#Use Steams Inventory system for skins & Such

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foggy night
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Id like that too, love steam item stuff

jolly beacon
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yeah, its one of my favorite things on steam

jolly beacon
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I mean who could disagree right?

quick stump
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Please include also Microtransactions this is only best with microtransactions

remote pumice
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This most likely won't happen since the game is sold on multiple platforms. The steam inventory was usually set up for games, that only relied on steam, since otherwise you just made a large headache for yourself in having to implement duplicate systems for the same function.

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Also, if you want to showcase the fact, that you have a given item, you can do it with the achievement itself

jolly beacon
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and its on mobile

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so what you are saying makes no sense

raven coral
jolly beacon
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that doesn't mean their is not a way for it to work

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for example, Warframe and For Honor does this, not only that they are cross plat

jolly beacon
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bump

dark crescent
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This is a pain for devs to do and makes it so you need an online connection to Steam to allow skins to be used at all. It makes more sense why they don't do it.

jolly beacon
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I could not disagree more

dark crescent
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Have you actually implemented the steam inventory service in a game?

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cuz I have and I can totally understand why they don't do it 😂

oak ermine
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Just no gambling otherwise yes.

dark crescent
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Don't forget for cross-platform games, there is usually a requirement for entitlement parity so they'd have to do this for xbox and other platforms, plus then they'd need to figure out how to have cross-platform entitlements or lock them to individual platforms

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it's a huuuuge pain in the ass, just keep it in the save file

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Like Space Engineers did this to their IMO detriment - they have ship skins and suit skins as steam items and if you're offline? Can't apply the skins you otherwise own cuz you don't have the steam item connection. It's absolutely stupid.

jolly beacon
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that is for them to figure out

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if someone really knows what they are doing, its not as bad as your making it out to be, also they have a whole team to work with

dark crescent
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It just seems like an absolutely silly suggestion that would require a ton of effort for absolutely no useful gain, the only real gain would be if you deleted your save you wouldn't lose skins

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and tbh no one cares what items you are trying to show off on steam profiles, it's gotta be the weakest flex ever to put something there

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they certainly wouldn't allow trading of skins either

jolly beacon
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I would disagree with that, there is many applications like lets say weekly skins for example, like how rust does. also its my preference to show what's on my steam profile and has nothing to do with what you like or your opinion, i am here for the developers opinion rather than a hater like you are being

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and I certainly never said that i wanted the skins to be tradable, i thought it would be a cool addition

dark crescent
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you're free to post a feedback item, but I'm adding a feedback point as well that this would be a waste of time and other players like myself don't want it

jolly beacon
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well that's your opinion, doesn't mean people don't want it.

jolly beacon
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leaden elk
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I just dont see the point?
You say the steam inventory allows you to show off your skins but you can show off achievements instead

foggy night
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There's both up and downsides

remote pumice
# foggy night Can also trade stuff or other things

You most likely wouldn't be able to trade stuff even if the steam inventory was used, since the only items you can get aren't % based and you can't get duplicates to trade away.
Also, if they gave steam players the opportunity to trade, which can't be implemented for xbox, then this would be literally a hard barrier against crossplay. And in my opinion crossplay is much more important, than "getting to showcase items on steam" lmao.