WARNING: WORDS AHEAD!
First thing I thought was hmm, these characters looks like they escaped from a Sunrider game, must be the same artist? Some alternate universe or something? I dunno.
Apparently the developer had a kickstarter or a patreon or a guitar case or a begging bowl, and I guess it worked because here we are... :)
If I knew anything about iDOLM@STER I'd probably say oh yeah, this is just like that. But I don't, sorry. Or maybe it's like one of those everyone wants to be an idol cartoons, but I've carefully avoided watching any of those, so I couldn't say. Guess I don't know anything about this game, eh? Well, that's nothing new. You're probably used to it by now.
Anyway, let's forget about the actual game and make up something. You take up Producer-san's burden, and with the power of walkthroughs and save points learn that Girls 1-7 in turn secretly love you too. And then you play one final time, and discover they all love you simultaneously, super-ultra-boobie style!
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
Good luck! :)
Apparently this is one of the new super-ultra-boobie games, so super-ultra-boobie that it's not available in half the Steam store's regions. Yay.
Ok, so what happens if someone in a "wrong" region wins? Can I gift it to them anyway? I dunno, but if I understand the steamdb thing correctly, nope. Well, maybe the developers will sell me a key? I dunno that either. Do they have an email address? Shrug.
Maybe we're just screwed? Yeah, probably. Big disappointment for everyone, I'm sure.
Oh, speaking of disappointment...
Did you ever try a puzzle containing over 9000 1000 crappy bundle leftovers? But because the person who made the puzzle was a fool, the first 300+ giveaways had already ended? That would be pretty disappointing, right? Yep.
You'd probably spend hours and hours on it, looking for a few mystery pre-order games buried underneath the mountain of mediocrity / crap / who even knows. Oh, and some boobie garbage hiding in a pity wormhole near the very end.
Wait a minute, maybe it's got Cyberpunk 2077! Umm, did you try searching for that game on Steam? No store page yet. You ain't getting one of those. Sorry.
Ok, so hours and hours in some dumb puzzle, for just a chance to win some games that you don't even want? Awesome! Come visit THE ZIGGURAT OF DISAPPOINTMENT™! Ends 30 September...
Hey, let's hide a question in here, for people who can read. Bet you won't find many of those entering a giveaway for a visual novel... :)
What do you think of Valve's recent store changes? Maybe you're happy finally to get those uncensored super-ultra-boobie games on Steam, without searching for a mystery patch or a piratey paid dlc? And have you tried hiding certain game tags for real this time? Did it work? Just curious. :)
p.s. Kinda bored giving away this boobie stuff, so if anyone else wants a turn, please, be my guest! :)
Ooooo... shiny!
As far as the store Q goes, it's a mixed bag for me. On one hand, let stuff be sold, and if it sucks, let it fail. This goes for garbage/"troll" games as well as adult content. If people want it, why not let them have it? Any I can hide things I don't want? Great!
The problem to me is not so much that these things are available, but that keys are so often released en masse or made available through super cheap bundles. This makes it more lucrative to make crap 'games'.
I should also elaborate that there is a personal responsibility to the consumer to not buy everything in the store just to buy everything in the store. Digital hoarding is a problem for some (myself included).
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Not as shiny as those Winged Cloud characters, they are all dipped in oil or Vaseline or something... :)
It seems like Valve are trying to automate the whole "game-shaped object" detection stuff, so the machine learning thingamabobs will be fed all the inputs and figure out which one gets trading cards and which one gets endless Steam is learning about this game... :)
I've been tempted to hide early access, survival, crafting, multiplayer, etc. :) But maybe it would hide some game that doesn't exist yet that I'd actually play... So for now I just say screw it, show me all the garbage... :)
I try not to buy every random piece of cheap garbage on Steam (except during the big sales, sigh...), but thanks to bundles most of it ends up in my library anyway... :)
Good luck! :)
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For some reason, this actually looks decently well made, but that's probably just the artist who gets the blame for that. I don't think I'd have actually expected it to be a super ultra boobie game, but was also hoping for more than just a VN based on the title splash thumbnail.
Also, if anyone hasn't waded into the Ziggurat yet, you should definitely do so! I promise you won't be disappointed. Because it's a Ziggurat of Disappointment(tm). So it lives up to your expectations. Of disappointment. So it's impossible to be disappointed by it. Unless it's not disappointing after all. But then, that would be disappointing, too, wouldn't it?
