GIF Images As Profile Pictures

[Kazzy]

I think this is long overdue now. Having GIF files supported for profile pictures is a must. We already have custom animated artworks and workshops etc.. so what's the harm for our Avatars being the same?

[Kazzy]

Spawn of Totoro の投稿を引用：

Kazzy の投稿を引用：

If adult games provide content on Steam then avatars wouldn't hurt.

Game vs avatar. Two different things.

I am against custom animated avatars and backgrounds. I see way too many issues with them. There are enough issues with the artwork that can be uploaded already.

There are practically NSFW avatars everywhere already regardless if it's a GIF or not.

Lightningblizerd の投稿を引用：

You know I thought of this yesterday but there are way too many problems, and what's the point of buying steam's expensive gif avatars?

Yeah the ''spending points'' on the animated avatars isn't unique. Everyone practically will have the same thing, it's boring and bland.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Kazzy の投稿を引用：

There are practically NSFW avatars everywhere already regardless if it's a GIF or not.

And it gets even worse if animated.

Guns already exist, so you may as well allow bigger guns, does not support an argument for bigger guns.

Unless they apply the same image scanning that blurs artwork and screenshots (and get it working better), it is a bad idea.

Kazzy の投稿を引用：

Yeah the ''spending points'' on the animated avatars isn't unique. Everyone practically will have the same thing, it's boring and bland.

Many places only allow set avatars. As long as there is a variety, then it isn't really an issue. A new feature will lack them at first, but will build up more over time.

[Gwarsbane]

No, for all the reasons mentioned here and for all the reasons mentioned in all the other threads about this same topic.

Heck I want an off button now for peoples profiles, I hate all this animated crap, not just because it looks tacky and annoying but takes up more bandwidth for no reason other than to look tacky and annoying.

There needs to be an off button that only sends the first frame as an image so that it saves on bandwidth.

No I'm not hurting for bandwidth but others are and no most can't easily change to some other ISP that gives them more.


Edited, I mean I wanted an off button for peoples profiles not just avatars.

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Gwarsbane の投稿を引用：

No, for all the reasons mentioned here and for all the reasons mentioned in all the other threads about this same topic.

Heck I want an off button now for peoples avatars, I hate all this animated crap, not just because it looks tacky and annoying but takes up more bandwidth for no reason other than to look tacky and annoying.

There needs to be an off button that only sends the first frame as an image so that it saves on bandwidth.

No I'm not hurting for bandwidth but others are and no most can't easily change to some other ISP that gives them more.

Yes agree I like steam customization but now is too far too much, it is visuals over performance which is not user friendly

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[Peter]

No thanks.

[nilloc93]

this is an absolutely horrible idea.
Steam is a games client not a social media network, go revive myspace somewhere else.

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nilloc93 の投稿を引用：

this is an absolutely horrible idea.
Steam is a games client not a social media network, go revive myspace somewhere else.

Since when steam not social media? We need go back 10 years maybe

[Kazzy]

nilloc93 の投稿を引用：

this is an absolutely horrible idea.
Steam is a games client not a social media network, go revive myspace somewhere else.

So having a GIF avatar automatically means I'm turning steam into a social media network? LOL

Technically speaking steam already is a type of social media network. there's group chats, groups, hubs, community discussions.

[nilloc93]

Kazzy の投稿を引用：

nilloc93 の投稿を引用：

this is an absolutely horrible idea.
Steam is a games client not a social media network, go revive myspace somewhere else.

So having a GIF avatar automatically means I'm turning steam into a social media network? LOL

Technically speaking steam already is a type of social media network. there's group chats, groups, hubs, community discussions.

having a gif avatar, or more to the point, dealing with 100's of gif avatars on screen will severely impact the performace of some PC's moving steam further from being a games client and farther towards myspace 2.0.
The features you added were all things that IMHO shouldn't be on the platform, they waste space and are not useful since i'm willing to bet that 99% of steam messages by people who actually play games are sharing discord invite links. The 1 potentially useful chat function on steam, VOIP, is horrendous compared to disc/vent/TS3/ but that's off topic.

Animated avatars, and animated anything should be avoided unless players have the option to disable them in their entirety.

[Blitz4]

how far should animated avatars go? should you animated avatars in
* steam forums
* personal IM's
* friend lists
* steam overlay
* big picture mode
* on websites such as steamcommunity.com or just the steam client
* 3rd party websites & tools
* in games that use your avatar in their game or their leaderboards?

then who will regulate so they're PG

I agree we should be able to create our own custom avatar. Heck whatever I see should be whatever I want to see. If I want to put a non-approved animated gif on my account and only I can see it, I should be able to.

For public avatars, the real answer is to have the gamedevs & publishers create the avatars. It'll encourage more sales. and you can trade those avatars via the marketplace. they could be loot drops just like profile backgrounds.

[Kazzy]

Screenshots and artworks already have warnings for NSFW content or something which contains ''mature content'', the same could go for avatars. Now I'm not saying it's good that people have rude and adult profile pictures, I'm just saying that's the main issue majority of people are having when we should all be entitled to have what we want as our profile pictures. As the post above mentions, we can always private it for others and have options to turn it on or off to make it public. It's bad enough we can't have our own custom backgrounds at least let us have our own animated avatars.

There could be options to be able to view someones avatar or not.

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Gold profile can allow gif custom

[Crashed]

Kazzy の投稿を引用：

I think this is long overdue now. Having GIF files supported for profile pictures is a must. We already have custom animated artworks and workshops etc.. so what's the harm for our Avatars being the same?

Some games support profile avatars in-game. Steam API would have to be updated to support GIF avatars, then the games would have to be updated to be able to decode and render the GIF content.

[Gwarsbane]

Crashed の投稿を引用：

Kazzy の投稿を引用：

I think this is long overdue now. Having GIF files supported for profile pictures is a must. We already have custom animated artworks and workshops etc.. so what's the harm for our Avatars being the same?

Some games support profile avatars in-game. Steam API would have to be updated to support GIF avatars, then the games would have to be updated to be able to decode and render the GIF content.

And seeing as how there are many games without developers around to actually fix them the games will be broken and unplayable which is a good reason to not do this.

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Gwarsbane の投稿を引用：

Crashed の投稿を引用：

Some games support profile avatars in-game. Steam API would have to be updated to support GIF avatars, then the games would have to be updated to be able to decode and render the GIF content.

And seeing as how there are many games without developers around to actually fix them the games will be broken and unplayable which is a good reason to not do this.

No is static when not view on profile or maybe friend list