Category: Valve
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Here is why Steam customer service is still terrible but will get better this holiday season
In recent Kotaku interview with Erik Johnson about the current Steam Support, Valve employee told that progress is being made on Valve’s side of things, it’s just not visible yet: “We started by realizing we had a lot of software to write to build a new support system,” Johnson explained. “The first feature that came of that was…
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New currencies coming to Steam this year
Starting later this year, Steam will begin supporting local currencies and payment methods for some additional countries. Which ones? Here they are: South Korean Won (KRW) Swiss Franc (CHF) Indian Rupee (INR) Chinese Yuan Renminbi (CNY) Chilean Peso (CLP) Peruvian Nuevo Sol (PEN) Columbian Peso (COP) South African Rand (ZAR) Taiwan New Dollar (TWD) Saudi…
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Steam: Better restrictions for new accounts
Valve updated the policy for new Steam accounts recently. From now on you won’t be able to do those things in the list below until you actually pay at least $5 on Steam (probably 5€ in Europe?). Adding retail CD-Keys to the account won’t remove those restrictions either, which is good because there are tons of free…
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What do you think of Steam Machines?
Do you like what they have showed us on the Steam store or not and why? I personally think that this is not a bad idea but the execution is horrible. I’ve expected something like top 5 Steam machines to be released, ranging from mid to high-end PCs inside, instead we get over 15 machines – really,…
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Valve announces Steam Link, Source Engine 2… Half-Life 3 soon?
Hey guys check this thing out! The Steam Link seems to be a small computer that you can hook up to your TV through HDMI. It has an Ethernet port so you can use Valve’s in-home streaming without slowdowns (like on WiFi for example). There’s also two USB ports to send input back to the PC…
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Valve asking devs to no longer give games for Greenlight votes
Here’s what Valve thinks about giving game codes in exchange for Steam Greenlight votes: “When you give away copies of your game in exchange for votes, you put us in a really uncomfortable position.” “We do not think these votes accurately reflect customer interest and it makes our job harder in deciding which games customers…
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Steam: Developers now have the option to support tradable items
The Steam Inventory Service is a brand new tool from Valve which feature allows developers to enable “persistent items that have been purchased or unlocked by individual users” without writing their own systems in support of this. “With this service, a game can easily drop items to customers based on playtime or can grant items based…
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Steam now hosts more curated Workshops for non-Valve games
Valve has opened the money-making side of Steam Workshop to third-party titles, giving modders more ways to make money. Are you a modder of Dungeon Defenders: Eternity and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare? You’re lucky, these are the first non-Valve games to support this update. Community members can create, vote on and buy in-game items – returning some…
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Poll Time: How many games did you get on the Steam sale?
Just a simple poll right here, how many games did you buy during this Steam winter sale 2014. I’m curious! I personally didn’t get ANY game on Steam during this sale… which is weird. Go! [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no”…
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Steam will most likely raise prices in Europe on the 1/1/2015
The new European Union legislation takes effect in January 2015. It is forcing online services like Steam, Origin, Uplay, Netflix, Spotify (which is simply amazing!), Amazon and others to pay taxes to the country where the user buys the product or service from instead of where the company is. Valve has their European headquarters in Luxemburg where the taxes…
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Hatred back on Steam Greenlight, thanks to Gabe!
This is awesome! According to the game’s developers, Gabe Newell contacted them to say the following: “Yesterday I heard that we were taking Hatred down from Greenlight. Since I wasn’t up to speed, I asked around internally to find out why we had done that. It turns out that it wasn’t a good decision, and we’ll be…
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Steam went full retard, all games are now region locked
Just like with the sudden currency change 6 years ago, right before the winter holiday season, now Steam decided to region lock ALL games in the catalog. So if you wanted to exchange gifts with your friends from around the world guess what? Look for Steam Alternatives because you won’t be able to, especially if…
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Hatred removed from Steam Greenlight after few hours
Steam Greenlight is one of those things that sounded good in theory but after a while most of the gamers I know hate it, so many crappy, unfinished games on there it’s kind of funny. Of course ther are exceptions but few weeks ago they allowed Postal on Greenlight without any problem and when the…
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Steam Discovery has launched, client updated
Well well, here’s a nice update for the Steam store, it looks so much better now and has some improved features like recommended tags etc. and the client got a small visual update as well. Good job Valve now fix your prices in Europe! ;-) And here’s the updated client, notice the little gamepad icon…
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Steam adds music library and player in latest beta
Probably old news to some of you but I’ve just noticed that Steam has a neat music player feature. Enable the latest beta on Steam to check it out, here are some screenshots: Good thing is that it works with Steam overlay and you can listen to your favorite tracks while you play, although you…
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Valve is being taken to court by The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is alleging that Valve has not fulfilled mandatory consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law. While neither Valve or Steam has any physical presence in Australia, the company must observe Australian law when it provides goods or services to Australians. “It is a breach of the Australian Consumer Law…
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Steam Beta: Install multiple games at the same time
Normally you’d have to start each download manually, but now you can select as many games in your library as you like, then right-click and select “install.” That will open an “install—multiple games” window. Nice!
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Stream your Steam games to your laptop!
Steam just launched In-Home Streaming. This is rather a breakthrough, you can now stream your Steam games (or pretty much anything from your gaming computer!) to any device that supports Steam (excluding Google Android I guess). Have an old Linux laptop laying around and want to play Titanfall or have a quick session in Dota…
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Steam now shows which reviews are of Early Access versions
Valve keeps on working on Steam store. Thanks to them now we know which reviews are of the Early Access versions. This way we can tell if the reviewer played the early beta version of the game or a fully working product which is a very important feature. Nice!
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Portal and Half-Life 2 now available on Nvidia Shield
Shield owners can now get Half-Life 2 from Google Play, in addition to Portal. “NVIDIA has done a remarkable job bringing both Half-Life 2 and Portal to SHIELD,” said Doug Lombardi Vice President of Marketing at Valve.
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Half-Life 2 coming to NVIDIA Shield!
This morning Android Police editor David Ruddock received a package in the mail. It contained this: “What Would Gordon Do?” and NVIDIA’s SHIELD logo, along with NVIDIA’s signature green color, makes this a not-so-subtle indication that the game is coming to the Android-powered SHIELD at some point. Fans of Valve’s work already know that the…
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Steam: Valve removed a shitty game from Steam
The author of this piece of garbage removed people’s opinions from the game forum on Steam and even worse he changed their bad ones into good ones (edited them). Just take a look at this preview of that game Earth: Year 2066. Greenlight is a good program on Steam but they need to control it…
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CS:GO Operation Phoenix – 8 new community maps!
I’m not really a CS player but Valve have released a new CS:GO ‘Operation’ pack recently, bringing unlimited official server access to a selection of community made maps. For Operation Phoenix, the maps were chosen by popular vote. The eight maps are Cache, Motel, Seaside, Downtown, Thunder, Ali, Favela and Agency. All will be available…