviews, screenshots, guides, etc.

So for others like myself who know all of this, we are simply just trying to give you ways to reach a solution that can work as Steam is now.

[crunchyfrog]

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Escrito originalmente por crunchyfrog:

Well here's the thing.

We can simply ignore them so anyone else can. I get awards all the time. I only recenelt yfound out just because I was looking through my account for something else, that I had over twoo hundred awards. Hadn't noticed and you know why ?

Because I ignored such notifications. It's dead easy to do.

I know, it's not perfect but you seem to be making amountiain out of a molehill. Do you shout at the managers of supermarkets for daring to stock food you have no interest in?

You're taking the time to post in this thread. You didn't ignore it and only you know why. All I know is that what you're saying doesn't fit with what you are doing.

Escrito originalmente por rawWwRrr:

Technically the Steam Community Awards are transactional. But as others have said, an email filter is probably what you really need. I run a filter to suppress market emails as sometimes they can be overwhelming at times.

The email service I use often filters important emails into my junk folder. The 'noreply@steampowered' email address sends me actually important stuff like purchase e-receipts; Steam does not use a separate one for this and the distracting gimmicks.

Not meaning to be rude, but none of the suggestions here have been helpful nor do they come across as genuine attempts to be helpful. The thought that maybe Steam should be improved somewhat isn't acknowledged, which might explain why it keeps getting worse: there's a pool of users who tell others to simply 'deal with it' under the guise of being helpful.

Thread is done.

That sounds like a weak ad hoc excuse.

My point stands because it is a viable option as I described.