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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 - To Next-Gen and Beyond!

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PriitV

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ugh...
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Just got done adding this to Enhanced Steam thanks to a tip from a friend of mine.

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Basically, you hit the speech button and then speak into your microphone. When you're done speaking, Steam will run a search for whatever it is you say.
 
Just got done adding this to Enhanced Steam thanks to a tip from a friend of mine.

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Basically, you hit the speech button and then speak into your microphone. When you're done speaking, Steam will run a search for whatever it is you say.

Okay... What? How? I am in shock at how impossibly awesome that is.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Okay... What? How?

Every version of Chrome since Chrome 11 have supported input boxes with search capabilities. This is a function of Chrome and HTML5 and not exactly a function of Steam. However, since Chrome is required for the Chrome version of Enhanced Steam, it's easy to reconfigure the search box to allow speech input using Chrome's built in speech recognition engine.

My question is "Why"?

A lot of gamers typically already have a headset on when sitting down at their gaming computer. Of course, it will be possible to disable this in the options if you'd like.
 

Caerith

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I'm sure people with disabilities aren't asking why right now.

Also, "because it is there."

You still have to click the speech button, but it seems helpful for the demographic whose hands fall off after they click the button but before they have a chance to start typing.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
You have applied at Valve, right?

I have and will continue to do so. I'm not taking "no" for an answer.

It would be laughably trivial to write a bit of code on the back end that detects if your browser is capable of this and (if it is) add the speech input controls to the search box.
 
I have and will continue to do so. I'm not taking "no" for an answer.

It would be laughably trivial to write a bit of code on the back end that detects if your browser is capable of this and (if it is) add the speech input controls to the search box.

You need to put some code in there that detects if a Valve employee is using Enhanced Steam and put a message at the top that says HIRE ME or a link to your resume or something.
 
Oh don't worry so much. If you pull a milamber, at least you can edit the posts of anyone quoting you, to remove any incriminating evidence.

Flawless victory! :D

Steam fixed my account!

If you missed the conversation about the (huge) problem I had:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=97979450&postcount=17890

After almost 2 weeks of agony and uncertainty, they finally came to their senses.
So much relief.

Sweet! :D

Have you changed your email password and any other security measures that would be prudent to make a recurrence less likely?

What are the badge increments on games owned?

EDIT: Wait! Found it...

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Why you no 750+!?

y no 200? :(

Yay, FTL! Thanks a lot :)

Install it.
Play it.
LOVE IT!!!

Seriously, I hope you enjoy it. If you fall in love with it anything like I did you will have a gaming love for the ages! :D

It stopped being funny weeks ago, fantomena.

Months ago.
Oh wait, it was never funny in the first place.
Ever.

:|

Assassin's Creed V: Mordor is coming to PC.

Looks pretty good.

HYPE!

That all looks a bit visceral and "let's pander to all the 12 year olds [of all ages] who think that all that brutality is teh AWESOME for mega sales" for my liking but I am intrigued nonetheless :). Thanks for posting that.

OMG dat dog is totally the most fucked up thing I've seen on the interwebz since
LINK TO A WELL KNOWN SITE I'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU IN PM
was a thing.

Really? I always thought the *snippety snip snip* was unbelievably tame. Now if you want to see some really fucked up shit in that milieu, just let me know! *evil grin*

Just got done adding this to Enhanced Steam thanks to a tip from a friend of mine.

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Basically, you hit the speech button and then speak into your microphone. When you're done speaking, Steam will run a search for whatever it is you say.

Nice.

Will it fix the search field overall though?

I just did a search for "handsome mature men" but nothing came up :/.
 

Every version of Chrome since Chrome 11 have supported input boxes with search capabilities. This is a function of Chrome and HTML5 and not exactly a function of Steam. However, since Chrome is required for the Chrome version of Enhanced Steam, it's easy to reconfigure the search box to allow speech input using Chrome's built in speech recognition engine.

That's awesome stuff man. Seriously. Needless for me but just love the endless resources provided to make the customer experience as easy and appealing as possible. Do you have a feature list you're in the process of adding or would like to add? I'd love to hear some of your ideas you have in that think tank of yours.
 

Glass Rebel

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I have and will continue to do so. I'm not taking "no" for an answer.

It would be laughably trivial to write a bit of code on the back end that detects if your browser is capable of this and (if it is) add the speech input controls to the search box.

