Event stickers should serve a purpose

[KING]

I'm sure we all appreciate the event stickers, but I can't imagine the context in which I'd be sending these to anyone in chat.

Just being given event stickers for the purpose of the event is strange if you never mean for us to use them in chat, and if you did, I'm curious if you can make the creators of these stickers use every single sticker at least once in different conversations where there wouldn't be much more appropriate stickers to fit there that could also be made into AR VR whatever related stickers.

[Crazy Tiger]

Collecting is a purpose. Seems people are doing that with them.

[Ionut Catalin Frasineanu]

And many people are stuck with 2 summer ball and Support won't help us

[KING]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Crazy Tiger:

Collecting is a purpose. Seems people are doing that with them.

I mean of course, collecting event stickers meant for chatting, they're meant to be collected, no one doubts that. Collecting for what though? What are you going to tell someone, let me show you my cool steam chat sticker collection? Yeah these ones are just shapes, not once was I able to use them in chat, but yeah I got them and I've been collecting these things that I can't and couldn't even use for the purpose they were originally meant for.

Diposting pertama kali oleh Ionut Catalin Frasineanu:

And many people are stuck with 2 summer ball and Support won't help us

I'm guessing they're gonna fix that at some point, I've seen it happen to some people, also kind of ridiculous. They must've just copy pasted the event and somehow the rewards linked.

[Crazy Tiger]

Diposting pertama kali oleh KING:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Crazy Tiger:

Collecting is a purpose. Seems people are doing that with them.

I mean of course, collecting event stickers meant for chatting, they're meant to be collected, no one doubts that. Collecting for what though? What are you going to tell someone, let me show you my cool steam chat sticker collection? Yeah these ones are just shapes, not once was I able to use them in chat, but yeah I got them and I've been collecting these things that I can't and couldn't even use for the purpose they were originally meant for.

Meh, collecting things doesn't mean you have to share it. Can be for personal pleasure only, for example.

I've used various event stickers in the chat. Just like the various emoticons it doesn't have to make sense. Sometimes I have a sticker only chat with someone, in a similar way as my gif only whatsapp convo's with mu daughter.

It's just some fun collectables, whatever purpose they have can be decided personally. If it's even necessary that there needs to be a purpose, that is.

[KING]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Crazy Tiger:

Diposting pertama kali oleh KING:

I mean of course, collecting event stickers meant for chatting, they're meant to be collected, no one doubts that. Collecting for what though? What are you going to tell someone, let me show you my cool steam chat sticker collection? Yeah these ones are just shapes, not once was I able to use them in chat, but yeah I got them and I've been collecting these things that I can't and couldn't even use for the purpose they were originally meant for.

Meh, collecting things doesn't mean you have to share it. Can be for personal pleasure only, for example.

I've used various event stickers in the chat. Just like the various emoticons it doesn't have to make sense. Sometimes I have a sticker only chat with someone, in a similar way as my gif only whatsapp convo's with mu daughter.

It's just some fun collectables, whatever purpose they have can be decided personally. If it's even necessary that there needs to be a purpose, that is.

I mean sure, but that wasn't the intended purpose of the thing. If you collect video games lets say, physical or digital, they were meant to be played right? They weren't meant to be sitting there in the void or used as wallpapers. If you collect bottlecaps, stamps, pokemon cards, cars, etc., they had a different original purpose. What you do with them is your thing, and that's cool, but that's not the intended main purpose of the thing and that is the focus. You do with it what you want with it because we're all individuals, but then it would make more sense for steam to not call them "chat stickers", but rather "useless collection shapes".

It isn't wrong to point out these can't be used in proper conversation, unless I'm trying to explain dimensions to someone in steam chat or something like that. It also isn't wrong to point out vr doesn't just stand for some 3d shapes and there could've been better things to be used.

As for using other stickers in chat that's cool, I did too. That's why I pointed out these ones make no sense to use in chat. There's some other ones that are relevant and maybe just for humor in certain situations, but I can't see what the objective of these ones is. Also, there's no chance they're changing these ones, but I'm hoping going forward we can have some stickers with some meaning and thought behind them.

