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Re: Steam News & Updates

Post by Alan » Wed May 22, 2019 6:38 pm

That’s weird. I hope they’re forking some cash over.
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Re: Steam News & Updates

Post by Medicine Man » Wed May 22, 2019 7:02 pm

Seems like they're all bum chums now
So in February we flew the Drodo team over from China to chat about the future of Dota Auto Chess, and to see if they’d want to collaborate directly with us (this was also during one of the worst weeks of snow we’ve had in years, sorry about that, Drodo). We had great conversations, but we both came to the conclusion that Valve and Drodo could not work directly with each other for a variety of reasons. We ended up agreeing that we’ll each build our own stand-alone version of the game, and support each other to the fullest.

As for us, with Drodo’s blessing, a group of people here at Valve are currently working on a standalone Dota version
But I'm sure flipping great wadges of cash were involved at some point. :D

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Re: Steam News & Updates

Post by DjchunKfunK » Wed May 29, 2019 10:19 am

Anyone have a 25% off coupon for Void bastards in Steam they aren't going to use? I hear you get one if you have a copy of System Shock 2 in your library.

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Re: Steam News & Updates

Post by Medicine Man » Wed May 29, 2019 1:32 pm

DjchunKfunK wrote:
Wed May 29, 2019 10:19 am
Anyone have a 25% off coupon for Void bastards in Steam they aren't going to use? I hear you get one if you have a copy of System Shock 2 in your library.
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Re: Steam News & Updates

Post by Alan » Wed May 29, 2019 1:58 pm

Oooh, I might bite with that code. Thanks for pointing it out DJ!
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Post by DjchunKfunK » Wed May 29, 2019 4:26 pm

Thanks MM.

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Post by Lee » Sun Jun 09, 2019 9:57 pm

The new Steam layout has been leaked and you can actually use it. It looks nice enough. You can get the details of trying it out here https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/topi ... ment=11636
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Re: Steam News & Updates

Post by Medicine Man » Thu Jun 27, 2019 5:58 pm

Some devs seeing wishlist numbers plummet due to Summer Sale mini game...




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Post by Medicine Man » Fri Jun 28, 2019 6:06 pm

Valve have clarified a few details around the sale and sorted the wishlist thing as well...

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110 ... 8777544444

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Re: Steam News & Updates

Post by Medicine Man » Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:51 pm

Valve launch Steam labs...

https://store.steampowered.com/labs

Like the thing Google did a while back only for Steam.

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Post by Medicine Man » Wed Sep 04, 2019 8:46 pm

Steam Library overhaul hitting open beta September 17th...

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ ... ion-events

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Post by Rusty » Thu Sep 05, 2019 6:38 am

Well, that all sounds horrible. I have hundreds of games in my library and, at any one time possible hundreds of these will have developer updates, news etc. It's just clutter. Do I care if my friends ae playing a certain game?

Just fix the library view in VR. It was fine several years ago but they've really borked it recently.

Actualy, I've been trying out the GOG beta where it will show all your games over all launchers/providers. I tend not to use launchers at all, mind you, and prefer having icons on my desk for my current games I'm interested in. But it's a good attempt by GOG.
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Re: Steam News & Updates

Post by Alan » Thu Sep 05, 2019 6:42 am

I would like a text list, with trees/folders and nothing else. Clean, compact, fast and “lite”. All I want for Christmas is ascii.
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Re: Steam News & Updates

Post by Achtung Englander » Thu Sep 05, 2019 12:55 pm

so long as I can continue to make my own lists - they can do whatever they want
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Re: Steam News & Updates

Post by DjchunKfunK » Thu Sep 05, 2019 1:26 pm

I don't know why they are bothering, it's only going to annoy people. So many people want so many different things from the service now.

The revamp looks a lot like GOG Galaxy 2.0.

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