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I feel like this feature is extremely underrated. It really lets you track exactly how users responded to the game at launch and at different events (patches, upgrades). Its like the only actual democratic place where people can share exactly how they feel about entertainment, instead of being forced to like it.

steam 2013. Got early access to Arma 2🫠 miss you, simpler times.

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

I guess I won't be using it for a long time, till I buy the new game, that is.

My ROG Chakram X keeps giving me issues when playing FPS games like Valorant or Arena Breakout: Infinite. It suddenly snaps straight up or down and shoots one bullet. It is random and happens every 20 minutes, sometimes once per hour. It lasts only one second and can then be moved normally. In Warframe, it makes me walk in one direction indefinitely, depending on which WASD button I pressed at the moment it happens. The only way to fix that is by unplugging and plugging back the USB antenna. I want to remove the controllers from Steam, but I cannot; there is no option. When I unplug it, they are gone, but as soon as I plug it back, the same thing happens. I cannot find a setting to disable Steam Input either.

Aside from the huge influx of slop making steam next and the store unusable there is a bigger issue.

Genuine developers are no longer able to release demos or early access for player feedback. Lucas Pope won't discuss his next game and Indie studios cancelled demos (Edited from Toby Fox cancelling demo, I misremembered the article linked below)

Why? AI studios (that proponents of AI would say are producing the "good AI games") have been decompiling demos or just burning tokens to get their models to scrape the demo and get a pixel perfect clone(edit for all the strawman arguments - I mean art close enough that people interested in the original demo don't realise they're buying the copy). Then they feed it into their enterprise llm account and fire out the IP theft before the creator has a chance to publish. This results in them stealing a huge proportion of the audience and killing the visibility of the real game on release. I'm talking about playable games following a shallower loop than the original but with enough there to fool a lot of people until past the refund time and not disclosing the use of llm generated assets.

This is not a conspiracy theory, look for "needle haystack" and try to find the original. This is just one of the games. Yes there's slop but theres also 2-3 games where you'd be hard pressed to find the original. I guarantee the top 10 non AI games played in this next fest will have clones release in the next 2 months.

This is why we need an AI filter, otherwise Indie development will die or, at best, have to move to curated game stores.

Edit - Apologies I misremembered it was Lucas Pope not Toby Fox and it was him keeping details of his game secret,not cancelling a demo. It was part of an article about demo cancellations. Linked here for clarity

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/devs-are-canceling-their-demos-to-stop-ai-users-from-stealing-their-games-creator-of-one-of-steams-most-wishlisted-is-concerned-it-may-be-ripped-off-and-beaten-to-its-own-launch/

Despite the overwhelming amount of garbage, I still managed to find quite a few little indies to keep tabs on and see how they go post-release. These were some of mine

Dreadmoor

Ravenous Greed

VAL'TY -

Birds of Impalatism

Kopernicus: Incremental Suffering

Baby Lemonade

TETRIC

JOHN GLEEP

Clown Around

Death of the Brain

Heroll: IF

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Hello everyone! If we organize ourselves and start appropriately tagging games with the aforementioned in the title, it can potentially be popular enough to appear as a tag on Steam, and be used as seen as fit for those who'd want to exclude such games in their store, while those who don't care just simply don't have to do anything at all.

Also, I've been noticing that the "Artificial Intelligence" to tag games made with Gen AI, and I think that's a terrible idea considering it's also used for games with AI as a central theme, such as games like Steins;Gate. Popularizing the Generative AI tag would fix that issue as well. It is this issue in particular that actually made me think of the idea in the first place as I had noticed it while going through my Discovery Queue.

Lastly, please refrain from using this post as a point of debate on the validity of using Gen AI, it's ethics, or whatever. We already have a lot of that plastered all over this subreddit anyways, so you can take a peep on those posts instead for that purpose. The point of this post is to provide a legitimate solution to a problem that clearly we all already know a lot of people have been complaining about for a long while now, and to foster discussion about the suggestion itself in hopes of potentially implementing it, improving it, and/or to provide more suggestions.

Please share your thoughts!

