Click the robot thing in the house in order to start seeing things - It thought it was broken for a second.
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The whole point of the steam cleaning events are to clean out your backlog and play the games you already own.
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Did you clean your library by actually playing any games? Question is it enough to center the event around this reason? Doubt it worked for anybody, on top of that we don't have any sale, so I find "event for a badge" to be a quite pathetic gimmick, while other platforms giving away GTA, Civ, etc on top of decent sale. I don't even have Epic store account, just arguing that Steam doesn't do enough to win this war.
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...while other platforms giving away GTA, Civ, etc on top of decent sale.
Steam doesn't even have to play the game other platform have been playing. Epic is desperate to increase their presence in the market so there are freebies, do you think Steam needs to do that?
...just arguing that Steam doesn't do enough to win this war.
Well I don't really think Steam is even getting too much of a hit. For a time they seemed to be nervous so they tweaked with percentage of revenue split with developer and Steam, introduced a bit better sales event. After a year all the data came in, Epic had a good year but for Steam that was not much of a challenge. So you can see no more extra events like last year. If they were worried about the competition this pandemic was the perfect timing to react to Epic, hosting good StayAtHome Sales events, but they didn't. They might just focus on 2 major sales event Summer and Winter.
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Well, here I disagree. Even so I hate epic and won't switch to them, I got no choice but to acknowledge the effectiveness of their course. Steam got a superior client and free marketplace, which allows them to hold the position, but few more years of doing nothing, epic should overtake. Let's see what Gabe would offer us this autumn (loyal points or whatever).
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...but few more years of doing nothing, epic should overtake.
Yep if we assume Steam wont do anything.
As much as I like to see competition that are advantageous to consumers, I am not seeing that happening any time soon.
No matter how effective aggressive strategy they are using to enter the market, if you don't have loyal customers base, you can't be any effective. And surely you can't keep on bleeding money forever. Exclusives and Freebies doesn't build loyal customer base.
I see so much anger on users during sales/event. Mostly coming from users who were lucky enough to enjoy good deals at early days of Steam. But I find it funny how those users have set a standard on what "Sales/Events" should be like. Steam wanted to gain something and because of that you gained something. That's all to it nothing more. Now at present Steam doesn't really need anything but "if" Epic or other competitions are in their path we might able to experience such events again.
As for me I joined Steam a bit late (5 years ago, purchasing games 4 years ago), so I didn't get a chance to experience those "Events/Sales" everyone talks about. heard flash deals used to be awesome I do enjoy the sales, normally I buy around 8-10 games a year.
TLDR; Don't assign a standard on something based on most favorable moments.
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Thing is, sales and events are degrading over the years and while steam was the monopoly they could afford these lazy events, but now they should pump up those rookie shit, cause I would hate them to lose to Epic/
Also, you "Don't assign a standard on something based on most favorable moments" in this case cause you didn't live through them. The human brain does not have any objective representation of things, everything is relative to something else.
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I don't still get how you think that Epic gonna beat Steam. They aren't even reacting to Epic's strategy now. They just wont care until Epic gets better (maybe 3-4 years later).
What I meant to say was talking extreme ends of things and assigning it to something. Like I guarantee you that there will be some users on EGS complaining how there aren't freebies now like it use to be, a few years later. What you enjoyed was a time when steam wanted to penetrate the gaming market by being the digital distribution platform. It has achieved that, so now you get "normal deals".
Since every major AAA game companies now have their own platform, good luck finding better deals on Steam.
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It's a difference in our perception, cause what I see is that steam is reacting (they offered "loyalty" discount for last two sales, they made tons of changes in their app and policies, loyal points is coming soon), yet I feel like it's not quite enough, changes in policies are questionable, changes in the app are great and useful, but not flashy, discounts and events are kinda pathetic (I mean they even fucked up discount thingy... on first sale it hardly benefited resellers, on the second it didn't work for those who got enough money in their steam wallets and don't want to add their cash).
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sales and events are degrading over the yearsThe main issue I see is not that sales and events are degrading but that people are becoming greedier and greedier and wanting more and more for less and less.
cause I would hate them to lose to EpicYou do understand that things can coexist, right?
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Things can co-exits, but only one thing can be number one.
People are greedy in nature and it's debatable people on which side are greedier: consumers ore publishers. Also, sales and events on steam are degrading for a fact (while I should acknowledge that EPIC events are too generous...for a reason though), so I if it's a problem of greed, its less about consumers.
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Why does something have to be number one, though? Personally, I'm not a competitive person in general, so I don't get the importance of something having to be number one when things can just be equal. In my opinion, it really doesn't matter.
