deanb Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 Huh it really has been up for a year. Time flies and all that. Early Access is probably going to crumble under it's own weight. Been a lot of shady stuff pushed through on it (including a fair few "F2P" games). In general what Steam really needs is a massive re-think of how they want to sort and present the games (and programs) on the stores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted April 16, 2014 Report Share Posted April 16, 2014 http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/introducing-steam-gauge-ars-reveals-steams-most-popular-games/ Ars have done a big huge breakdown of Steam games on hours played, amount of games played/unplayed, and so on so forth. It does have a few bits of flaws in the data (the biggy being that it's using the hours played stat which only came into action 5 years ago, pretty much skewing the stats heavily for any games older than that), but it gives a pretty decent overview. Also Beyond Earth really comes across as a no brainer with those stats. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baconrath Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 Fistful of Frags dag nab it cause its free 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 Man, that was one of our go-to games back when Kotakuites first started out. Was pretty fun. Shame about Lead & Gold being kind of poop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 Is anyone suddenly finding that clicking on any links inside a steam message brings up a warning about external sites? Is there a way to turn that off? I think I'm smart enough to know when a link goes outside of steam, thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 They changed it over a while ago (though come to think of it I use their beta clients so might be recent for stable users). It's apparently to protect folks from phishing and what not, but after the whole issue with VAC/CSGO scouring through browser history to check you've not been on sites supplying cheats I reckon they've ulterior motives behind it all. It's a bit like Facebook/Twitter passing all your links through their services first, means they get a good list to be able to go "huh, well a lot of our guys are all checking links on G2a/GOG/GMG etc, maybe that's a concern" "Well lot of folks are reading up on [insert game here] maybe we should give it a featured spotlight" and what not. Knowledge is power and all that. Oh yeah, what was fun is when it first launched it didn't work, you'd just have the steam client load up with something like "steamcommunity.com/?link=www.imgur.com" or whatever. Other week a few of us had issues with links in group chat linking to that users profile instead of the link. Was a bit weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 Is there a way to turn it off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 Not that I'm aware of, it's now a built in "feature" of steam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted July 16, 2014 Report Share Posted July 16, 2014 Jesus. I don't know whether to be frustrated anymore.I have do not track me on my browser...but doubt that matter. Maybe I should give up on complaining about it anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 http://steamcleaner.tikione.org/en/ Pretty handy tool, clears out unneeded distribution diles: The DX, .NEt, GFWL ones etc etc. Can clear a fair few gigs of space. As it warns though, if your game wants to update, or you "verify cache" it will grab those files again. But I guess alright for non-actively developed games. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Hm, it's not working for me. When I install it and try to use it, I just get an error message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Up to date with Java and have the right directory picked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Yeah, pretty sure I am. I don't know what happened there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/steam-updates-early-access-rules-guidelines-for-de/1100-5101/ Steam update the Early Access rules. Most of it actually seems somewhat focused on making sure they don't sell early access games on places like Humble Bundle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredEffinChopin Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 The whole game plan is in here. I'm still digging through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 That is a lot of hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Of all of the steam machines, Steam Link makes the most sense to me. If its relatively in-expensive then it should be the option most existing PC users look at. Until Steam OS really takes off, I don't see the point of having a steam machine AND a PC at the prices they are asking for most of those machines. I do want steam os to work out though, I love the idea of modding games but having a console like experience . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 Big Picture would be the "console-like experience", which is on every version of Steam regardless of OS (with the bonus of 360 pad support out the box for Windows, same with DS4 I'm to understand). I take issue with the fact that the Steam Machines pitch does not make it absolutely and utterly clear that they will not run the majority of games available on Steam without picking up a copy of Windows to slap on the device too (or buying another PC with Windows on to use the streaming stuff). The Alienware one, which seems to be Valves personal choice, even states "MORE GAMES" which is complete opposite of what it has 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 I take issue with the fact that the Steam Machines pitch does not make it absolutely and utterly clear that they will not run the majority of games available on Steam without picking up a copy of Windows to slap on the device too (or buying another PC with Windows on to use the streaming stuff). The Alienware one, which seems to be Valves personal choice, even states "MORE GAMES" which is complete opposite of what it has Yep. Will be interesting to see what options are available when these things go retail. Totally expecting an option to spend an extra $100 to actually play more than indie games. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted May 25, 2015 Report Share Posted May 25, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 So Steam now has a refund policy that allows you to get a refund within 14 days of purchase for any game that you've played for less than 2 hours. Sounds pretty great to me. Of course, because it's the internet, some are already bitching about it being unfair to indie devs who make games shorter than 2 hours... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 "A game I worked on that's on steam is 30 seconds long." And they charge MONEY for it?! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 (edited) Like I said in my status...they better pump up their support team(Gabe said they plan to in his AMA thread on reddit...but I'm pretty sure he has said that in the past before...). They also said they don't consider getting a refund and immediately buying the game again because it's on sale [as abuse]. Edited June 3, 2015 by Vecha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 They also said they don't consider getting a refund and immediately buying the game again because it's on sale. Did you leave out a word here? According to Eurogamer Valve said getting a refund and then buying it again because it went on sale would not be considered abuse of the refund system. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 They also said they don't consider getting a refund and immediately buying the game again because it's on sale. Did you leave out a word here? According to Eurogamer Valve said getting a refund and then buying it again because it went on sale would not be considered abuse of the refund system. Maayybeee....? Yeah, my bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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