Profile and user tags: add Steam

[ninetydegrees]

Title:
Profile and user tags: add Steam

Area:
profiles, third party integration

Summary:
Gamers Unite!

Description:
I'd love to be able to mention one's Steam ID or profile number in the Connect section of Profiles and as user tags. These have two forms, I believe:

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/XXX

XXX being a number

of if you have a custom URL:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/YYY

YYY being whatever you chose.

Profiles can be public or private (but will always display your avatar).

[P.S. in case you didn't know about it, Steam is a "digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform" dixit Wikipedia. In short, gamers all over the world use it to buy and play video games.]

Poll #12992 Profile and user tags: add Steam

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51

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Should be implemented as-is.
20 (39.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
31 (60.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[randomling]

As a Steam user, I like this idea a lot!

I'm not sure how usertags would be implemented with a scheme like that, though - surely you'd have to supply the Steam user's ID number, rather than their username, for us to be able to build the appropriate URL? And it seems like that's not something that you'd necessarily know; maybe for yourself, but much less likely for someone else.

I may be not seeing something very obvious here but it seems like usertags might be tricky on this one.

[ninetydegrees]

Not sure if you mean implementing it or using it. Implementing it would be pretty straightforward I believe as you only have to provide the fixed part of the URL. Using it well, eh. My steam id is my steam username so... Depends on whether your steam contacts have a custom url.

[jewelfox]

How about Desura too?

[ninetydegrees]

I didn't know about Desura but http://www.dreamwidth.org/site/suggest ;)

[denise]

so, this is a duplicate! but looking into it, it seems that since Steam doesn't require you to have a username (and operates instead on ID numbers) that it is not a good candidate for inclusion in the usertag.

[ninetydegrees]

:/

Thanks for taking the time to tell me and explain why it wouldn't be done.