Please ban or limit gifs on store pages.

[Vas]

Its ridiculous, this happens SO OFTEN now. Developers stopped putting videos on their pages and just drop gifs all over the place. Now half the time I load store pages I spend 5 minutes loading it only to fail and end up with a hundred images all white and have to Ctrl F5 to restart the process from scratch.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/359734812497674243/543288528260431882/unknown.png

What Valve needs to do is prohibit incorrect file extensions. Detect Gifs that are named jpg and delete them or re-convert them back to jpg. Don't let developers fake a gif anymore. Limit gifs uploaded to the store pages to 3MB in size. Allow animated PNGs, or "apng" which is simply ".png", limited to 3MB in size.

Limit the total page size in images to 20MB, thats a max of almost 7 animated images, but you must also take into account the images in the top bar which Steam also tries to download to your machine all simultaneously but at least those are in jpg format and would normally be between 200-600kb allowing 34 images at 600kb in size, which would be good for pages that have 2 gifs near max size and still have 23 images near max size.

Thats more than fair, you shouldn't need more than 20 MB to show case how good your game is. Stop giving developers pages that exceed 100MB, force them to upload the images to your site with size limits preventing them from making store pages unloadable. This isn't the year 3000, we don't all have magic high speed super internet to load everything instantly regardless of size.

Or perhaps you can set your site up to not start downloading every single image the web page shows as soon as you load it but I still wouldn't want to download 100MB to look at a damn store page which does actually still happen on occasion. You can not enforce a trusted limit. You must automate your system to prevent developers from bypassing it in any way at all.

Please, for the love of god fix this. I'm so sick of half the steam store being pages that take up gigs of bandwidth just going through one queue.

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I know I'll get attacked for my post, people with high speed internet will come here and ♥♥♥♥ on my topic by saying "get better internet lulz". Hell I'll bet some game devs will come here too and say its my fault or whatever. I ignored this problem for long enough, and am tired of it. Seriously Valve, I know for a fact you can automate this and set these limits without problem.

[Vas]

I realize that gifs are a great way of showcasing elements of the game you're trying to sell instead of text which most kids these days don't read, but back when I was on slow internet, these pages were murder on my network. It would literally knock every device offline, even my mother's work computer. I don't mind gifs.

I just think there should be a limit to them. A total page size limit.

Or even better, page maintainers should be required to upload a static image version of each gif, and then users could choose low bandwidth store pages to load the static versions of the page, and then on the page, click a button to swap it with the active gif version if they want to see that.

Honestly, this would save Valve bandwidth and some server load. Instead of sending people 100MB of gifs every time they load a page, people would only load that if they want to, and would probably reduce overall page load times and bandwidth usage on the Valve servers.

But alas, Valve doesn't look at these forums. There's no support here, no one to pass this along, there's no point in posting anything here.

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

If the client video player was better maybe devs wouldn't feel the need to use so many gifs.

This is a service where people download games that are 100gb plus on a constant basis, I highly doubt Valve is concerned about the bandwidth of a handful of gifs on a store page.

[Jell♾zz]

I couldn't agree more with the original post & the recent bump.
I would also like to see Steam give users options to limit their bandwidth usage.
Both on mobile and on the PC client.
Limiting store pages to a more reasonable size & giving users the option to not load large images/animations could definitely help those with a bandwidth cap or those on mobile internet.

[Vas]

Publicado originalmente por Reggaejunkiedrew:

This is a service where people download games that are 100gb plus on a constant basis, I highly doubt Valve is concerned about the bandwidth of a handful of gifs on a store page.

The game downloads probably come from a different content delivery source, than the store page content which causes their website to lag down during high volume things such as sales.

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

Publicado originalmente por Vas:

Publicado originalmente por Reggaejunkiedrew:

This is a service where people download games that are 100gb plus on a constant basis, I highly doubt Valve is concerned about the bandwidth of a handful of gifs on a store page.

The game downloads probably come from a different content delivery source, than the store page content which causes their website to lag down during high volume things such as sales.

Have people had consistent problems with the store? It had problems for the first couple hours like it usually does, but after everything's seemed normal to me.

Also it's a moot point because the images themselves are stored on a separate CDN, on Akamai.steamstatic.com

[cb]

Would be nice if they would enforce the 15MB page limit they've set (https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/1689305529908117123), but they wont.

This game's page is nearly 90MB...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1910860/Grimlord/

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por cb:

Would be nice if they would enforce the 15MB page limit they've set (https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/1689305529908117123), but they wont.

This game's page is nearly 90MB...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1910860/Grimlord/

Report the game properly through the store page and Valve will look into it.

[cb]

I have and I've reported other pages that are similar in size, no action has ever been taken.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por cb:

I have and I've reported other pages that are similar in size, no action has ever been taken.

You will not be notified when action is taken nor told how long it will take for Valve to review your report.

[Norma]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.