The Valve and Steam Platform Discussion Thread

[RK47]

What exactly are the merits of the curator system?

Steam planned for the system to be the gatekeepers of the their online store once they open the floodgates so any games, even unpopular newsgrounds game like Depression Quest can make it to steam.

At least, that is what I think.

Opinion leaders hired to drive up sales.
It could backfire but the chances of EVERY curator downvoting a game is less likely.
Controlling the controllers.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Yeah, the only positive aspect of this update is that it's much easier to see if a game is already present in my (bloated) library.

This curator thingie and the new releases being classified by popularity are both major steps BACKWARDS. This is like Steam moving from being a marketplace to a fancy high street retail outlet.

 

[Infinitron]

Come on Codex, someone become a curator already.

Anybody here can become a curator if he wants - nobody's stopping you. However, if we found an official Codex group, we can have multiple curators representing us. Put together a team of all the quality codex reviewers - Roxor, felipe, etc. And you too, Zed.

Currently discussing this in the staff forums - we'll see what happens.

OK, join and follow:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/RPG_Codex
http://store.steampowered.com/curator/6866630/

There will be a newspost later on.

 

[MicoSelva]

I approve of The Codex curator page, and have already joined. Please do not recommend anything in Early Access, though.

By the way , it is nice of Steam to crowd-outsource yet another thing they should be doing themselves, i.e. sorting garbage. They even gave the garbage sorters a respectable name 'Curators' to make them feel better. Haha. All in the name for providing more profit for Valve better service to the people.

Sarcasm aside, in the end it should result with a little bit more organized market than it is now. It does not solve the issue of overabundance of shitty games that nobody wants, but still are bought by bucketload because they are cheap, but it should help with filtering through the sewage somewhat.

I will be looking to make a curation list myself, of 'so bad they are good or at least funny' (b-movie style) games, if I make the time (I will not).

 

[Alienman]

Steam is trolling me

 

[Morgoth]

Who the fuck needs this curator bullshit? If you don't know what you want you should fuck off to RPGWatch, or the Bioware forums.

 

[Renegen]

Who the fuck needs this curator bullshit? If you don't know what you want you should fuck off to RPGWatch, or the Bioware forums.

Yeah, everyone should make up their minds about what they want to play by Day 1.

 

[Outlander]

Inb4 GamerGate2, where shitty indie devs bribe shitty curators to promote their shitty vidyagaems. Indies are becoming the new AAA, it's like that thing this guy was talking about.

 

[SuicideBunny]

i need a us codex bro or sis with paypal to help me get some stuff. anybody interested?
thanks MicoSelva!

 

[tuluse]

So the recommendations at the very bottom have a "not interested" button to press, but nothing above them do.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I approve of The Codex curator page, and have already joined. Please do not recommend anything in Early Access, though.

Lords of Xulima. :-/

 

[Infinitron]

I approve of The Codex curator page, and have already joined. Please do not recommend anything in Early Access, though.

Lords of Xulima. :-/

And Age of Decadence. And Underrail.

MicoSelva must be thinking of the more butthurt-inducing WL2/PoE type of Early Access.

 

[MicoSelva]

I approve of The Codex curator page, and have already joined. Please do not recommend anything in Early Access, though.

Lords of Xulima. :-/

And Age of Decadence. And Underrail.

MicoSelva must be thinking of the more butthurt-inducing WL2/PoE type of Early Access.

I actually meant them all - I really do not like this model, from a consumer's perspective.
But yeah, I would agree that the recommendation might be in order if the EA version is already worth the money, which happens sometimes (although rarely). But I would not support recommending early access games on a promise of future improvements.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

The only EA game I recommend is Broforce.

While I understand that the Codex Curator wouldn't want to recommend it, it would be an interesting "black sheep" to have.

 

[Drakron]

OK, join and follow:

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/RPG_Codex
http://store.steampowered.com/curator/6866630/

There will be a newspost later on.

No, you shill.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I must be going full sperglord, I can't help but feel bothered by the new blue-tinted skin.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Seriously, what was wrong with the black skin? Black is classy, dignified.

 

[stony3k]

Yup, the blue just doesn't look as good - Black is beautiful

 

[Boleskine]

New Steam update adds a music player. Soundtracks to Valve games you own are free as well.

Spoiler

Steam Client Update Released

An update has been released for the Steam Client and will be automatically downloaded.

Steam Music Player

• The Steam Music Player feature is now available for everyone, making it easy to listen to your music collection while you play games on Steam. For more information, visit Steam News. For product support, visit Steam Support.

General

• Added display of friends’ nicknames to notifications
• Added support for Family View recovery email address in Big Picture mode
• Added "I forgot my PIN" link to Family View unlock dialogs if a recovery email has been set
• Simplified the user interface of the main window
• Reduced energy usage when running in the background
• Fixed installing games using “-applaunch” or “steam://install” commands
• Fixed some cases where invalid URL strings would be parsed as URLs in chats
• Fixed some issues with Unicode handling inside links in chat
• Fixed regression that prevented public sharing of screenshots of non-Steam games
• Fixed install from retail disk for games with more than 4 DVDs, to use the data from all disks
• Fixed game banners not appearing in grid view while in offline mode
• Fixed hang in grid view when hitting enter with no game selected
• Fixed warning sound playing when unlocking Family View in desktop mode
• Fixed permissions issue preventing developers from uploading Workshop items to an app using the ISteamUGC interface, if they only had an auto-grant license for the app

In-Home Streaming

• Improved AMD hardware encoding quality
• Updated Streaming audio from Linux to use the default pulse audio sink if none is running at the time streaming starts
• Fixed rare crash with windowed game capture
• Fixed regression preventing Big Picture mode from responding after streaming a game
• Fixed regression preventing streaming to NVIDIA Shield

Windows

• Added support for additional caching of proxy auto-discovery results and better background detection of broken networks where auto-discovery fails and takes a long time to timeout
• Fixed failing to draw Web views into games that run as the elevated user when Steam wasn't also elevated

Mac OS X

• Updated some common user interface elements for Retina displays

Linux
Fixed keyboard input for non-Latin languages in the Web view

 

[Infinitron]

Hey, this is pretty ace. All my CRPG soundtracks are there.

 

[Alienman]

I don't understand... where do I find the music player? I downloaded the Portal 2 soundtrack, or at least added it, but I have no idea where to find it?

 

[Boleskine]

I don't understand... where do I find the music player? I downloaded the Portal 2 soundtrack, or at least added it, but I have no idea where to find it?

If you highlight or click the Library menu, Music is underneath Games and Software.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

It only seems to show music from games that are installed, not just in my library.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I imagine they will introduce a way to download just the soundtrack of a game you own. Dunno why it's missing such an obvious feature.

If you highlight or click the Library menu, Music is underneath Games and Software.

For anyone not seeing it, I had to restart steam to receive the music player patch that makes that option appear.

Amusingly, I think the patch also introduced a little 360 controller icon (Big Picture Mode) next to the minimize button. Or was it there before?

 

[Darth Slaughter]

one thing they're missing grouping games by franchise.

You pick wasteland 2 for example, you don't see wasteland 1 link (except in the deluxe and classic versions descriptions). Or thief II where you can actually see games in the franchise in the "more like this" box, but this offer a lot of similar games, not franchise specific.