I mean if you had a sticker only chat with your daughter using only the stickers from this collection, how would it go and what would it mean? I seem to miss what the inside jokes would be, and what you could both relate to. 3D shapes?

Listen, not sure if you just want to disagree with me for the sole purpose of always being the guy that disagrees with something. If that's the case, weird flex but you go man. The point was they've designated these for another purpose, which they don't serve well at all, so I'm simply pointing it out. The solution to something that failed it's purpose shouldn't be "look what else it can do, like sit in my inventory and do nothing! Also, it can also serve no purpose in a conversation!". Obviously, I already pointed those things out.

Like I'm not going to bestbuy to buy 3 of their most expensive desktop pc's to make a coffee table. Like sure, could you make a coffee table out of 3 desktop pc's? Why not. But they weren't intended as coffee tables. Not going to buy a truck and take it into the ocean and call it an underwater all season ornament. Could it be? Sure, but that's not what it was meant to do. Not paying for a $1k phone to use it as a drink coaster. Could it be? Why not right? Then why aren't more people doing this? Because they'd all think if this is how they were used, then all of these things would have failed their intended purpose.

[Crazy Tiger]

They are intended to get used, sure. But that usage doesn't mean it has to be in a standard conversation manner.

I simply see different purposes and usages available for the stickers as they are and by that they fulfill their intent as well. If you don't agree on that, that's fine.

People who collect things often have different intents and purposes for them. Prople who collect comic books often don't read them and keep them sealed, for example. Hence why I said that such things can be personal.

My convo's with my daughter are often just a series of emoticons or gifs which we find funny. With the stickers it would be similar. You don't have to get the inside joke, that's between me and my daughter.

[Eidolon]

Just a small idea - what if stickers could be placed "on top" of your profile, anywhere you want? You know, like a...sticker? :)

Maybe with a set limit to the amount of stickers you can place to keep it from getting too crazy. I think that would be a fun way to give stickers more use and also provide an additional way to customize your profile.

[Crazy Tiger]

More places to use them would be neat, yeah.

[KING]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Crazy Tiger:

They are intended to get used, sure. But that usage doesn't mean it has to be in a standard conversation manner.

I simply see different purposes and usages available for the stickers as they are and by that they fulfill their intent as well. If you don't agree on that, that's fine.

People who collect things often have different intents and purposes for them. Prople who collect comic books often don't read them and keep them sealed, for example. Hence why I said that such things can be personal.

My convo's with my daughter are often just a series of emoticons or gifs which we find funny. With the stickers it would be similar. You don't have to get the inside joke, that's between me and my daughter.

I mean as of right now, you can't use them in any other way than in chat unless I'm wrong and they fail at their purpose. I guess you could call someone to your pc and say look what I got in my steam inventory, but not sure why would anyone do that as the main purpose of them?

Of course yeah I seem to disagree with you that some 3d shapes don't make much sense in 99.999999% of conversations and find some uselessness to all stickers in this collection being basically the exact same with no relevant meaning behind them. It's okay to disagree.


People can have different intents and purposes for them, but you seem to miss the point. How many people buy bread at the store and collect it? How many people buy cars and collect them? How many people buy phones and collect them? Now compare that to people who buy a product to use it. Would you agree on saying most people who buy cars have a necessity for it and don't just keep it in a garage? Would you feel it's reasonable to say a phone was designed with the intention to not be held on a stand on some display as it's main purpose for every single being that buys one?

It has nothing to do with what you, a single individual might do with it, or what the intended objective of that thing was originally. I get you, I don't communicate primarily through stickers, so I don't use them as my main means of communication. But they are meant to be used in chat, not held in an inventory. Whether this is what the case is, maybe it is a need to research as to why this is the case, when they were designed with the intend to be used in chat. Hence why I said they failed at their purpose. It doesn't have much to do with what they've become, but much more with what they were made to do, and where that disconnect is.

