What immediate changes to Steam would you make if given the chance?

remove the scores

Birthday Notifications. I know no one will agree, but I like saying happy birthday to my bros and nearly always.

Manage my friends list, assigning people to various categories (ie: people I only play a certain game with would be in X game category).

Would help me remember some of the people I'm just casual acquaintances with.

Have it sell games on Android/ios

This
My big addition to steam would be a menu on each store page that lets you see the rest of that game's series, with maybe some supplemental information regarding those games releases. I would replace the similar games area with this.

I want a "NEVER EVER TALK TO ME ABOUT CARDS EVER AGAIN" button

It's called 'mute player'

I'd also like a "HIDE ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T HAVE DECENT PRODUCTION VALUES" button. Not anti-indie necessarily, but a way of hiding a lot of the low-quality junk from titles that actually have some polish and effort put into them.

The fact there's no way of differentiating between shit like Crysis and There's Poop in my Soup is an issue.

Remove steam levels
Add the old sound for chat messages again
The option to roll back to a previous patch or keep a version instead of forcing updates on launch

>a lot of the low-quality junk from titles that actually have some polish and effort put into

That's all well and good but how do you define that for a script to search for?

Allow custom sounds again.

drm-free everything or riot

Yeah, I know, anything that actually requires Valve to pay some staff and put effort into shit isn't happening, but it's still embarassing

Fuck refunds, bring back heavy discounts, flash deals, and vote deals during major sales. None of this "The sales prices are at a good level all the time" bullshit when it's literally lower than the base discount before the refunds change.

one more hour on the refund qualifications.

remove any game that has less then 50% negative reviews.

>bring back heavy discounts, flash deals, and vote deals during major sales
sadly, the currently situation makes valve and publishers more money. PC game prices are never going to be as good as they used to be now publishers actually see PC gaming and the back catalog as a way of making decent money

at least humble bundles still offer decent value

Stop their blatant jewery during sales. Like raising the price just before adding a percentage.

where else would they (western VNs) be sold

Oh, I know it won't happen, but it's still what I would do.

the only problem is that the bundles are all shit now.

They've already done that. I mean, that's a potential legal issue, so that's one of those things they're not going to ignore.

Valve should know better. do they want everyone to go back to pirating again?

They're not as good as they used to be (reflecting PC prices rising and the amounts of low-quality junk on the store), but people like to shit on something that's still ridiculously good value due to insanely high expectations.

I do quite nicely getting decent cheap shit between Humble Bundles, chrono.gg, Indiegala and Bundlestars.

Are you Japanese?

delete steam entirely, I'd rather PC gaming die than remain the retarded facebook+itunes used by autistic teenagers to maintain superiority complexes for spending too much money on shit indies and console ports.

Add /me back

Steam already sells Android games, why don't they sell them on an actual android device?
I mean, who wants that shit on their PC?

Make a "shit" section where all low effort and sub $5 indies go. Users can vote games out of shit section. Requires 10,000 votes to get out.

Price matching with Humble.

No reviews without playing the game for a minumum of 6 hours.

Immediate and permanent review bans for all shit reviews

Ban all weeaboo and furry profiles

>more quality control
>take it away from fucking valve
>no movie shit
>can send text with friend request to nix ego filled fags going COMMENT BEFORE ADD
>better servers so the fucking page doesn't refresh while you're doing something
>can choose color of steam profile instead of shitty blue gradient
>remove retarded 15 day market/trading wait if you don't have a phone connected

literally fixed steam there you go

You can already have stuff removed from your library.

Ban EPR.

I like it.

>Make a "shit" section where all low effort and sub $5 indies go. Users can vote games out of shit section. Requires 10,000 votes to get out.
That's a good idea. They'd need to name it something but a shithole containment section could massively improve the service.

To put prices up in australian dollars for australia

Better privacy settings. I don't need people to know when I'm in game or what gear I'm using. I'd like tabbed browsing in the client too.

Just bring back some form of filtering for games being allowed on Steam. Whitelisted publishers can get an automatic OK, indies and shit publishers need to go through some semi-rigorous process to get a game on steam. But reasonable enough where good shit like Papers, Please can get through. I know there's never gonna be any guaranteed way that all the good games get through, and all of the shit ones stay left out, but at least weed out these obvious (at least in my mind) hairy buttholes that charge 5$ for a ripoff game made in a week in Gamemaker

>l4d2 beta

I'd remove name changes.

dude im trippin out LMAO

Serious question: Would Valve offering paid promotion actually improve the service? That would at least allow publishers to provide higher-budget games more exposure than fucking "Lifestream - A Haunting Text Adventure"

>have private profile
>person denies your add or acts like you're some shifty motherfucker out to get them because you aren't flaunting your business for everyone to snoop in and websites to crawl and log

-tag

They allow you to hide that shit. Maybe they should hide some shit by default but meh, it's not really a major issue.

make all games free, any other answer is fucking retarded

how about "Rising Stars"?

t. autistic origin user

Oh shit that's good. Yeah, they should definitely do that.

