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If you use the same password for other services I'd check https://haveibeenpwned.com . It is possible that your (hashed) password was leaked during a data breach and hackers could link your password to your username/email. If this is the case you should change your password on every service that uses that password.

EDIT: a word

also if you have a question please look if someone didn't ask it already. I'm getting a lot of messages :p

They're likely using an icon pack like font-awesome but probably not FA itself as they don't have a circular message icon nor any message icons styled like that, and the Steam icon is not quite right. Steam's is not an uncommon one to find in icon packs.

Sorry to kill the hype train, but that's extremely old. It's from way back when they were updating Steam Community to add game hubs, Steam group discussions, and some other stuff.

Somehow it worked its way into your recently-purchased list. Just ignore it.

Here are three known workarounds:

1) Go to https://store.steampowered.com/account/ and see your purchased history

2) Change Detail view to "Recent" under library, it'll show the game in purchased order. BUT it shows your ENTIRE library, not just installed ones. Steam beta only.

3) Change library view to List View, and sort the games by Last Played. It'll list the games in purchased order.

🎶Just a friendly reminder that this website exists:🎶

http://isthereanydeal.com/

Add your Steam wishlist and it'll let you know if it's cheaper somewhere else, the historical deal prices, if there are coupons available, etc.

It's there for a long time already. It's only on store page, it is suppose to promote game.

You can disabled this in Steam settings https://i.imgur.com/Yy5FjYx.png

https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences/

As many of you may already know Steam does not enforce DRM. There are a couple of community made lists online here and here that list DRM-free games on Steam however they aren’t very active and are far from complete. I’ve felt for a little while now that one of Steam’s greatest weaknesses was the lack of a DRM-free indicator and I’d love to see one added to Steam :)

This may be an example of a classic problem in recommendation systems (a class of machine learning systems) called "the Harry Potter problem."

Essentially, because everyone buys Harry Potter, every book is related to Harry Potter.

https://www.quora.com/Recommendation-Systems/What-exactly-is-Harry-Potter-Problem

I'll take this moment to say that I've added "Daily Hidden Deals" section on SteamDB's sales page, which should list daily deals that are not featured on the front page (like MGR: Revengeance).

Another new feature is that we have price history graphs now. If you go to an app page and click on a currency name, it should load the graph.

In the coming days, we should have a new filter in our extension which should allow you to only display games from your wishlist on sales page.

I made a countdown timer so the international people don't have to calculate it for themselves personally.

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I would say just avoid all and any third party key reselling sites. I know few friends have bought from few places several times without any problems, bought once in past myself as well when I didn't know better and just saw cheap games. That doesn't mean there won't be any problems and I have heard all kind of things how keys are aquired starting from stolen credit cards to keys given to youtube personality by dev to use on video. Then of course site can just screw over few customers to make quick buck and still keep their reputation pretty much intact.

Then of course all the backlashes companies have been making recently revoking possibly stolen keys (Unknown Worlds, Rebellion, Ubisoft), changing regional pricing to match all countries (EA), direct redemption of keys instead of giving them (Humble) and limiting trading time of games in steam inventory (Valve). Who knows what happens next.

IsThereAnyDeal and CheapShark are pretty good sites listing legit sites prices and first one is actually implemented in Enhanced Steam, so just use those.

>You would be given a random username at the top of the page instead of yours [...] clicking that username would bring up that user's account

(emphasis mine)

It's a fine point, but this is actually incorrect. Every time you loaded any page, you'd be given a completely different cached page. It wasn't the same user. Clicking that button takes you to https://store.steampowered.com/account/, which always ended up being a different account. *Edit: This is of course a worse problem, as you'd get a new account's personal info every time you hit refresh.

It always bugs me when TB makes little mistakes like this, since he always talks as if he's an authority on everything, yet he makes silly little mistakes that show he really isn't paying attention.

Edit: Then later on...

>The problem is that it would seem, that the account page was not the only page you could access during the caching problem. There have been widespread reports including on the admittedly unofficial site, SteamDB, that it was also possible to access their checkout page through their cart, if they had items in the cart

Again, he's talking as if you're logged into one account. The reality was, every single page you viewed on steampowered.com was generated for the previous person. So every page you went to, it was logged in as someone else. Go to the account page and keep hitting refresh, you'll keep getting account after account after account. Go to the checkout page and hit refresh, same thing. Go to the cart page, any page, go to buy Skyrim, it doesn't matter, you get a different account every single page load. Refresh, Russian, refresh, German, refresh, English, refresh, Korean. You're not viewing one guy's cart from his account page, then going to that one guy's checkout page.

