The Valve and Steam Platform Discussion Thread

Don't waste your time, just watch Pewdiepie, there's your answer.

 

So Steam is jewing the Jews?

IRONY!!!

 

I got the mail yesterday as well. Can't wait to see games with prices of 250zł like Ubisoft's shit.

 

https://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/

 

Last week's top sellers (by revenues, not counting microtransactions) have a few sanity savers (or not):

#10 - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
#9 - Assassin's Creed Origins
#8 - Hand of Fate 2
#7 - Call of Duty: WWII
#6 - Call of Duty: WWII
#5 - Assassin's Creed Origins
#4 - Nioh: Complete Edition
#3 - Football Manager 2018
#2 - Call of Duty: WWII
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS

 

I think devs should set the local prices manually, even if they just Steam's standard currency table.

 

Was dicking around with the new steam PLN price changes. Can't buy for instance ARK, but it seems I can certainly gift someone its 0,00 priced season pass!

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Free mac version of Call of Duty Black Ops? I mean I'm sure there's more, just wish those were the games that were you know... good.

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Edit: Does not work. No loss though.

 

Your transaction failed because you are trying to buy 'ARK: Survival Evolved Season Pass' which requires ownership of 'ARK: Survival Evolved'. Please correct the error and try again.

 

Tomorrow is L4D's 9th anniversary, so Valve should announce L3ft 4 Dead Closed Alpha if they want to release the full game in time for the 10th anniversary.

 

The week of calm before the big sales and of no new AAA releases, Divinity crawled back:

#10 - Divinity: Original Sin 2
#9 - Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: Cradle of Civilization
#8 - Nioh: Complete Edition
#7 - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
#6 - Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
#5 - Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
#4 - Assassin's Creed Origins
#3 - Football Manager 2018
#2 - Call of Duty: WWII (LATAM Preorder)
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS

 

So, the last few months, where multiple RPGs often crowded up against PUBG, were a fluke... right?
I was beginning to worry that RPGs were going mainstream.

 

"Making Helpful User Reviews More Helpful", another tweaks to the user reviews: http://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/2666556941788470579

Important part:

 

What a waste of time. Only Negative reviews are worth reading.

 

Pretty reasonable change, and one that will benefit everyone. it eliminates that weak spot that was most open for manipulation, for example haters cannot make negative review dominate the store page by upvoting every negative and downvoting every positive review like they did in the past.

Store pages for games like Numenera or latest Wolfenstein look very different with this change on.

 

Are the games better now?

 

Man... they have even removed the ratings from your own reviews, so it's impossible to know if you upset some fanboys, or just wrote a bad one.

 

Store pages now present better image of how most players feel about them.

 

Holy shit, look what it did for Grimoire. http://store.steampowered.com/app/650670/Grimoire__Heralds_of_the_Winged_Exemplar/

Edit: and Darkest Dungeon http://store.steampowered.com/app/262060/Darkest_Dungeon/

The beta option flips them from 90% negative to 90% positive. WTF?! I haven't played them but they don't look good. I think the beta ignores users who post more than 50% negative reviews, which flies in the face of the clinically proven fact that over 99.9% of games on Steam are shit.

 

I don't see anything different.