They could even spin it as a way of giving more exposure to small projects by having a dedicated section etc.

They need to change the store so that developers are forced to specify which DRM they use, like Denuvo or Ubiplay or some shit.

I just recentley started using Steam and the App Store tier garbage was not what i expected. The need to at least add a "remove" button so i can stop swimming through the shit. "Im not interested" doesnt cut it.

Shut
Down
Computer
Once
Download
Completes

>tfw buy game
>tfw go play that shit offline on my notebook on the road
>tfw game won't open
>tfw its Denuvo

People still pull that and still get away with it. There were a couple of instances during the last sale (Skyrim Legendary Edition being one of them, they raised the price before discount because of the recent Skyrim Remastered announcement and the whole 'you get it for free if you have all the DLC or Legendary edition' thing)

...

DRM sucks no matter the label

I agree with this idea, I hate exploring the queue and seeing so many shitty games with absolutely 0 effort like the games from Digital Homicide.

They already do, it's listed on the store page in bright orange text

Or maybe you could just google it and find out in seconds

If you can't expend the willpower needed to do either of those, why are you complaining about it? You clearly don't care about it that much if you're so lazy.

I'm just answering what OP is asking, you could also search for reviews on the web, but they added the functionality anyway, sperg.

They don't mandate it for Denuovo because "IT'S NOT DRM IT'S ANTI-TAMPER" bullshit spin worked.

store.steampowered.com/app/438490/

Where is it saying that they use Denuvo on this game? Retard.

Nice b8 faggot. Cause games are free to make

Destroy it for being the monopoly that it is.
Remove the PC brand identity from the fanbase, and bring back CD-ROM as industry standard.

Holy shit someone please fucking monitor Greenlight better oh my sweet fuck

lmgtfy.com/?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denuvo

Congratulations, you just used all three of your brain cells to acquire a list of games with Denuvo!

remove EA
And I mean both meanings to the abbreviation

Fucking yes please god fucking dammit.

>tfw furry/anime porn sites have better tagging than Steam

remove third world shitters
block anyone who has that one rpg maker game you know the one
remove the market, watch economies burn
remove the valve crate unboxing shit, make skins free

It isn't DRM though, it just sits between you and the actual DRM being used (whether that's Steamworks, Uplay, Securom etc.) so that you can't remove it or even analyze it with RE tools. The game already has its own DRM, Denuvo isn't the DRM, so it makes sense that it's not listed.

Besides, the only people who actually have a reason to care about whether or not a game has Denuvo are pirates because Denuvo means they are shit out of luck.

Vote 4 my game Surfing Goat Manager 2016! So le random XD pirate it! Piracy is good. All i want is pppl 2 play my gaem.

>tfw out of business 3 months later

Tougher standards for game submission. No more shitty RPG maker games.

No, that's what they claim to try and avoid it being DRM on a technicality.

Wikipedia isn't the store page you fucking faggot

Learn to read fucking brain dead nigger.

>its not DRM!
>it just makes you unable to play the game!
>but its not DRM XDDD

Holy shit.

Knuckle down on the misuse of roguelike in the indie genre.

This. I never, ever experienced confusion from hearing the steam message sound from like youtube or whatever because I replaced it with my own. Now they don't let you do that, which fucking sucks.

>being so retarded you can't maneuver your way out of a store page to find the information you need

do you also make Cred Forums threads asking for help in a videogame level instead of googling it? you guys sure are sad.

You can't say it isn't DRM and then blame the DRM client when the game gets tampered with, ie Dragon Age Awakening, MGSV. Cheat Engine works on Denuvo-protected games including MGSV. For all the things Denuvo claims to do, it's shit at actual anti-tamper.

Anti tampering is DRM. It's the same fucking thing.

>the only people who actually have a reason to care about whether or not a game has Denuvo are pirates
Try again

imgur.com/a/h6ikJ

Pirates have already cracked several noteworthy Denuvo games including Doom and Tomb Raider, so much for being "shit out of luck"

By your logic food shouldn't come with nutricional information because you can just google it.

For real. Stupid indie niggers take any trendy name and fuck it up. Hack n slash, rougelike, ARPG. Pretty much everything.

