The Valve and Steam Platform Discussion Thread

[Peachcurl]

Steam is working on allowing you to mark a game as private and hide it from your friends.

Huh? I thought this was already added as an option long ago.

From brief googling, I understand you can either show all or none of your games to friends.

 

[Elttharion]

Steam is working on allowing you to mark a game as private and hide it from your friends.

That's pathetic.

I would rather my little niece and her mother dont see me playing incest porn games on steam but you do you I guess.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Seek help.

 

[Infinitron]

I’ve been designing video games for nearly 30 years. Half-Life was the first game I worked on when I joined Valve in November 1996. To celebrate its 25th birthday, I dug up old diary entries, screenshots, photos, documents and memories from the late 90s when Valve was just a collection of strangers, most of whom had never shipped a video game before. I’ll take you through the game sharing stories of what life was like at Valve back then, and what it was like working on and building Half Life, the game that put Valve on the map.

 

[ferratilis]

Well, that's a relic of the past, for sure:

No dangerhairs.

 

[Anthedon]

Well, that's a relic of the past, for sure:

No dangerhairs.

A lot of hair though.

 

[911 Jumper]

Steam Deck OLED has been announced:

 

[PlayerEmers]

Steam Deck OLED has been announced:

I will definitely buy this one to replace my current deck
an all-around internal upgrade + better battery life + oled for basically the same price its pretty much what myself and others were expecting

 

[911 Jumper]

Steam Deck OLED has been announced:

I will definitely buy this one to replace my current deck
an all-around internal upgrade + better battery life + oled for basically the same price its pretty much what myself and others were expecting

It is tempting. I've never had a Deck or even a Steam account so this looks like a great way to jump in, especially with the upgrades.

 

[PlayerEmers]

Steam Deck OLED has been announced:

I will definitely buy this one to replace my current deck
an all-around internal upgrade + better battery life + oled for basically the same price its pretty much what myself and others were expecting

It is tempting. I've never had a Deck or even a Steam account so this looks like a great way to jump in, especially with the upgrades.

I recommend it big time. I use it to play LOTS of indie games and rarely AA and AAA titles.

 

[lightbane]

Did they improve the hardware somehow, or is it just the screen? In fact, can you actually mess with the Deck's hardware somehow? I'm not sure.

 

[911 Jumper]

Steam Deck OLED has been announced:

I will definitely buy this one to replace my current deck
an all-around internal upgrade + better battery life + oled for basically the same price its pretty much what myself and others were expecting

It is tempting. I've never had a Deck or even a Steam account so this looks like a great way to jump in, especially with the upgrades.

I recommend it big time. I use it to play LOTS of indie games and rarely AA and AAA titles.

Thanks for the rec (sorry no access to Reactions). DF's Rich Leadbetter's enthusiasm is obvious in that vid. He pretty much says the Deck OLED is the best gaming handheld available.
I was so close to getting a Switch oled recently. Happy I didn't now that I know this is dropping soon.

 

[911 Jumper]

Did they improve the hardware somehow, or is it just the screen? In fact, can you actually mess with the Deck's hardware somehow? I'm not sure.

This Digital Foundry video covers all the tech improvements:

 

[CaesarCzech]

Steam is working on allowing you to mark a game as private and hide it from your friends.

Anyone wanna bet that its due to Hogwarts legacy ?

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Anyone wanna bet that its due to Hogwarts legacy ?

It's a bit late for that. It's probably a highly requested feature by people who want to hide their foot worship simulators etc.

 

[deuxhero]

Steam is working on allowing you to mark a game as private and hide it from your friends.

That's pathetic.

I would rather my little niece and her mother dont see me playing incest porn games on steam but you do you I guess.

Actually speaking of children, "child" accounts for family sharing, only allowing certain games to be played from a family sharing account, would actually be a good feature. Select whitelist (only share explicitly allowed games), blacklist (block certain games), and maybe block certain features/tag (no games tagged/rated "mature", no online MP) and some other basic parental controls like only allowing certain times of day.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

https://gamalytic.com/blog/steam-revenue-infographic

It's interesting to see the exact numbers but the trends were predictable

 

[Hobknobling]

I’ve been designing video games for nearly 30 years. Half-Life was the first game I worked on when I joined Valve in November 1996. To celebrate its 25th birthday, I dug up old diary entries, screenshots, photos, documents and memories from the late 90s when Valve was just a collection of strangers, most of whom had never shipped a video game before. I’ll take you through the game sharing stories of what life was like at Valve back then, and what it was like working on and building Half Life, the game that put Valve on the map.

His Steam user: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197964279229

The first video had a Steam friend popup for a user called "Spawn of Creation" who apparently was a bit special: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/35oxzr/the_worst_kind_of_mvm_players/

 

[Gerrard]

Why the fuck did they remove the news section from the library?

 

[Alienman]

Why the fuck did they remove the news section from the library?

Damn, you are correct. I used that segment...

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

That's strange; I still get "what's new" -section on my library and Steam claims my client is up to date.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

I re-started Steam and newsfeed is gone.

 

[Caim]

Several other people complaining about this as well, alongside being able to see notifications from ignored users.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Some threads about this:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/5540051992993832266/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/17y4t0d/news_at_top_of_library_gone/

edit.
Newsfeed seem to be now under Store -tab.

 

[Gerrard]

So now you have to go to a separate page to get the info that you always could see when you opened your library screen, very useful. Did Valve hire some people from Google by any chance?