[QUOTE=DevinWatson;53196508]Valve will be at GDC this year; probably in a invitation only room.
Moscone South, Upper Mezzanine, Esplanade Ballroom, Room 154
75' x 50' 3700 sq/ft
Lots of indie VR devs will be sharing the space so probably no real announcements.[/QUOTE]
Hopefully [I]Budget Cuts[/I] makes an appearance.
Real quickly, can I just ask why Steam's indie page is in such a shit state?
Take a look at [url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/815080]Hot Mars 69.[/url] Or don't, because I can explain what's wrong with it in one picture.
[t]https://i.imgur.com/HtCNBU9.png[/t]
The thing that immediately jumps out at me is that they're using a Slasher from Dead Space, which I'm surprised Ghost_RUS/Steam hasn't been sued for.
[t]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/deadspace/images/6/6b/Defaultslasher.png/revision/latest?cb=20180103112814[/t]
Here's another gem from Ghost_RUS. [url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/791750/President_Trump_The_Way_In_Uganda/]"President Trump The Way In Uganda".[/url] It's literally a fucking flash game, being sold as a .99 cent product, and not even a good one. [url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/805500/Dokkaebi_Hentai_Adventures/]"Dokkaebi Hentai Adventures"[/url] is literally the same game, but reskinned. [url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/664350/German_Fortress_3D/]German Fortress 3D IS LITERALLY WOLFENSTEIN 3D BUT AS A SHITTY BOOTLEG.[/url]
WHAT THE FUCK. This is just one person. I guarantee you if I started digging deeper I'd be here typing for hours and have at least enough text to fill the next two pages of this thread. Why is this allowed? Why hasn't Valve stepped in to say "son listen you'd best stop stealing shit or we'll tell mom and dad and get you sued"?
Valve has no quality control at all besides erotic stuff and cases like Hatred when the dev threatened Gabe. They removed greenlight and made it even easier to put in shovelware with steam direct. Actually they do remove shovelware but it's extremely slow, they removed the dev of day one: garry's incident's games [URL="https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/83xui0/wild_games_studios_games_day_one_garrys_incident/"]recently[/URL], the game was released in 2013.
edit: I believe their stance is "as long as at least one person legitimately enjoys a game, it won't be removed" unless it's asset flips or using stolen content or the dev does bad shit, in which case they'll remove the offending game/dev after a few years
[QUOTE=TheBorealis;53201618]Hatred when the dev threatened Gabe.[/QUOTE]
Wrong game. Hatred was an issue because of its content, and was only brought back after community uproar.
You're thinking of Paranautical Activity.
I have been pondering about Steam Machines. Noticed there are a lot of parallels to how 3DO failed.
and rather Gabe directly told the Steam dudes to add Hatred back because nothing was wrong with it
Seems a bit silly to have apps and comics listed before games. It's not even because it's alphabetical, the comes before movies.
on what page?
I was leaving the house today and on my way out noticed a very familiar program on my dad' computer.
He had steam installed. 'wtf' I thought, turns out he looked up his favorite board game online and Tabletop Simulator has a version of it on the workshop so he made an account, but he doesn't have enough memory to play it.
I hope he never discovers the pain of steam sales.
New notification design when using Steam in the web browser.
https://i.imgur.com/saHThr7.png
And thread tooltips looked bad, seems to be reverted whether its was a bug or not based on the github commits.
https://i.imgur.com/qJtQKmI.png
Source
List of Steam ui things that have been updated to the new metal blue look, source
Notifications
Group Info
This user has also played as:
When you click on your login name up right
Community Market game choices
New flat design for ''Install Steam'' and Notifications number instead of the 3D ones
Whats left:-
Profile UI
Games Page UI
Store UI
Performance Improvements
time for the yearly switch back to the native skin to see what's new!
pixelvision2 should be default
Steam client is still the same.
the favicon
A Valve employee explained why Steam may be blurry now with the high-dpi update, source
We are adding a checkbox in the interface.
Microsoft’s UI kind of accidentally screwed us here by setting bad expectations. The compatibility setting that used to leave Steam unscaled doesn’t actually mean “don’t scale this application”. It means “let the application handle scaling naturally, if it supports it, but don’t scale things up if the application doesn’t support it”.
A lot of people use 125% scaling but then also zoom back out on their web browser and turn off scaling on individual applications, because the taskbar looks too small otherwise. But if you use Edge, or most Windows Store apps, or any Metro-style local apps, you’ll find that they scale up equally with the DPI scaling factor as well. Steam’s options are to either never scale, let windows do its own blurry scaling thing, or scale completely with DPI settings. We don’t really get to opt out of some percentages but not others.
What we can and will do is add a checkbox to our interface options so that you can choose to always disable scaling, if that’s what you want.
And has a fix if your Steam is totally black, source
Launch Steam with “-compat” as a command line option. Eg, right click the shortcut for steam, then where the shortcut properties has a path to Steam.exe, add a space and “-compat” after the “.exe”
Just make a new client already ffs
it isn’t 2011 anymore
Once upon a time I had my plugins in Firefox break because the steam client service was holding onto Firefox's plugins-container.exe and it got skipped in an update.
That was fun to debug.
Did they remove the ability to download 1080p versions of videos on a game's store page and run them like apps? I downloaded Meet the Soldier once and it still remains on my account's license list.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/239208/a29aaca7-0552-4972-85d2-c4460318a32f/Opera Snapshot_2018-03-29_200413_store.steampowered.com.png
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Valve has removed the Steam Machine section from Steam
Reviews seem to be broken, many games have 0 reviews
April fools or broke ass servers, you decide
The Steam web storepage now has HTTPS, using it in the client still uses just HTTP though.
Welcome to 2016 steam
The more or less current version of the Steam client was released eight years ago today, they still have the page for it up.
Valve Buys Campo Santo
This is the first time valve has bought out another game dev for quite a long time right?
The first since Turtle Rock in 2008, yes.
The Tag: The Power of Paint team was hired in 2009 as I recall, with their work integrated into Portal 2.
MtG's senior art director is joining Valve
https://mobile.twitter.com/MarkWintersArt/status/991803213119672326
Valve has updated their site : Valve Corporation
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