te_lanus: trading cards is easy to get rid of, put them on the Steam market place, the thing that is annoying is those Backgrounds and Emoticons, they are worthless even on the Steam market :P
Crosmando: The problem with the trading cards isn't the cards themselves, but what they represent. As in, they are a sign of Steam/Valve continual dangerous movement towards "gamification". Steam should be encouraging their users to be playing the games they buy, but instead they are promoting a "collect em all" mentality, promoting social/community features, friends' lists, basically everything except actually playing games.
It always surprises me how many "gamers" will use just about any excuse in the book not actually play games. As if the important thing isn't the games themselves but being part of some gaming scene.
Then again, Steam sales on their own already encourage the habit of buying games for the sake of buying them, hence why there are so many people with Steam libraries filled with titles that they will most likely never play. So I'm not even remotely surprised that Valve is including features that further incentivise that kind of behaviour; after all, it makes no difference to them for what reason people buy as long as they buy. If anything, it's
beneficial for them if people spend more time buying games than actually playing them.
Anyway, as for the main topic, Steam absolutely needs a way to delete games. But then again, Steam needs a lot of things, like the ability to "
detach" retail copies from a Steam account.