The desktop client is pretty much only a web wrapper for a somewhat responsive website as well. I don't think that's necessarily bad, at least as long as the website is well designed. The Steam app for android was last updated in April 24, 2017, so that might also be sign.

The layout will most likely be changed with the promised UI-update, but there's ValveTime™.

Most of them are probably updates to Steamworks Common Redistributables (aka "Do you want another copy of DirectX/Visual C++ runtime DLLs?"). New files are VC++ 2012 and 2013 redistributables. Each depot is around 13 MB, so it matches up after compression. See SteamDB for history (in particular change #884217).

Edit: I would like to add my personal opinion about common redists: they really should make those depots shared so I don't have to download an extra 20-50 MB of stuff that I already have when downloading new games.

Edit 2: A breakdown of sizes.

• 2.6 MB for VC 2013 Redist (partial? Maybe once you've downloaded the others, it gets smaller.)
• 12.8 MB for VC 2012 Redist
• 12.6 MB for VC 2013 Redist
• 25.4 MB for both
• 15.4 MB for VC 2012 plus partial VC 2013

So I bought DayZ Standalone when it was first released on Steam because Early Access was a new thing, and I had hopes that one of my favourite games/mod would have a fully supported standalone version(500 hours on Arma 2).

Since Valve has finally addresed our rights as consumers in Australia, I've been granted a full refund 4 years after I purchased it. It might help that I only had 21 minutes playtime, but I'm finally glad that the developers of that scam of a game will lose my money.

PSA to all Australians. Stand up for your rights.

EDIT: Let me just say that you can't just abuse this and refund whatever you want. But we are now entitled to a refund past the 2 hour/14 day mark if the game is completely unplayable or falsely advertised ^^^like ^^^dayz.

EDIT2: FYI, I kept getting refund requests bouncing back after 10-30 minutes using the refund system, and well I don't believe for a second that a real Valve employee checks the requests. So I sent another ticket about my account and not directly linked to a purchase and a real person responded.

EDIT3: For anyone who doesn't understand: https://store.steampowered.com/consumer_rights_notice/

EDIT4:

HOW TO ACTUALLY SEND A REAL STEAM SUPPORT REQUEST

• Go here: https://help.steampowered.com/en/

• Select the "Purchases" option

• Scroll all the way down and click "View complete purchasing history"

• Find the game you want to refund and click it

• Click the "I have a question about this purchase" option

• Write in your reason for refunding.

VOTE FOR THE LONGEST JOURNEY

It's one of the best adventure games of all time, & this would make it only $2.50

http://www.gamespot.com/the-longest-journey/reviews/the-longest-journey-review-2594178/

http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/reviews/259/

> To conclude, it can be said without hesitation that The Longest Journey is among the best and most beautiful adventure games ever made. What makes this game really special is the fact that it is made to be experienced and remembered like a great book. The suspense and the curiosity it raises are captivating. There is also an enchanted feeling that there are many stories within the main story, and not all of the stories have yet to be told. The places and the characters are unforgettable. The game truly offers an incredible gaming experience, an immersive gameplay, and a wonderful story waiting to be revealed. The ingredients for the perfect adventure game are all present. With all these, you can surely bet that after many years you will still remember young April and her quest to save the Balance!

For $2.50, even if you haven't tried Adventure games, it's worth checking out.

> Epic's launcher has far fewer features than Steam, plus has a history of security breaches and other issues.

Apparently they perma-ban if you're detected using a VPN. Yes, for singleplayer games. Yes, on first offense. I'm not tossing my NordVPN subscription and gimping my network security just for their shitty storefront. Hard pass.

Dwarf Fortress is free. The Steam version will have an official tileset, new music, and Steam Workshop integration, but if you're willing to play with ASCII graphics (or use a modded tileset), then you can download the game from the developer's website.

I haven't played Rimworld, but it may be the better option if a) ASCII graphics are a dealbreaker, b) a steep learning curve and hardcore gameplay are dealbreakers, or c) you like the sci-fi colony theme better than high fantasy.

It wont be worth it. They're going to lose out on a fucking MASSIVE portion of their sales. I'm a die hard metro fan, i own every game normal and redux, as well as every book in the series. I will NOT be buying this fucking game after this shitshow.

Epic store exlusive, more like https://thepiratebay.org/ exclusive, because if it isn't on steam then thats where im getting it.

Last year, SEGA did it on Humble store. The Sonic hits collection's base price was $30, then they raised the price to $112.99 1 day before putting it on sale.

IsThereAnyDeal says that they did the same on Steam: http://isthereanydeal.com/#/page:game/price?plain=sonichitscollection (it went from $29.99 to $49.99, and then to $112.99)

I think the reasons for this bear out some explaining.

