The Valve and Steam Platform Discussion Thread

[Alienman]

I'm on team pig. Doomed to forever land on fourth place.

Go.... pig...

 

[Morgoth]

So far, I bought 0 games.

 

[J_C]

So far, I bought 0 games.

My name is J_C and I was a Steam sale addict. Now I'm clean for 3 years.

 

[markec]

So far, I bought 0 games.

I heard good things about this game:

 

[JarlFrank]

I bought 50 games during the sale and still have 1166 games on my wishlist

The wishlist is where any game that looks remotely interesting goes in. It's unlikely I'll ever buy all of them.

For those of you who rated this post "not sure if serious":

 

[Ivan]

JESUS CHRIST

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

I bought Grid Cartographer 4, already spent 21 hours playing it.

Great game, recommended.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

By "make sure to update your wishlist" I thought there was a list of pre-selected games that would be gifted for the winning teams (for example, Cyberpunk being one of said games and if you had it in your list you'd have a chance of getting a key). As an incentive for you to update your wishlist with new titles (and thus pay more attention to it, which may lead to you buying more stuff since you'd see deals you might have ignored otherwise)

edit: although Cyberpunk can't be one of said games since it's not currently available.

 

[LESS T_T]

Interesting, now they're doing this: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/2565275416677184326

But it's less interesting that they didn't sort these by revenues, eh.

Top Steam Releases of April 2019

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1616144864290598692

Top Releases of May 2019

We're continuing our new monthly series with a look at the top games released on Steam during the month of May. As with last month's post, this list looks at all games released during the month and grabs the top 20 by revenue earned in the first two weeks following release.

In this list, there really is something for every kind of player. From narrative single-player games to open world first-person shooters. Deep real-time strategy games to realistic simulation games. Pixely RPGs to Super-high-definition action games. Family-friendly racing games to dark horror experiences.

Here is this month's list of top new releases ordered by release date (we've put this list on a handy store page too):

• Rise of Industry - a single-player, strategic, tycoon game with a living, breathing, and procedurally generated world set in the 1930s. released May 2, 2019.
  
• Swag and Sorcery - a very pixely pingle-player RPG, released May 9, 2019
  
• Yakuza Kiwami 2 - a high-def update to the classic story-driven beat 'em up with full controller support, released May 9, 2019
  
• A Plague Tale: Innocence, a single-player story rich adventure with full controller support, released May 14, 2019
  
• RAGE 2- a post-apocalyptic open world shooter, released May 14, 2019
  
• Beat Saber - a VR-only music rhythm game, released on May 21, 2019 after 12 months in Early Access.
  
• Team Sonic Racing™ - a cute, fast-paced arcade racing featuring Sonic and friends, released May 21, 2019
  
• BATTALION 1944: a realistic WWII multiplayer shooter, released May 23, 2019.
  
• Total War: THREE KINGDOMS - a turn-based empire-building and strategy game with stunning real-time battles, released May 23, 2019.
  
• Minion Masters - a free to play fast-paced strategic card game, with 1v1 or 2v2 battles. Transitioned out of Early Access on May 24, 2019.
  
• XERA: Survival - a multiplayer open world looter shooter, featuring a global gear stash accessible from any server. Launched in Early access on May 24, 2019
  
• FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S VR: HELP WANTED - a VR-only first-person survival horror game, released May 28, 2019.
  
• Layers of Fear 2 - a psychological horror game filled with unique puzzles, released May 28, 2019.
  
• SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest - a standalone expansion to the RTS/RPG hit SpellForce 3, released May 28, 2019.
  
• Void Bastards - a stylized action strategy game with loot scavenging and full controller support, released May 28, 2019.
  
• Assetto Corsa Competizione - the official Blancpain GT Series racing game, rendered with realistic simulation and including official drivers, teams, cars and circuits. Transitioned out of Early Access on May 29, 2019
  
• Conan Unconquered - a real-time survival strategy game set in the world of Conan the Barbarian, released May 29, 2019.
  
• Conqueror's Blade - a free to play, medieval multiplayer action strategy game. Transitioned out of Early Access May 30.
  
