Option to remove/hide items that are stuck in your inventory with no way of selling/deleting them

[Neyika]

So, I might sound a bit stupid and even maniac but I have played some game called Blockpost Legacy in the past, had some fun playing it when I was younger but now that I'm older I don't think I'll ever install the game again.

I uninstalled the game long ago, removed it from my game library and put all the items I had aquired by playing on the market at the cheapest price to get rid of it. Unfortunately, two items from the game, which are your basic weapons, can't be deleted or sold and are stuck in my inventory since months.

I love having a clean and organized inventory/profile and this just gives me anxiety. Not being able to remove those two items, having to see them every time I open my inventory.

I have contacted the developers of the game many times, on different email adresses and even on their community page on Steam. But they did not answe me. They've answered other people, I saw them reply to more recent comments but they still don't acknowledge my issue.

Steam support can't help me either since they don't have rights over those items, only the developers of Blockpost Legacy can help me (but they don't want to, lol).

That's why I'm asking for a change to this, either being able to delete ANY item you own (which seems logical since they're in OUR inventory and we should have all rights over them). Or being able to at least, hide them so it doesn't bother us anymore.

I've seen other people complain about this, complaining because of the same items I own and I hope our issue will be solved.

Thanks if you've read all this boring stuff.

[HikariLight]

Scammers and bad actors.
That's why.
There are enough trouble with them in regards to sellable/trade able items.
The devs of the game have no authority for your Steam Inventory.
Steam support won't touch user inventories either, due to scammers/bad actors.

All it takes is a bad actor getting into someones account, trading off everything they can and then deleting everything else and you will have a flood of users complaining to support.
This is why things cannot be deleted in the inventory.

[William Shakesman]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Scammers and bad actors.
That's why.
There are enough trouble with them in regards to sellable/trade able items.
The devs of the game have no authority for your Steam Inventory.
Steam support won't touch user inventories either, due to scammers/bad actors.

All it takes is a bad actor getting into someones account, trading off everything they can and then deleting everything else and you will have a flood of users complaining to support.
This is why things cannot be deleted in the inventory.

Thats not a real reason, unfortunately. Valve already doesn't restore items deleted by scammers, so there is no reason to prevent other useful functionality because of such fears. Valve does not make decisions based on what scammers "could" do. Users will simply need to exercise some personal responsibility instead, as most Valve decisions are made assuming this.

Better inventory management is a long overdue need. Giving people power over their own inventories only makes it more inviting for the users to spend money getting more items for it. There is no reason to not allow more control and they really need to implement these features.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Neyika:

So, I might sound a bit stupid and even maniac but I have played some game called Blockpost Legacy in the past, had some fun playing it when I was younger but now that I'm older I don't think I'll ever install the game again.

I uninstalled the game long ago, removed it from my game library and put all the items I had aquired by playing on the market at the cheapest price to get rid of it. Unfortunately, two items from the game, which are your basic weapons, can't be deleted or sold and are stuck in my inventory since months.

I love having a clean and organized inventory/profile and this just gives me anxiety. Not being able to remove those two items, having to see them every time I open my inventory.

I have contacted the developers of the game many times, on different email adresses and even on their community page on Steam. But they did not answe me. They've answered other people, I saw them reply to more recent comments but they still don't acknowledge my issue.

Steam support can't help me either since they don't have rights over those items, only the developers of Blockpost Legacy can help me (but they don't want to, lol).

That's why I'm asking for a change to this, either being able to delete ANY item you own (which seems logical since they're in OUR inventory and we should have all rights over them). Or being able to at least, hide them so it doesn't bother us anymore.

I've seen other people complain about this, complaining because of the same items I own and I hope our issue will be solved.

Thanks if you've read all this boring stuff.

Would be nice if people used the search feature and read all the other threads on the topic before making yet another thread on the same topic specially when that topic is posted nearly once a week, it would help reduced repeated postings.


https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4365752248006188581/
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/1/4361247820938038516/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4362372646221316950/


Hiding items would be perfectly fine, maybe Valve will do it one day. I'd personally like it done in a way thats like when someone "perma deletes" a game from their library. It doesn't actually delete it for good, it just hides it so that you never have to see it ever again unless you go digging to make it visible again. That would be fine.

Actually deleting though, not a good idea because if you delete something accidentally or someone gets into your account and deletes stuff (because they want to do as much damage as they can for a laugh) that you wanted to keep, you can never get them back because the event you got them in is long since over and Valve is not going to return them.