Firstly, WTFast is JUST a VPN. That's all it is. And a crap one at that. You can get Private Internet Access's VPN service for less money and it's more reliable and has a better privacy policy by far.

As to your problems with FFXIV, all their servers are in the same place. They are in a Montreal datacenter that is served by Level 3 Communications (a major backbone supplier). Now, the REASON you are seeing massive lag when playing FFXIV is that Netflix also gets served from Level 3. This means that a ton of Level 3 server hops are throttled by TWC and Verizon and other shitass ISPs.

What WTFast does is sell more expensive VPN access to people who aren't super tech savvy. When you join a VPN, your ISP only sees the data as going between you and the VPN provider.

If their server isn't overloaded, WTFast will help you out by making sure the data gets to Level 3 without your ISP knowing exactly where it is going. Same thing works for Netflix. And any VPN can do it.

WTFast does NOT do anything secret or magical. The ping improvements are be re-routing traffic either through intentional throttling by your ISP or bad hops caused by either your ISP or the service provider.

Interesting info, but the presentation of type & images make it confusing to read.

I see you've made a few of these, so I'd suggest looking into "clean" infographic design.

Behance has a good resource of them: https://www.behance.net/collection/Clean-(info)graphics/14976129?sort=list_item_created_date&time=all&page=3&collection=14976129&privacy=profile

This is great stuff, it's just a shame it's really hard for readers to parse the info. I'd love to see your stuff in a much cleaner format. So I hope my comments are more helpful than hurtful. This is really cool what you're doing.

You should check out isthereanydeal or gg.deals for deals outside of Steam, considering these stores can have better discounts. Also, check out Humble Bundle and Fanatical for bundles for a quite cheap price that usually has some quality games.

Epic's press release: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/announcing-the-epic-games-store

Not sure what to think about this. On the one hand, it's great to have someone disrupting the price gouging of game/app stores (30% is a lot); on the other hand, it's yet another online store.

My hope is this forces Steam to improve and Valve to actually release games (and an engine) as a backbone to their service like Epic is doing. Of course I likely won't move away from Steam because I have 300+ games there. The only store I like more is GoG because of their DRM free stance.

> valves usage rates are miniscule.

They are one of the top 10 sites for internet traffic in the US. Very few sites can make their traffic look miniscule. They are right up there behind Hulu and Facebook.

The problem is not just how net neutrality affects them directly and their upload traffic, but also what rules are imposed on their customers, and how it affects their level of service.

China passed the same law a year ago: https://kotaku.com/china-passes-law-forcing-games-with-loot-boxes-to-discl-1789828850

Not sure how it works there now, but I think we will get it in Steam, probably next year.

Thanks for the RE-tip I've already been using occasionally. However that -no-browser <Cripples> Steam quite much so that you may call this "Game Mode" and call the other normal launch as "Maintenance Mode". Also it's Original Posting was;

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -console -dev -nofriendsui -no-browser +open "steam://open/minigameslist"

for all available options. And you can use http://playnite.link/ + Steam Minimal to get back into a Performance Mode Steam Client of some sorts..

It's probably one game going out of control. Mine personally is 50mb for the whole thing.

I agree that you generally shouldn't poke in there, but in this case, I recommend running something like WinDirStat to find what game is using so much space. One you know the folder, go to:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/&lt;appid&gt;/

To see what game it is.

Software engineer and hobbyist sysadmin here. Steam performing a bunch of reads shouldn't put your performance out too much, assuming that you're not engaging in any other disk-heavy loads. Applications should still be responsive, nothing should lag, etc.

If you're seeing applications lag like they're not responding, and not just seeing applications take longer to do things, then there's a good chance you're low on RAM and your applications are being paged out of memory.

Yeah, buying an SSD will help the problem, but that's really only a band-aid; the real fix is to make sure you don't leave too many applications open, or if you're just running out of memory, consider getting more.

If you want to try to diagnose these sort of things, I'd recommend checking out the tools at Sysinternals. Process explorer is one of their most popular tools, but vmmap is handy for examining a single process.

Sounds like you need to find a new way to browse the store...

https://steamdb.info/sales/ can sort the sales according to % discount.

https://isthereanydeal.com/#/filter:steam,&amp;cut/50/100 Clicking this will take you to Isthereanydeal.com and show only Steam store games with a discount that is at least 50%.

Pretty sure MS surrendered GFWL and is now using Steam exclusively.

>Xbox boss Phil Spencer praised Steam and what the company has done for PC gaming over the past ten years. ... >Also during the panel, Spencer said PC gamers can expect "more focus" from Microsoft in the PC gaming space in the time ahead.

