[PSA] Spring Cleaning Event Badge

same for me :D

Just tag any game, and something will appear

yusssss. Gonna get it for myself and a friend :P

Ultimate version at 75% off, fixed?

That's because it just started.

ASF or appid trick.

sam easy solution

Use SAM - SteamAchievementManager

you need to "addlicense" first, then you can use "play"

same

HL2 easy life, never ending options ;D

Same :/

For me, it was Portal :)

same :O

Left 4 Dead 2 was mine. Someone told me about Steam giving it away for free one X-mas, so I made a Steam account and got it. Such was the beginning of a bad habit. :p

Frankly, I might skip this mini-event because of that. Quite annoying to download some game just to play it for a couple of minutes to satisfy the badge requirements. I mean, it's not the end of the world, but not exactly the most convenient thing :/

You dont have to play them but you do have to download them and launch the game. Downloading maybe an issue for you, you can try to put them in the Steam download Q and go to sleep/work and see if they are downloaded when you are awake/back. I did it without any other programs installed but I did have a stable download. Cheers~

how to unlock dota 2 test? nvm got it haha

But how do you play the game that is free during the whole event? When i type appid in sam it says: ''You don't own that game.''

You probably don't need to actually log in to the game, just launch the application.

If you can't from the GUI then ASF or SAM (look elsewhere on this thread) might do the trick for you.

You literally only have to launch it. You don't even need to get to the main menu. Once the process launches, you can open task manager and exist the game. It'll still register.

Summer sale should be next month at least.

well to be fair it would be quite counterintuitive to the whole cleaning thing if they tempt you to buy new stuff for your backlog :D

Isnt that the temporary f2p games?

just use sam or asf....

Is there really? Never heard about that before. ASF and/or SAM work, of course.

I believe the "trick" is to launch the game lol. From what I gather, you don't really need to play the game, just launching and then closing it should work.

I think you mean the old appid trick. Not sure if my explanation is completely correct but you should be able to find a step by step guide under that name.

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/B6Euk/psa-spring-cleaning-event-badge/search?page=2#8sMEvgM
Cheers, mate~

I used SAM and it's really easy/user friendly.

https://github.com/gibbed/SteamAchievementManager/releases/tag/7.0.17

there are lots of Threads about it here in the forum.

Download ASF, configure it, run it, enter manual command line ("c"), enter "play <appid>".

It works better to run the play commands sequentially rather than all the appid's at once. You only need to let it run the game for a second or two. You can resume automatic card farming (using "resume") or just exit the program when you're done.

Heh, same issue, see below. I guess that's a temporary malfunction of Steam currently then.

I hae the same problem

really? i did left 4 dead 2 and got SPEED CLEAN and spin cycle (weird why this isn't in caps like speed clean) done as well as 1 project for apparently having a friend recommending it

Just for the record, I completed both "Trusted Friend" and "Tag Contributor" by launching Shadow Tactics, so it does seem to count one game for multiple categories ;)

I have an alt that got Spin Cycle, Clear the Backlog, Trusted Friend, Blast from the Past, and Tag Contributor all from launching DDO one time. :)

appID should be 336510, you can add it in ASF or SAM if I understood previous comments well enough. Hopefully.

!play botname 336510 doesn't work?

or if you want to play it
steam://install/336510

I just want 3 more steam levels so I can get one more section showcase added to my Steam profile, then I'll stop caring about events & badges ;)

It's either use tools, or RIP user data caps. Brilliant.

When the meta is the real game.
I really appreciate them throwing in a random generator for my library ( I can name 2 or 3 sites immediately that does the same) but I rather play my games when I'm in the mood for it, not immediately, and by downloading tens of gigs daily.
Maybe casual people outside of reddit/sg do it properly. They could use the money spent on this to buy exclusives though.

+1

Am I the only one who was genuinely looking forward to that event? :/ Last year I installed Cities Skylines even though the download took longer than the Hundred Years War and I was just mildly interested in playing it, and I ended up liking it enough to put it on my wishlist, win it here, and play it for like 50 hours. Honestly if you don't try to rush through the event with ASF or all that stuff, and just do it casually by playing a couple games for like 20 minutes, it's pretty fun.

Oh hey, I am the cat that likes to do things the hard way hahaha. I am glad things turns out smooth for me without having to use any of the programs. :D Cheers~

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This could be a fun event if they extended it for a month instead. Doing all those tasks in a few days is unreasonable if the intention truly is backlog cleaning.

Yay! I'm a .01%er!

...If only that paid anything in this case. Except I did enjoy one of my backlogs enough to keep it on y drive and keep playing it a while (Guts&Glory) and it also got me back into Grim Dawn a bit so I could finish elite level content

Too early to tell, if I am not wrong, the list should change daily, since its a daily task and there's a mention of random choosing games from your library. Or maybe you could just play the same game for the daily task, we'll see in 24hrs. ;)

You don't need to install any game, instead use the "app-id trick", or ASF or SAM.

I'm just glad I have unlimited bandwidth now. Otherwise it would be a major pain to download some of them!

I used L4D2 for Speed Clean both days so far and it counted, so I can confirm that works

That's the thing. Even if you wanted to take the event seriously (rather than just use an app to fake your plays) Valve's available selections for play tend to be incredibly cumbersome to work through. [Large install size aside, why would we want to reinstall any game that we've already "completed"?]

If the event used more "or" conditions in their tasks, let us pick from a selection of tasks each day, or otherwise gave us more options, the event would be a lot easier to take seriously.

Alas, it is the same for me. Except it will just be regular Dota 2 for me. The sad part is that I have no interest in the game at all! I only have it in my Library due to it being part of The Orange Box!

I will install it while I am sleeping and load it up after work tonight.