The Valve and Steam Platform Discussion Thread

[LESS T_T]

So now that Ubisoft is gone

Think they're gone for good or is it just an experiment for that one game?

Multiple games, from the announcement:

Ubisoft and Epic Games store will also partner on additional select titles to be announced during the coming year.

 

[Infinitron]

"Select". But I guess we'll see.

 

[Sentinel]

Mighty cool. Less Triple A western cancer polluting my eyesight on Steam. Saves me the trouble of filtering it

 

[Solid Snail]

I have problems with my DS4 on Steam, but I can't find a way to completely wipe out the config files so, when plugged in, Steam asks me for the configuration like it was the first time I plugged it in.
Any help?

 

[LESS T_T]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1714083119974577978

Updated DLC Browsing Experience

We’ve just rolled out an update that makes it easier to find downloadable content for your favorite games. Any game that offers DLC will now have a sortable, featured page of all of its DLC in one place. Furthermore, (and especially for games that have a tons of DLC) we’re providing ways for developers to customize how these pages by creating lists, adding branding and specifying which titles to feature.

Here are a few examples: Fantasy Grounds (1,166 DLC), Train Simulator 2019 (586 DLC), Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition (272 DLC), and Rocket League (28 DLC)


To find these new pages, visit the store page for any game with DLC and click the new 'View all' button in the DLC area.

Let us know if you run into any issues or have feedback on these new pages.

-The Steam Team

Well now you can't see the entire list at a glance if a game have more than 5 DLCs. Yeah this would be a lifesaver for games that have literally hundreds of DLCs, but do games with 6 or so DLCs need this too?

 

[Rahdulan]

That seems utterly pointless. Couldn't they have added another button there with "add all DLC to cart" functionality aka something people actually want? I imagine this is catering to Big Picture users more than anything.

 

[Spectacle]

So now that Ubisoft is gone

Think they're gone for good or is it just an experiment for that one game?

They'll be back when steam's rate is in line with the Epic store's cut. Alternatively if sales are crap on the Epic store.

 

[Infinitron]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1714083119974577978

They're using the same code as they do for curator and developer pages. It's sort of like each game is now a curator page, curating its own DLC.

If it works the same way for front page visibility then does that mean we'll see DLC for games we're following more often now?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Someone tagged Grimoire as anime, which meant it was filtered out of all my search results and promotions and I had a harder time finding it to buy it during the glorious V2 sale. Tags are no laughing matter.

 

[LESS T_T]

Hey, that Darude's new song is pretty steady.

#10 - Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege - Year 4 Pass
#9 - Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
#8 - Insurgency: Sandstorm
#6 - Kingdom Come: Deliverance
#5 - Survivor Pass: Vikendi
#4 - ATLAS
#3 - Grand Theft Auto V
#2 - MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS

Also Kingdom Come here is somewhat interesting. It's having the same discount from Winter Sale, but featured for Weekend Deal right after that. Shows how being featured on the front page (and new pop-up from the client) makes a difference.

Evil arises.

#10 - Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege - Year 4 Pass
#9 - Insurgency: Sandstorm
#8 - MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
#7 - Raft
#6 - ATLAS
#5 - Grand Theft Auto V
#4 - Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
#3 - Survivor Pass: Vikendi
#2 - RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS

 

[GrainWetski]

The power of demos.

 

[Rahdulan]

Well, I guess there's always something new to dread on the horizon with Valve. Read the entire post if you want some data on 2018, I'll post the upcoming bullet points they have for this year and BEYOND.
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks#announcements/detail/1697194621363928453

2019 and Beyond

Doing this sort of retrospective is useful to us as a team, because it helps us better understand what we've done and where we should go from here. While we feel like we've accomplished a lot in 2018, there's still a ton more work to do, features to build, and hard problems to solve. Here's a sneak peek at a few of the more notable things we plan to ship this year:

• Store Discoverability: We’re working on a new recommendation engine powered by machine-learning, that can match players to games based on their individual tastes. Algorithms are only a part of our discoverability solution, however, so we're building more broadcasting and curating features and are constantly assessing the overall design of the store.
  
• Steam China: We've partnered with Perfect World to bring Steam onshore into China. We'll reveal more details about this in the coming months.
  
• Steam Library Update: Some long awaited changes to the Steam Client will ship, including a reworked Steam Library, built on top of the technology we shipped in Steam Chat.
  