Steam levels

Greenlight

Shitty early access games

It's unfeasible in reality, but if I could, I would set up a review reviewer. All the reviews in Steam would be looked at, and any joke reviews would be removed with some sort of punishment to whoever wrote it.

>t. animal of habit and convenience
let me know when you gain sapience kiddo

>being so retarded you can't even read what the original post was asking for

user literally said They should change the store so that developers are forced to specify which DRM they use, and when you said They already do, it's listed on the store page in bright orange text we pointed out that Denuvo isn't listed.

When confronted with this fact you moved the goalposts and respond with HURR THEN JUST MANUVER OFF THE STORE PAGE missing the point entirely

I hope you get hit by a bus head on you stupid fucking cunt.

>"Add non-steam application"

I have a lot of shit on my hard drive and having one centralized launching location would be great, but "Add non steam game" puts it in my list of games, where I don't want it to get drowned in. I want to be able to go to "Software" and see my programs there, and when I launch it, I want it to say "In non-steam app" not "In non-steam game"

>hurr sapience kiddo

t. literal retard with actual shit for brains

>not showing only installed games
y tho

AKA you want to use non-games through steam so you can show off whatever dumb shit you're doing

Waifu Simulator 2013

You can get the old chat sound back, just download it from somewhere and replace the existing chat sound with the old one.

"Gift steam wallet funds" in purchase options. I would have $50 in birthday money right now were it not for this not being a feature.

Companies have a duty to provide certain information about the product or service they provide and internet sources are not trustworthy (I mean, fucking wikipedia? Seriously?) while the information provided by a company has to be checked by a third party before shipping. This is a fact, fuck you.

>think that companies have a duty to do [thing]
>companies do not do [thing]
>complain on the internet

No, more so I could have people not get mad at me when I don't message back immediately if I'm doing something. I want to still recieve messages, but setting your status to "Busy" does fuck all.

>caring what people think on the fucking internet
just tell them you're busy you fucking pushover jesus christ

make all games free

The option to get these shit-eating curators off my client.

>having spergy friends that don't understand you might be doing shit

Time to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Either way, I want one place to launch everything so that my desktop doesn't become fucking cluttered, you massive faggot.

Fuck off Lenin.

lick my nuts idiot

nobody cares about your stupid desktop and i don't like you

What a faggot. What kind of cuck are you to care, and if someone messages you when youre "in game" why wouldnt they message you "in app" idiot.

are you saying you like paying 60 dollars for video games

Oh yeah, well you're a wonderful person and I hope you have a nice day.

All Early Access games must submit a launch date that they must adhere that is within 3 years of registration. Any failure to meet these deadlines will result in removal of all games by said company and a ban of posting more.

Remove "Female Protagonist" tag, but keep any games associated with it. I think it's insipid is all.

i forgive you for calling me a fag even though i still don't care about your desktop

enjoy your programs and games

they have to pay me 50k a year

>think [thing] is utterly necessary because you want it
>company doesnt do [thing]
>complain to redditt and spin it off as an inherently bad thing
>entitlement meter grows
>complany crumbles to autistic request
>gaming world is worse off

>REEEE to get what i want is now industry standard.

t. 14 year old who doesn't know how the economy works

You can always just sort your programs into a tab and name them whatever they are. It'll still say in-game, but I doubt Microsoft Word is going to get anyone's dick up.

That's cool

Thanks

>company made $80,000,000 over a couple of months by selling a fucking e-book
>you ask for $50k a year
You're a pretty big dreamer, aren't you?

Well I don't like people who make video games not getting jobs, I buy the games I like.

sorry I didnt take the question seriously

Implying you have to buy it the second it releases

Spastic faggot.

Call it "the cornfield".
Where did that game go?
"I took it to the cornfield."

>get some totally shit app or game
>rename the .exe to whatever you want (example: Hot Milfs Squirt POV VR™)
>everyone now see's how big of a bad ass you are

Games should have an icon that lets them be flagged for major technical issues and a containment section for low-quality junk.

Steam could also hire some editors and do a proper "editor's choice" section ala Apple.

Hey! I like Origin!

It makes it so much easier to boycott EA titles

Reminder that Valve doesn't care a about you, the customer, and won't implement anything unless it gives them a profit, analogously they will implement anything that gives them money even if you hate it.
This is coming back.

>Reminder that Valve doesn't care a about you, the customer, and won't implement anything unless it gives them a profit

So you're saying they're a capitalist business

Fucking thisssssss.

Seconded.

