Mal Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Is there a list of the daily deals? There is almost always one that leaked or some junk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Huh, where's War-Z? Why's that not on sale? I've heard really good things. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 The game was ready and perfect, alas, we weren't so it has gone back up in perfect game heaven for the time when we are ready to behold its glory (Tomorrow). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredEffinChopin Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Aww, Big Picture Mode has snowflakes falling in the background in celebration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredEffinChopin Posted December 25, 2012 Report Share Posted December 25, 2012 Umm... Steam Cloud Error: Steam was unable to sync your files for ____ with the Steam Cloud. If you have launched this application for another computer, your application settings and/or progress may not be in sync with what is stored in the Cloud. If you launch the application now, you may lose those changes or other progress Has anyone else ever seen this with EVERY game they're trying to run? I've seen it a couple of times before, when recovering from a crash (and Steam did crash in the background of Dungeon Defenders last night, though I didn't know until it was time to exit the game), and I just ran the game. This time when I tried to continue one, it seems all my savegame data for that game is gone.... Oh yeah, Merry Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 25, 2012 Report Share Posted December 25, 2012 I've only had it go wrong once and that was with Rock of Ages and a known bug at the time (well..known once their forums filled with "your game ate our save data"). You can, and if you're only one one PC somewhat recommended I guess, disable the Steam Cloud stuff. Right click the game > Properties > Updates > uncheck the "enable steam cloud" box. I know about a month or so ago under recommendation on reddit tweak the "you've newer/older cloud saves" box to give specific times and dates to let you pick which you want to keep. I would guess Steam might be straining a bit at the moment with lots of folks getting new games and such. Making sure it's fully exited before shutting down PC would probably be a good idea (steam will bring a little window up of "finalising Cloud sync" or similar) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredEffinChopin Posted December 25, 2012 Report Share Posted December 25, 2012 It's so weird, I had exited twice without any of the usual syncing, and the support page seemed to be down too. I guess it must've been a traffic issue. The last exit got a successful sync in though, and upon reboot, life is back to normal. That was scary for a second there. Thanks man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 25, 2012 Report Share Posted December 25, 2012 I know about a month or so ago under recommendation on reddit tweak the "you've newer/older cloud saves" box to give specific times and dates to let you pick which you want to keep. I don't understand this sentence. Are you saying there's a way to set it to tell you exactly when the files were saved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 25, 2012 Report Share Posted December 25, 2012 It used to pop up with a warning that of your local files and cloud files one was newer than other (they should be same age) and to pick which to keep, no sign which is newer. It now includes the exact timestamp for the local and cloud files. I'll see if I can grab the reddit link later. edit: Couldn't find the reddit thread (cos their search is worse than this place) but did find pretty much the exact same thing via google to illustrate: Before complaint: After complaint: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 25, 2012 Report Share Posted December 25, 2012 Ah, I'd seen the old one but I haven't had that pop up since the fix, apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Right Steam lets you, as of quite a while ago, add in custom images for the Grid view in Library (including to Steam games, not just non-steam games). However at the moment if you're wanting to find images for these you're kinda having to trek around the web through various forums and such to get them, there's (as best I can tell) no singular repository and certainly nothing sortable. So I figured maybe worth doing it myself? This is what I've got in WAMP at the moment. It's just running off some gallery software called Piwigo with a theme on it and various settings tweaked. Tomorrow I might make a sub-domain and make something live on the site (though if it's something to make properly then I'd probably get a proper domain) Would any of you make use of such a site? Think it's a good idea? Have any thoughts/suggestions/offerings of help? What I'd like, but seem to be unable to do with this, is to add in Oauth support, and sort out the homepage. Tweaking the homepage is possible, but it's pretty much raw HTML/piwigo mark-up which I don't know. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 My only thought would be to be careful about licensing issues with distributing the images like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Well the ones I have at the moment, mainly to populate it with something so I can play around with the options, are yanked from imgur. Though I'm aware some of them seem to be the ones Steam has by default for some games (Which I'd aim to avoid). Potentially a hurdle to be crossed, easy enough to add disclaimers and remove content as n when. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrowKnow Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Looks good, having to dig through forums or horribly crop images myself is kinda a pain. Would definitely use it although most of my library is on steam. The only games I'd really be using custom icons on are: steam games that don't have them ie. Amnesia Fortnight prototypes, games that'll never be on steam like blizzard games and some desura games though there are a growing number of those being passed through greenlight. http://steamicons.blogspot.ca/ is the only other sight I know that's attempted to do this but, it was kinda sparse and a lot of entries seemed to be pulled from forum threads. Doesn't seem to actually be up so here's the cache for the page. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Seems the idea I'm going for already exists http://steambanners.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list Might keep the idea in the back of my mind though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 http://steamcommunity.com/guides Game Guides are now live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 Neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 I can already see the Steam Guide for fan-hated games. Part 1: Don't play this game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 Oh W&S, the hater's hater. Given it's all community rated (and reported) you're probably not going to see anything like that, at least not near the top. Certainly no sign of any at the moment. Why bother making a Guide anyway when you can just hop onto the Discussion tab and rag on the game there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 I just wanted to make a joke jeesh Dean leave me alone! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 http://steamcommunity.com/chat/ This is now a thing. And now also extra goodness in the beta too: http://steamcommunit...915144362275196 tl;dr: - New Steam updater (it's no longer the grey box of yore, but I think that might get skinned later on) - Beta updates will use the beta changelog and not the usual client changelog (which normally is a few weeks out of date and irrelevant) - Offline Messaging - Logged chats (means it'll act a bit like forum chat in having some of the prior messages in the window) - Removed "/me" which kinda sucks - Oh and a steam group for Betas which I just linked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrowKnow Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) I guess stuff like this is one of the reasons for /me going away :< All of the other changes look good though, especially the changelogs. Edited January 24, 2013 by CrowKnow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 http://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards So you can now get Steam trading cards. I'm not sure I understand it, but whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 Just more stuff to get you more involved and tied into the service... one more thing to ignore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 As far as I'm concerned it's a way to potentially earn coupons by playing games I would have played anyway, nothing more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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