Just a quick question here, how do you check the winner if they have thousands of (maybe tens of thousands of) games on their account?

I tried to open the games page on their Steam profile and my Chrome becomes entirely unresponsive the next 5 minutes. Typing into the filter box takes me another 10 minutes. :(

And sadly SGTool doesn't cover this function.

So what's your suggestion?

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Firefox

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As far as performance is concerned, I think Chrome is the fastest one.

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I've found Firefox to perform much better when opening profiles with thousands of games.

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My firefox freezes when someone have more than 700 games ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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add as friend, open store page

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Well, that's a good idea.
Is there another way? Because I'm just too lazy to wait for them to accept my friend invitation when giving away keys.

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wait for the browser to load

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lol.

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This. External webpages normally take like forever as well

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SteamDB, although for certain DLCs you might need to add them as friend.

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SteamDB, surely.

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Maybe this should be less "heavy" https://steamdb.info/calculator

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Beat me by a minute...

And so did talgaby and Mike90.... oh well

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Use Steamdb.info to check. It can load my library of over 5000 much quicker then the Steam profile page can.

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Yes, I have this. But no, I don't mean previous non-activated win or multiple wins, I mean to check if the winner have the game I'm giving away already.

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compare2steam.com

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It works. And it seems very efficient too. Thanks.

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+1 steamcompare

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Including DLC, I mean.

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I do have a winner here who have 4700+ games on his Steam profile.

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Stop projecting.

zypA13510 hasn't indicated any of the judgment inherent to your question.

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Maybe he just want to check if the winner already has game from GA? At least I always do that.

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I don't know what he said after my last post, but, this is certainly what I was doing, to check if the winner already has the game.

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Because zypA13510 wants to be able to look at someone's games list without freezing his browser?

I tried to visit someone's games list who has 4500+ games today and the same thing happened to me. I also use Chrome. And this had nothing to do with SG.

Wanting to be able to see a large Steam library without dealing with freezing is a valid concern on its face.

Edit: and you deleted your comments like a shameful clown. If you're going to be that crappy about your hot takes and that cowardly about owning the things you say please go Full Coward and just don't participate at all.

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(for steam gifts only)
If you add him as friend, try to send him the gift through steam(dont send yet), in the list of your friend it shall show if he owns anything in the gift you going to send.

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You don't actually need a gift you can just add the item to your cart and choose to "send my gift directly through Steam".

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Try open the steam profile in Anonymous mode (Chrome). It always works for me

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Someone told me about the Steam Web API, you might want to look that up?

Basically just get an API key, find the appid of the game, get the id of the user you want to check, then call the method mentioned in the linked comment.

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I just wonder, why there isn't such function made available on SGTools yet?
I thought it's because Steam does not provide such API. But judging from what you provided, it could be implemented quite easily. So, why?
Anyway, thanks for this info. Maybe I should write a userscript someday when I'm free.

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You have to wait, chrome takes a few minutes to open the games page, but it does eventually.

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sounds like maybe you're on a slow internet &/or PC?? takes my 4,200 games ~2mins to load, but never does it hang the entire browser for me, i can still continue to browse around on other tabs just fine while it loads.

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Maybe I exaggerated a bit, but it froze my entire browser anyway. 100% CPU use.
Maybe it's because the userscripts I installed? Idk.

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It always seems to be the image loading that slows my browser down on large libraries. The same thing happens when loading a large inventory. Using the API is often faster though neither method is of much use for checking DLCs. For those I generally have to add the user as a friend to check ownership.

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