As for the question, I think I like how Valve is handling it thus far. I would like a sort of crappy replacement Steam page to come up for removed games instead of always being redirected to the home page though. (I think there's a SteamDB extension I need to re-enable for similar behavior.) They seem to be removing the actual BS "games" (I like their "game-shaped object" term too), while trying to remain impartial as far as actual censorship goes. Publisher pages and curation system still needs work, but stemming the tide of crap happily seems to be taking priority.
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Yeah, probably the artist's fault on that one. :) I do remember thinking the umm, Sunrider whatever it was game was pretty good, except for the whole stat-raising crap which I just don't enjoy. :( Not my thing. :)
Oh, yes! I'd love to reach a placeholder Steam page for removed games, instead of crap it's gone, dig the correct appid out of my browser history, check the discussion thing... :)
I assume they will treat the crapware problem like VAC cheat detection.
Some dodgy "publisher" finds a new store exploit to generate easy profitz. Fake reviews, card farming bots, 5000 achievements, whatever. Instead of immediately banning that one clown, let them continue for a month or two, so they tell all their friends about this undetectable Steam hack... Then have a ban wave and nuke all the publishers who used that method. We can dream... :)
Good luck! :)
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Having already completed the great Ziggurat, I already know of course that there's no Cyberpunk 2077 at the end, and yet reading that was still disappointing... 😅 (I want that game so much... 😣)
As for the store changes, I'm most interested in finally being able to hide stuff better, having VR-only games constantly popping up when I have no way of playing them was always annoying! 😒
And being able to hide a publisher's entire library or a whole franchise sounds useful, if they implement it properly of course 🙄
I think I'll go and start hiding stuff right now 😆
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I don't know anything about Cyberpunk 2020, so I'm probably imagining all sorts of stuff that has nothing to do with the source material. :) Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner, Neuromancer, Snow Crash, who knows... :) But the Witcher series was good, so I assume they will make something interesting out of it, whatever it is... :)
Oh yeah, I forgot about all the VR stuff... I have no use for those either, doesn't prevent me from buying all the Indie Gala VR bundles though... :( Maybe they will all get precious trading cards or something... Wheee...
Hope the hiding goes well! :) Good luck! :)
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Thank you! I love your boobie giveaways (⌒ω⌒)
I like the changes from valve and I hope the "adult" section will grow (❤ω❤)
Getting the patches is really a hassle, especially if it's an early access game where you have to patch after every update (＃￣ω￣)
As for game tags...I don't hide any, because I play all kinds of games, so there is no need to :) And I probably would be afraid of missing a good game just because of the filters ＼(º □ º l|l)/
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I can't be sure, but for some reason this feels more like a $20 game to me... Maybe I should have waited for a sale or something... :)
Maybe Steam will need some age verification, though? Or maybe "Tell us you are old enough to see this page" will be good enough? I dunno... :)
I don't use Steam to find new things to play, so really the filtering change isn't solving a problem I have. Generally I'm clicking on those crapware store pages because they were in a bundle I just bought, so I need to see which ones I already own. :)
Good luck! :)
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I can vouch for the sheer quantity of disappointment in the ziggurat. It would be one of the wonders of the world by sheer size, if only anyone could actually find their way in.
The store changes for the most part seem like the same old thing to me. Valve is still barely doing anything. They did nuke three achievement spam devs in the last two days, but that doesn't even make a dent in the flood of crap.
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It would have been better for all the giveaways to last the whole month, not sure how many new people are going to wander through hundreds of ended giveaways, just in case something good is hiding in the next part somewhere... :)
I wonder if there's a finite supply of garbage publishers, or if it's such easy profitz that it's an endless game of whack-a-mole trying to remove them all... Like you say, it doesn't even make a dent...
Good luck! :)
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Already I see lots of dlc coming out for the adult patch. I dont care either way but if I know its 18+ I want that patch so I can experience the full game. I didnt mind going somewhere else for it. What i hated was the games being like oh you spent £10 on this? Well if you want the patch you better pay us £10 again. Like nah. ill wait until someone gives that away for free because im not paying for the game again. In fact some of these games I dont even give a proper glance at. If i see its from someone ive brought games from before and didnt mind bam everyone I see is going on my wishlist.
