The Valve and Steam Platform Discussion Thread

[Modron]

Corn game sales will increase tenfold.

@Tyranicon rejoice!

Did your owner forget to feed you?

 

[Peachcurl]

Did your owner forget to feed you?

Are you having a bad day? That sucks, bro.

 

[Late Bloomer]

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

That's pathetic.

 

[Alienman]

Come on Steam.

 

[Gerrard]

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.

 

[Modron]

Are you having a bad day? That sucks, bro.

I was referring to your talk of corn games.

Come on Steam.

Yeah you have to restart steam every few days because of all the memory leaks this chrome version has.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

You can hide games but it's just so your library isn't cluttered (they only show up if you search for the name or click on show hidden), this is hiding games from other users without having to make your entire profile private. It could have some use in this era of "fired for liking a post on Twitter".

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

I will not hide that I play Evenicle 24/7.

 

[Peachcurl]

Are you having a bad day? That sucks, bro.

I was referring to your talk of corn games.

Ah, I see, sorry.

But dogs don't eat corn.

Cats on the other hand...

 

[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.