>Shit section
Fuck yeah

More sales, requirement of being over 18 to post reviews.

Fucking this.
We shouldn't have to pay so much more.

We're not importing physical European copies anymore, I'm sick of it.

let me sell shit I get in random drops from Dota2. Enough of this not tradable or marketable bullshit. Why should I have to wait until I get a bunch of crap I dont want for the chance to get one thing I might want? Valve already takes a cut off of every transaction so what do they gain by making some random Tusk cosmetic I'll never use only recyclable or giftable?

BY FAR

At least allow return of games with more than two hours of gameplay

Ever day you should get crates just for logging into Steam. The crates contain random game. You have to buy a game to get the key.

Works for literally everything else, let's just build it into the service itself

>Comestic item will be untradeable or un marketable.
>Only lootboxes amd keys are allowed.
There. No more complain and more money for Gaben.

shut that piece of shit the fuck down
no refunds for any moron who bought shit on a drm platform

Took a while for someone to say it.
To be honest, this is all I need.

Redesign the entire UI.

Remove basically all the social aspects that aren't friends and chat.

Remove movies and music shit.

Find a way to stop joke reviews.

Change the refund time to 3 hours.

let me rename my fucking steam games and DLC
this is seriously killing my autism

At least other companies get called out for their bullshit and are forced to make changes but no one regulates vidya.

The female protagonist tag is fucking stupid, it's mostly just applied to any game that lets you make your own character.
At the same time, it doesn't get tagged male protagonist which shows you how silly it really is.

the ability to disable and unistall unwanted features, for example, big picture, music player, broadcasting, home streaming... mostly big picture... i hate getting booted to desktop for accidentally hitting the xbox button

the ability to globally disable automatic updating of games: no everyone has unlimited bandwidth, i will update my games when i actually want to play them.

the ability to opt-out of the market's security features and assume the risk by myself: if my inventory gets lost i will assume the risk, i dant want to clone skins or whatever, my account isnt going to get hacked, i have 2-step authetification disabled, i use keypass. i don't have or want a smartphone; i dont want to use steam's shitty app... but i dont want to wait 15 fucking days to trade literally 1 dollar's worth of shitty csgo skins

fix pl0x

Change the refund time to 12 hours of play time
FTFY

add hentai games

Invisible mode

Sometimes I want to play a coop game with just one friend or a specific group.

i just use the name nickname/tagging system for that

You massive entitled faggot you arent paying more. Youre paying less that 70% of the world. Bigger number /=/ higher cost

When new release games are $20+ higher than American or Europe, yeah, we fucking are.
Our dollar is less than yours, yet we still pay more.

Confirmed for not knowing shit.

Shutdown the market
Disable skins / items / trade shit
Shutdown Greenlight

Only vidya remains.

i want a store search feature for total-conversion mods based on game

for example with the source engine so many mods are avaliable to download as a title on steam but there is no working filter to find all of them

What is a steam level?

It's like a leaderboard for giving Valve your money

raise the price of all weebshit by 100 dollars

could we get rid of badges while we're at it?

No faggot. Learn how currency works. Its not as simple as an exchange rate.

Explain to me then how we don't pay more.

Mandatory segregation of client and store.

You have the option to link, but they can't force you to use one to access the other.

"Kicked a dog and the guards killed me XD 10/10"

...

give me a not interested button for all games that don't have the cahoonies to display their metacritic score. never gonna buy that shit.

sounds good, how much refund do i get?

Allow Adult only games like Unteralterbach and Rance in the store.

I still don't get why people didn't even get mad at the modders for selling their things (and a lot of modders were actually for paid mods, modders against it were nonames who would never be able to get money with the system), but for some reason blamed Valve for the whole thing

Steam client for DOS

Remove social functions.

Allow manual sorting of categories instead of just alphabetical.

Make "Followed" do something useful.

Put games in a location that isn't fucking retarded. Forcing them to be in the Steam folder is bad enough, but then shoving everything into "Steam\steamapps\common" is full retard.

Make the Store page the default any time you click on a title. Nobody fucking cares about that community horseshit.

Unfuck the forum pages so that it isn't literally impossible to read more than one page of anything.

Kill the "Big Picture" faggotry with fire.

>ctrl + f EULA
Bunch of slackjawed faggots in here.
I remove the retarded 'rental' premise and restore the same rights to the software you have with a physical purchase, as well as the clause that your library will be preserved if steam is ever shut down or your account terminated.

What the fuck? you can't change custom sounds anymore? When did that shit happen?

2013 I think, well that's what I remember when I tried to change it. I have shit memory

Basically, a long time ago