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It does seem silly to sell a game on Steam, and then sell the extra boobie version patch elsewhere. Can't be too many people interested in that sort of nonsense... :) I assume that will all be changing now, but who knows? :)
Good luck! :)
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well they are banning the completely pointless ones but thats only after theyve released so many games already. we will never win when it comes to steam, except the pervs. they are basking in glory now
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The Nekopara games did that because Steam censored them. The uncensored was 20 bucks on Mangagamer (IIRC) and then Steam was 10 censored and 10 extra for a patch.
I generally just bought them then "dl'ed" the patch especially since the patchplace only accepts creditcard (don't got any, paypal all the way)... so hopefully all this will get rid of that BS.
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Yeah, I'm not buying a patch on some random website after I already bought the game on Steam, that's never gonna happen... :) And double never if they won't take Paypal... :)
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..why not? ¯\\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_//¯
about the question, strangely they've done something useful for once xD
but what I would really like to see is valve finally taking out all that achievement-spam asset-flip crap from the store.. a man can dream... >_>
ps:
sorry for not taking part to your ziggurat, but too much stuff and so little time.. :(
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I assume Valve will be relying on their machine-learning magic to keep the crap "games" in the store (for profitz!) but not show them to anyone who's looking for a real game. :) I'll bet the way people interact with crapware makes it obvious what's a real game and what's not... :)
Ahh, I'd never try to solve something like that myself, it's just too big... And you'd only be hoping there's something worth entering in there - it could all be bundle garbage... :)
Good luck! :)
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I don't really mind the steam changes, in fact I welcome them as long as Valve makes a proper way to browse and sort games before the store gets flooded with crappy 18+ games which we all know will happen.
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Yeah, I'm sure all the crapware publishers will jump on this bandwagon too. :) Assuming they haven't already... :)
Hopefully this game's not crap, but I don't know... :( Good luck! :)
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I don't like some of the changes, but the overall goal is nice.
As for the Ziggurat, I thought the second stage was ending on 17th, and I was late by 2-3h. Now I can't bring myself to continue ;(
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Ahh, ouch! :( Sorry about that... :(
I really should have thought longer about when the giveaways would end, especially since you have to walk through each part to reach the next part... Hey, look at this huge pile of giveaways you can't enter. Oh, and look at this even larger pile you also can't enter. But keep going, there's probably something in there, somewhere... Sigh...
And with only 1 week remaining, I'm not sure people would have enough points to enter everything. Don't have a feel for how quickly points are generated, unfortunately... :(
Good luck! :)
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Surprise ^^ I can read and I enjoy Visual Novels :p
But I'm not happy about the changes to the store... Don't get me wrong, I think gore and violence are by far worse than boobies (and as a woman, I really like my boobies :p) but I don't think that cheap porn belongs into the steam store. There are already a ton of people who think that all visual novels (or everything that looks remotely like anime) is porn and trashy games that try to sell through sex are not helping. I would love to see some more quality novels on steam, with the adult content included (I mean, no one is playing Grisaia for the sex scenes, right? O_o But why cut them out? We've got sex in almost every movie, no matter if it contributes to the story or not). But games like "Material Girl" are trash. They get great reviews because... I don't know, because a lot of people think it's fun if a girl get's molested in a game?
Maybe I'm a bit biased here, but I find it rather unpleasant that Steam will be plastered with games that objectify women.
If Valve would finally return to not allow every crap in the store, I wouldn't worry as much as I do. But you know... there exist games where the goal is to rape a woman... I just can't feel comfortable knowing that a 13 year old could easily buy such a game.
Anyway, it's good to see that Valve tries to do something against the troll games, although I think it's a pointless battle. As long as they allow everything and only react after something got reported, there will be people trying to abuse the system.
I did try to exclude certain tags before, but I rarely browse the store anymore. Too much crap get's released every day and I don't have the time, or patience, to click through endless pages of boobs and achievment games and cheap asset flips.
(sorry for the poor english, it's not my native language and I'm a bit distracted ._. worrying about things absolutely not related to steam)
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It does seem strange that somehow there's no such thing as too much violence for a game on Steam...
I remember reading about how great Bioshock Infinite was, so when I started playing... The Beach Boys song, that was great! :) I figured things would be interesting... Story, characters, something to think about? We'll find out... But somehow, after about 30 minutes I'm just running around murdering everyone, same as in every other game... :( It was disappointing that the only verb was kill.