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-steam-has-been-the-backbone-of-pc-gaming-for-past-10-years/1100-6418466/

>As a suggestion, I think that all would rather have a notification saying 'Steam Winter Sale 2016 is active!' or similar.

you can already have that...

http://i.imgur.com/7orbYsn.png

https://store.steampowered.com/account/emailoptout

it is called a X Seasonal promotion is begining.

With Train Simulator its a bit different. They're not competing with other video games so much as they're competing with model railroad miniatures. When you compare the price of physical models to purchasing the same train on Train Simulator instead, its a bargain.

Creeper World is a really good game. It's also really cheap and its part of free flash game series so you can try it out for free and see if you're into it. http://www.kongregate.com/games/whiteboardwar/creeper-world-3-abraxis

But yeh, alot of these games look meh.

I have been dealing with this crap for a year now because for some reason steam decided I really want to play this shitty MMORPG made in Korea but available only in US and throws it into every queue I try to complete. But there are 2 ways I have found to deal with this BS and refresh your queue.

Once you get that error and you can't start another queue because it starts with that same region locked game, just go to steam store main page. Open any game from the front page and press "View Your Queue" button in bottom right corner. You'll go to "Your Discovery Queue" page, press "Start another queue" there. Once again it will give you same error that game is not available in your region. After that go to store page again, scroll down to your queue and it will be refreshed and you can continue. But there's a good 99% chance your last game in queue will be the same region locked crap, so you'll have to repeat this procedure again.

Another way to fix it. When steam gives you this error page right click anywhere on the screen and choose "Copy Page URL", paste it anywhere and it will give you AppID of the game. For example steam gives me this https://store.steampowered.com/app/296300 . After that go to https://steamcommunity.com/app/*AppID* (replace AppID with the numbers that you got from your URL) and follow that community. It will remove that game from your queue and it won't appear there again until you unfollow it. This method not the best, following the game that you'll never be able to play and might not even like is not really a good solution and if there're multiple region locked games in your queue you'll have to do the same thing for all of them.

There's a difference between monopoly and competition. I've taken the liberty to link the definition of monopoly below

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/monopoly

Monopoly is :

"complete control of the supply of particular goods or services, or a company or group that has such control: "

Valve does not force any developer for exclusive rights to only sell games on Steam. Nor do they bribe developers for exclusive platform rights. Steam does not control where developers can or cannot sale their games in. They do not enforce a cut of the profit when developers generate thousands of their game keys from Steam and sell it on third party sites where Steam sees no profit.

What Valve has done is create a digital platform for PC gamers that is user friendly, has tons of features and is convenient. They've been in this for 15+ years. If no one has / can compete with Steam, that's their problem. Steam didn't just pop up one day and became the PC market leader. They worked hard to be where they are today. Valve stepped up to the plate and created Steam when no one else had the balls to do so. It is because of them that the PC gaming industry enjoys such a massive success. Both developers and consumers choose Steam because its the best there is, has the best consumer practice, has the biggest playerbase on PC, has numerous features both for consumers and developers, has the biggest gaming library on PC and NOT because of lack of competition.

> I have absolutely no clue how they got hold of my account, but it's fair to say that if you have any accounts that you haven't checked in a while, they might have been taken, or be on their radar.

You probably used the same login on another site which got breached, check https://haveibeenpwned.com/

If you're referring to the name being similar to Hearthstone, it looks like Stonehearth has actually been in development with that name since Nov 8 2012, several months before hearthstone was even announced.

Microsoft's TCPView worked for me when steam was stuck updating indefinitely/repeatedly. Download, run, find steam.exe, right click and 'close connection'. Steam found a new server (is my understanding..), update went through instantly.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx

Battleforge was shut down few months ago, it was great strategy game.. The dev studio was closed by EA due to low income from them, bah.

Source.

Still got my retail box of it, only sweet memories are left.

http://isthereanydeal.com/specials/

All the relevant bundles in an easy to read and compare format. Can connect with steam to see what you own and what you don't. This site is a must-bookmark for deal-hunters. All the website that is tracked on isthereanydeal is legit, no shady third party dealers.

Authenticator Plus works for Battle.net and Google. It does a few others as well like Microsoft.

• Edited reply to include Play Store link.

Someone should link them:

http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_DRM-Free_Games_on_Steam

Most of the games from GOG are DRM Free on Steam, and those that aren't will simply never come out GOG (AAA stuff mostly).

Time to re-read https://www.reddit.com/r/steam/wiki/secureyouraccount as a checklist to see if you missed a step. Also while users have their preference, all AV/AM are not equal and you better go with 5 star ones.