Someone may have the opinion that sales have been degrading but then again, games are still getting discounted, some more, some less, so I still like to think that those who complain about the sales being bad to have that opinion mainly because they believe that more games should have a higher discount which then comes back around to the point I mentioned before of people just complaining because they are greedy and want more for less. If everyone would give in to those people wanting everything 90% off then we'd soon get fewer and fewer games because a lot of developers, especially smaller ones who already have a hard time surviving, would simply go bankrupt and disappear.
I don't think one can only look at things from the perspective of the consumer but also has to take into account the perspective of developers and publishers and vice versa. There are plenty of things to work on on both sides. ^^
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yet, you kinda ignore the competitive nature of business itself. It's not even enough to be number one, you should be far ahead or better alone.
I believe that the main point of the steam sale event is fun, it was fun with the flash sales, it was fun with Golden Helm. And it's fun to grab something you actually don't need, but when it's dirt cheap, it consumerism at it's finest. Now it just not fun, it just a different sale picture and new emoticons. So it's not about discounts per se, discounts would be fun, without them they need something else and they don't.
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If you do believe that the main point of steam sale events is fun, then good on you because, a lot of times, the majority of people I see complaining are those who are angry because newly released, be it AAA or indie games, aren't offered for 90% off which, needless to say, is ridiculous and unnecessary.
When it comes to events during sales, however, it's up to Steam whether or not they add events and I think it's foolish of anyone to think that events are a necessity or the main focus of a sale or the reason that makes a sale interesting. Sure, the flash sales were fun but I wouldn't really consider them an event, more like an extra bonus and to keep people on their toes to snatch those special deals but with everything being constantly discounted throughout the year even without sales happening, flash deals have kind of become pointless, especially because people would only have another reason to complain if there were flash deals but they wouldn't offer the game they want for at least 90% off. I also doubt that a lot of people really care about the actual content of the events and that they only care about the free stuff they can get out of it which, again, leads back to the greediness of people in general.
There have been a number of events in the past but whenever there was one there were always people who complained so, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter whether or not there are events or what kind of events are added because either way, there are always going to be people who complain about it one way or another. I bet that even if they'd bring back flash sales and somehow managed to create a fun and entertaining event, there would still be people complaining about it for any reason they could possibly think of because that's what people love to do these days, nonstop complaining about anything and everything because absolutely nothing is good enough anymore.
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this is counter-productive logic. Of course, at any circumstances there gonna be those who complain, you cannot please everyone, doesn't mean you shouldn't try to please as much as possible. Should be some reasonable middle-ground.
Nobody (almost) complained about events when they got flash sales to occupy themselves, and people keep buying things every day of sale and they keep anticipating. Now it just the first and last days with nothing to do for 2 weeks. So yeah, flash discounts are not an event, but the sale is and the flash deal was the activity.
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Last year it did help me play some games, but if you don't want to do that, just ignore it shrugs
About the war; Steam is leading by several magnitues so they don't need to make giveaways to lure in new customers...
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boi oh boi the epic launcher is so fucking bad that not even if they would give me every game they have for free i would permanently switch to them
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They do this a couple of weeks before the summer sale.
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The Spring Cleaning Event is an event, not a sale, and has always been such. Steam Sales are all labeled as Sales in their names.
More notably, the SCE is intended to encourage backlog clearing, rather than purchases, so it makes sense that there wouldn't be any notable sale aspects to it even without considering Valve's typical distinction between the two kinds of occasions.
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Pretty much all the games this event is telling me to play, I've already played-- great stuff : /
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I knew my first Steam game was Portal 2, I know my second was Portal, but I didn't know my third was Mirror's Edge! 2012 was a simpler time.
I think this is cool though. Dewey is cute. Wish this was a bit more advanced than "start up this random game once", like focusing only on unplayed games but maybe do something with achievement progress or gameplay time.
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I was surprised to see my 1st 3. I knew about lucius but I was surprised to see journal and the novelist. All 3 of them I watched through youtube and clearly it made me want all free
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What are the badge requirements? It's not loading anything for me...
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Just start one of the three games Steam recommends for each floor
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So just launch 7 different games to unlock the gold level badge? Or do we have to do this daily like in past years?
You don't need to actually find a partner for the Remote Play Together floor games, just launch the game?
I also wish they would STOP sticking MMO games that shut down all their servers years ago on the list...
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You can do everything today, no need to wait. And for the remote play game, you just need to start it too, no need to play with someone.
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You can remove those games from your Steam library, if you wish to stop having them suggested.
Of course, you can always have it restored if by some miracle the servers return.
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is it new task everyday? or only 7 tasks like this?
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Eh... I'm a little disappointed. It took me 10 minutes. Oh well, I got 2 levels out of it.
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whats the syntax for ASF i dont want to download shit i dont intend to play. ?!
