Request ability to choose badges to display in badge collector showcase

[C3N50R3D]

Who else would like to see this? Some badges are really cool and some are not that cool. It would be nice to have the ability to choose displayed badges in the badge collector showcase like we can with the achievement showcase.

[seriosbrad]

+1

[Taoito]

+1

Yes, please implement this feature for the Badge Collector showcase

[Invaders must die]

(bro fist)

[Damsteri]

Do you guys/girls know how the badge collector showcase works? Now it shows 6 of your rarest badges. It's quite logical. If you are a collector, you want to show your rarest items. You can check that out and open your badge view and sort them by rarity, then the top 6 badges from the list are selected to showcase. Just like achievement showcase shows your rarest achievements, same thing.

Problem is that nice badge is not a rare one. If you have a foil badge from a common game (Skyrim, Valve MP games, name other..), that foil badge is most likely quite common too, because many players have that badge too. It's NOT a rare one just because it's a foil badge and you had to pay real money for it. Level 1 badge from some very odd game can be very rare and rarer than level 5 or foil badge from a common game. Not many player owns those odd games and much fewer have crafted a badge.

But I agree that it would be nice to be able to select nice looking badges to showcase instead of just the rare ones from those odd games.

EDIT:
Actually there is two achievement showcases, one with selected achievements and one with the rarest. But there is only one badge collector showcase. Maybe fix could by easy as adding another badge showcase with selectable badges and retain the original one which have the rarest badges. Them it would be just like the two showcases for achievements.

[DarkStarSword]

Damsteri님이 먼저 게시:

Do you guys/girls know how the badge collector showcase works? Now it shows 6 of your rarest badges.

Yes I figured that out. Another problem in addition to the ones you listed is that NEW badges are also much rarer than older badges, so my level 5 badges keep getting trumped whenever I get a level 1 badge for a game that only just got trading cards. For instance, I just tried switching mine over and I see it wants to list:

Level 1 Puddle badge
Level 1 Rise of the Triad badge
Level 1 Deadlight badge
Level 2 Costume Quest badge
Level 1 FLY'N badge
Level 5 Space Pirates & Zombies badge

The first three only got badges last week, so not many people have them yet and they are "rare". However I don't considder them valuable - I only got them because the cards were cheap(ish) so selling them would not have made much and I had Steam money to burn from selling a Puddle foil.

Costume Quest and FLY'N are only a couple of weeks old so still pretty rare.

Costume Quest can kinda be excused since I got it to level 2 and that is rarer than the level 1 Dead Island & Frozen Synapse cards I got since then, but once again that was a decision based purely on the market value of the cards not really being worth selling (I had a duplicate, hence I levelled it twice) and was funded primarily by selling an Anna foil.

FLY'N is (how shall I put this?) ... not a particularly popular game. So naturally it's badge is going to be quite rare, but again the cards were cheap enough that it wasn't worth selling so I just finished the badge instead. Do I want to show that off? Hell no! I'm not even sure if I'm going to bother finishing the game!

The SPAZ badge is the only one I actually wouldn't mind showing off here - I levelled it all the way to level 5, it was a good game, and has some of the best emoticons we have seen so far (backgrounds not so much) (Also, that last one is awesome when combined - ).

How about my level 5 Saints Row the Third badge? It's an awesome game which I've sunk 60+ hours into and bothered to even get the rarest achievement in the game (you know, collect everything, do everything), but oh wait it was selling for 12c/card in the sale so lots of people bought them just to boost their steam level making it really common .

Ditto my level 5 Terraria badge ... sunk 110+ hours ... Hell, I was even considering to get the foil badge for that one and bought 3 foils cards for it (which I later resold when it became clear that the other foil cards were not in a hurry to drop their prices).

I don't mind if they keep the rarest badge showcase, but would prefer if it was a rarest high level badge showcase, or indeed a pick your own badges to show off. At the moment it wouldn't add anything to my profile, so I set the screenshot showcase instead to show off Miasmata (awesome game) until they add a better badge showcase.

Edit: Just crafted a level 1 Revenge of the Titans badge which pushed my level 5 SPAZ badge off, so now there is literally no badge I actually want to show off on that showcase.

[C3N50R3D]

This is the problem. And unlike the rarest achievements profile, some badges are not really "rare" in the same way. They can be "rare" because less people want the badge or play the game or because the badge is just released. All the other profile showcases allow you to choose and so should this one. I am hoping that eventually a Valve person will post and say they are working on it. :)

[FlyLice]

Hey, Steam! Listen!!

[Pug]

Yes, please fix this for us... +1

[Damsteri]

DarkStarSword님이 먼저 게시:

Damsteri님이 먼저 게시:

Do you guys/girls know how the badge collector showcase works? Now it shows 6 of your rarest badges.

Yes I figured that out. Another problem in addition to the ones you listed is that NEW badges are also much rarer than older badges, so my level 5 badges keep getting trumped whenever I get a level 1 badge for a game that only just got trading cards.

Yep, the badges for the new games are "rare" too and cause problems. Quite a strange set of level 1 badges you have there. I have never even heard of those games. This system is not working, but how it could work better? How to make real rarity order? Maybe two level sorting, first by level descending: foil, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and then by how unpopular is it (current rarity value descending). That way foil and high level badges would pop to the top of the list.

Or maybe something which is based on hours played. Or just the simple way, badges which we can choose by ourselves!

Btw. Thanks for info about the emoticons from the game SPAZ. Those are really nice ones. I have encountered only the crappy emoticons so far. Those emoticons from the SPAZ are maybe even worth of buying, even thought I think that buying a single emoticons and wallpapers are madness.

[Fich Killroeye]

^Bump^

[DarkStarSword]

Damsteri님이 먼저 게시:

How to make real rarity order? Maybe two level sorting, first by level descending: foil, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and then by how unpopular is it (current rarity value descending). That way foil and high level badges would pop to the top of the list.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant by "rarest high level badge showcasewas" and is something I would definitely support. Or as you say, let us choose ourselves - I don't see why they couldn't implement both like they do with the achievement showcases at the moment.

Damsteri님이 먼저 게시:

Btw. Thanks for info about the emoticons from the game SPAZ. Those are really nice ones.

No worries

[:ekoe]

+1 this seems like such an obvious thing to do I'm actually surprised we can't do it already.

Surely they must have thought of it... Either they had a good reason not to, or there is some sort of technical difficulty preventing them from implementing it (although I cannot imagine what it could be).

[C3N50R3D]

This is a good resource to check what emoticons badges and cards look like. http://www.steamcardexchange.net/index.php?showcase

[DarkStarSword]

C3N50R3D님이 먼저 게시:

This is a good resource to check what emoticons badges and cards look like

While I agree with you, the emoticon discussion is getting off topic for this thread - if you wish to discuss that further please start a new thread or join in on one of the other countless threads that already exist on that topic.

[C3N50R3D]

Agree. Seemed appropriate based on the last few comments. Will stick to topic because we really want to see Valve implement this change. :)