I guess that doesn't have much to do with this game, maybe I'm just hoping it isn't garbage... :)
It would be nice to have actual human eyes making a decision about which games would get on Steam, but I assume those days are never coming back... At some point the computers will make all the decisions, and the only job for Valve's remaining human employees will be counting money... :)
Good luck! :)
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Well.. banning the devs that are making all the shovelware is a good thing!
I haven't tried the tags or any of the new features.. not too much time in my life right now.
But its funny, I always click on the steam link to a GA to see if I am interested in it, and
when I saw the debauchery in this game, I said to myself... who the hell would do a GA for this?
must be that little blue guy with a trumpet!! ;)
Have a good weekend, and if there's something hidden... oh well, i imiss those all the time!
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It's definitely a start, but somehow there's always one more clown to ban... :( I assume the idea is to reduce the profit in shovelware so much that all those clowns give up and get jobs. But... It's the lure of easy money. It's got a very strong appeal. :)
Seems if you do something long enough you get a reputation for it... I keep hoping someone else will help out with the boobie giveaways, but it doesn't seem to be a popular choice... If these developers would just promote their own games around here, I could try to think of something else to give away... Oh well... :)
Ahh, nothing hidden in here, there's a huge pile of "Invite Only" giveaways from the forum thing I mentioned though. Approximately 99% garbage... :)
Thank you, hope you have a good one also! :) Good luck! :)
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Well, there was https://www.steamgifts.com/user/SakuraGame but it seems they stopped giving away their games here :(. Now we need to buy their poorly translated stuff :(
(Not that I won any of them having entered about 50% of their giveaways)
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Oh, hey, I forgot about those people... Also forgot they used to make giveaways here... Their promotion things used to be "idle our game two hours so you can't get a refund, in exchange for a free key for some random crap" which changed to "idle our game two hours so you can't get a refund, in exchange for nothing at all" - hmm, let me think... Nope. :)
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I did like the "random other crap", lead to many giveaways here.
None that I won though :(
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Yeah, it was possible to get a key for some random thing that hadn't been in a bundle yet, or whatever... Guess they decided running a lottery nobody could win was easier... :)
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Like the Sunrider games, eh? Well, I sure hope it doesn't have stats with random stat degradation like Sunrider Academy. Either way, I'd definitely check it out. Might even get some insight on why this whole Idols theme is so popular.
I didn't even know that that they had made a Blog post about the developer/publisher pages. Or that it was moving along with the "mature context" thing. I think I opened it at some point but frankly I just didn't care what Steam's blog has to say. If they do something super amazing that fixes one of Steam's major issues then I'll hear about it here.
Anyway, the update itself? Well, filters give more options to the consumers which is always nice at least. The whole "mature" content (aka, anything remotely "ecchi") thing about developers needing to put a disclaimer sounds like it could be rather annoying for them. I'd say it could affect sales of games that have a bunch of those disclaimers but too many people already dub anything anime as porn by default so I don't think it makes any difference. XD
As for "troll games", less asset flip achievement spam garbage is always great. Now they just need to remove the many many many remaining ones and somehow retroactively fix all the damage those "games" caused and everything would be perfect. :D
So, yeah, I don't see myself using any of the new stuff. When it asked me to tick which stuff I don't wanna see I just un-ticked everything since I wouldn't exactly trust it to decide for me what I want and don't want to play. And tags are user-generated so I wouldn't trust those either. Overall I think that if people think that Steam has dirty stuff on it, then those people clearly haven't seen real dirty. Like trying to search for fanart on Pixiv. Now THAT is traumatizing. O_o (And the people running Pixiv totally know it since they locked blocking more than 1 tag at a time behind their "premium membership".)
Aaaanyway, thank you very much! :D
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Maybe it's just a fad, is there a "battle royale" idol game yet? :)
I'm not sure how people even notice the "Steam Blog" anyway - it must be linked somewhere, in the store or the client, but I couldn't guess where... :)
I assume if the garbage game problem can be solved by algorithms / machine learning / whatever, eventually Valve will deal with it. But if it requires humans doing something, that method doesn't scale so it's never going to happen. Seems they have decided to let all the garbage into the store, but not show those games to anyone who's not specifically looking for them.
