Remove unwanted badges

[piper.spirit]

I have the very annoying Winter 2018 Knick-Knack Collector badge on my profile and want to remove it. There are some epic badges within my profile, Company of Heroes cross, Halo Spartan, Total War, and instead I get the brown turd of death on my main screen.

Please steam, give people like me the ability to remove unwanted badges. I would happily return the 50XP, to get rid of this undesirable yule log.

[Gwarsbane]

Doubt they will ever allow the removal, maybe hide.

[wuddih]

that area shows your recent badge activity. if you wanna show off specific badges, use the badge showcase.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

craft 3 badges and it will be gone...

[Daedric]

Badges are easy to configure.

[piper.spirit]

i don't understand why it's not a feature. Even the ability to hide badges, or configure a list so you can put your unwanted badges to the end. Weird, because the badges are probably the biggest money maker for steam, you'd expect them to have this feature.

[cocoloco]

Originally posted by |CoH|-piper:

i don't understand why it's not a feature. Even the ability to hide badges, or configure a list so you can put your unwanted badges to the end. Weird, because the badges are probably the biggest money maker for steam, you'd expect them to have this feature.

After game-items, and game sales.
hah

[JPMcMillen]

Originally posted by |CoH|-piper:

i don't understand why it's not a feature. Even the ability to hide badges, or configure a list so you can put your unwanted badges to the end. Weird, because the badges are probably the biggest money maker for steam, you'd expect them to have this feature.

No, because very few people would actually use it. The vast majority of Steam users aren't supper fussed about what their profile looks like and don't care what badges show up in the recent badge area.

And the cost to develop, troubleshoot, and maintain a feature that very few people will actually use doesn't make a lot of business sense. Especially if it's not likely to generate revenue.

If you are worried about what a badge may look like, just check the Steam trading card exchange site. They have a page for every game and event with all the cards, badges, emoticons, and backgrounds. Personally, I use the site so I'll only level up my event badges to the one I like, even if I could go much higher.

[piper.spirit]

You'd be surprised at how many people would use this. For example, just say you like lv2 badge better than lv4, you are stuck with lv4. I know many people who want this one feature implemented.
Imo the demand justifies the cost.

[JPMcMillen]

Originally posted by |CoH|-piper:

You'd be surprised at how many people would use this. For example, just say you like lv2 badge better than lv4, you are stuck with lv4. I know many people who want this one feature implemented.
Imo the demand justifies the cost.

Compared to the number of active Steam accounts, it's a drop in the bucket. And unless the feature would actually generate revenue, it's even less likely to get made.

And as for preferring a lower level badge over a higher level one, just don't level it up past the one you want. The information on what every badge level looks like is publicly available unless you are too lazy to take a few seconds to go and look. That's on the user to take responsibility to look that stuff up if they are actually concerned about the appearance of a badge.

[adz]

i tried asking for this and support said they cant remove badges, so what i do now is i dont craft badges anymore so it only shows my game collector badge and year of service since they are they only 2 badges that i like and they seem to update when a game is purchased and each year when my service is added.

[piper.spirit]

Originally posted by adz:

i tried asking for this and support said they cant remove badges, so what i do now is i dont craft badges anymore so it only shows my game collector badge and year of service since they are they only 2 badges that i like and they seem to update when a game is purchased and each year when my service is added.

Alot of people do this, or they don't craft anymore badges. It's kinda annoying you can't exactly customise it to your own preferences. After the 2018 winter knick knack, I do not buy anymore badges either.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Originally posted by |CoH|-piper:

Originally posted by adz:

i tried asking for this and support said they cant remove badges, so what i do now is i dont craft badges anymore so it only shows my game collector badge and year of service since they are they only 2 badges that i like and they seem to update when a game is purchased and each year when my service is added.

Alot of people do this, or they don't craft anymore badges. It's kinda annoying you can't exactly customise it to your own preferences. After the 2018 winter knick knack, I do not buy anymore badges either.

Which is, of course, ironic because if you craft 3 more, the one you dont like will no longer show.