I used Google Authenticator a while ago, but I've since switched to Authy. It's backwards-compatible with all Google Authenticator tokens, but with a shitload of extra awesome features.

• It'll back up your tokens for you so that if you lose your phone, you still have all of your accounts

• It'll sync your tokens across any device you have, so any tokens that you add on your phone will be accessible from your tablet.

• It can show all of your tokens in a Notification Centre plugin

• It'll wirelessly connect to your computer, so you can just click a button on your computer and copy the code to your clipboard instead of getting out your phone and opening an app to read and type it in.

• TouchID app protection. Google Authenticator will show your codes right away when you open the app, but you can make Authy require your fingerprint or a password first.

Plus, they've also made their own kind of tokens which make longer codes, which make your accounts even more secure. Humble Bundle uses this, and the code that it generates is 7 numbers long instead of 6.

Edit: Also, when you connect Authy to Humble Bundle, you just need to type in your email address to make codes show up on your phone. You don't even need to scan a QR code!

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/hotlinemiami2_storefront

Direct link for you guys, it doesn't seem to want to show up via a manual search in the store if you're searching from an Australian address, although maybe I goofed something up.

Get amongst it, amigos.

Exactly how I feel when I look at my games list. I know I have a problem.

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

• Worth: £6272 (£1560 with sales)
• Games owned: 664
• Games not played: 457 (69%)
• Hours on record: 1,560.4h

That is over... 12 years? Stats are wrong as it only started recording hours a few years ago which is a shame. I've also stopped buying games to be honest, haven't got much this year and didn't feel the urge to buy anything in the last steam sale!

Air Control was greenlit by the community.

It was in a Groupees Bundle, which probably explains how it got so many votes.

Yeah they are much more than that. Maybe at least look at GOG website before claiming something about them on internet? Yeah they bring back and update old games so we can play them on new OS not just selling those games broken like Steam does. They also get lots of new games in their store. At least those who dont cripple our games with DRM.

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I hope that Cyberpunk will help CD Project Red

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You are right with those kids tho. They dont care about old games, launchers or any other drama. They want the game which is popular. Thats why for example Origin is going strong and Epic having millions on top of millions users. Sad but reality :/

HTTPS everywhere is something everyone should have, it makes everything you do on the internet https. better safe than sorry and its as simple as instal it once and forget about it

Last year or so? https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1301948399251160549

They got faster when they implemented their new support site that forces everyone to try to solve the problem yourself before sending a ticket, no more tickets for help with restoring passwords without actually trying to restore it themselves first.

Check the typical response times here: https://store.steampowered.com/stats/support/

Open Broadcaster Software can be set up to do file-output instead of streaming.

I don't know any others that won't watermark your recording...but I'm sure there are more out there.

Recently mostly Bundle Stars, though. I checked a few days ago: Almost 70 BS bundles so far, but I don't buy every last one that I don't already have, I'm still slightly picky. I keep all the unused keys around in case I find a nice opportunity to hand some out.

Speaking of which, is anyone interested in Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller from the Odyssey Bundle? The key is as follows: Its second block, except backwards, is FBQPB. What you also should know that it begins with ninety-seven and DTE. And finally, ?EE?X gets you the game, assuming you replace the two question marks with three and five (from right to left). Phew, bots averted.

I have another little goodie to present:

Media_Play_Pause:: Run "steam://open/activateproduct" Sleep 200 SendInput {Enter 2} Return

That's an AutoHotkey script. If you push the button (or whatever button you substitute in case you need the media key or don't have one), Steam's Product Activation dialog shows up and skips right away to the key input stage. The cursor will already be in the box. All you need to do is paste or enter a key, then press ENTER twice to confirm and close.

> Honestly I'd rather be able to just download an executable and run the game without having to launch a separate program as a middle man between me and my games.

GOG does this for all games on their store. Steam has DRM free games as well albeit not advertised clearly. If Epic offered some value to the consumer I wouldn't fret about another launcher really but currently they have an inferior product that's propped up on exclusives instead of being worthy of being a competitor in its own right. Then again GOG shows that gamers don't reward good practice always.

> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

You can even ship a drive to AWS. Often the fastest way to get a few terabytes of data into/out of S3

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We will see Ricochet 2 in 2017 made in Source 2 and Valve will promote VR heavily with this game before releasing hl3. We will see CS:GO's big update in last quarter.

This is my humble opinion, there is no source :)

Edit: Ricochet 2 is the internal name but it will probably come with a special name like cs:go.