I guess that's about as much as we can hope for, really. The only time I'm annoyed by the garbage even existing is during big sales, if I'm looking for bargains and sort by price... But that's my own fault, of course... :) If you're asking Steam to show you the cheapest garbage in the store, don't complain when it shows you the cheapest garbage in the store... :)
Hmm, I haven't tried that, but thank you for the warning... :)
Good luck! :)
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Some almost-definitely-asset-flippers made a "sexy" Battle Royale. Does that count? XD
I definitely opened that blog post at some point since I remember that small age verification gag in the last question from its QA section. They probably put a pop up or something asking us to check it out. Still didn't care about what Steam's blog has to say to read all of it though. :3
It's definitely not a problem that can be automated. Algorithm depend on things working in a strictly specific logical way so that's out of the question when dealing with the ever evolving scammers making garbage "games". Machine Learning is in a similar jam (a single Machine Learning program is usually designed to solve a specific problem) but it also requires a huge "training set". Even if Steam has gotten thousands of "games" in the last 2 years a training set for a machine learning program typically uses hundreds of thousands of examples or more (to make it "acceptably reliable") which themselves need to be accurately labeled by actual humans. Regardless of how progressive (lazy) Valve wanna be with their technology they are very willfully ignoring the reality of the situation if they claim to be able to automate the process of finding bad actors.
The latest wave of garbage that did the whole achievement spam thing basically devalued achievements for everyone so as an achievement hunter that really pissed me off. So if Valve keeps making cheap countermeasures for new scams as they come along some of them are gonna manage to annoy you personally eventually. Like for example I didn't care when it was just card spamming but when that got shut down they ended up targeting something I do care about. :/
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Hmm, yeah, I didn't think about the machine learning idea much, my only experience with it was as a user training Leela Zero once in a while on my video card... :)
Ok, here's an idea - don't use the machine learning on Steam's games, use it on us. Use it to determine which Steam accounts are humans, and which are bots. Could Valve do anything useful with that information?
Whatever secret things make a game eligible for trading cards, maybe disregard "SURE LOOKS LIKE A BOT" accounts in those calculations, just in case bot owners eventually learn how to fool the system...
Hmm, if you notice "SURE LOOKS LIKE A BOT" accounts are trying to get cards added to a Game X, via playtime, achievements, reviews, wishlists, whatever - maybe that tells you something about Game X as well. You could even secretly flag Game X as ineligible for trading cards, no matter what happens subsequently. :)
It's always easier to talk about something than to do it, but it feels like Valve have enough information to do something. :) But maybe they are already doing stuff like that, and not telling us about it. :)
As for achiements, isn't that already completely broken because of stuff like "SAM"? I assume nothing could be done for existing games, but maybe Steam Achievements 2.0 could have server-side validation for achievements in all new games? I guess nobody would want an always-online requirement for achiements, though... Oh well...
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Yes, using it to try and detect bot activity seems to be one of the applications for Machine Learning nowadays. For example they use it in E-mail services to weed out spam e-mails. While it does the job done for the most part it still isn't 100% solid and has the tendency to do false positives.
I'm pretty sure Valve is already using something similar in the report systems for their multiplayer games. And, well, you know how much that helped make their communities nice and friendly... <.<
Using how many bots try to interact with it as a criteria to flag a game sounds like a pretty bad idea. Then any malicious user with a bot net could flag any game they want.
And, yeah, SAM was always kinda annoying but at least before you could usually easily tell who used it and who didn't. Now with all those achievement spam games it's gotten hard to tell. :/
(I wrote all of this- in a probably more comprehensive way- at least 2 times and then lost it. Damn electricity hiccups! >.< )
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Now that you mention it, I'm sure I've read something regarding machine learning & multiplayer games, can't remember where though. :(
Something like a person who made a new account because they got banned for cheating (again) would look like "probably gonna cheat again" to the machine learning, and get paired up with other "probably gonna cheat again" people. So all the cheaters think man, everyone is cheating! But everyone else thinks wow, where did all the cheaters go? :)
Hmm, yeah, guess I was thinking that if a huge amount of bots owned a game, it must have been shovelware by definition... But I suppose it could have been someone else's shovelware, or maybe it was free for one day, etc. Guess that just wouldn't work. :(
Sorry about the electricity! :(
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"I'm not sure how people even notice the "Steam Blog" anyway - it must be linked somewhere, in the store or the client, but I couldn't guess where... :)"
It's the little megaphone icon next to messages. I really only click it by accident, I can't see anyone reading that stuff willingly.
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Sounds like the "Big Picture" button which I've clicked it dozens of times, but not once intentionally... :)
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Ah yes, guilty as charged of that aswell.
