Game Collector (Featured Games) showcase EXTENDED

[󠀡󠀡 ⁧⁧Darius]

Currently, I have 260 games in my library and in 'Game Collector' showcase I am limited to featuring only 4...

To me - 4 games is just not enough. I want to showcase a lot more games in my profile.

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Has this been suggested before? Limits depress...

[󠀡󠀡 ⁧⁧Darius]

Among my current 4 - I also want to feature Cuphead, Sonic Mania, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, Megaman Legacy Collection, Dark Souls, etc...

Steam is all about the community and I want to tell the community who enters my profile from which particular gaming communities I am...

At least make the limit to 12 or 16 (3-4 lines of 4 games). I think everyone would end up happier after this improvement. Visiting people's profiles would be much more exciting...

[Gekkibi]

Originally posted by Darius:

Among my current 4 - I also want to feature Cuphead, Sonic Mania, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, Megaman Legacy Collection, Dark Souls, etc...

That's not a showcase, that's a bookshelf.

[󠀡󠀡 ⁧⁧Darius]

Or maybe make it so that you can either add +1 showcase to your profile (after each 10 Steam profile levels) or add +4 games to your 'Game Collector' showcase.

That way it would not harm the leveling system or might even incentivise people to level up their profiles. I think it's a good and refreshing idea.


'Game Collector' showcase is the only real showcase I personally need. Wish I had options to expand it...

[𝓐𝓬𝓲𝓷𝓸𝓷𝔂𝔁]

no, no one....no one cares, especially now when most profiles are private and stays private until you change it.....and as it was mentioned above, you have something like description, or even custom info box, you can write top 10 games there, or whatever number you want...

[󠀡󠀡 ⁧⁧Darius]

Originally posted by Acinonyx:

no, no one....no one cares, especially now when most profiles are private and stays private until you change it.....and as it was mentioned above, you have something like description, or even custom info box, you can write top 10 games there, or whatever number you want...

Absolutely not the same effect. I don't want neither custom boxes, nor any words in my profile for that matter

Words ruin the feeling

They ruin everything

[𝓐𝓬𝓲𝓷𝓸𝓷𝔂𝔁]

the feeling of what? if your profile is public, and your library as well, anyone can check your top played games....(i've checked it, your profile is public, but list of games you own is private)....
as mentioned before, your suggestion is actually pretty useless, it improves nothing, it helps to no one, just you....and there are many workarounds, artwork showcase, screenshot showcase, you can display your favourite games there for example, or then custom box and description....if you refuse those, then there's no help for you...

[󠀡󠀡 ⁧⁧Darius]

Originally posted by Acinonyx:

the feeling of what? if your profile is public, and your library as well, anyone can check your top played games....(i've checked it, your profile is public, but list of games you own is private)....
as mentioned before, your suggestion is actually pretty useless, it improves nothing, it helps to no one, just you....and there are many workarounds, artwork showcase, screenshot showcase, you can display your favourite games there for example, or then custom box and description....if you refuse those, then there's no help for you...

Just because you fail to see how it helps does not mean it doesn't

and I don't need suggestions for workarounds, I can come up with them myself. Here, I am suggesting a new thing

By your logic we could just remove all the showcases and leave custom info boxes only

[𝓐𝓬𝓲𝓷𝓸𝓷𝔂𝔁]

maybe you fail to understand you are suggesting something, what's already there....you fail to understand it really helps nothing....same thing you can say about review showcase...why you can show only 1 review? 1 workshop item? it's designed to be like that....
and yes, there are more important things to solve, so your "problem" of showing 5 games instead of 4 is really not that big and really will help nobody....
so maybe, please, start using logic, if you have any

[LedZepphead]

I like this suggestion. I don't really like being able to have too many featured/favorites in the box though, as I think that would diminish the value of games being special to someone in the eyes of others (and that's coming from someone who has a hard time making a top 10 list out of my numerous favorites). Also might seem too cluttered; what are their favorites? Oh just everything they play. It's less personal/intimate if you get what I mean. Or also might cause pressure to people with limited games to fill out a larger featured game box (even if they don't have to) with games they don't truly consider favorites but still enjoy.

However, a few more games sounds good to me, maybe 8-10 in total seems a reasonable increase. I can also see this being beneficial to Valve and developers for more potential sales. You click on someone's profile and see their favorites are also your favorites, but they have a couple games you haven't played in that box as well. Being able to click those games and find your way to the store page is something I'd wager more people would do over reading games in a custom info box and then typing said games into the store search to potentially purchase. Sure the numbers of potential sales would probably be miniscule, if any. But I've personally already bought games and/or added some to my wishlist from other users featured games several times now. And a larger sample size of overlap in favorites would only increase me doing that more often.

Ultimately, I just agree that 4 featured games is too limited if you remove workarounds from the equation (which I would also still use with an increase).

[particle systems]

Yeah it would be nice if we could showcase more games in our profiles. We only have one for 4 games + the one in "Favorite game".

[𝓐𝓬𝓲𝓷𝓸𝓷𝔂𝔁]

well, imagine this...steam would implement this "idea"...so anyone could pick as many games as he wants....i have 2000+ games and i want to showcase al of them....enjoy visiting my profile, loading only 1 showcase/showshelf around 1 hour, and now, good luck scrolling ;) you can't please everybody, and these decisions have purpose....that's why you can have only 1 of every existing showcase....to minimalize loading times...

[particle systems]

Originally posted by Acinonyx:

well, imagine this...steam would implement this "idea"...so anyone could pick as many games as he wants....i have 2000+ games and i want to showcase al of them....enjoy visiting my profile, loading only 1 showcase/showshelf around 1 hour, and now, good luck scrolling ;) you can't please everybody, and these decisions have purpose....that's why you can have only 1 of every existing showcase....to minimalize loading times...

Of course showcasing thousands of games is a bad idea but it would be nice to be able to showcase at least 10 games

[Gekkibi]

Originally posted by Biff™¯\_(ツ)_/¯:

Originally posted by Acinonyx:

well, imagine this...steam would implement this "idea"...so anyone could pick as many games as he wants....i have 2000+ games and i want to showcase al of them....enjoy visiting my profile, loading only 1 showcase/showshelf around 1 hour, and now, good luck scrolling ;) you can't please everybody, and these decisions have purpose....that's why you can have only 1 of every existing showcase....to minimalize loading times...

Of course showcasing thousands of games is a bad idea but it would be nice to be able to showcase at least 10 games

Why 10? Why not 15?
Why 15? Why not 20?
Why 20? Why not n?
Why n? Why not n+5?

[particle systems]

Originally posted by Gekkibi:

Originally posted by Biff™¯\_(ツ)_/¯:

Of course showcasing thousands of games is a bad idea but it would be nice to be able to showcase at least 10 games

Why 10? Why not 15?
Why 15? Why not 20?
Why 20? Why not n?
Why n? Why not n+5?

Because of what he said. Loading times would be too high. 10 showcased games is a good idea

[Gekkibi]

Originally posted by Biff™¯\_(ツ)_/¯:

Originally posted by Gekkibi:

Why 10? Why not 15?
Why 15? Why not 20?
Why 20? Why not n?
Why n? Why not n+5?

Because of what he said. Loading times would be too high

The point is that "where do you draw the line". If 5 more doesn't make the loading times too high then soon someone wants to increase it by 5 again because it wouldn't make the loading times too high.

Some might argue that the profile pages are too heavy already...