We've already seen the kind of spam on the forums that stuff like that will cause. People scream at Steam support who get told no, will then post screaming rants in the forums. They get banned and then start ranting and raving about being banned and they get banned again and....again and again...


In the end, hiding the things is just the better option.

[Neyika]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Originally posted by Neyika:

So, I might sound a bit stupid and even maniac but I have played some game called Blockpost Legacy in the past, had some fun playing it when I was younger but now that I'm older I don't think I'll ever install the game again.

I uninstalled the game long ago, removed it from my game library and put all the items I had aquired by playing on the market at the cheapest price to get rid of it. Unfortunately, two items from the game, which are your basic weapons, can't be deleted or sold and are stuck in my inventory since months.

I love having a clean and organized inventory/profile and this just gives me anxiety. Not being able to remove those two items, having to see them every time I open my inventory.

I have contacted the developers of the game many times, on different email adresses and even on their community page on Steam. But they did not answe me. They've answered other people, I saw them reply to more recent comments but they still don't acknowledge my issue.

Steam support can't help me either since they don't have rights over those items, only the developers of Blockpost Legacy can help me (but they don't want to, lol).

That's why I'm asking for a change to this, either being able to delete ANY item you own (which seems logical since they're in OUR inventory and we should have all rights over them). Or being able to at least, hide them so it doesn't bother us anymore.

I've seen other people complain about this, complaining because of the same items I own and I hope our issue will be solved.

Thanks if you've read all this boring stuff.

Would be nice if people used the search feature and read all the other threads on the topic before making yet another thread on the same topic specially when that topic is posted nearly once a week, it would help reduced repeated postings.


https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4365752248006188581/
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/1/4361247820938038516/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4362372646221316950/


Hiding items would be perfectly fine, maybe Valve will do it one day. I'd personally like it done in a way thats like when someone "perma deletes" a game from their library. It doesn't actually delete it for good, it just hides it so that you never have to see it ever again unless you go digging to make it visible again. That would be fine.

Actually deleting though, not a good idea because if you delete something accidentally or someone gets into your account and deletes stuff (because they want to do as much damage as they can for a laugh) that you wanted to keep, you can never get them back because the event you got them in is long since over and Valve is not going to return them.

We've already seen the kind of spam on the forums that stuff like that will cause. People scream at Steam support who get told no, will then post screaming rants in the forums. They get banned and then start ranting and raving about being banned and they get banned again and....again and again...


In the end, hiding the things is just the better option.

The more people there are complaining about stuff, the more likely Steam is to do something to satisfy us, so Don't care + Didn't ask + Don't have time + L + Okay then let's just hide those pesky items, shouldn't be that hard to have such a feature since we can already "hide" games in our library

[William Shakesman]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Originally posted by Neyika:

So, I might sound a bit stupid and even maniac but I have played some game called Blockpost Legacy in the past, had some fun playing it when I was younger but now that I'm older I don't think I'll ever install the game again.

I uninstalled the game long ago, removed it from my game library and put all the items I had aquired by playing on the market at the cheapest price to get rid of it. Unfortunately, two items from the game, which are your basic weapons, can't be deleted or sold and are stuck in my inventory since months.

I love having a clean and organized inventory/profile and this just gives me anxiety. Not being able to remove those two items, having to see them every time I open my inventory.

I have contacted the developers of the game many times, on different email adresses and even on their community page on Steam. But they did not answe me. They've answered other people, I saw them reply to more recent comments but they still don't acknowledge my issue.

Steam support can't help me either since they don't have rights over those items, only the developers of Blockpost Legacy can help me (but they don't want to, lol).

That's why I'm asking for a change to this, either being able to delete ANY item you own (which seems logical since they're in OUR inventory and we should have all rights over them). Or being able to at least, hide them so it doesn't bother us anymore.

I've seen other people complain about this, complaining because of the same items I own and I hope our issue will be solved.

Thanks if you've read all this boring stuff.

Would be nice if people used the search feature and read all the other threads on the topic before making yet another thread on the same topic specially when that topic is posted nearly once a week, it would help reduced repeated postings.


https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4365752248006188581/
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/1/4361247820938038516/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4362372646221316950/


Hiding items would be perfectly fine, maybe Valve will do it one day. I'd personally like it done in a way thats like when someone "perma deletes" a game from their library. It doesn't actually delete it for good, it just hides it so that you never have to see it ever again unless you go digging to make it visible again. That would be fine.

Actually deleting though, not a good idea because if you delete something accidentally or someone gets into your account and deletes stuff (because they want to do as much damage as they can for a laugh) that you wanted to keep, you can never get them back because the event you got them in is long since over and Valve is not going to return them.

