The live version is still full of bugs, pages not loading or the wrong pages.

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Quoting: CatKillerThe "English QWERTY" is the US layout. You can't make have the symbols in the right place as a user of non-US keyboard layouts. Arrow keys are missing from the keyboard, which makes text entry unnecessarily arduous.

I'm having the special characters in the proper place of my German keyboard layout, including the right combinations (Alt Gr+Q = @).

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EDIT: nvm, are you sure the right layout is selected in the settings?

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Multi-Select Media/Screenshots and Multi-Upload them. Currently you have to select each screenshot individually, go to Upload and select Public. I take a lot of screenshots, got more than 2000 on my profile, and on Desktop you can CTRL-/SHIFT-select.

The keyboard in Desktop mode keeps the focus on a button, initially M, and you cant freely use the trackpad to hover the keyboard buttons because the cursor keeps jumping back.

Enable file-transfer via Bluetooth per default, out of the box the Deck currently only registers as a Audio device to other devices.

Integrate easy setup for mounting SMB network shares as SteamLibrary.

QR-Code 2FA and other interoperability functions with the Smartphone app and Desktop Clients, 'Install On...', 'Open On...' asf.

Configure behaviour of the buttons in Desktop mode: in Desktop mode I want the Right Trigger to be LMB without the Steam Button, same goes for other buttons.

Deck 2: Better screen without whitewashing in the top edge, USB4 Thunderbolt for eGPU that could perhaps be utilized in smaller form-factor eGPUs in Docks to boost performance, Wifi6.

And here's my general wishes for Steam:
- Make Point Shop searchable
- Steam Store is good promoting games it should be as good with your existing library to help you decide what to play next
- AND/XNOR/NOT filter logic in library e.g. Horror NOT Isometric NOT Sidescroller; or Racing AND Simulation NOT Motorbikes NOT Planes
- Diversify game rating into topics such as technical&performance, graphics&sound, gameplay&fun and keep the single Overall rating
- The similar games in the store suggestions are complete garbage most of the time. Just based on tags is way too general, 'Horror' can include anything from Visual Novel to 2D Pixel Sidescroller or Action FPS, or NBA 2Kx when people are review bombing it.
Perhaps you could allow people to suggest similar games like tags and to downvote suggested games or you take the effort and develop a proper recognition algorithm that can realiably determine similar games.
- Import/Export/Share games collections/shelves. Example: like the gamepad mappings in Big Picture find other peoples shared collections, e.g. to quickly fetch someones collection of souls-like games or I create a collection with all games supported by GeForce Now in it and share it, people can subscribe to it and I can keep updating it. You can browse the collections in the Steam hub as a list of store applets and when subscribed you'll have the new collection in your library with only all the games you own, perhaps also those you dont but greyed out.
- Download Manager: update all button, allow to start a game ignoring an available update, option to add new game installation to queue rather than cancel the ongoing update/installation
- Search store for DLC of games you own
- A category in the store to find publisher pages easier
- Display a seperate Steam release date and general release date for Games and Apps in the store
- Advanced Search with options to search only specific categories, include description in the search instead of only the game name (i.e. searching for Escher would display The Bridge in the results)
- Im sometimes looking for people to play a Remote Play Together session with, create a section in the Communityhub for each game to host public Remote Play Together sessions (like Parsec arcade), similar to Broadcasts
- A new friend session/lobby feature where everyone could see all the games they could play together, including those via Remote Play Together.
- user created widgets for the steam overlay (> YouTube/Spotify Widget etc)
- Take screenshot by controller button
- Seamless integration with GeForce Now, easy login process
- Richtext editor with buttons for bold, italic and whatever else BBCode is supported
- Add a proper 'attach screenshot/artwork' feature to posts and reviews.
Currently you have to go back and forth into your uploaded media and copy the links one by one to elsewhere so you can then paste them into the post.
And currently only 3 pictures will be turned into the applet, any more will be displayed as links. A better, sidescrolling display of the attached media, like on Amazon or eBay, would allow to display many more.
- Multiple shopping lists instead of only the wishlist
- Music streaming of owned OSTs and music tracks and improve the media player
- Game Streaming service?