And whoever gave it a long-ass intro before we could pick "no, we DIDN'T want to click this" was very mean.
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Oh, you know, I think Valve can do what Valve does. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Somehow it's always a surprise to me when Valve do anything at all... :) And it's usually Ready, Fire!, Aim. :)
Good luck! :)
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I'm really happy with their change of gears on the adult games approach, to be honest I lost a lot of faith on them in those censorship events, so this change is very welcomed in my opinion, although it did trigger some crazy asset flip trend with hentai puzzles, some got banned for stolen art so they should calm down for a while... I hope.
As for hiding more stuff, oh yeah for sure it works better than before but some things still leak occasionally, also it still lacks features such as hiding based on certain features such as in-game purchases, I'd love to hide those by default regardless of the product being paid or free.
Another thing, not quite related, is that I hate how games that I've already marked to ignore still show up on Featured & Recommended right on the top of the page every now and then.
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Hmm, now that you mention it, wasn't one of those "developers" just banned yesterday well-known for stealing everything? I guess lazy people gonna lazy...
I'm not sure how to hide things in a way that wouldn't accidentally hide something good that doesn't exist yet. Or something that gets mis-tagged for fun by all the special Steam users... :)
Ahh, I never think to look at that thing. Of course, due to trading cards the "because you played games tagged with ..." suggestions are pointless. :( Maybe only show me games similar to those I actually downloaded, Steam. :) But I guess that's my fault...
Hmm, I wonder - it's obvious to Valve who's actually playing games, and who's just idling for cards, so I wonder if they do anything with that information. Probably everything is used as input for the machine learning, just in case the shovelware people figure out a way to game the trading card eligibility... :)
Good luck! :)
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I'm not big into VN's so I haven't heard about this before, but now that I've seen it, it does seem interesting so I wishlisted it.
When it comes to idol anime I only watched Love Live! so far. I plan on watching the iDOLM@STER one day, but I've put watching anime on hold for now to focus on my steam backlog.
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I don't watch any of them, but sometimes when I read about the new cartoons it sounds like there's a lot of idol stuff... I guess if something's a success there will soon be 20 others just like it, chasing that money... :) Oh well... :)
Not sure what kind of game this is, if it's serious, random nonsense, or maybe just wall to wall boobies... :)
Good luck! :)
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I'm totally fine with Volvo's change. My filters didn't change at all... I'm just removing gore games from my feed automatically. (And many many manually tagged as "not interested" ones)
The best change they did at the same time is that they finally managed to save the date you entered before for the age request. ;)
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The way Steam looks nowadays, maybe the default should be "not interested". Could probably spend five minutes tagging the few games we're actually interested in... :)
Aha, I read about that... Occasionally you see evidence of actual humans working at Valve. :) But maybe it's the work of an intern usually busy counting everyone else's money... :)
Good luck! :)
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Thank you for the gib.
I don;t care much what valve does, is beyond my influence.
I can't wait for Cyberpunk 2077!
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Ahh, you're right about that... As long as everyone continues buying stuff, there's no reason for Valve to spend any time wondering what we think... :)
Ahh, hopefully it's coming out before 2020... :) But I'm not holding my breath... :)
Good luck! :)
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After 10 years in development, hopefully it's worth the wait. - GabeN
That's my thoughts on the new changes. I "secretly" approve of them, but others might not.
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I suppose it could be seen as Valve taking a stand, for umm, freedom!!! Or boobies!!! Or something... :)
But most likely they took a long, careful look at the mess that is the Steam store, and after evaluating several options, simply gave up. Ehh, screw it. :)
Good luck! :)
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I'll gladly take that luck. :)
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I’ve used the option to hide tags and it finally works! Goodbye games I’m just not interested in (sports, racing, platformers). I also love the option on the publisher page (for those that use it) to hide all their games. That works very well too!
Did you notice there’s two shades of ignore? If it’s ignored by tag or publisher it’s a dark shade but if it’s been ignored by clicking the button to ignore, it’s a lighter shade.
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Oh, that's interesting! I had not noticed at all, but I'm reluctant to go crazy with the ignoring, since I just don't trust Steam tags to be applied correctly... People seem to enjoy tagging things "Psychological Horror", "Casual", "Nudity" and so on... :)
Many of the games / "games" I'd never play end up in my library anyway, due to bundles or huge discounts... So I assume in the next Winter Sale a fresh pile of garbage will end up in my cart again, due to things like http://steamdb.info/sales/ :) Sigh...