A rare comic book might be collected nowadays, but they were meant to be read. It is rare comic books that are collected, like out of print, 1st editions, etc. That is reasonable as their numbers are small. Even then, these comic books on release were meant to be read, and they were read and became popular series that turned into movies etc., hence why they've became collectibles in the first place over tens of years. New comic books aren't collected as much for obvious reasons, and still they are being made, and authors don't make them with the intention you never look inside of it, but that people do and appreciate the work they put in. So while their work might be eventually be put in a collection, the intent of the object is to be a comic book. To be read and tell a story.

I didn't ask about your usual conversation with your daughter. I asked you what the conversation with these specific stickers from this event would look like, just in stickers, and what would it represent. If you cannot make up a few different scenarios where this is applicable, then these stickers basically have no meaning, even to you, in chat form(or almost because I mean you could always be the guy who wants to talk about shapes in chat, and again, weird flex), which is what I am pointing out, these don't fit in basically any conversation.

[KING]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Eidolon:

Just a small idea - what if stickers could be placed "on top" of your profile, anywhere you want? You know, like a...sticker? :)

Maybe with a set limit to the amount of stickers you can place to keep it from getting too crazy. I think that would be a fun way to give stickers more use and also provide an additional way to customize your profile.

This is going to happen eventually since it's already popular demand as many of the previous stickers serve no purpose in chat, although I'm pretty sure you could already add them to the inventory items but I don't know if they play their animation. I haven't tried but yeah this will eventually happen.

[Crazy Tiger]

Diposting pertama kali oleh KING:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Crazy Tiger:

They are intended to get used, sure. But that usage doesn't mean it has to be in a standard conversation manner.

I simply see different purposes and usages available for the stickers as they are and by that they fulfill their intent as well. If you don't agree on that, that's fine.

People who collect things often have different intents and purposes for them. Prople who collect comic books often don't read them and keep them sealed, for example. Hence why I said that such things can be personal.

My convo's with my daughter are often just a series of emoticons or gifs which we find funny. With the stickers it would be similar. You don't have to get the inside joke, that's between me and my daughter.

I mean as of right now, you can't use them in any other way than in chat unless I'm wrong and they fail at their purpose. I guess you could call someone to your pc and say look what I got in my steam inventory, but not sure why would anyone do that as the main purpose of them?

Of course yeah I seem to disagree with you that some 3d shapes don't make much sense in 99.999999% of conversations and find some uselessness to all stickers in this collection being basically the exact same with no relevant meaning behind them. It's okay to disagree.


People can have different intents and purposes for them, but you seem to miss the point. How many people buy bread at the store and collect it? How many people buy cars and collect them? How many people buy phones and collect them? Now compare that to people who buy a product to use it. Would you agree on saying most people who buy cars have a necessity for it and don't just keep it in a garage? Would you feel it's reasonable to say a phone was designed with the intention to not be held on a stand on some display as it's main purpose for every single being that buys one?

It has nothing to do with what you, a single individual might do with it, or what the intended objective of that thing was originally. I get you, I don't communicate primarily through stickers, so I don't use them as my main means of communication. But they are meant to be used in chat, not held in an inventory. Whether this is what the case is, maybe it is a need to research as to why this is the case, when they were designed with the intend to be used in chat. Hence why I said they failed at their purpose. It doesn't have much to do with what they've become, but much more with what they were made to do, and where that disconnect is.

A rare comic book might be collected nowadays, but they were meant to be read. It is rare comic books that are collected, like out of print, 1st editions, etc. That is reasonable as their numbers are small. Even then, these comic books on release were meant to be read, and they were read and became popular series that turned into movies etc., hence why they've became collectibles in the first place over tens of years. New comic books aren't collected as much for obvious reasons, and still they are being made, and authors don't make them with the intention you never look inside of it, but that people do and appreciate the work they put in. So while their work might be eventually be put in a collection, the intent of the object is to be a comic book. To be read and tell a story.

