I just have to say/rant, but I hate Steam. I used to have a level 150 account with over 1000 games and the whole concept of a gaming social media seems so toxic to me. It has gotten worse with all these Reddit awards too. I don't want to have a bunch of digital games stuck to a single launcher with seperate achievements. I don't want to 100% a game and then see that I didn't jump off a cliff in a funny way so I'm at 28/43 achievements with stuff that isn't even mentioned in the game. One game has an achievement where you have to exhaust every dialogue option at every time throughout the entire game. I don't want to study an achievement page first to make sure that me playing the game is enough. It also sucks that the older your account the cooler your achievement (badge) for that looks like too, it just seems all so toxic to me the way it is designed for user retention. My current profile is so barebones and I just feel silly because of it. Everything needs to be bought, effects, backgrounds, badges. Yes the sales are good, but it's easy to do them when you don't own the games anyway. Also I wish I could play Team Fortress 2 without it making my profile ugly with its 400 achievements. But I genuinely think that achievements not leveling up your account is the absolute worst part. Also Steam profiles are just kindy ugly to me.
And the worst part is that if I ever get a gaming PC, I'll have to regularly play Steam or else I feel bad. If I have an account with a profile like that, it needs to look proper for me to be satisfied. It's my problem, but I feel like Steam is designed to make you spend little more and more often and not actually play your games because your profile needs to look good first.
I'm so glad the Switch exists as it is and gotten so popular, because it became a solid alternative for indie games to appear on. I hate digital games, but I'd rather just get them on there then worry about my Steam profile. I deleted my addiction profile four years ago and got my life in order because this type of thing really impacted me as a teenager, so I'm not up-to-date, but your profile should level up when you get achievement and especially complete them??? Why is it only a pay option, the whole trading card system was never implemented functionally. The old Nick website had a better trading card system than this one. Everybody with a fancy Steam account is just wasting their time and money for aesthetics in a place where it cannot be reached.