Oh hell yeah. I hate that shit with a fiery passion.

It is at least better cleaner images.

I actually agree. Don't trust most of the review pages anyway

Personally I don't care either way. I don't trust those reviews or images myself, I also agree that they're ugly and a bit of a put off. But so long as it isn't deceitful the company does have a right to advertise and promote their product to the best of their ability. If they feel that highlighting a positive review is beneficial, ... well isn't that their choice? It is their product after all.

another dishonorable "thank goodness steam isn't allowing this anymore" mention: Tales of Arise https://store.steampowered.com/app/740130/Tales_of_Arise/
91% Positive Reviews literally takes up the same amount of space as the actual characters on the image. So glad this won't be an issue soon.

I wasn't really bothered by this especially not about the event-based pictures. But more readable cover pictures / thumbnails is a generally good change.

I didn't mind it really, as long as it's contained in one image. I doubt anyone buys the games solely because of some arbitrary number rating or award someone has given the game. If anything I was more bothered by games changing the main display image to advertise the discount during specific seasonal sales, but maybe that's just me. It's no big deal either way.

You can still check the metacritic rating, reviews and an award section on the game' page itself, so I guess removing them from images makes sense.

Funny thing is, these games don't really need that, they are "very positive" anyway (and that's the criterion almost everybody actually pays attention to).

Found about about this a few days ago. This is great news. I never fancied the artwork cluttered with other reviews that aren't always accurate. I appreciate if the developers are humble.

Yeah, this is an excellent change. To me, having stuff like that on the logo - and have it constanty be changing - that's design flaw. That's simply developers working around a limitation in the storefront's design.

Sadly, it's almost become the norm in most stores. Despite it making the user experience worse.

I find all the review whores eager to get Steam points much more annoying. But wait, that's a Valve invention so it must be o.k.

My take away of the discussion is IGNorance. I like that.

But ignorance is bliss!

What about messages like: "new dlc available" xD
Anyway - it's a good change :)

Great news. Too much clutter. For some unknown reason, they remind me of those early internet animated banner ads. That "my eyes! too much is going on" kind of feel.

Ok I think this is one of those instances where Steam is making a change for the better. Putting review scores on your box art is just plain tacky. Especially since these games are fairly mainstream and popular, so there's no shortage of reviews and commentary on them.

An admirable effort to clean up the shady dealings on the platform now crack down on shovelware and asset flips.

Maybe they can get them to remove NON-gameplay videos too, I'm tired of cgi-movie trailers purposely misrepresenting their games.

that's actually pretty awesome. i would like to be able to see the actual box art and logo of the game rather than 9823749832759283479327 reviews and numbers with the name of the game being like 10 pixel in total

really good new rule, i like it

now let's hope they let us see some actual game previews and not just 'this is the most popular vtuber's gameplay of our game'

I mean... does anyone actually get influenced by these?
Haven't we learned already that reviews done by "professionals" and specific review sites are pretty much useless and bought anyway?

I don't like all of these "awards" and scores on neither game or movie covers, but I just wonder if anyone actually takes them seriously.. and if not, whats the point of devs to do it?

Excelent news! Great decission Valve!

I approve. Really tired seeing all these 'here's new product from OUR PUBLISHER so we put it in this banner as well because why not' and all the '10/10' from noname sites.
Glad Valve still allows to post useful info like 'update 2.0'.

ok, now deal with all the garbage asset flips.

Huh, I had originally interpreted this as "Valve disabling Steam Awards on Steam community images", and I was like "nice, looks like they're finally cracking down on the Steam Points smuggling"... nevermind, but at least this is just as good.
Good riddance.

When I look at a game's capsule (as Valve calls them), what I want to know is what the game is about and how it looks like, NOT which kind of crappy awards -the majority of which nobody ever heard of- the publisher bought off by spending half of the game's budget, NOR which equally shitty (and equally obscure) gaming "experts" upvoted it and praised it as the next best-seller without even playing past the tutorial intro video that totally costed the other half of the budget.

What are we cleaning next, descriptions?
Perhaps we'll finally force publishers to stop shoving one billion autoplaying non-gameplay videos up our arses EVERY. SINGLE. FREAKING. TIME. we load a store page?

well done, next step.. limit promotional & advertisement vids on the storepage to 1! anything else with moving pictures has to be in-game footage
lol, I´m only dreaming, I know ..