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If you have multiple bots just:
!play [BotName) <GameID>
If you only had your main set on Archi:
play <GameID>
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I used archi first time for a looong time and I use this command and nothing happens for example I use command for my bot "Geralt":
!play Geralt 270570
How to check if it is working and also any ideas?
EDIT: it work, just dont show in bot info and in steam. But quest was made anyway ;). Tried to fix as i though it does not work...
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Some next gen A.I. right here: Dewey or whatever it name is keeps recommending games that I have marked as Ignored.
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relatively easy badge but LOL one level featured three games that are not accessible via SAM (Bully, GRAV, and Rollercoaster Tycoon 2) so to finish this one i have to drag my shitty wifi connection from its toil over Deus Ex Mankind Divided and dedicate it to RT2 just so i can launch it for the last remaining task.
just find this funny, is all.
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Did you tried ASF (command play <bot_name> <app_id>)? It worked for me for any game (even with dota2)
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my ASF console is for whatever reason not interactive, so i can't type anything in. probably need to download something special, but i am super not technical minded so it is easier for my poor brain to just download a 1.1gb game than claw through the documentation and figure out what is going on and how to fix it.
i'm sure it'll work for other people tho, the comments seem to be in favor of it.
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Did you press the C key on your keyboard while focused?
Alternative:
in folder <ASF_location>/config/ASF.json (if not exists, then make one) type:
{
"IPC": true
// anything what were before
}Then after restarting app, just go to http://localhost:1242/page/commands URL in your browser, and have fun with GUI :)
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u dont need ALL games to paly, i get a badge without one 'level'
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Meh.
Done w with ASF in a few minutes. No items dropped, just a badge.
2/10 not recommending.
Any info if a new day will bring another task? Or will be this one-time thing?
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Well, can't I expect something more from a multi-billion of a worth company?
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You can always fund a company (make it multi-nillionare, not mandatory reach this) and gift things to people
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They won't work too hard on them anymore.
Everyone just blows through it with ASF, so why bother too hard on content?
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If every event is the same and can be done with ASF/SAM/... then why users should bother and to do it by hand?
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Did anybody tried to play (start) all the recommended games to see if there is a secret badge or whatever? It doesn't feel like something Steam would do, but who knows.
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I'll try this, give me 5 minutes :>
Edit: it "locks" on first game you played and doesn't "mark" another games
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Oh, well. This event sucks. It is a free badge though.
Thanks for sharing the info!
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500 free exp tho, and the badge is pretty cool imo
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It kinda is, and I do understand why some people like this. But don't really care about exp. I get it just because its there and its easy. I just liked the events with cards more, because we could sell those.
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Well, I finished "running" them anyway, and it granted me nothing, so it's not worth to try for anyone else :/
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Seeing first 3 games i played on Steam make me feel nostalgic
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Which was yours?
Mine were:
| Date | Name | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Dec 2012 | Painkiller Hell and Damnation | Retail |
| 17 Dec 2012 | Wargame: European Escalation | Retail |
| 16 Jan 2013 | Anomaly Warzone Earth | Retail |
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Great starting trio for your library.
My first 3 games were: Mafia II, Deus Ex: HR and Star Wars: KOTOR.
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Seems like giving Portal for free was a good marketing move from Valve. I now own more than 3600 games on Steam, lol.
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It's weird that it's shown as first, since Psychonauts was actually the first game I got on Steam, Portal came months later.
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My first games were apparently 1. Portal 2 (Steam version came with my PS3 version) 2. Binding of Isaac and 3. Super Meat boy
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Same here! Mine was Spore, Saints Row 2 and Bioshock Infinite. I knew about Spore but not the rest
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It depends on your moral code: I just wanted to get this badge quickly without having to download hundreds of gigabytes with my ultra hyper duper super internet connection 12Mbit ;)
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Hundreds of gigabytes, really? :p
My 7 games total less than 5 GB - and I have even found two games I like to play more :)
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Yes, really.
My first task games were Destiny 2(90GB), Warhammer Vermintide 2(90GB), and Middle Earth Shadow Of War (110GB)
My fifth task games were Borderlands 3(89GB), Assassin's Creed Origins(90GB), or Assassin's Creed Odyssey(114GB)
My seventh task games were Pillars of Eternity 2(42GB), Metro Exodus(70GB), and Divinity Original Sin 2(60GB)
So the lowest amount of gigabytes required, if we assume all other games were 0kb (which they're not), is 221 gigabyte. So yes, hundreds. ;)
Thank goodness ASF exists, because I only have 30GB drive space left free.
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Thank goodness ASF exists, because I only have 30GB drive space left free.
So true, because now SSDs are typically smaller than HDDs, one can't leave as many games laying around as before and game sizes keep getting bigger.
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I liked this event, it was short but eh was nice :D
I was lucky enough to find in almost every room a game that I would like to try or play again.
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