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Ankh




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PostPosted: Sat, 27th May 2017 14:07    Post subject:
lolozaur wrote:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/624070/Dragon_Wars/ something ancient released Surprised


Awsome! Love that game!
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red_avatar




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PostPosted: Sat, 27th May 2017 14:36    Post subject:
lolozaur wrote:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/624070/Dragon_Wars/ something ancient released Surprised


Yeah but €10? Seriously? TEN EUROS? For a 30 year old game? That's beyond ridiculous - if you're going to release an old game at least put it on GOG and ask a reasonable price.
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Ankh




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PostPosted: Sat, 27th May 2017 14:39    Post subject:
red_avatar wrote:
lolozaur wrote:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/624070/Dragon_Wars/ something ancient released Surprised


Yeah but €10? Seriously? TEN EUROS? For a 30 year old game? That's beyond ridiculous - if you're going to release an old game at least put it on GOG and ask a reasonable price.


Actually, you buy it for €5.99 atm Wink

Still bloody great game - instabought it Smile
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lolozaur




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PostPosted: Sat, 27th May 2017 16:18    Post subject:
its on gog too for 6$
https://www.gog.com/game/dragon_wars
i see reviews from 2015 there so i guess it wasnt released now
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Karmeck




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PostPosted: Sat, 27th May 2017 17:25    Post subject:
Steam forum is going down for good on June 5th, make backup of stuff you care out on there while you can.

Announcement
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/announcement.php?f=34

Reddit thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/6bcuaz/the_steam_user_forums_spuf_seem_to_be_dead/
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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Sat, 27th May 2017 17:32    Post subject:
Karmeck wrote:
Steam forum is going down for good on June 5th, make backup of stuff you care out on there while you can.

Announcement
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/announcement.php?f=34

Reddit thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/6bcuaz/the_steam_user_forums_spuf_seem_to_be_dead/


At first i was like:


But then i remembered those were those strange forums i only seemed to stumble upon while googling things for older games. Laughing

While there indeed were a few helpful threads in there back then, i kept wondering why those forums were still alive even, when you have forums for each game.

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Morphineus
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PostPosted: Sat, 27th May 2017 17:44    Post subject:
Ah yes those, I always forget they still exist.

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lolozaur




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PostPosted: Sat, 27th May 2017 18:23    Post subject:
so valve doesnt have money to support them anymore? LOL
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Arukardo




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PostPosted: Sat, 27th May 2017 19:08    Post subject:
What if they are trying to reduce the load on their servers to provide better experience for the upcoming summer sale? Awesome
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prudislav
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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Jun 2017 16:24    Post subject:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1265921510652460726
Quote:
So in the end, we've decided we're going to aim for the lowest barrier to developers as possible, with a $100 recoupable publishing fee per game, while at the same time work on features designed to help the Store algorithm become better at helping you sift through games. We're going to look for specific places where human eyes can be injected into the Store algorithm, to ensure that it is working as intended, and to ensure it doesn't miss something interesting. We're also going to closely monitor the kinds of game submissions we're receiving, so that we're ready to implement more features like the the Trading Card changes we covered in the last blog post, which aim to reduce the financial incentives for bad actors to game the store algorithm.

We believe that if we inject human thinking into the Store algorithm, while at the same time increasing the transparency of its output, we'll have created a public process that will incrementally drive the Store to better serve everyone using it.
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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Jun 2017 18:31    Post subject:
Just deny obvious shit games to get released on Steam.

No need for "injecting human thinking into the Store algorithm". Rolling Eyes

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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Sat, 3rd Jun 2017 08:26    Post subject:

https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/870770734179680256

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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Sat, 3rd Jun 2017 09:16    Post subject:
Since some days i have an annoying problem with Steam when i launch it the first time after PC bootup: The whole application runs extremely slow and i have to wait a few seconds before actions get registered.
It's just fine though for the rest of the day after i restart Steam.

Anyone else has it or knows the cause of it?

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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Sat, 3rd Jun 2017 09:35    Post subject:
Several games installed?

Steam does check for updates and such changes when it's started and if it's a fresh boot it wouldn't be cached into RAM either plus it has to initialize the various hooks and other functions that the software now has.
(It's overlay for one thing, big picture mode and then there's the Chromium browser framework and some other bits.)


Small rant..

Though the main issue I have in terms of performance is after a game has been updated and Steam is doing a scan of the files for it's music database, usually this is pretty quick but for a few games using loose files this slows down the entire HDD until Steam finishes that scan. Very Happy
(At least it's pretty quick, minute or two at most even for bigger games.)

Starpoint Gemini Warlords comes to mind as a recent example since the game consists of some 45.000 loose files and Steam's music database file grows by a full MB when that gets scanned since there's several thousands of sound files and they've released a number of hotfixes since launch so yeah.

Wish you could exclude file formats or have some form of control but there's nothing besides you being able to set where the database files are stored.

