I would’ve liked to have seen a timeline of periods as to when you played a game. Like it could be displayed in a bar like picture, that shows the time you’ve bought the game and every dot afterwards, details when you’ve played the game after that point up to the recent point of time.

To expand a little on this idea. The timeline could go by a month within a year. So, it’d be like you played a game at a point in 2024, on December. It doesn’t have to be specifically as to what time but if needed, either way works. It could show how many times too during that day on the month of and year of, you launched the game for.

  • observes_depths@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I just want it to work offline 100% of the time, no random requirement to login and then huge updates to download. I just want to play my game that I own. Is that so much to ask?

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      I recently reinstalled Farcry 3 to play again paid license, and Ubisoft wants me to log in every single fucking time I load the game through steam. I uninstalled it and installed the pirated version. Fuck that noise.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I thought of another one I care about more than my last.

    An actual functional community forum that contains actual moderation and filter tools. The current one is a cesspit to navigate.

    Currently all it has is the most basic forum in the world, with a search menu that doesn’t even search by post title just comments.

    what it could improve on:

    • A user side feature to toggle if you can see comments and posts from people who do not own the game – this alone would clean up almost all of the trolling and garbage on the discussion forums. It’s wild that steam doesn’t have as basic of a feature as this client side, and instead leaves it up to the publisher.
    • A complete rehaul of the search system so you can specify date range, search areas such as post or comments and category that its in
    • A filter system to filter by (or against) keywords in the post title or body.
    • the ability to ignore a thread so it doesn’t show when navigating the forum
    • A followed post system (not the notification one) where you can easily go into community and see posts you are following
    • The ability to just straight ignore a user. Currently you can block but it shows a dumb Topic by a blocked user or blocked user message on the threads and the comments.
    • the ability to just hide steam awards if you want. Most of the time the system is used toxicly.
  • cybermonkey@piefed.zipEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Forsake Electron, Chrome-based Steam client and return to the old ways, was it pre-2020 or 2019? Or at least bring back the old small mode which used to be able to run Steam without web features.

    • Necrifyre@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      Isn’t it for that very reason, Valve is deciding to not allow Steam to run on older OSes? Least that was the general consensus. I get that a lot of Steam’s features today wouldn’t fly on old OSes like Windows XP or maybe even 7. But a lot of what I gathered is that, all of the web-based features are the reason why that Steam is forced to stop supporting old OSes.

      • cybermonkey@piefed.zipEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        I am not sure but i read something like that before, probably the reason. Although it’s possible to use newer chrome on Windows 7 by using Vxkex - when it was being developed - or using Supermium, even Steam worked for sometime with Vxkex.

  • Dariusmiles2123@piefed.socialEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    I live in Europe (although not the political part) and we don’t have the ability to resell games, only to return them if you haven’t played them for more than 2 hours and bought them less than 14 days ago.

    Where did you read this?

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    I wish the Steam client was more efficient and respected native desktop conventions. They could have used Qt, for example. Instead they chose Chromium Embedded Framework, which might as well be Electron for all its bugs, bloat, and bad desktop integration.

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    The steam client should obey close commands like ctrl w, ctrl q, or similar. intentionally making the app hard to close is dark pattern bullshit.

  • gl38@feddit.ukEnglish
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    16 hours ago
    • A child account/sub account. I don’t want to make a whole steam account for my kids to play games that I own.
    • Allow me to play multiple games at once. Sometimes I’ll be waiting in a lobby of a game and pick up my steam deck, but can’t play a steam game as I’m already in a game? Let me play more than one game at once. Don’t put limitations on things that I own.
    • Use a normal 2FA method. Don’t force me to use your app to make my account secure.
    • Cleaner UI. Steam is mess because it’s the everything app, and I don’t know how you solve this without removing functionality. Also, discoverability is a shitshow.
    • Accept some stable crypto so they don’t have to bendover to the whims of MasterCard and Visa. This will never happen but I’m happy to put it out there.
    • A toggle to update all of my games as soon as they’re available.
  • Dariusmiles2123@piefed.socialEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Ability to easily see if a game if DRM free or not.

    Also, Steam OS on my Steam Deck, still has a few annoying bugs which makes it less stable than a Playstation (not talking about inside the games)

  • Mighty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Oh. So my issue is not listed by other people. Maybe meaning not many people have that issue. But I would really like better workshop options. The ability to make collections from all(!) your subscriptions, bigger collections, easier edit tools…