Comment on [Discussion] What was first Steam game you ever purchased?
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 18 hours agoI’m actually veeery impressed with how you organize your library so cleanly. I was actually expecting absolute chaos! Especially because you had already a big list of games after the custom Collections where introduced. My lists are often out of sync, those which are not dynamic. In example I have a list for games that are delisted, but I was a bit lazy.
And I also didn’t think of Family sharing (even though I did that in the past too). One of the major improvements over old Family sharing is, now you can actually share games without everyone else getting kicked out when you play a game. Remember that? Now you can play something, while someone else is playing at the same time. Correct me if I’m wrong please!
What do you mean by “create custom sort names”? If you refer that to options in the Collection, then there is no explanation needed. Otherwise, is there such an option outside the Collections?
BTW Humble Bundle got me too, when it was in its prime. Nowadays I don’t use that service anymore. There was a time when I purchased keys from shady sites, but at that time I didn’t think of anything bad… until games got removed from my account. Then I informed myself and since then buy on Steam only. (nothing todo with Humble Bundle BTW, complete separate issue)
I just checked my profile and my Steam anniversary is tomorrow. My account will be 19 years old!
I don’t know if tomorrow happened for you already, but congratz. May the next 19 years as fruitful and fun as the past. :-)
Thank you for sharing, that was is great.
cobysev@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Yeah! I don’t know if it’s still a Steam beta option or if it’s site wide already, but if you right-click any game in your library, then go to Properties, the Customization menu on the left side, then scroll all the way down to the bottom. There’s a new section titled “Custom Sort Name.”
It was just announced by Valve sometime earlier this year. You can create custom sort names for everything now. It doesn’t change the name of the game in your library, but it lets you sort them by a common name. If you don’t see it, then turn on the option for beta updates in Steam.
So for instance, I own the entire Sniper Elite franchise. But technically, from a timeline point of view, Sniper Elite 3 is the first game in the series, followed by 4, 5, Resistance, then 1 and V2. I can create a custom sort name for each game, naming them something like “Sniper Elite 01” through “06,” in the order I listed above. And then they show up in that order in my library!
Or for a more visible example, look at the screenshot of my library in my previous comment above. The Metal Gear games are all arranged in story timeline. Play them in that order and it makes more sense than if you played them in release order.
If you don’t custom sort games at all, then they just show up in alphabetical order in your library. There’s an option for game companies to add a custom sort name to all their games in Steam, and I’ve seen it on some franchises (I think Assassin’s Creed used to list their games in storyline order for a while). But most companies leave it blank and you have to do research to find out which game to play first in a series if they’re not numbered.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Ah, I remember. Thanks for explanation. I remember this functionality, just forgot about it. It will really come in handy when I dive into Collections again. Its a thing on my todo list, so thanks for the reminder for this. Some lists were ugly with their “wrong” sequence. The inconsistency of the original names annoys me too, especially so in a series.