Yay more games removed, and the count increases from 64 to 68 :) Thanks for all the announcements valve, I really know why and what's happening, thanks for being so informative about stuff
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Steam just removed more.
I "added" a game key from DIG and my library went DOWN by 6 games. They must be still in the process of adding games to the "Removed" list.
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Valve just removed like 10+ new games during last few hours. (Which were bundled before)
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Dev4play games were banned featuring gems like : Frozen Drift Race, Fallen Mage, Manking Defender, War Truck Simulator, TD Ultimate, Battle of the Battlemage, MTB Downhill Simulator and Rover the Dragonslayer.. probably missing some.. it was probably due to fake reviews as you can see in this rather cringe video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt2r7Ypslwo
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I am sorry for any inconvenience but we recently updated the status of some games that have been removed from the Steam community. You are still free to access them in your Library, but they will no longer be included in game counts or in any other parts of the community.
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while youre at it :D...does it say its finished or are more games to follow
just in case its in the same statement...Im guessing its not
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Yeah but where did they say it. I just noticed that about 10 of the removed games is now registered on my account again. So i would like a link to the statement! 😀
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My good friend Ashes contacted valve regarding this and "We recently updated the status of some games that have been removed from the Steam community. You are still free to access them in your Library, but they will no longer be included in game counts or in any other parts of the community.
This game count number also excludes some content in your Library such as add-ons, DLC, and free-to-play games. "
So yeah, i think they will be making an official announcement anytime soon regarding this.
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I'm having a HUGE problem. While the whole time people said they only removed some games from the gamecount but those games would remain in your library for you to play whenever you want to I just found out that this is not true. A little adventure game that I even won here on SG called Désire, former Steam store link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/399700/, vanished completely from my account. It's not there anymore. And I wasn't even noticed!
O.O
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The accented characters don't register in the Steam library. It registers as Dsir, so check where that would be found in your library.
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I wasn't able to detect it by typing "Dsir", but your post gave me hope and so I scrolled through all of D in my library and there it sat between Druid and Duet. All good now, thanks!
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You should've typed "sir", because it's the longest string in "Désiré" without any accented characters. The "é" between "D" and "s" was preventing Steam from showing any results for "Dsir".
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The more you know. I'll take that into account next time I'm looking for that game. Thanks to you, too. :)
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So Steam doesn't handle common character collations properly ? Of course there's things they're half-assing that we didn't notice before!
Explanation mode following because I'm in such a mood today:
For those who didn't study character data & internationalization as part of an education in IT: The short version is that character collations define which characters in a specific subset compare as the same. So accented characters are considered the same as non-accented, combined characters are the same as alternative notation etc.
Most databases, if set up correctly, will index/search character data using normalized forms based on those collations. So searching on "Desire" or "Désiré" would both return the game "Désiré" or they would, if the game hadn't been booted off the store.
Findinf the game when searching on "Dsir" however just shows that accented letters are ignored, and is nonsense.
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it's still fun for trying to ding brutal/brütal legends - I have ü on my keyboard but steam doesn't accept it, and brutal gives no result :D But... we're talking about the client that consistently fucks up game names with colons and dashes, and actually taking them into consideration at searching :D
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4797 to 4760 and now at 4774?! My count went back up a bit. Did they reverse some of these?
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Mine too. I was at 2176 all day, added two games from the Monthly, the counter remained at 2176. Now it is at 2183, meanwhile my SG data tells me I own 2212 games. Weird times.
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Got 6 games back :P Huh?
This is weird, I don't even know which games were removed and which games are back, and I don't even care... anyway just reporting
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You can switch this behaviour on/off in hidden Steam settings.
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And the count went back up for me by... 6? Yeah, I think 6.
Just what in the world is valve doing? And why?
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Valve moves in mysterious ways. Because of Valve logic.
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Valve logic is weird. At this point I wouldn't be shocked if one of these days they release HL2 episode 3 as a live action movie, or better, a visual novel :P
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or RPGMaker game with stock assets xD
hey wait, that's a brilliant idea :3
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Valve removes in mysterious ways. Because of Valve logic.
FTFY
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No games were lost. You can still play them, and see them in your steam library when you launch steam on your computer.
However they do not appear anymore in your "game count", and steamgifts, isthereanydeal, compare2steam, etc... cannot see that you own them.
List of games that were "removed":
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/nrayPMO
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Just received an email from isthereanydeal with a lot of games added back to my library. Since I saw both Doctor Who games there, I figured it is related to the games non-licensed coming back to life somehow.
My list of (re)added games is:
system:added Pole Position 2012
system:added Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock
system:added Forsaken World
system:added War of the Immortals
system:added Pressure
system:added Catan: Creator's Edition
system:added Rescue - Everyday Heroes (U.S. Edition)
system:added Doctor Who: The Adventure Games
system:added Cloud Chamber
system:added Biology Battle
system:added Dragomon Hunter
system:added Cloud Knights
system:added Run and Fire
system:added Swordsman
system:added The Protocol
system:added RuneScape: Idle Adventures
system:added Tower Defense Ultimate
system:added Moirai
system:added Cowboy zombie
system:added Last Tale
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system:removed Etaria | Survival Adventure
system:removed CosmoLands | Space-Adventure
system:removed StoneBack | Prehistory
system:removed Chicka Wars | Chicken Meat
system:removed DinoOps
system:removed REED
system:removed GrottyScape
system:removed Socxel | Pixel Soccer
system:removed MontaSayer
Thanks Valve
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Just a moment ago, games that are "banned" or whatever because Valve cuts tie with developers are no longer detected by Steam API. A prime example is that (almost) all Digital Homicide games are no longer detected as owned.
This is not a per-app change, but rather a system-wide change, so if you own some games made by other developers that are "banned" then Steam API will also no longer detect them. Not sure if this is intentional and why Valve would do this, but surely this will change a lot of things.
What this could mean in SG:
I don't have a complete list of what games are affected, since there are too many. This means if SGTools wants to update their whitelist it can be a non-trivial process.
Also, your profile's game count may have changed, depending on how many such games you have in your account.
For example, I own Barbie and Her Sisters Puppy Rescue (appid: 396390, you won't be able to see that I own this game unless I am on your friends list on Steam and you go to the Friends that Play page of this game), and if you check with Steam API you won't be able to find 396390 as my owned appid.
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