Ability to HIDE or DELETE your badges (or convert them into gems)

[vboechat]

It's all about cleaning your profile. Sometimes you craft a badge that looks ugly on your profile, sometimes you craft a badge of a dumb game, sometimes you craft a badge and simply want to get rid of it times later, sometimes you collect badges and don't want to show it - you're a private collector. You are able to craft badges freely, BUT you can't undo it, not even deleting and loosing de exp. It's like a permanent karma or stain.

Steam should let us to control our profiles better. We should be able to hide or delete the badges we don't want anymore, or even converting them into gems (small compensation). Maybe you don't want to make your whole profile private, you just want to make it simple and clean.

After deletion, may Steam remove the experience earned from crafting as well. There is clearly no chance of abuse.

You may ask: why the hell you crafted the badge, in first place? Well, nowadays Steam allow us to permanently remove games from our accounts - and someone asked the same question for that matter when Steam didn't allow you to remove games (why the hell you bought the game, anyway?). Its the same logic, Steam recognizes WE CAN REGRET THINGS - they even refund you if you dislike the game. That logic should be applied to badges.

Also, we should be able to hide our level - there are several reasons for that, use your imagination (maybe you don't wan't to show you super high level and look addicted).

It won't hurt anybody!

[Marcin_89]

Same here. I bought a game some time ago and i gave it back, but the badge is still on my account. I dont want it because cards for this game are very expensive...

[^5Air^3Grue]

Publicado originalmente por Doctor Psyringe:

with the rest of modern social media.

Screw social media.

[Goonthur]

+1 for me, delete badge option should be added, i've made some bad-looking badges and now i want to delete them even if i had to lose exp, doesn't matter, if it's security restrictions can't it just be double-secure by confirming your identify? even if this won't be added though, they should perform an option in steam support and by making a ticket, the steam support will delete it for you.

[Gnome]

Valve should allow us to at least choose the four badges that are shown on the profile. For instance, I wouldn't need to always keep crafting badges over and over after a sale event (with a sale badge) that ruined my "recent badges" showcase.

And, as the guy above me said, if we can delete accounts with all badges, why can't we delete one or another badge? At least let us convert them to gems, as said the OP.

[incision games]

What's interesting to consider is the long term choices made. The fact they cannot be organized affects the market itself. Cards used to be worth something - now only cards people want on their profile are worth something.

*EDIT*

Just noticed you cannot "unearn" anything. So if you join a steam group, then leave, you cannot "unearn" the highlight for joining a steam group. Likely skip out on 2-Factor and find a workaround since it would unlock the Mid-Way POC Badge.

Almost melted a card into gems, read online that creates a badge.

etc.

[Ninja]

Id be happy just by being able to choose which four badges are displayed.. Instead of the most recent...

[Daniel]

Publicado originalmente por Ninja:

Id be happy just by being able to choose which four badges are displayed.. Instead of the most recent...

>This is a good idea.

[Doctor Psyringe]

Well I hope when the feature finally comes into play it doesn't fall short.

Also - Steam badges don't warn you before being awarded - so they aren't a "Choice". Cannot be bundled in with the "Dumb Badges" category. (whip involved)

Before going nuts should probably address some counter arguments:

- We cannot boil *Badgess into Gems. It would put a "Price Roof" to something that was a "commodity" across a great deal of cards that was assigned "user value". To be blunt it could be whatever the value the market was at the time of creation. It might be possible on a very small and equal scale (ex.16 GEMSxLEVEL), but not aware of the margins/rarities.

- We cannot opt out of Steam Badges because it convinces users to spend money. For instance, if you nominated, voted, and your yearly passed; you would have 1 featured badges there. If you had just unlocked your POC (Pillar Of Community), you would have none. (...oddly they let you opt into the winter steam awards badge?)

- Badges follow a TIMELINE. Added to the above, the whip always cracks.

- Badges have a Showcase, and you unlock a Showcase every ten levels.

Been arguing this topic years (myself across three profiles including this one spanning nearly a decade) - always comes down to forcing us to do two things...

1. NEW PROFILE
2.(OR) NEW BADGE for the update wipe

My help requests end unresolved and eventually time out. Our original argument back-in-the-day was with the cards-to-gems badge.

This "nothing" of a demand kills Collectors inside. We lose sleep over this, it's bad.

...don't give up the fight...
...but don't stop at organizing, we're talking hide or remove. Or even "opt-out-of".

//spellcheck

[Daniel]

Publicado originalmente por Doctor Psyringe:

Well I hope when the feature finally comes into play it doesn't fall short.
we're talking hide or remove. Or even "opt-out-of".

//spellcheck

It seems like it is not bad idea after all to optimised that small feature for those options. Having the hide, remove or even change for gems are al good ideas. After all the comunity has spoken more than enough to altleast implement those options already. Seems oddly enough that small features like those, haven't been from the very first this issues where created since the community start to convers about them. And have not been available since then. Form the fix of the creditcard market hold issue, the badges options, review organisation problem, the desier to delete properly games that appear in your profile that you don't have anymore in your labrary.

[Peter_Griffin]

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[PortalDiver]

Id prefer to take and be able to select which lvl(1-5) badge that I created to show. Maybe I want the ability to showcase all 5 lvl of a badge on my profile. That's what I want, controll of my badges and so see it's past lvl's

[Ninja]

Totally agree. there are some lower level badges that are cooler than the 5th level badge...
Id like to keep those too!

Publicado originalmente por Sgt. Brony:

Id prefer to take and be able to select which lvl(1-5) badge that I created to show. Maybe I want the ability to showcase all 5 lvl of a badge on my profile. That's what I want, controll of my badges and so see it's past lvl's

[incision games]

Keep the thread alive and pumping! incision is working on a multi-video series covering various Steam Features that should make this an "easier effort". Even if we never receive the ability, users will be more awake, and will no doubt view steam differently.

Keep up the great work! Ideas are compiled, credited, and employed.

[Nighty]

+1 deleting badges or converting them into gems would be really nice. You can convert Steam award cards that you can get for free into gems, why couldn't this be applied to badges?

[Qessu]

Good suggestion.