There is a way to inspect skins on your phone by using the steam app + another app called skin inspect (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.csgo.skin.screenshot) I believe this app only exists on android

Everything in Steam is based on apps and subscriptions. Apps don't only include games, but also videos, DLCs, and configs (as in this case). "Beta Access to the New Steam Community" is a config, and no configs can be launched because they don't have the necessary entries to do that. Configs are usually used to grant access to certain Steam features (among other things), and to provide Steam Cloud storage (for example, "Steam Screenshots" grants you 2GB of cloud space to store your screenshots in). By owning a config through a subscription, you get access to the feature.

Have a look on Steam DB.

This entry appears in the list most likely due to the update where Valve added DLC lists to game detail pages in the Library view. I don't think they've managed to fix it completely yet.

> they don't understand a thing about encryption or how it works

They don't, they know, and they have no intention to learn.

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economics-valves-gabe-newell/

>But then we did this different experiment where we did a sale. The sale is a highly promoted event that has ancillary media like comic books and movies associated with it. We do a 75 percent price reduction, our Counter-Strike experience tells us that our gross revenue would remain constant. Instead what we saw was our gross revenue increased by a factor of 40. Not 40 percent, but a factor of 40. Which is completely not predicted by our previous experience with silent price variation. … > >Then we decided that all we were really doing was time-shifting revenue. We were moving sales forward from the future. Then when we analyzed that we saw two things that were very surprising. Promotions on the digital channel increased sales at retail at the same time, and increased sales after the sale was finished, which falsified the temporal shifting and channel cannibalization arguments. Essentially, your audience, the people who bought the game, were more effective than traditional promotional tools. So we tried a third-party product to see if we had some artificial home-field advantage. We saw the same pricing phenomenon. Twenty-five percent, 50 percent and 75 percent very reliably generate different increases in gross revenue.

Lol. Here you go buddy:

http://www.foobar2000.org/FAQ#other_questions

Does foobar2000 sound better than other players?

No. Most of “sound quality differences” people “hear” are placebo effect (at least with real music), as actual differences in produced sound data are below their noise floor (1 or 2 last bits in 16bit samples). foobar2000 has sound processing features such as software resampling or 24bit output on new high-end soundcards, but most of the other mainstream players are capable of doing the same by now.

If you use enhanced steam then it can calculate the total sum you actually spent on the steam from your purchase history.

Example:

Store Purchases: 1 883,38€ Gift Purchases: 124,20€ In-Game Purchases: 23,37€ Market Transactions: 24,34€ Total Spent: 2 055,29€

And that still doesn't count the money you spent on activated games.

Just install it and go here: https://store.steampowered.com/account/

I wish OP would give a source like you did.

Your linked source is valid starting from 13th June 2014.

But I think OP's source is this article: http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-now-offers-14-day-app-store-itunes-refunds-for-eu-users/ (posted on December 29, 2014 11:33 AM PST)

Or an article which was based on that article.

It talks about Apple's App Store (which is quite similar to Valve's Steam Store). The article wrongfully credited Consumer Rights Directive:
> The change comes after EU's new Consumer Rights Directive took effect in June.

It quotes CRD which was made valid in June. And what that CRD says is in your article, /u/Drogzar.

I've been looking around and it seems the CRD which took effect in June is the most updated one. I've been looking for an upcoming, updated CRD but couldn't find one.

TL;DR: You are right. Or I've missed something.

> Well, I did just announce I'll keep releasing binaries after all.

> https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming/releases/latest

Oh, okay… It's a bit of a relieved now, to be frank.

But now that I have your attention, might I say how frustrating it was to open the program and get a notification of a new version, just to find out that I couldn't actually get it?

Same as some Guns of Icarus gifts.

https://steamdb.info/sub/31545/history/

Edit
I actually just found another one in my own inventory:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/advicebanana/inventory/#753_1_686015194607978303

According to SteamDB, that is Tabletop Simulator.

Arrrge! I advocate for holding out for the cheapest sales!

/r/GameDeals/ , https://isthereanydeal.com , https://gg.deals/us/

If you wait long enough, for it to go cheap enough, its almost like stealing it. /r/patientgamer

This is a game changer and no one has gotten tangled up once. https://smile.amazon.com/Retractable-Management-Headset-MDW-Adhesive/dp/B01M6EB8DM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1515459597&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=vive+ceiling+mount

I don't think so, unfortunately. It was revealed at Steam Dev Days that it will be powered by two AA batteries. And I assume the only logical reason there would even be a micro-USB or some other type of USB port on the controller would be for power purposes.

It also apparently will no longer have the touch screen as it was found distracting during beta testing. Kind of sucks but I understand they need this to be priced competitively with other controllers.

Here's the source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/15/valves-steam-controller-drops-the-touchscreen-adds-buttons

If it has been less than one year, and you are an Australian citizen, you are entitled to a full refund.

