Category: Steam Flaws
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Steam Holiday Sale: Watch out for Far Cry Franchise Pack!
Watch out for Far Cry Franchise Pack on Steam Holiday Sale, it is more expensive than buying individual games. Check it out on the screenshot below: By buying the pack for 49,99€ you lose 7,52€. It applies to all regions as far as I know.
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European Commission responds: If Valve decides to offer a product solely within the UK this does generally not amount to an infringement of EU competition rules
I’ve just received a response from the European Commission (it’s weird because I did not send them an e-mail but a physical letter) and you guys are not gonna like it: … Thank you for your e-mail regarding Valve corporation. We note that, in substance, the concerns you have raised are to do with the…
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To all EU citizens: Please help us!
We are about to send a letter to the European Commission. Sending a letter. Why? At the moment I – as a citizen of Poland or for example France, Greece, Germany or any other member country – cannot buy products in the Steam Store in the shop reserved for residents of the United Kingdom (http://www.steampowered.com/?cc=uk)…
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Steam browser vulnerability puts users at risk
The steam:// URL is a quick way to install and launch games from a browser. Hardware and software security company Revuln pointed out that Safari can launch steam:// commands silently without the user knowing, providing a window of opportunity for attackers. The report highlights ways in which local processes that exist on our PCs as…
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Update: Valve taking action against gifts from USA and Russia!
People in the Steam gifting-scene from Russia and USA claim that they have received emails from Valve, urging them to stop gifting to players from Europe. On some accounts, buying games has been completely disabled. This is completely unacceptable. For most of people, buying games via a USA-gifter has never been about getting the…
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Steam for Android: Disable unwanted push notifications
Hi guys! The Steam sale is pretty good as you all probably know by now, but there’s one really annoying thing I just noticed. If you’re using the Android version of Steam app you probably noticed that the app just launched itself few minutes ago and spammed the notification bar with Steam summer sale details.…
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Steam to allow account name changes in the future?
“For those who are unaware, users that signed up for the Steam service in its early days are forced to login with the email address that they signed up with many years ago. For a lot of us, that means we’re signing in with an email address that no longer has relevance and is potentially…
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Watch out: Valve has introduced regional restrictions to some gift purchases from Steam
Previously they stated, that any game (gift) which was bought in Steam Store will not have any regional restrictions to add to the library and play (it is well known that CD keys usually have various restrictions on activation and playing). Actually steam support still claims that gifts will not be region locked, but…
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Message from Gabe
Here’s a message from Gabe about the recent database leak: Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users We continue our investigation of last year’s intrusion with the help of outside security experts. In my last note about this, I described how intruders had accessed our Steam database but we found no evidence that the intruders…
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Daily Steam deals described on video!
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Watch out for the current Steam Daily deals!
Steam Daily deals on 28-29.12.2011 (Prices may change during the day)
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Watch out for the current Steam Daily deals!
List of things to watch out for is here, thanks to Vogel again – Steam Daily deals on 27.12.2011.
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Watch out for the current Steam Daily deals!
List of things to watch out for is here, thanks to Vogel again – Steam Daily deals on 26.12.2011.
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Watch out on some Steam Holiday Sale prices!
We haven’t done this in a while but fuck it here’s a list of games you should really look out for! Got some nice comparison thanks to Vogel: Nuclear Dawn http://store.steampowered.com/app/17710/ US: $4.99 UK: £3.74 (17% higher) EU: €4.49 (17% higher) WARNING DON’T BUY NOW: Nuclear Dawn is going to be on IndieRoyale.com bundle!…
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Steam, VISA and insta-buy feature continues…
So it appears that Steam Store does not remember security codes from VISA card holders as we posted earlier – at least that is what Valve worker, Doug Valente, claims and I was asked to remove that information because apparently it’s false. However we still don’t know why Steam Store is insta-buying games if you…
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(Updated) Steam will remember your security code!
UPDATE! Crossed words in this article are supposed to be treated as false, please ignore them! Read more about this here in an updated article!