EDIT: I see a lot of repetitive comments, so I'll include those here every now and then to reduce the redundancy of commenting it over and over again"

"Can be too easy to abuse" "People can make mistakes"

I think everyone is aware of this, and the reality is it happens regardless of whether this idea is implemented or not. Though do be aware of the tools used in combating this by developers, and that even users themselves can report the misuse of tags by clicking the + icon at the tags portion of a game and then clicking the flag icon.

"How can you know if there is AI involved?"

The most obvious basis would be the AI disclosures that exist in steam pages where the developer is transparent enough to declare such, but then what happens when no such disclosure exists? The real answer is that there is no true answer, and is really determinant on the active participation of the community to ensure the correct tags are there. That has always been the reality of the tag system, and is a flaw that has to be accepted rather than doing absolutely nothing. For the amount of tags you've seen misplaced, there are more that have been corrected, even if it's hard to notice.

EDIT EDIT: Please read the last paragraph of the unedited portion please oh my god

My debit card does not work with verification, so while I can't buy 18+ games, I have had no problems accessing this dlc for a month. I haven't found any other games that let me see the store page nor can I see this on another account which makes me think its only possible if you own the base game.

Hey everyone!

Recently I’ve started getting lots of messages from accounts that are not my friends where they open with “hey I need to ask something’s important!” And I block them immediately, but there was one guy I gave a chance to see what’s so important
He sent me a photo of a transaction with my name on steam marketplace which was fake obviously, blocked and reported immediately because I got stressed seeing my name there

But it has been to weird I get on average two or three of those on a weekly basis. Do you encounter the same?

I've just tried a few indie dev demos from NextFest, and realised a lot of them have not had a lot of time invested in their creation.

They are also not from known publishers and don't have any reviews.

I'm wondering, what makes it safe to run these various .exe files?

Windows Security hasn't found anything in a scan, but I do wonder how I can ever know that I've not just compromised my PC.

Maybe this puts m off anything other than well known titles, which would be a shame.

Wanted to play Overcooked 2 with my niece. She is in my Family Sharing.
When I invited her for "Remote Play Together", Family Sharing blocks and lock the game as I have already ran the game (host).

But removing her from Family Sharing Group, I am able to invite her and play together with Remote Play Together.

It seems like Family Sharing is intercepting and blocking the Remote Play Together access.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

Edit: All user in Family is an adult account. no parental issue.

I'm genuinely curious. Every time I check Steam's most played games, TF2 is near the top, yet I don't think I've ever met anyone who actually plays it or even talks about it.

I barely see it mentioned anywhere compared to other popular multiplayer games.

Where is this massive playerbase hiding?

This months Humble bundle has Paychonauts 2 included but I already own it so here is the code for anybody that wants it

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Sometimes you buy a game because of the combat, the graphics, or just because it was on sale, and then some completely different part of it ends up keeping you hooked.

What's a game that surprised you like that?

What’s everyone playing tonight?

i have extremely slow internet and 4 computers attached to it. so being able to update/install to 1 computer and have that device update the rest is super valuable.

so far it works sporadically, or doesn't. sometimes i reboot my computers in the right order and it starts working.

i have a mix of linux and windows machines. i'm not sure if that's relevant

i really just wanna know how i can reliably download software/updates to 1 computer and have everything update the other computers without smashing my internet

So I've been looking to buy Dying Light: The Beast in the "Dying Light Franchise" Bundle. Which includes DL The Beast, Dying Light Essentials Edition, and Dying Light 2 at a 60% discount.

But, it says I do not own Dying Light Essentials Edition. Which I assume is because I own all but one $3 item - the 10th Anniversary bundle (which is actually a DLC). So it is adding the $25.00 it costs to the Dying Light Franchise bundle, bringing the total to $34.00 due to the 60% discount. [ (60 + 25) * 0.4 ]

So my question is, would purchasing the one item I do not own in this package mark the package as owned? The math assuming that would happen equates to around $24.00 USD (60 * 0.4), which is good because I'm broke. And then on sale, assuming all of this is true, would make the game cost $12.00 for me.

For my case it's just ultra zoomed in