[steam store] on-demand button for media download (pictures; gifs)

[KamelittaOida]

Please consider revising how a game's media in the store is displayed. Often times it's
too much bandwidth, for information I don't really need.
https://i.postimg.cc/B68c7sQG/steam1x.png

take this entry for example. only one single gif is 26 mib.

https://i.postimg.cc/9f0GzV9q/steam3x.png

Mostly I just need the pics in the strip bar. When a dev is uploading you could prompt
them to upload a gameplay mp4 into the strip instead of filling up the entire page of gifs or
make a button for those gifs. Either on a per-image basis or the whole batch, and/or make
a "non-automatic download" setting in 'user preferences' to enable it.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Report store pages that have gifs larger than 15MB.

Steamworks Development Announcement    Oct 10, 2018

Animated GIF's in Store Pages 

Over the past year we've noticed a lot of partners attempting to use animated GIF's in their store pages, specifically by renaming .gif files as .png files.

[KamelittaOida]

May very well be; I would still like an optional setting. Unless the technical aspect within javascript and html makes it not possible (I just know basic html and css).

Why does the steam chat (even the web version) have a 10 MB file size upload limit for mp4's, but the store cannot implement something similar? isn't that like web design 101 these days? aka not hard to do. ?

Besides, all current version browsers don't seem to have the 'View image info' context entry anymore.
firefox 60 https://i.postimg.cc/mrdKFQr2/steam5x.png
firefox 87 https://i.postimg.cc/pTp4Qp9Q/steam6x.png

Not only that, even if I click 'View image' in firefox 87 and isolate the image, I don't get to see the image size in the Media window. I have to download it. You can't possibly ask the community to go through so many hoops for something that could be solved at the root.
This shouldn't be our responsibility anyway.

> Report store pages that have gifs larger than 15MB.
added to that the countless man-hours wasted processing the reports. As if our valve games don't have enough cheaters as is.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Cheaters aren't investigated through profile reports by Valve. That's what VAC is for.

[nullable]

Originally posted by KamelittaOida:

Why does the steam chat (even the web version) have a 10 MB file size upload limit for mp4's, but the store cannot implement something similar? isn't that like web design 101 these days? aka not hard to do. ?

Well Steam trusts developers/publishers more than random users is one reason. They're a completely different set of customer and have their own rules and guidelines to go by. What a user is allowed to do and why isn't really comparable to what a developer is allowed to do and why.

Reporting a store page is probably the simplest solution. Valve didn't forget about filesize restrictions for developers/publishers. And whatever issues you may have with some developers/publishers may not warrant a whole new system.

I don't think dismissing reporting a store page as wasting support resources makes your idea any stronger. There's probably not enough developers with 26MB+ gifs on their store pages to warrant your control scheme regardless.

[KamelittaOida]

alright, so I finally took some time to reply.
I just loaded 11 pages with a total of 118 MB. I could do without all that "junk". Files that I personally don't really need. Especially not after having seen them once already.
Now the pages at least loaded. The last time I did this -at the start of April- the loading failed for the most part (the thumbnail strip completely gave in). That's why my post.

https://i.postimg.cc/1RHBc8fN/Clipboard01xcvds.png

https://store.steampowered.com/app/301280/Skin_Deep/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/443190/Project_Haven/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/526720/OFF_GRID__Stealth_Hacking/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/673240/Room_54/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/767660/Orphan_Age/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/817020/Unholy/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/820520/Deceive_Inc/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/856890/JUSTICE_SUCKS_RECHARGED/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/896520/Stay_Out_of_the_House/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/897380/Reptiles_In_Hunt/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/900400/Sacred_Fire/

>They're a completely different set of customer and have their own rules and guidelines to go by.
so why's there a guideline in an obscure forum thread for users to report image sizes bigger than 15 mb.
this seems contradictory.

>Reporting a store page is probably the simplest solution.
see above. it's a hassle. No default configured browser seems to allow for easy access to this. webkit browsers are a joke anyway.

what controlling scheme.
.) implement a file size for devs.
and/or
.) give the end-user a 'load all media' button for the description. i.e. a solution for low-bandwidth users.

same as not everyone is rocking a 3080/3090 so is not everyone on a 100 mbit/s line. Mine's a 12 mbit.

I'm surprised steam doesn't care about its processing power. Personally I can wait a minute or two. It just seems to be a waste.