Steam Stuff - What Has the Digital Distribution Giant Done Lately?

Aren’t there like, houses they could be building in Russia?

They’re building them out of Steam trading cards!

More evidence for my “Steam trading cards are involved in money laundering” hobby horse. I still don’t know how anyone gets the money out of Steam, though.

Well, this is something.

The icing on that cake?

The developer of Active Shooter is called Revived Games, the publisher Acid. Revived Games’ credits include White Power: Pure Voltage and Dab, Dance & Twerk.

Well now I know what games to request for Tom’s Request Wednesday. :p

“Dab Dance & Twerk” is truly unforgivable.

This event is cute, but it does not reflect how I play games. Usually, I buy a game and play it to completion, unless I really don’t like it.

This concept is foreign to me. :|

Pervert.

My first 10 - well, 11 - Steam purchases:

Lol, I can’t believe I spent 30 bucks on Star Wolves 3. I bought my OG Half Life 2 and (later) Orange Box at the neighborhood Target. Strikes smug pose on Rascal

He actually died in 2010 from playing that many Elder Scrolls games in a short period of time. We’re talking to an AI.

Phil Schiller responded to someone’s email about iOS Steam Link. From MacStories.

We care deeply about bringing great games to all of our users on the App Store. We would love for Valve’s games and services to be on iOS and AppleTV.

Unfortunately, the review team found that Valve’s Steam iOS app, as currently submitted, violates a number of guidelines around user generated content, in-app purchases, content codes, etc. We’ve discussed these issues with Valve and will continue to work with them to help bring the Steam experience to iOS and AppleTV in a way that complies with the store’s guidelines.

If the Steam Link client really did let you purchase games and stuff like that, that makes a lot more sense for Apple to reject than just its nature as a remote streaming device. Still plenty of reasons you could disagree with he decision, but it’s more consistent with Apple’s past actions.

Which is something I was pondering, if it’s approved at some point, do sales in the Steam app then count as everything else that can be used on the device, so Apple will want their 30%? The games would then be sort of playable on your Apple device after all. I wouldn’t be terribly upset if I couldn’t make purchases on the Steam app, but I could see it going there.

Anyway, I sent Apple feedback on it, not that it will make a difference, but maybe enough people are complaining. If Apple doesn’t fix this, they just gave me a good reason to buy a Google based TV device.

I was wondering that as well. If that’s what Apple is after, the app won’t get released or it will be impossible to make purchases through it.

If anyone wants to feel bad be amazed how much they’ve saved in steam sales, check out the new “Data Related to Your Steam Account” in support. The “External Funds Used” one is so fun to look at.

I have noticed a small trend that seems to be growing: Initial reviews are by people that have gotten free copies of the game they are reviewing. I know there is a philter and I use it. But I cannot help but think this creates biased reviews generally. Some new games have as many as 7-8 “free game” reviews within a few hours.

Caveat emptor. I have been a LOT more critical last 6 months and at the same time more discerning over steam reviews.

Then they should reject all the other remote desktop things since you could :gasp: run a browser and purchase things. Oh yeah also should shut down all browsers while we’re at it since they could also be used to purchase things outside the app store. That line of logic gets pretty degenerate.

The 2D anime waifu porn is bad but the VR Kanojo is OK?

All the Android Steam link client does is, well, steam link. It remote desktops into your computer running Steam, starts big picture mode, and works with local gamepads and such. That’s it. I would be very surprised if the iOS version isn’t identical.

Of course since it runs Steam big picture mode, you can then buy games from Steam. But that is literally the same as the microsoft remote desktop client, just with much lower latency and gamepad support.