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Hey guys,

I was checking through some old bookmarked Steam profiles today and noticed something surprising about how Steam displays profile bans long-term.

One of the profiles I had saved originally had a clear red "1 VAC ban on record" banner showing over 2,500 days ago. But when I visited the profile page today, the red notice was completely gone, leaving the profile status looking totally clean to the public.

I was pretty confused at first because Valve always states that VAC bans are permanent. After looking into how Steam's interface works, it turns out that while the backend ban restrictions remain 100% permanent (the account still can't play on VAC servers or trade items for that game), Steam automatically hides the public red badge on profile pages once exactly 7 years (2,555 days) have passed.

I always thought those public banners stayed on profiles forever. Had anyone else noticed this automatic UI cleanup before?

Been waiting for a decent steam sale, and this one popped up on my wishlist! Anyone have any thoughts?

This is not the gamer's fault of course, but as a dev I constantly receive messages on discord that start like: "Hey I found your game and really love the concept. Here are two things I like that I (or genAI) probably reworded from the page description. What are you currently working on?"

Then it's a string along for two or three messages and finally they casually mention that could help with marketing or art or whatever. It's the string along that bothers me, because I wasted time to respond.

So most of the time I stopped responding or immediately have to mention that I'm not buying anything. However, I would hate to lose out on talking to an actual fan of the game because of this.

And if my 500 wishlist game receives so many of these messages, I cannot imagine what an actually popular game gets.

I’ve bought all the profile customization items, a bunch of avatars, and so on, but I still have tons of points left. What should I do now? Should I just keep buying the seasonal badge every year for the XP, or is there something else?

This was one of mine (and I'm sure many others) recommendation in the feedback thread when Steam removed the percentage originally, That personally I don't care either way for the percentage but I know that others do, so having the option to display it or not would be a nice addition to have while they are working on the system

I feel like this feature is extremely underrated. It really lets you track exactly how users responded to the game at launch and at different events (patches, upgrades). Its like the only actual democratic place where people can share exactly how they feel about entertainment, instead of being forced to like it.

absolutely PERFECT game for it too, beamng is one of my favorite games if not my favorite.

I'm Japanese and not very good at English, so this was translated using a website. I'm sorry if it's hard to read.

I just turned 16 and have been making games using Godot.

I’m getting pretty close to finishing one, so I thought I’d release it on Steam soon. But it seems I need to register as a developer to do that.

While it’s apparently not against the rules for minors to do so, I haven’t seen many reports online of people actually being able to register, and I’ve never seen any Japanese people do it, so I’m wondering if it might be illegal in Japan.

My parents are willing to help if I ask, but I’d rather get it done now if possible—it’ll be a hassle to register on my own later and transfer the game over.

There’s a lot I don’t know about this, so I’d really appreciate some advice!

Thanks for reading this far.

i am building a steam profile that has a gothic theme and tbh i am very interested in having an animated avatar, i was wondering if anyone has any suggestions to give it would really help a lot and thx for reading!

Quick question? How can you prevent your game from being stolen/copied? Like when you announce it or release a demo of your game as an indie developer or big studio?

(For example the needle in haystack game that has been copied on steam and copied on roblox)

Via the Steam Community:

Steam Input

• Added support for GameInput v4

Remote Play

• Start streaming faster when connecting to a local computer
• Fixed the "..." button on the Steam Controller not being passed through to the remote side

Linux

• Fixed a crash when resuming from suspend

Big Picture Mode

• Updated the styling of the chat tab to better convey focus states
• Game invites from friends now have a dedicated widget in the chat window above the text entry, instead of having to navigate to the exact message in the chat history window. Individual invites from friends in a group also show in the group chat window instead of having to navigate to the individual friend's 1-1 chat tab to accept.
• Improved the group chat layout and fixed areas where gamepad navigation could get stuck
• Friend chat message notifications will now be rolled up rather than sending one 2 second notification per message
• Plumbed the per-friend voice chat levels to the friend context menu in BPM

My girlfriend wants to buy silent hill but for some reason when its bundled it costs around 25$ more.

I was more of a PC guy, cause at the time, i just liked the power and how much i could do on the PC. Like playing a game on one screen and having a guide or Spotify on the second screen

After i got Steam Deck, i mostly played games that are platform games like Rivals of Aether or Gravity Circuit.

But then i just started messing around with the Steam Deck and good god. The stuff you can do is nuts, especially when you compare it to other handhelds like Switch.

It may not be a big thing, but i really appreciate the freedom what we can do with the Stean Deck, like changing covers of games (first pic), changing boot up intros (second pic), modding games like on PC and such.

It's just so good i love it