Background image Steam game

[tesivo]

I suggest in source/Plugins/SteamLibrary/SteamMetadataProvider.cs to modify the line 283 from
metadata.BackgroundImage = string.Format(@"https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/{0}/page_bg_generated_v6b.jpg", appId);

to

metadata.BackgroundImage = string.Format(@"https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/{0}/page_bg_generated.jpg", appId);

Exists also the following image:

Some games have instead this path:
metadata.BackgroundImage = string.Format(@"https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/{0}/page.bg.jpg", appId);

P.S. I used The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Payday 2 background images for the examples

EDIT1: It seems that the older games follow the path of Skyrim, while the more recent the other. Nevertheless it is not said and also sometimes the clean images are completely different images, see Velvet Assasin.

EDIT2: Some games like Ryse: Son of Rome and Dead Space has 3 different images:
page.bg.jpg
page_bg_generated.jpg
page_bg_generated_v6.jpg

[JosefNemec]

While clean images are generally lower resolution compared to the blue tinted ones (depends on the game according to my tests), it will probably look better in general.

Since not all games provide page.bg (which seems to be the best choice), we should use images based on this priority:

• page.bg
• page_bg_generated
• page_bg_generated_v6 (blue one, that should be available for all games)

There's also currently option to use game screenshots from store page instead of background and we should still respect that. Maybe even add option to force use the blue backgrounds if somebody prefers those.

[tesivo]

I agree with you. If the user can choose is always perfect

P.S. There is a small difference between
page_bg_generated_v6 and page_bg_generated_v6b

I prefer the last one(which is the one currently in use)

[JosefNemec]

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