Good luck! :)
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Here's an example of publisher pages that you might try the ignore option on. Under the "Beta" tab there's the gear icon. Click on that and you should see an option to ignore the publisher.
https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/GhostRUSGames
https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Laush_Studio
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Hmm, thank you, looks like a lot of 5 cent garbage. :) I suppose as long as people keep buying it, they will keep paying the $100 to list it... Makes me wonder just how much these "developers" earn from their slice of a crappy shovelware bundle...
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Well, I'm really happy that steam want to allow R18 games. Untill now most of steam boobie games was crap (at least in my opinion) and maybe now much better games will appear on steam. Because there are good R18 games, like Sengoku Rance (and others from Rance series). Of course, it is possible to buy those games somewhere else, but welp, it would be more convenient to have them on steam.
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I think a lot of the "real" boobie games avoided Steam due to the old anti-boobie policy, so presumably they will begin appearing now... Or, at least the publishers will need to concoct a different excuse... :)
I remember getting some visual novels in old Groupees bundles which I'll never remember to install or play, since they aren't on Steam. :( If it had been possible at the time to have all that stuff on Steam, well... Oh, ok, I still wouldn't remember to install or play, but at least I'd remember buying them... :)
Good luck! :)
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I played Saya no Uta recently, knowing nothing about it (only that it was an horror/porn game) and I must say that I'm really happy that Valve decided to allow boobie games on Steam. Saya no Uta might never reach the Steam store, but maybe some others hidden gems will be and I will gladly support them :)
Thanks for the GA!
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Hmm, I remember getting that years ago and never touching it... Probably not my thing, actually... :)
But yeah, better to be on Steam than forgotten like all my non-Steam games... :(
Good luck! :)
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Changes are good, I haven't really ignored anything bar VR and stuff. Doesn't seem to make a lick of effect, so I haven't added much after.
As for the Zigguarat, I still can't get the first "itstoohard". Guess I'll just sit in the garage forever :/
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I probably should ignore the VR stuff, can't imagine I'll ever buy into any of that business...
Ouch, did you check the itstoohard hint? The tutorial area is supposed to be kinda simple, to show people how to solve the rest of it... :(
Good luck! :)
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thx!!!!
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Ahh, I was about to say Good Luck, but unfortunately, according to the Imaginary Steamgifts Bylaws which I just invented, only messages with at least one vowel are valid to receive giveaway comment replies. Sorry about that! :)
So, since I can't provide a genuine Good Luck, please take this instead:
Cheap Knockoff Half-Hearted Approximation Of A Genuine Good Luck! :)
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hahaha that is true so much people use bots for autojoin. i sorry ever i enter to steamgifts is a fast visit, about the new rules of the store i love it is a great advance for a world with less censorship, sorry if my english is a little bad
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Oh, sorry about that, I was just joking around... :) It can be tricky to write replies for hours, sometimes I get bored and start writing nonsense... :) So please take a Genuine Good luck also! :)
Genuine Good Luck! :)
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When I saw the girl in the middle I really thought it was some new Sunrider spinoff, haha.
As for the store changes... It's about dang time! For centuries the humble boobie appreciators have been oppressed on Steam, forced to pay the same prices only to receive cut & censored content and forced to go on a holy quest to patch their games - no, patch their very lives - in order to get the same, ah, satisfaction as the outside world! But no more, finally Volvo is starting to learn that sexual content might be okay to show amidst all the violence filled content they already provide.
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I can't remember the names of any characters, but it all does look very Sunridery... :)
Somehow, there's no such thing as "too much violence" in a Steam game... But I guess now there will be no such thing as "too much boobies" also... :) Makes me wonder if any Valve people are starting to hate their job, i.e. I just wanted to make games, I don't want to deal with all this crap...
Good luck! :)
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I don't really care one way or the other. Steam to me now is nothing but a great platform to manage my library of games. The store has been irrelevant for years once they stopped curating, so I just do purchases and research elsewhere.
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Ahh, exactly... I don't use the Steam store itself to look for new games, bargains, or anything... Like you say there's no point any more...
I never even remember to check the "friend activity" thing, which is a great way to see what just got a big discount... If 20 people buy X, it's probably dirt cheap. :)
Generally I find the deals elsewhere, although for some games the Steam version is only sold directly on Steam so there's no better deal to find... :( Oh, like this game actually...
Good luck! :)
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