• Deathgarden: BLOODHARVEST - a dark, dystopian, multiplayer survival game in which a ruthless hunter tracks and guns down scavengers. Launched in Early Access on May 30, 2019.
  
• Warhammer: Chaosbane - a hack-and-slash set in the Warhammer Fantasy world. Features solo, co-op, or multiplayer and full controller support. Released May 31, 2019.

The above list is generated by looking at revenue as one measure of popularity. But we know that this measure doesn’t fully capture the popularity of free games that many players may be enjoying but that don’t generate revenue the same way as the kinds of traditional paid games listed above. So this month, we’re also adding a list of the top five free games released in May, measured (and ranked here) by peak player count within the first two weeks following release.

• Conqueror's Blade - a medieval multiplayer action strategy game.
  
• Splitgate: Arena Warfare – a multiplayer first-person-shooter that uses player-controlled portals to create a new dimension of arena combat.
  
• Minion Masters - a free to play fast-paced strategic card game, with 1v1 or 2v2 battles.
  
• Eden Rising – a solo or multiplayer open-world tower defense game.
  
• Never Split the Party – a multiplayer social rogue-like that depends on cooperative adventuring.

As we were building the above lists, we got curious about what popular games came out in previous years. So we looked back to a year ago in May 2018, and found the top 5 releases (in order of release date) were Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, Conan Exiles, Raft, and DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED.

Cheers!
-The Steam Team

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

The wishlist is where any game that looks remotely interesting goes in. It's unlikely I'll ever buy all of them.

That's how I use it too. It isn't a wishlist of "Oh boy I sure hope someone buys me this", it's "Huh, I looked at the store page/read something/heard something that sounded mildly interesting about this so if I wishlist it I'll give it a second glance when a Steam sale is going on". I still occasionally do random digging to see if I find anything interesting but for the most part I just toss stuff on the list to keep track of what I'm interested in, or may eventually be interested in.

I'm on team pig. Doomed to forever land on fourth place.

Go.... pig...

I'm team pig as well. All others are meme-teams. Team corgi, team cock, team rabbit and hare. Only team pig is dignified and stands alone.

Edit: Oh lord. Gillman! We did it! WE DID IT! WE WILL NEVER LOSE OUR PLACE IN FIRST!

 

[LESS T_T]

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news...fusion_as_games_are_pulled_from_Wishlists.php

Devs hit by Steam promo confusion as games are pulled from Wishlists

A number of developers are seeing their games being pulled from Steam Wishlists due a confusing Summer Sale promotion.

People delete wishlisted games they never really cared about or were planning to buy anyway. Panic and confusion spread across the globe.

Not necceseraly. They just delete cheaper games, so that their free game will save them more money.

My point is that deleting wishlisted dirt-cheap games during the summer sale (instead of buying them) means you aren't really interested in them. The avg wishlist conversion is 10-15%, so 85-90% of people who wishlist games have no intentions of buying them anyway, so complaining about lost wishlists is like complaining about piracy, thinking it's lost sales.

Wishlist also plays a role when Steam's algorithm decide your game's relevancy.

On October 5th, we deployed some code to Steam that changed the defaults for our search queries to factor in sales and wishlist activity more than before. This change was meant to fix an issue where customers would search for a game, but that game would be much lower in the search results than other less relevant games.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

based valve shitting on developers

 

[PrettyDeadman]

The wishlist is where any game that looks remotely interesting goes in. It's unlikely I'll ever buy all of them.

That's how I use it too. It isn't a wishlist of "Oh boy I sure hope someone buys me this", it's "Huh, I looked at the store page/read something/heard something that sounded mildly interesting about this so if I wishlist it I'll give it a second glance when a Steam sale is going on". I still occasionally do random digging to see if I find anything interesting but for the most part I just toss stuff on the list to keep track of what I'm interested in, or may eventually be interested in.

I'm on team pig. Doomed to forever land on fourth place.

Go.... pig...

I'm team pig as well. All others are meme-teams. Team corgi, team cock, team rabbit and hare. Only team pig is dignified and stands alone.

Edit: Oh lord. Gillman! We did it! WE DID IT! WE WILL NEVER LOSE OUR PLACE IN FIRST!

