Ability to code in or add custom emoticons, or to create emoticons for steam workshop

[Supreme Leader]

Just as the title says, we need more emoticons not just those game and steam default emoticons we need a Kappa emoticon like from twitch so when we make a sexual joke we need a kappa at the end or idk we just need more emoticons!

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

The Kappa emoticon from Twitch specifically used to be on Steam and got removed for copyright reasons.

So no, we're not going to be able to create custom emoticons for this reason alone.

[Supreme Leader]

Cant we just create our own custom kappa?

[Gwarsbane]

No this will not happen not just because of copyright issues, but because it will be abused and people will put porn images. And yes they will even considering how small they will be as emoticons.

Also it would cause Valve to lose money as people wouldn't feel the need to buy them any more. Just go find one and upload it.

[sethpls]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

No this will not happen not just because of copyright issues, but because it will be abused and people will put porn images. And yes they will even considering how small they will be as emoticons.

Also it would cause Valve to lose money as people wouldn't feel the need to buy them any more. Just go find one and upload it.

VALVe wouldn't lose money becuase people like to level up, which mean they need to buy cards, craft, and then you get those emotes.

Also if VALVe were to add this feature (they won't), they would input a system most likely that had to be checked by devs before "created", so people who uploaded porn wouldn't succeed.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by sethpls:

VALVe wouldn't lose money becuase people like to level up, which mean they need to buy cards, craft, and then you get those emotes.

Yes they would because there would be fewer people buying backgrounds because they could make their own and upload them or find them on some website and upload them, or get someone else to make them and upload them.

They would also lose money because Valve is not an information company and would have to start working on the tech to detect all that stuff, or pay some other company to take care of it. Since we know Valve doesn't like to rely on outside help with stuff (because they have been burned in the past according to some interviews I have seen) they would have to build it themselves. That takes lots of time and lots of money and in the end is not going to be 100%. Since it would not be 100% they would have to hire even more people dedicated to going through each image thats uploaded.

Originally posted by sethpls:

Also if VALVe were to add this feature (they won't), they would input a system most likely that had to be checked by devs before "created", so people who uploaded porn wouldn't succeed.

And as I said thats not possible, even google can't do it properly and their business is looking at stuff that people upload and trying to classify it. And they are not 100% and thats what Valve would have to be to stop all that stuff. Valve is not a company that has that kind of tech. So they would either have to start working on it, or buy it. Both of which costs a lot of money.

150+ million active accounts, 300 million accounts total. 400 or so people that work at Valve, most of which don't do technical support. Can you guess at how long it would take to go through the images to verify that its not something that breaks their rules? Even if only 1% of 1% of active people start uploading stuff, thats a lot of files, that they would have to check every single day. Thats a lot of hours and people they would have to dedicate to just doing that. That would be very expensive.

[Kyllingene]

Where did backgrounds come in?