Animated PFPs

[Loneshaq]

Hello everyone!

is there any news about animated profile pictures coming to steam? like instead of uploading a png or a jpg, we can upload a GIF to our profile pictures, and for me it would be fine if it would only play the gif in the friends list and the profile, doesn't have to play in games like csgo or gmod which includes steam profile pics.

it would be great of this feature would be added to steam! wouldn't it ? we can see that discord has that feature and most of social media apps are implementing that feature as well. so why not steam too ?

i don't know if this feature was suggested before or not it's why im making this Discussion here.

have a nice day!

[mimizukari]

No news like that, and would use up too much internet data on something really minor.

[Loneshaq]

i mean they added animated emotes for chats at least, so it might be possible that it would be added sometimes in the future.

[mimizukari]

completely different and you have the ability to turn in-line messages on chat off.

[Ettanin]

Not really a bandwidth issue because small gifs aren't that big, but it's a distraction issue which steals focus while reading or otherwise.

[Loneshaq]

why would it steal focus while reading if the profile pic is only on top of the profile while the info box is away from it.

[Ettanin]

Първоначално публикувано от Spring:

why would it steal focus while reading if the profile pic is only on top of the profile while the info box is away from it.

It's an animation you're subconsciously aware of. There is a group of people susceptible to such peripheral motion.

[Loneshaq]

well yeah that's right.

[Gwarsbane]

As with all the other threads on this topic I really hope they never do. Because as mentioned in all those other threads about this same topic which you could have looked up using the search feature first and read about, is that it can and will be abused.

It already takes Valve admins a while to get around to removing avatars that break the rules now, add on top of that the extra length of time it would take to verify that an animated one is breaking the rules.

Then there is the extra bandwidth that it would require that many do not want to have to deal with.

Then there is the issue with games that use the avatar in game which could break the game because they were designed around jpgs and not animated stuff and could break the game and if the devs are not around any more to fix the game that could keep people out of the game and no Valve can't fix that for them.

They are just also plain annoying.

If they ever put them in for what ever reason, they need to include a static image thats used and only when you press a play button do they get downloaded and start moving, but that won't make everyone that wants animated avatars happy and they will complain. So I hope they never do it.

And then there people who have photosensitive epilepsy, and we already know people will use avatars that try to trigger that.

Lots of issues, zero benefits.

[Tito Shivan]

Първоначално публикувано от Gwarsbane:

As with all the other threads on this topic I really hope they never do. Because as mentioned in all those other threads about this same topic which you could have looked up using the search feature first and read about, is that it can and will be abused.

From what I recall seeing at the supossed information regarding animated avatars and whatnot it seems to be all related to the marketplace. So it doesn't seem a case of 'Imma upload my wiggling penis GIF for may avatar' but something like we got during the lunar new year sale but expanded (maybe allowing devs to make their own for the Marketplace).

[Gwarsbane]

Първоначално публикувано от Tito Shivan:

Първоначално публикувано от Gwarsbane:

As with all the other threads on this topic I really hope they never do. Because as mentioned in all those other threads about this same topic which you could have looked up using the search feature first and read about, is that it can and will be abused.

From what I recall seeing at the supossed information regarding animated avatars and whatnot it seems to be all related to the marketplace. So it doesn't seem a case of 'Imma upload my wiggling penis GIF for may avatar' but something like we got during the lunar new year sale but expanded (maybe allowing devs to make their own for the Marketplace).

Well I also hope not on that either. But as long as they are off by default so that we don't have to see them or waste bandwidth downloading them people can waste money on them.

And no doubt people will start spamming to have their own custom profiles uploaded.

[Loneshaq]

okay, understandable, all what yall said is actually understandable. and i apologize for not seeing the other threads, as i actually wanted to put my own words about this subject, but i understand now why it's not a thing to be implemented into steam.

[Loneshaq]

thread can just be closed or something.

[Loneshaq]

i make this post a year later they add animated frames xDDDDD