Steam Emoticons In-Game (Recommended Limit 3 Per Message)

[𒐪⎝ Epylector ⎠𒐪]

Provide developers with the basic codes required to use Steam emoticons in-game, complete with code implementation video walkthrough. Provide in the code a method of easily limiting emoticons per message if the developer wishes to, such as 3 Steam emoticons per message.

This would incentivize people to buy and use emoticons far more since it would be useful in-game, such as quick symbolic meanings for actions and thoughts as you play, while preventing spam and making it easy on devs who want to have a unique Steam feature no game currently has.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by EpycWyn:

:coding: Provide developers with the basic codes required to use Steam emoticons in-game, complete with code implementation video walkthrough. Provide in the code a method of easily limiting emoticons per message if the developer wishes to, such as 3 Steam emoticons per message.

I don't understand what you mean by "per message". Does this thread relate specifically to multiplayer games with multiplayer chat?

[Spawn of Totoro]

I am sure developers can already do this, but I know of no developer that wants to. I can see it easily being a distraction in-game especially as it could make it hard to understand what a person is saying in a moment of combat.

May be a better idea to request such a feature from developers of the games first.

Though the down side is they would be unlikely to use them if the game isn't sold only on Steam and they may not wish to lock their title to a single platform.

[Gwarsbane]

No thank you, I don't want to see someone spamming emoticons all the time. Specially when they start putting them all around their messages or at the start of every single message. The idea that they would put even more emoticons than actual words would be more annoying because we know there are people that will spam like that.

[ElvisDeadly]

Originally posted by EpycWyn:

it would be useful in-game, such as quick symbolic meanings for actions and thoughts as you play, .

So i'm making a multiplayer game.
I set up some quick chat options,
Commands like wait, go, heal etc.
All hotkeyed in game, nice and easy.

Or, we do it your way.
Everyone spams the chat with an emoticon of their choice that means (to themselves) wait, go, heal etc.

I fail to see how this would be useful at all for playing with strangers, you would need to able to read their minds to know what they meant most of the time.

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

I don't see how this would be useful. In the heat of a game, you're not gonna try to decipher a small emoticon, that'd just be a distraction. And people would flood the chat with it to purposefully create a distraction. I don't see any in-game benefit to this.

[wuddih]

not possible.

[Brian9824]

Again as others have said no reason it couldn't be done, and developers can easily add emoticons if they want but most have no desire to.

[𒐪⎝ Epylector ⎠𒐪]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Again as others have said no reason it couldn't be done, and developers can easily add emoticons if they want but most have no desire to.

If that's true, name 1 game that offers this feature.

[Mad Scientist]

People already complain of networking issues fairly frequently, what you're suggesting would add needless amounts of traffic compared to general information sharing. This would mean each user would have to be able to see any one given emoticon at any given moment by connecting to an external source not part of the game to retrieve the image if not stored on their drive.

If stored on their drive, it would likely use a fair amount of space which people would also complain about, even if small you're talking an increasing number frequently, likely in the thousands which for HDD users would likely become a nightmare especially for the spam-prone individuals that want to make 3 emotes, and then make the next line which also has 3 emote limit; which means spamming would be excessively easy.

In games where every crucial moment counts, imagine a slow-down or hiccup because people are spamming things that make zero sense to others since the limitations are what emoticons you personally own where others would make more sense in its place. That is the difference between a kill or being killed in fast-paces games. Many games that utilize team-work already have ways to send messages, ping locations, or put markers down.

Your idea is not truly to be able to incentivize purchases, if anything it could easily harm it since the reviews would be "full of emote spam which causes lag", especially for such games where communication matters that many do not want to disable chat but ignoring is largely not available or would consume too much time blocking people that just join and emote spam from hotkeys.

Quite a few of your suggestions revolve around emotes, it would be better to be more honest and say you want to be able to use emotes everywhere & anywhere from the client to within games using Steam Emoticons. From there, you could say "a limit of x emotes every y minutes" in games, a general emote limit per forum post, and unlimited within your own profile, within reason.

Making a thread every time you want to use emotes in more places, is a clear example of a self-serving suggestion, which is to primarily only benefit you, so it's not a good idea, in addition to the aforementioned reasons. Even if by some extremely small chance it was implemented, any such game would have to add an option for the game to disable seeing emote-only chats entirely and disable receiving emotes within chat messages. All of which adds more resource usage/burden.

Though this seems like another self-serving suggestion, and not something that would at all benefit the Steam Community, Steam, or Developers

I understand, very clearly as anyone else from your threads, that you like emotes, but suggestions should serve to benefit the community, not cause burden nor promote spamming. Many people have given great responses from users, active users, to moderation as to why these aren't really feasible ideas. We also don't need increased network traffic or drive activity, solely for emoticons. There's a reason why you separate connections/drive use for different things, not merge them together into one app.

[Nx Machina]

Developer choice what features are included in their games.

I do not bother mousing over emoticons on your posts and if I have to mouseover an emoticon to find out what it is, then no it is not needed, nor required in games.

[nullable]

Originally posted by EpycWyn:

Originally posted by brian9824:

Again as others have said no reason it couldn't be done, and developers can easily add emoticons if they want but most have no desire to.

If that's true, name 1 game that offers this feature.

Sometimes when zero games offer a feature, it just means it's a bad idea that no one wants to implement. Not that they would if they could.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by EpycWyn:

Originally posted by brian9824:

Again as others have said no reason it couldn't be done, and developers can easily add emoticons if they want but most have no desire to.

If that's true, name 1 game that offers this feature.

Very few, because as I said most have no desire to. Those that do usually want them thematically matching their game. The fact that so few games have them is proof that very few developers see this as a worthwhile feature.

It's not like its hard to display emotes in chat if someone wants to.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by EpycWyn:

Originally posted by brian9824:

Again as others have said no reason it couldn't be done, and developers can easily add emoticons if they want but most have no desire to.

If that's true, name 1 game that offers this feature.

None.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by EpycWyn:

If that's true, name 1 game that offers this feature.

Name one developer that wants them? (And I don't mean a developer with a game based on emojis)

I found request from users to have them in some games, such as WoW and Second Life, but the developers themselves seem like they do not want to add them.

Hence why I suggested asking developers first. If you can get them on board with the idea, then they can either create their own and ask Valve to allow them the use of their (if there isn't already a way to do so), but like I also said, they may choose to make their own in-game specific ones instead, so they are not under any obligations when using another's IP.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Originally posted by EpycWyn:

If that's true, name 1 game that offers this feature.

Name one developer that wants them? (And I don't mean a developer with a game based on emojis)

I found request from users to have them in some games, such as WoW and Second Life, but the developers them selves seem they do not want to add them.

Hence why I suggested asking developers first. If you can get them on board with the idea, then they can either create their own and ask Valve to allow them the use of their (if there isn't already a way to do so), but like I also said, they may choose to make their own in-game specific ones instead, so they are not under any obligations when using another's IP.

Games like Fallout 76 (which falls under the MMO) and other MMO's have had animated emoji's but again they all match the theme of the game. I can't think of any developers who'd want random emoji's they have no control over being in their game, especially as a game developer can have satanic or nazi influenced emoji's if they wanted for instance