We've already seen the kind of spam on the forums that stuff like that will cause. People scream at Steam support who get told no, will then post screaming rants in the forums. They get banned and then start ranting and raving about being banned and they get banned again and....again and again...


In the end, hiding the things is just the better option.

There is no requirement to search prior to posting here. Valve moderation agrees. They lock threads people bump even when the issue is unresolved.

An advanced hide would not meet the need and is not needed at all. People already scream at Steam support when they make destructive actions or get scammed. Steam expects its users to exercise personal responsibility and read warnings or else the entire Early Access system would not exist. An advanced hide just creates another box filled with needless clutter. It doesn't help the actual issue, nor is it needed for the fake issue of scammers or accidental deletions, both of which are ALREADY answered by prior Valve policy and discussion on this very board.

Perhaps more reposts are needed if you are unfamiliar with the need for users to exercise personal responsibility. The discussion will inevitably come up again.

Valve hasn't provided an answer in any previous threads so there is no value in searching and we have confirmed that the fretting about support tickets and advanced hide doesn't actually come from anyone who works for Valve or is involved in these decisions which is why it doesn't match how Valve makes its decisions.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Neyika:

The more people there are complaining about stuff, the more likely Steam is to do something to satisfy us, so Don't care + Didn't ask + Don't have time + L + Okay then let's just hide those pesky items, shouldn't be that hard to have such a feature since we can already "hide" games in our library

Thats not how it actually works around here, if it was, there would be things that people have been complaining about for literally a decade or more fixed.

Being able to hide stuff is one of them. There has been literally hundreds of posts asking for a fix... and nothing from Valve.

So just because something gets complained about a lot, doesn't mean it will be fixed. You would think a hide feature would not be hard... but it took Valve a LONG time to put the hide feature in the library, something people have been asking since nearly day 1... 2 decades ago...


Also which do you think makes more sense when it comes to stuff like this... 1000+ different threads all with different titles making it hard for Valve to search for and read them all, or 1 single large mega thread that Valve can keep tabs on and read now and then? One single mega thread on a topic makes more sense to me.

[Neyika]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Originally posted by Neyika:

The more people there are complaining about stuff, the more likely Steam is to do something to satisfy us, so Don't care + Didn't ask + Don't have time + L + Okay then let's just hide those pesky items, shouldn't be that hard to have such a feature since we can already "hide" games in our library

Thats not how it actually works around here, if it was, there would be things that people have been complaining about for literally a decade or more fixed.

Being able to hide stuff is one of them. There has been literally hundreds of posts asking for a fix... and nothing from Valve.

So just because something gets complained about a lot, doesn't mean it will be fixed. You would think a hide feature would not be hard... but it took Valve a LONG time to put the hide feature in the library, something people have been asking since nearly day 1... 2 decades ago...


Also which do you think makes more sense when it comes to stuff like this... 1000+ different threads all with different titles making it hard for Valve to search for and read them all, or 1 single large mega thread that Valve can keep tabs on and read now and then? One single mega thread on a topic makes more sense to me.

I mean, it's not like we have other options to make things change. I'm just trying to help solve an issue I and many other players have.

I'm new to all this, it's my first time posting a comment here and I don't know how many issues people have in here. All I know is I'm not a company that earns big bucks every day...but if I were I would listen to the people who's money I'm earning.

Well, I'm sure they can search for key words. "Deleting", "Items"...sure it'd be smarter to just have one giant thread for each subject but nobody would want to read a whole thread with 100+ new comments being written every single day.

[Dan5000]

as long as the searchfunction is as bad as it is in the steamforums, i personally don't see a problem with reposting stuff either. the right results don't always show up. and since they don't forbid it, as i read the post and they "prefer" using old posts, but don't say you must do so.

i'd be totally fine aswell with hiding the items. they could call it "deleting" aswell and just automate the process of restoring deleted items in the supportpage, like they can with deleted games.

i just want stuff to be clean. i even got a duplicate summersale sticker. how did that even happen? 2 beachballs? can't be sold, can't be traded, can't be deleted and can't be used in more ways if you got multiple ones. why do i have 2 of them and why not let me get rid of at least one? yea. so agree, i really hope they will change things in the future. as far as i know, the inventory did not get an update yet, while steam is veeeeeeeeeery slowly updating each part individually for years(?) now. maybe that'll be a part of it. lets hope.

[Ben Lubar]

Valve can't delete items from someone else's game.