I ve ben teem corgi for 3 days and boosted it for THOUSANDS of point. Give me my free game fuckers.

 

[J_C]

So far, I bought 0 games.

I heard good things about this game:

Me too. I'm sure the developer is a great guy.

 

[newtmonkey]

I ended up getting buying a few things from my wishlist this time around:

Stronghold Crusader HD
Was just waiting for this to go on sale, enjoyed the previous game in the series
Gauntlet: Slayer Edition
Looked interesting and so far seems like a decent way to spend some time in between more substantial games.
Agony
As a horror fanatic, I just had to get this one, damn the reviews.
Battlezone: Combat Commander
Was just waiting for this to go on sale, enjoyed the previous game in the series
Infinite Adventures
This one interested me for a while, though it's closer to Etrian Odyssey than Wiz or M&M, so inferior. Might still be fun though.
Hitman 2016
Why not? It was cheap.

I think that's about it for me this sale, there was some stuff I had added to my wishlist to purchase during a sale, but I ended up culling a lot of it as I didn't even want to buy the games at 40%+ off.

 

[Alienman]

The races are clearly staged. Corgi in last place now all of sudden? Gabe, come on.

 

[Chippy]

Where do we stand with Steam ownership of games these days? I had a modded install/backup of Shogun 2 that was bugged with sounds of canonfire on archers. None of the fixes worked, even the old fashioned download > exe ones. It was working when I played it, but obviously the update/current install fucked it. So I resolved to install from the DVD and just play the game vanilla - but Steam wont allow it.

I have to download the entire game from scratch on a shitty internet connection. Each DVD held approx 7GB of files: x2 total. The Steam download shows 15GB with all DLC I bought. This thread says it's an error on Sega's part: https://forums.totalwar.com/discuss...12gb-download-when-installing-from-disc-issue ...and it was posted 4 years ago.

Every time I have to go through crap like this, it makes me detemined to never buy a game at full price at launch from Steam again. I still haven't bought the Warhammer Total War games. Bring 'em out on GOG I say.

 

[Sentinel]

what does that have to do with steam?
check this https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Total_War:_Shogun_2#Issues_fixed

 

[PrettyDeadman]

MAXXED out my points using that CRAZY strat which allowed me to farm 50 000 points in less than an hour using autoclicker.
NICE.
Added 100 levels to my steam account.

 

[bellbell]

50 000 points

MAX Points or boost points?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Allowing people to pick their teams was a mistake, team Cringe is fucking massive and everyone else has to focus their attacks on it.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

MAXXED out my points using that CRAZY strat which allowed me to farm 50 000 points in less than an hour using autoclicker.
NICE.
Added 100 levels to my steam account.

Damn it. That finally pushed me over the line into whining to Steam to look at my busted points since I haven't earned a single coupon yet since they cut me down to 100 max. Goddamn fucking corgis.
Should be interesting anyway, I can't remember the last time I used support on Steam so this'll give me an idea of how on the ball they are.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

50 000 points

MAX Points or boost points?

Max points for me is 77059.
Ill buy some games today to get my grandprix badge to level 1000.

 

[Sentinel]

On the matter of Steam Support, Valve also publishes their Support Stats.

 

[bellbell]

Max points for me is 77059.
Ill buy some games today to get my grandprix badge to level 1000.

I understand that Max points is 77059. I havn't quite caught what you meant by

MAXXED out my points using that CRAZY strat which allowed me to farm 50 000 points in less than an hour using autoclicker.

this. So you MAXXED your Max points or only boost points? I understand how this year's Steam's social experiment called Summer 2019 Gran Prix works, I'm just not sure if I understood you correctly.

I can't find the words to describe thoughts and impressions on this event. On the one hand I'm astonished by Steam's capacity of inventing new ways to make people part with their money. On the other hand I'm devastated of how stupid people behave when their consumer's part takes over. Myself included. Mind-boggling. I'm spending two hours of my time these days just to watch it - much more time that I can or should sacrifice - reading Steam boards and keeping an eye on the Steam market - it's half horror show half Monty Pithon's Flying Circus. Someone's getting A Master Degree on this.