I didn't ask about your usual conversation with your daughter. I asked you what the conversation with these specific stickers from this event would look like, just in stickers, and what would it represent. If you cannot make up a few different scenarios where this is applicable, then these stickers basically have no meaning, even to you, in chat form(or almost because I mean you could always be the guy who wants to talk about shapes in chat, and again, weird flex), which is what I am pointing out, these don't fit in basically any conversation.

How do they fail in chat when you can use them? That's what I don't get.

I've use the Dewey ones every now and then as they're basically large emoticons. The schmup ones are fun to use when talking about games involving shooting. The 2021 winter ones were the yeti ones, used those in talks a bunch of times. Same with the cat from I think Halloween and the cookies from ladt years winter sale. I love to use the scream sale stickers, the ghostly ones, to just say "boo" as a different hello. The sports ones are neat to add when actually talking about sports.

The duck from last autumn sale is my new favorite, quite like that one.

Like I said, I see purpose and intent for them just fine. And yes, you have to consider that just like the emoticons on Steam they serve multiple purposes/intents and that collecting is one of them. To me the main intent of event stickers is to drive people to the pages where you can claim them during the event, dricing engagement so to speak. The "gotta catch em all" Pokemon attitude, so collecting, is part of that.

I would love to use them outside the chat, btw. Missed opportunity. I'd make the duck my signature on the forums.

Regarding convo's with my daughter, I wasn't talking about usual ones. You never had a whatsapp chat with random gifs/emoticons over and over that made you simply laugh? That's what I've been talking about the whole time.

Not sure why you keep talking about "flexing". Is that the new way to invalidate an opinion one doesn't like or what?

Edit: apologies for typos, on the phone typing sucks.

Edit2: to clarify, I don't agree that there is no purpose. Now if your thread is about finding more purpose, that I support.

[steven1mac]

You can use stickers in your profile allowing a little animation in your collection. Sure it limited, but if you can get the right setup, you can make it a weird collection.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Its never a look to carry on about "free".

[Yujah]

The title of this thread made me laugh hard. "Event stickers should serve a purpose". Yeah, good luck redefining the word "purpose" until you get there. Hahaha.

[KING]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Crazy Tiger:

Diposting pertama kali oleh KING:

I mean as of right now, you can't use them in any other way than in chat unless I'm wrong and they fail at their purpose. I guess you could call someone to your pc and say look what I got in my steam inventory, but not sure why would anyone do that as the main purpose of them?

Of course yeah I seem to disagree with you that some 3d shapes don't make much sense in 99.999999% of conversations and find some uselessness to all stickers in this collection being basically the exact same with no relevant meaning behind them. It's okay to disagree.


People can have different intents and purposes for them, but you seem to miss the point. How many people buy bread at the store and collect it? How many people buy cars and collect them? How many people buy phones and collect them? Now compare that to people who buy a product to use it. Would you agree on saying most people who buy cars have a necessity for it and don't just keep it in a garage? Would you feel it's reasonable to say a phone was designed with the intention to not be held on a stand on some display as it's main purpose for every single being that buys one?

It has nothing to do with what you, a single individual might do with it, or what the intended objective of that thing was originally. I get you, I don't communicate primarily through stickers, so I don't use them as my main means of communication. But they are meant to be used in chat, not held in an inventory. Whether this is what the case is, maybe it is a need to research as to why this is the case, when they were designed with the intend to be used in chat. Hence why I said they failed at their purpose. It doesn't have much to do with what they've become, but much more with what they were made to do, and where that disconnect is.

A rare comic book might be collected nowadays, but they were meant to be read. It is rare comic books that are collected, like out of print, 1st editions, etc. That is reasonable as their numbers are small. Even then, these comic books on release were meant to be read, and they were read and became popular series that turned into movies etc., hence why they've became collectibles in the first place over tens of years. New comic books aren't collected as much for obvious reasons, and still they are being made, and authors don't make them with the intention you never look inside of it, but that people do and appreciate the work they put in. So while their work might be eventually be put in a collection, the intent of the object is to be a comic book. To be read and tell a story.