If you submit a request, don't do it the way where you select the game you want to refund because it will just automatically be rejected. Start a new support ticket under a different contact option about your account, and let them know that all games come protected by ACL.

https://store.steampowered.com/consumer_rights_notice/

> When you buy video games from Valve Corporation as a consumer located in Australia, the video games come with guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot be excluded, including a guarantee that the video games are of acceptable quality. You are entitled to a replacement or refund from the retail supplier of the video games for a major failure and for compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage.

Most important detail here being "for compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage."

Give evidence that Law Breakers is shutting down, because it clearly is foreseeable that you will come to a loss. If they reject it again, then notify them that you will submit a complaint to the ACCC, for breaching Australian Consumer Rights, and you are fully entitled to a refund.

https://www.accc.gov.au/contact-us/contact-the-accc/report-a-consumer-issue

edit: lmao love the downvoters, game shutting down after taking peoples money, but fuck you for buying it in the first place :)

if anyone wonder what game has such requirements

http://store.steampowered.com/app/299260/

• and there are free copies of this game at https://www.indiegala.com/

and when they will add cards, free moneyz!

What? As long as you don't use a VPN with no encryption/and from a reputable source (e.g. AirVPN, PIA, etc...) then VPNs are significantly safer than having no VPN. Everything is encrypted from the moment it leaves your PC to the moment it leaves the remote server.

It was probably compromised because OP had a virus, or he used a shitty VPN that was setup for the sole purpose of obtaining login details. (unlikely)

The Spacewar folder shows no updates but content log does show some interesting stuff if you look at https://hastebin.com/umisibujel.http and look for appid 480 (id for spacewar) you can see that it did do something.

It's built on a technology called electron that lets developers write an application once using web tech and have it run on the major operating systems. While this is great for developers with small teams, it makes it basically impossible for developers to be fine-grained about performance without doing what's called a [native extension[(https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/using-native-node-modules). This is a problem for people like me with 600+ games where the steam client is slow to do things while it processes all the new info about my games. A company like valve should be more than capable of writing a native application for the major OSs but considering the new chat is already electron I'm guessing that will not be the case.

they actually changed &quot;PC&quot; to &quot;windows&quot; in the search page just today but it is still "PC" in the greenlight search

so we are ... winning?

All the more reason to use it effectively.

Free shipping for Prime members!

https://steamdb.info/app/221100/

Other than for the Euro all other regions are essentially identical

DayZ's price has always been 'normalized' to the USD price. The euro price increase is in line with the fact that the Euro is basically going into the toilet.

Apparently all copies that are purchased will be upgraded to Orion Prelude in August.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/orionprelude/orion-prelude

From their steam page:

[PREPARE FOR EVOLUTION Buy ORION: Dino Horde now and have your Steam copy automatically evolve into 'ORION: Prelude' this August - adding new characters, modes, maps, SDK & Steam Workshop support, Bots, a brand new menu and so much more!]

No they didn't, it has always been $60, here's steams price history for it: http://i.imgur.com/ABOyg8c.png (found here: http://isthereanydeal.com/#/page:game/price?plain=wolfensteinneworder) you can see a dip to $45 on March 16 since that's when you were able to pre-order The Old Blood and they gave an option to bundle it with The New Order for that price. You really missed out on a great deal.

I think I read an article somewhere about the difference between minimalist and material design. I'll try to find it.

Edit: Not exactly the article I saw, but here, scroll down and you should see something about the Z axis.

Edit 2: Found the exact article.

Maybe they don't have permission to release yet? (ie. Valve has not checked the game yet?)

If you sort steam releases by date, you can see some games have released today.

Even Sunday releases has been done

For this month alone there's been (UTC, so Saturnday could still be Friday night in US).

Sunday 15 Saturday 61

Well, congrats then!

But now, what steam sales brotherhood will you join?

The peak alphas that buy games in bulk to never even start them, or are you going to be one of those weirdos that get 3-4 and then have the audacity of actually play them?

Regardless of your choice, have fun!

^(And remember to check other sites that sell steam keys, like Humble Bundle (you have a list of retailers on) ^(gg.deals) ^(to have the chance of finding even better prices. You won't get steam points, though.))

Around a year and a half ago, Valve made it so keys were no longer marketable or tradable going forward. So, the keys that are still marketable/tradable increased in price since they're rare now. If you look at the lifetime price history of one of the keys, you'll see the point where the price went up.

Blog post for the change: https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2019/10/26113/

Short of checking your email for the gift (Search for "received a gift"), there is no history afaik. You can see the game was a gift, on your licences page but there are details about who gave the gift.

The walking dead does not support cloud saves.

The game needs to support cloud saving in order for this to work.