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I played Techtonica, The Eternal Cylinder and Super Buckyball Tournament on the Steam Deck and they all played great, Eternal Cylinder needed a little tweaking for better FPS.

Techtonica [External Link] is very Satisfactory but subterrainean, i.e. like Deep Rock Galactic just with automated drills, conveyors belts, smelters etc; very standard automation game however, if you've been through to the end of the automation game several times it brings little new to the table, but it's above the average in terms of visual and technical quality, most go for 2D because they can't do it in 3D, this one can without being poor quality (just thinking Fortresscraft Evolved here).
The demo is extensive, I havent come to an end in 1,5 hrs

The Eternal Cylinder [External Link] is a narrated open-world about small creatures that constantly need to run from a collossal cylinder that plattens everything in its way. Your familiy grows as you find, hatch or free others of your species. You can switch control between them any time, each has its own inventory and the main mechanic: in the open world there are many plants, fruits, crystals and small creatures like fish and flies that can be consumed, some nuture, some grant a mutation such as becoming fat and having increased storage or growing larger legs to jump higher. Mutations can be combined.
High quality voiceover, surreal, reminding of Alice in Wonderland, fun.
The demo is extensive, I havent come to an end in 4 hours

Super Buckyball League [External Link] is a combination of Rocket League and Overwatch, 3v3 players choose from around 15 defense, offense or support heroes with unique abilities and stats and try to get the ball into the other teams goal.
Very well executed, creative and varied abilities, good fun
There are no restrictions to the demo, all heroes are available, all the abilities and game modes can be unlocked.

The latter two I will play them again.

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Import from China

Thank you for that. So i cannot buy because taxes.

It's available on Amazon and other vendors without any import fees on you.

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Quoting: KimyrielleTo be fair, as awesome as the game otherwise might be, I expect to be able to play -any- PC game at least reasonably well with mouse/KB. I wouldn't have appreciated having bought the game only to find out I can't really play it. While I bought a Steam Controller for giggles back then, I am still utterly not used to this kind of device and couldn't seriously play with one.

I don't agree with this dogma that all pc games should work with mouse and keyboard. Especially for flight games, mouse and keyboard lack degrees of freedom to properly control a plane or spacecraft. I saw someone else mentioning Freelancer which had proper m+kb support, but I remember the actual flying as not very spectacular, I never rolled, mostly flying in circles.

A controller costs as much as a single game and a fraction of a GPU, sounds to me like some people just don't want to buy one. I only really play shooters and games with an actual cursor with m+kb. Racing games, flight games and platformers are better with a controller or other peripheral. So many are supported on PC and for so much longer than on consoles, why ignore them.

A keyboard is a typewriter and as such was never meant for gaming, the mouse a pointing device. It is just that the games have evolved around this and are shaped for these input devices whereas gamepads, arcade sticks, HOTAS, yokes, wheels asf were designed for their very purpose and are much better at that, with a keyboard you cant gradually control throttle because it has no axis as is a pedal or a trigger.

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Mafia 3 Definitve Edition has a Steam review score of only 53% while I have throughoughly enjoyed it, if a bit repetitive in the long run.
The reason is the launcher that 2K have put in place, I dont think it was there when I played and I think the game had a very positive score before. There are obviously all those 'in the old days everything was better' (the old games were better I have played them before Jesus was born already, all the rest sucks etc etc).

Dungeons and its expansion have very low score for technical reasons mainly as well, as do a lot of other games and a lot of older games that dont run without user fixes or dont run well on modern systems, such as the King's Quest Collection.

I think these issues shouldnt drag down the score entirely but the score should be diversified into topics such as technical/performance, graphics/audio, gameplay/fun.

Having a look at the playtime of the reviews is also a good indicator, for one to determine how qualified the review is and to see how fun the game actually is.

SteamDB has published an article on how Steam calculates the review score and how SteamDB used to (Wilson's score) and how they changed to a different algorithm.