• New Events System: We're upgrading the events system in the Steam Community, enabling you to highlight interesting activities in your games like tournaments, streams, or weekly challenges.
  
• Steam TV: We're working on expanding Steam TV beyond just broadcasting specific tournaments and special events, in order to support all games.
  
• Steam Chat: We're going to ship a new Steam Chat mobile app, so you can share your favorite GIFs with your friends while on the go.
  
• Steam Trust: The technology behind Trusted Matchmaking on CS:GO is getting an upgrade and will become a full Steam feature that will be available to all games. This means you'll have more information that you can use to help determine how likely a player is a cheater or not.
  
• Steam PC Cafe Program: We are going to officially ship a new PC Cafe Program so that players can have a good experience using Steam in hundreds of thousands of PC Cafes Worldwide.

If chat update was anything to go by I can't wait for that library update to bork everything up. Somehow.

 

[Solid Snail]

Steam TRUST

 

[Viata]

Mighty cool. Less Triple A western cancer polluting my eyesight on Steam. Saves me the trouble of filtering it

We just need to remove those horrible indies games that make it impossible to search for good games and Steam will be saved.

 

[GrainWetski]

Mighty cool. Less Triple A western cancer polluting my eyesight on Steam. Saves me the trouble of filtering it

We just need to remove those horrible indies games that make it impossible to search for good games and Steam will be saved.

Epic is doing their part by getting rid of the worst ones.

 

[Solid Snail]

I'm in Italy and Steam used to run like crap after the sale ended. Other friends of mine (italian) have the same problems too.
The community 9 times out of 10 doesn't load, the main store page is insanely slow, not even during the worst sale was this bad. I click on a game and Steam opens the related page one minute later, the marketplace is also garbage and I can't list my cards if not after too many tries, what is going on?
Did Valve shut down some european servers or what? I use Steam from 12 years and it never acted so bad. Useless to say, I have problems only with Steam, my connection acts like usual, the download speed when I download a game from Steam is the same, only the store, marketplace and community run like garbage.

 

[LESS T_T]

Evil arises.

#10 - Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege - Year 4 Pass
#9 - Insurgency: Sandstorm
#8 - MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
#7 - Raft
#6 - ATLAS
#5 - Grand Theft Auto V
#4 - Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
#3 - Survivor Pass: Vikendi
#2 - RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS

ATLAS, for all its controversies and drama, is finally dropped out of this weekly revenue chart.

#10 - Raft
#9 - ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
#8 - MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
#7 - Rise of the Tomb Raider
#6 - RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2
#5 - Grand Theft Auto V
#4 - Survivor Pass: Vikendi
#3 - My Time At Portia
#2 - RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS

Also now that ATLAS is out, every games with ALL CAPS titles are Asian games.

 

[Sentinel]

what's the slant-eyed man's obsession with caps lock?

 

[Country_Gravy]

It looks closer to their hieroglyphics

 

[LESS T_T]

My theory: usually Asian languages have more complex looking glyph than English, so they need to make English titles more noticeable when they're surrounded by Asian text.

edit: ninja'd, I guess.

 

[racofer]

Why does GTA 5 continues to sell so much?

 

[sullynathan]

Why does GTA 5 continues to sell so much?

best GTA, one of the biggest gaming franchises of all time

 

[Sentinel]

pretty sure it might actually be the biggest gaming franchise of all time by now.

 

[LESS T_T]

ATLAS, for all its controversies and drama, is finally dropped out of this weekly revenue chart.

#10 - Raft
#9 - ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
#8 - MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
#7 - Rise of the Tomb Raider
#6 - RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2
#5 - Grand Theft Auto V
#4 - Survivor Pass: Vikendi
#3 - My Time At Portia
#2 - RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2
#1 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS

Also now that ATLAS is out, every games with ALL CAPS titles are Asian games.

CAPCOM resides:

#10 - ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
#9 - Grand Theft Auto V
#8 - Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
#7 - Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
#6 - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
#5 - RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2 Deluxe Edition
#4 - MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
#3 - RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2
#2 - RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2
#1 - RESIDENT EVIL 2 / BIOHAZARD RE:2

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

Mighty cool. Less Triple A western cancer polluting my eyesight on Steam. Saves me the trouble of filtering it

We just need to remove those horrible indies games that make it impossible to search for good games and Steam will be saved.

Epic is doing their part by getting rid of the worst ones.