In the future you may want to look into a free application called GameSave Manager that can do a bunch of crazy awesome stuff syncing & backing up save files (especially dropbox)

You can easily see if a game supports cloud saving by looking for the "Cloud Saving" icon listed next to other things like Single Player, Multiplayer, Local Multiplayer, Controller Support, etc. on the game's steam store page.

Much harder to recommend sales to your friends/family or get you to buy the game as a gift, if by default they only show you what you didn't have that was on sale, so I can see where they are coming from.

I do wish that they would add the option to hide specials you already have in your library, the ability to sort by discount instead of just price and the ability to show more than 25 items per page. I end up largely using https://steamdb.info/sales/ instead of their own website or client as it has all of these features (if you sign-in with Steam, you can hilight or hide the games you own).

It would be nice to also be able to hilight games on your wishlight on steamdb, but it sounds like the API doesn't support that at this time.

I haven't used this in about a year, but Depressurizer should do what you want.

Downloads can be found in the releases section.

Also available on Android and iOS.

Google Play Store - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.valvesoftware.underlords

Apple App Store - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dota-underlords/id1465996312

You can do the same on any android device (with decent specs) if you have a nvidia card on the computer streaming and use Limelight

I would assume that you clicked a link on somebody's profile. To fix it - simply send somebody this link http://steamcommunity.com/my/home?l=english in the steam chat, or maybe make it a comment on your profile or somewhere else and then click it yourself.

(You have to click the link from the client so it would open inside the Steam Client.)

No idea what happened on mobile though, it's unlikely that they sync language preferences. Perhaps, you should check that setting

Cancelled, after a fashion. A 1.4 update was supposed to still be coming, but what it has in it is unknown and all updated since have been nothing but Discord integration.

Cancellation source: https://playstarbound.com/rezzed2018/ (April 2018)

> Wut? So false reports which lead to bans indicate that the system is working as intended?

Griefing reports don't lead to anything in CS:GO concerning the Trust, as well as any other report not being a cheating report:

> [...] including [...] how frequently they were reported for cheating [...].

> https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/the-trust-factor/

My wording is probably ambiguous. What I was trying to say is that the model predicts how likely it is based on the data that someone will be banned for cheating in the future, according to the talk.

If players killing teammates with molotovs (no matter how it happened) are more likely getting banned for cheating in the future it might cause a lower Trust Factor. Mind that this is most likely not the case and that this is very unlikely part of the dataset they use, Valve knows that correlation does not imply causation.

Use andOTP. It's much better and compatible with Google's app.

It is fully open-source, requires minimal permissions, has PIN protection and multiple back-up options.

Now you need one of this.

You need to always dig deeper. https://steamdb.info/app/392000/info/ EULA states it is Disney Interactive. Neither Steam nor SteamDB can keep up with the pace of game releases/updates and it is usually publisher's job to update their package details.

Thank me later

p.s. Only available in Steam codes, yay

https://www.indiegala.com/store/game/resident-evil-village/1196590_pre

And their Unreal Engine license money.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/faq

charges 5% license fee if they sell on Steam, waives the 5% fee if they sell on EPIC store and pays less % revenue share. Epic even offer grants.

Going forward its going to be interpreting to see how many Unreal Engine games Steam sells that are not EPIC exclusives first?

But where else can we get Battlefield, The Sims 4 Need For Speed? Origin store. Or WOW, Overwatch, Black Ops 4? Bizzardnet. Or Fallout76 or Rage 2? Bethesdanet. Or The Division 2? - Ubisoft or only EPIC store. Or Minecraft or Forza 3 - 4? Only Microsoft Store.

I guess everyone likes biting Valves arse in the end, must taste really good. Because these places are not just going away.

steamgames.com belongs to valve. if you try to go there you will see it's redirected to store.steampowered.com

check your purchase history on steam and cross reference the date/sum https://store.steampowered.com/account/history/

If you think it's an illegitimate charge I'd contact steam support before issuing a chargeback.

Save data is stored on the profile specific folders. PCGaming wiki has the directory. Just drag and drop the save files from his profile folder to yours. If you need help, ask.

I don't see why they can't do that or incorporate systemrequirementslab right into the system.

It can scan your system every so often as it does, but instead of just being a poll it can match it up with game requirements on the game pages. Perhaps if some areas of your computer are too poor, such as your RAM is too low, it will be highlighted with red to warn you of this fact.

The GMG key is not a Steam key

You'd be buying it from Feral Interactive

https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/lego-star-wars-iii-the-clone-wars-mac/

>This is a Feral DRM title. The title will be available for download through the Feral Interactive site.

Games that use steam will indicate they activate on Steam