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I agree with the library management too. Its particularly obnoxious with some titles when the sequel or the beta is above the original, or in GTA's case, when I bought the bundle, it gave me the Mac version along with the PC version, so they are all listed twice.
I appreciate giving me the license for mac, but c'mon, i don't need to see that on my list on windows!
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The fact that the steam market is down...fucking again
Also the fact that you can set games in one category and can't make subcategories within those...that always really bugged me for some reason.
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Also the fact that those categories are actually only saved on the client so if you need to re-install on a different computer you need to do it all over again.
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why do people hate DRM so much? you can download the games to your computer simply and easily. it's like an online library. I love that aspect because I lose cd keys and game discs all the time. some games do limit the amount of times you can install them... but that's not steam's doing.
if you mean the inability to trade/sell games then that's a problem/ethical issue the whole industry faces, not just steam.
and I too am mad prices aren't all the same! damn you exchange rates and consumer price indexing! we could solve all of that by just taking over the world and establishing a single nation with a single currency... though that option is greatly frowned upon. but seriously, prices will never be equivalent between countries. just look at gas prices... Venezuela has gas for under $1 and the UK spends well over $6 while some Caribbean countries pay upwards in $15 per gallon. just something we have to deal with until there is some sort of universal monetary system. (which if it fails in Europe, we might not likely see on a global scale for a good long while)
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The DRM is the part that blocks games from launching if the Steam client isn't running. That can easily be removed without losing any features, such as the library. It also has nothing to do with reselling.
Unequal prices have little to do with what you point out. Steam originally had no price regions and everyone paid in dollars. But then Valve decided to make more money and started the $1=€1 bullshit and the ridiculous Australian price region. So now poorer countries have to pay more than richer ones.
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They partially are, because the default regional pricing scheme (most importantly, $1=€1) is set up by Valve and publishers have to go out of their way to change it. As a result, many small self-publishing devs have no idea that the prices are screwed.
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IDK what games, but if the game has mic support, it may be running it, and can be turned off.
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most annoying thing: constantly logging me out of their website...
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then why is there this thing called remember me on this computer for?
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I have the same issue, but I think it's because I log from 2 different places. Whenever I log from work, I have to re-log at home and vice versa.
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Many annoyances, but still better then whats out there.
Inability to Chat while Verifying Game Files.
Limited chat history, would like to see a text file used.
Inability to disconnect a game from steam. They could have it set up so that you could only remove 1 game every 15 days to help limit the chance of a stolen account having all its games sold off. Basically you would right click on a game, tell steam you want to remove it, and then 15 days later you get an e-mail and/or a popup giving you the serial number for the game.
Sometimes I am not able to click on a popup I get while playing and miss who or what it was from. I would like to have some sort of "popup viewer" that shows me all the popups I recently missed, maybe limit it to a days worth. Do not include friends coming online or joining games or stuff like that.
People should have to be able to send a message when they add someone to their friends list. It annoys me when I just get a friends invite out of the blue and have no idea why someone added me.
3rd party DRM on top of Steam. Securom, Live, some sort of log in for some games.
One of the biggest annoyances I have is that all the saved games are spread out everywhere. All the saved games for every game should be found in one single folder and that folder should be in Steam. This would make backing up saved games when reformatting much easier.
An offline mode thats annoying as heck. I shouldn't need to be logged in online before going offline.
And those are what I can think of at the moment.
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+1, save files all over the place. Games devs/publishers should agree on some format/location to make save files management easier.
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3rd party DRM on top of Steam. Securom, Live, some sort of log in for some games.
That's not steam fault...
One of the biggest annoyances I have is that all the saved games are spread out everywhere. All the saved games for every game should be found in one single folder and that folder should be in Steam. This would make backing up saved games when reformatting much easier.
Same...
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The 3rd party DRM is partially Steam's fault. First, they allow it to begin with. They have enough power to force publishers to drop it when publishing through Steam. Second, they fail miserably at marking it on store pages, and have a 'no refunds' policy.
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I agree, the offline mode is just silly and breaks the purpose, since you can't use it without being online first..
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i agree with "popup viewer" and either an option send a message, or to select a reason for adding when adding someone
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Hardly Steam's fault. Games don't know about each other and every one of them has to make sure that your system has all the files they need.
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It's part of the installing, but since the C++ runtime have been previously installed by at least 10 other games there's no point really in having to wait for it to "install" once more. If Steam just kept track of what runtimes have already been installed there would be no need to install the same ones over and over again.
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That's not Steam's job, it provides what the game dev gives it and the applications decide if they should be installed/updated or not when they're run after installing, it doesn't take that much time either so that's not really a pain... unless you want random crashes that you have no idea why they happen to later discover you needed XNA thingie.
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I realize that the game is providing it's own set of installers for various runtimes, and it's a safe way to have the right components installed. What I meant is, if a game requires XNA then Steam could install it like it does now. However, if the next game I install also requires XNA, it could skip it sice it's already been installed. If Steam provided the latest version of every packages (DirectX, C++ runtime, XNA) there would be no need for each game to provide them, freeing some disk space and cutting down on installation time.
It's a minor annoyance though, having to wait a few minutes the first time you start a game. And it's probably safer that way... but still would be nice if it could have been handled differently.
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There was an article about it somewhere. Apparently it's Microsoft's fault, because there are 40 or so versions of DirectSomething, and the MS licence only lets devs distribute the one they're using, so the DX installer needs to run every time to make sure you have that particular version installed. Don't quote me on that though, I could be misremembering the article.
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because someone is forcing you to use Big Picture with a loaded gun pointet between your eyes, right? RIGHT?!
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Ever hit alt + enter when typing something to someone? My question mark is alt gr + w, so I did. And guess what, it opens Big Picture. And if you try to close it before it has properly launched, it closes Steam. Trust me, it's a pain in the ass :C
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When it deletes games without my permission. Yesterday Half-life 2, Torchlight an Minerva Metastasis were just deleted without me doing so...
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Not really deleted, only steam believes so. The files should stille be there and a clientregistry.blob renaming/deleting and restart might solve the problem. But I agree, that's annoying.
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Steam is not for chatting but for playing games. Chat history is for people dwelling in the past and not focusing in the present. For me the most problematic thing is library sorting, however that is mainly a user problem. I just can't think of the most efficient way of sorting. Another thing I would like is tabs.
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The way it treats your account like fraudulent just because you haven't made any purchase in the last year. My account is 3 years old and I cannot use market because my last purchase on steam was more than a year ago. So, steam treats me as a fraudulent buyer or seller. All my purchases last year were from amazon/gmg etc.. because steam can't even match their prices during sales at all. I get that whole you can not use market once we verify your account is clean bla bla, but it's kinda stupid that this "you have to buy stuff every year in order to use steam completely" shit applies to even a 9 years old account.
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I understand it's all about "we don'T keep your personal data" but in that case I'd be glad if they kept it. (Just make it optional to fill this)
The worst is when your date is reset because the browser cache has cleared and you don't notice, so you end up entering that you're not even a year old and get locked from the games pages. Then you have to close all instances of your browser and get back in.
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The Inability to Chat while Verifying Game Files
this i so bloody annoying
what do you think is annoying in steam
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