It's not anymore up-to-date, meanwhile Valve have put methods in place to mitigate review bombing (NBA 2K20 was tagged Horror and Dating Simulator and had a review score of 20% when it launched) and reviews from Early Access versions, but it's still a good read: link [External Link]

If you've ever taken a slightly longer look at the Steam store, you've probably noticed their method of sorting games by review score is pretty bad. They just divide the positive reviews by the total reviews to get the rating. A game with a single positive review would be ranked above some other game that has 48 positive reviews and a single negative review. While they do have “steps” at 50 and 500 total reviews, meaning that no game with a rating of at least 80% will be ranked below a game with less than 50 reviews, and no game with a rating of at least 95% will be below a game with less than 500 reviews, it's still a bad system. Because if our 48 to 1 rated game suddenly accrued 11 more negative ratings, Steam would miraculously still place it higher than it was before.

In general the Steam review are a decent source of information and if you dont fall for the first word and can think for yourself you can make a very good picture of the game from them. They are also from gamers for gamers rather than from a profitable magazine for the mainstream market, who would for example never call CS:GO a trash game because it is against what's the general publics opinion, or so it is assumed, and they are who those publishers depend on. After all, if you are not writing for yourself it makes no sense publishing articles that are never being read, therefor magazines depend on people to read them and if people dont like what they are reading they will stop doing so. Thus they shape their opinions based on what people like to read and when those people are a crowd of millions it is impossible to come to a distinctive and at the same time shared opinion by everyone.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRum

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumI tried collections with using genre tags a while ago. It was cool up until the point a game had two matching tags. Then it'll duplicate that game in your list and you have to manually remove one of the games from one of the new "automatic" collections.

That got annoying fast.

So back to manually organizing by genre with no duplicates it was :tongue:

That's interesting. I haven't noticed that though and I have collection that matches three tags: adventure, point & click and story rich. Either the problem has been fixed or the problem might be bit more complicated than that.

Yeah.. just tried it, it's still a thing :grin:

If you create a category that matches only tag "Survival", another that matches only tag "stealth", and finally one that only matches tag "RTS", you game list will look like this:

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I don't think I understand the issue. That's how I'd expect the feature to work. What were you expecting?

I see now what he means, he doesn't like a game to appear in multiple categories.

Obviously a game can be both Horror and FPS and therefor appear in both those categories, to me that is fine.

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Quoting: Anza

Quoting: BlackBloodRumI tried collections with using genre tags a while ago. It was cool up until the point a game had two matching tags. Then it'll duplicate that game in your list and you have to manually remove one of the games from one of the new "automatic" collections.

That got annoying fast.

So back to manually organizing by genre with no duplicates it was :tongue:

That's interesting. I haven't noticed that though and I have collection that matches three tags: adventure, point & click and story rich. Either the problem has been fixed or the problem might be bit more complicated than that.

Yeah.. just tried it, it's still a thing :grin:

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That's because you've made them seperate collections, if you make one single collection with all those tags, each game will be included only once.

However, it is an AND operation, which means only games that have Survival AND Stealth AND Strategy tags will be included then, I assume you want (N)OR.
This is why I and many others made the suggestion to provide NOR and NOT operators to the tags.

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I've made that suggestion in the Steam forums several times and just again recently in the Steam Mobile Beta discussions where they might finally have taken notice of it. ⧉ [External Link]

I've also suggested to make library shelves/collections shareable and subscribable like gamepad mappings in Big Picture mode, so that I could for example create and share a collection of games supported by GeForce NOW or a collection of programming games and others can subscribe to it and I can keep updating it. It will appear in each users library as one of their collections with only those that they own and perhaps those they dont but greyed out.

I've made a lot more suggestions I hope they will have a look at, such as a place in the Community Hub for hosting public Remote Play Together sessions, like Parsecs Arcade. Currently you can only invite friends directly to your game, it would be cool if there was a place like the Broadcasts where anybody who likes could make their Remote Play Together-capable game open for anyone to join.

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