I didn't ask about your usual conversation with your daughter. I asked you what the conversation with these specific stickers from this event would look like, just in stickers, and what would it represent. If you cannot make up a few different scenarios where this is applicable, then these stickers basically have no meaning, even to you, in chat form(or almost because I mean you could always be the guy who wants to talk about shapes in chat, and again, weird flex), which is what I am pointing out, these don't fit in basically any conversation.

How do they fail in chat when you can use them? That's what I don't get.

I've use the Dewey ones every now and then as they're basically large emoticons. The schmup ones are fun to use when talking about games involving shooting. The 2021 winter ones were the yeti ones, used those in talks a bunch of times. Same with the cat from I think Halloween and the cookies from ladt years winter sale. I love to use the scream sale stickers, the ghostly ones, to just say "boo" as a different hello. The sports ones are neat to add when actually talking about sports.

The duck from last autumn sale is my new favorite, quite like that one.

Like I said, I see purpose and intent for them just fine. And yes, you have to consider that just like the emoticons on Steam they serve multiple purposes/intents and that collecting is one of them. To me the main intent of event stickers is to drive people to the pages where you can claim them during the event, dricing engagement so to speak. The "gotta catch em all" Pokemon attitude, so collecting, is part of that.

I would love to use them outside the chat, btw. Missed opportunity. I'd make the duck my signature on the forums.

Regarding convo's with my daughter, I wasn't talking about usual ones. You never had a whatsapp chat with random gifs/emoticons over and over that made you simply laugh? That's what I've been talking about the whole time.

Not sure why you keep talking about "flexing". Is that the new way to invalidate an opinion one doesn't like or what?

Edit: apologies for typos, on the phone typing sucks.

Edit2: to clarify, I don't agree that there is no purpose. Now if your thread is about finding more purpose, that I support.

Are you aware which stickers I'm talking about, you keep mentioning old stickers which have a purpose in chat, but then can't yourself create a conversation for the ones from this event. I'm talking about the ones from the VR event, the ones that are just 3d shapes, and that's it? Are you missing the event completely?

They're missing their purpose since if you put them in chat no one has any clue what you mean..

As for thins being for collecting, once again, you seem to miss the point. That's not what those objects were created for. You can use them for whatever later, but they failed at their original purpose if that's what they are used for. If that's what you are saying, then you are agreeing with me. I don't know if I need to explain the pokemon history to you but pokemon isn't just trading cards, so it's not like some trading cards made it what it's now. Has a series of over 1000 episodes, an entire dedicated store in japan where it's huge, it's launched itself in idk, every country in the world basically, they got merch of every single kind, from plush toys to phone cases, etc. And trading cards are used in tournaments to this day, which is what they are meant for. Sure, the average person wont participate but likes to collect them. Still not what they were meant for originally.

The point of the conversation was that I don't see how you and someone else sending a bunch of shapes is going to create any meaning or point in laughing. Maybe at how stupid it is cause they make no sense, case in which, once again, reinforces my point, so thanks again. Next time you have a funny emoji conv with your girl send her a bunch of 3d shapes regardless of what she replies with. Heck, do this with your family members, and friends. Out of nowhere just send them some shapes and then enjoy the laughs together. Shapes are so funny.

All I'm suggesting, in the steam suggestion's forum(how dare I), is that for the next stickers, they make them serve a purpose in chat as they originally intended to and think about the meaning of said stickers to make sure they can be used in conversation. At the current time, I haven't been proven wrong that they indeed do serve a purpose for chatting, yet people do want to say they use them by holding them in their inventory and not using them actually, which is irrelevant to me, because that has nothing to do with chatting, where they were made to be used, and what's happening to them.. Other stickers from other events are mostly fine, with a few misses there too but it's a much more acceptable because you do get some usable ones. These ones however are all the same and unless you're explaining what a 3d shape is to someone, they're all wasted effort.