Then again it's not that different from Win10 running "compattelrunner.exe" for telemetry whenever you update a software or driver on the PC and sending that off to Microsoft, also hammers the HDD for a few moments ha ha well I guess it's unavoidable.
(Bit different though still tedious having to wait for it to finish up it's scan heh.)


EDIT: Could try emptying out the cache too by removing the folders under ".\Steam\appcache\httpcache" but it might not really do much for overall speed besides cleaning out some files for stuff that's no longer installed and such, beyond that there's not really much you can do although far as configuring the Steam client goes I prefer to keep the direct draw option off as well but that's mostly down to Steam getting some occasional exception error and creating a mini dump and sending off a error report to hell knows where. Very Happy
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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Sat, 3rd Jun 2017 09:48    Post subject:
@JBeckman
Yea i have "quite" some games installed. But i never had those problems since some days before.

I will try cleaning the cache folder.

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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Sat, 3rd Jun 2017 09:49    Post subject:
http://store.steampowered.com/news/?feed=steam_client

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements

They did just release a new version of the client so it's possible it's related to that, beta branch has focused a lot on expanding the Steam gamepad functionality and there's been changes to the Chromium engine used for the inbuilt browser too so it could be due to some of those changes that it's taking longer for the client to initialize after a cold boot or how it's called. Smile


EDIT: And I guess complaints aside it's still faster than Origin ha ha.

Origin used to be pretty quick but the client overhaul made it a really slow starter with how it does a couple of things or something before it's fully loaded plus it has some extra services as well, those are always fun. Or not. Razz

And I suppose that while the old Steam client was fast this new one is a lot more robust and stable.
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difm




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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Jun 2017 17:02    Post subject:
My "Friend activity" seems to be either outdated or literally emty. What gives?

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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Jun 2017 17:13    Post subject:
difm wrote:
My "Friend activity" seems to be either outdated or literally emty. What gives?

Have you checked if you actually have any friends?

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madness




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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Jun 2017 17:17    Post subject:
Laughing

It's just Steam being Steam
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riptide77




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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Jun 2017 17:57    Post subject:
difm wrote:
My "Friend activity" seems to be either outdated or literally emty. What gives?


Login through a browser and it might show up in there. Steam client is messed up, as usual.

-=the wandering pillow stuffer=-
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difm




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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Jun 2017 18:23    Post subject:
riptide77 wrote:
difm wrote:
My "Friend activity" seems to be either outdated or literally emty. What gives?


Login through a browser and it might show up in there. Steam client is messed up, as usual.


Checking it through the browser shows empty too Sad

And thanks, Bob! I'll tell your mom we can't be friends with benefits anymore.

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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Mon, 5th Jun 2017 19:07    Post subject:
difm wrote:
And thanks, Bob! I'll tell your mom we can't be friends with benefits anymore.

Sad I was just kidding before. Sad

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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Wed, 7th Jun 2017 05:50    Post subject:
RIP Steam Greenlight
https://steamcommunity.com/greenlight


Steam Direct Launches June 13
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1265922321514182595

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EternalBlueScreen




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PostPosted: Wed, 7th Jun 2017 07:54    Post subject:
There are so much shit games now we need to quarantine them, stat! There are dead walking the streets and the sun is blocked by the piles of indie games, we're entering an era of darkness.
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Areius




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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Jun 2017 14:13    Post subject:
"You've voted on 633 items"

Only automated for the sales, think I voted 1-2 that I actually wanted Laughing

PC: Yes. Console: No.
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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Jun 2017 14:32    Post subject:
Yeah 5 voted projects here, checked it a bit early on and probably voted on some stuff there but then it got completely flooded so I basically thought that eh if something looks promising enough it'll likely get voted through quickly.

Turns out most anything was voted through quickly ha ha.

Don't even need reviews or promo keys as long as there's achievements and trading cards it seems.
(Or a uncensor patch if you're doing a VN, it's gotten to the point now where even MangaGamer now considers this a alternative whereas Valve earlier expressively forbade them from doing this but now they've gotten the OK for it.)
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Morphineus
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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Jun 2017 16:27    Post subject:
I voted on anything that gave a link or a mention, even the purest of shit... because it was a broken system and I didn't mind helping it in the gutter. PC Master Race
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Immunity




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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Jun 2017 21:05    Post subject:
So, now all one has to do is fork over $100 to get their game on Steam? Isn't this just going to open the floodgates to even more trash than before?

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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Jun 2017 21:17    Post subject:
Immunity wrote:
So, now all one has to do is fork over $100 to get their game on Steam? Isn't this just going to open the floodgates to even more trash than before?

I think Greenlight wasn't needed anyways and devs were to directly publish their games on Steam.
Greenlight was more of a way to see if people had interest in their games.

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Bob Barnsen




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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Jun 2017 21:18    Post subject:
Steam website slow as anus for anyone else?

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