I hope you get that "yes" then. I can't even imagine the store without ES anymore.
 

Gvaz

Banned
I have and will continue to do so. I'm not taking "no" for an answer.

It would be laughably trivial to write a bit of code on the back end that detects if your browser is capable of this and (if it is) add the speech input controls to the search box.

have they actually given you a no or do they just ignore you
 

KenOD

a kinder, gentler sort of Scrooge
Hello my friends, how are you this fine day?

MP3 + LA Noire is 1 key or 2?

Two different keys. Amazon so far has been really good about separating its bundles with individual keys for each title in my experience.

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Some of you might remember Grief's Twitter campaign about more Sega PC ports. To finally get this somewhere, Taro was finally able to put the petition up and now we obviously need every signature we can get.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=98167889&postcount=1108

It would be great if SteamGAF could be part of this.

I signed, hopefully it helps.


Too right it is. Any complaints about "mobile games to Steam" in regards to ports simply needs to remember, they are all games in the end. Tis true sometimes we get bad games, money grabbing games, or just not well built for PC games, but we get to enjoy plenty of good fun ones as well.

Now if only the Audio Games (different from video games) would start making the leap between platforms.

Just got done adding this to Enhanced Steam thanks to a tip from a friend of mine.

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Basically, you hit the speech button and then speak into your microphone. When you're done speaking, Steam will run a search for whatever it is you say.

Wonderful work, thank you. Now the only question is what accent will I have to put on for it to be able to understand me?
A joke since my native Scottish brogue is one programmers tend not to even attempt to get right even open HTML and Google's programs

Once fully up and ready to go for users, you really should send a message and explanation to http://www.ablegamers.com/ via one of their many contacts, they would be quite interested in this.

My question is "Why"?

Accessibility is always good. Even if you or I don't need to use it, plenty of individuals out there who can due to sake of ease or for whatever reason voice commands is simply more practical for them. A mate of mine from the army still loves to play games on Steam, but due to an injury with his fingers, typing is a rather slow and dull affair for him, this would allow far quicker access to the games he wants to get and can play.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
You need to put some code in there that detects if a Valve employee is using Enhanced Steam and put a message at the top that says HIRE ME or a link to your resume or something.

Way ahead of you. There isn't anything like that in Enhanced Steam itself (since that could be considered "spying on users") but there are some fun bits put into the Enhanced Steam website.

That's awesome stuff man. Seriously. Needless for me but just love the endless resources provided to make the customer experience as easy and appealing as possible. Do you have a feature list you're in the process of adding or would like to add? I'd love to hear some of your ideas you have in that think tank of yours.

I have a small list of mostly user-submitted issues that are things I'm planning on adding/fixing on Github. Other than that, I just look for ways to make people's experiences on Steam better in general. I try to search forums like this one and other Steam forums and communitues for common frustrations people have and try to find solutions that can be worked into Enhanced Steam.

Sometimes I pick something at random from this guide that I can fix, and (if I feel like the fix would be beneficial) I fix it.

have they actually given you a no or do they just ignore you

At first they actually gave me a "no". Now they just ignore me. :'(

Wonderful work, thank you. Now the only question is what accent will I have to put on for it to be able to understand me?
A joke since my native Scottish brogue is one programmers tend not to even attempt to get right even open HTML and Google's programs

Once fully up and ready to go for users, you really should send a message and explanation to http://www.ablegamers.com/ via one of their many contacts, they would be quite interested in this.

Thanks for the tip about ablegamers, I'll definitely give them a heads up on this once the feature is released. And I'm not sure about the accents, but I do know that Chrome uses Google's own speech recognition patterns which are constantly evolving and improving.
 

KenOD

a kinder, gentler sort of Scrooge
Well that is nice, for those of us that got that lovely Darksiders 1 and 2 (and something else) bundle off Amazon not too long ago, they got around to putting up the key or download option for the formerly missing Darksiders 2 Shadow of Death DLC in the "Games and Software Library" section of one's account..
 

Acccent

Member
So a friend on Steam suddenly came online and immediately opened a chat with me, shouted FEELS TIME!! and linked me to two youtube videos... from the ME3 OST :|

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fuck :'(
 
They only backed off after the interwebz community backlash.

I've been personally targeted by that type of lawyering in the past. It's a ridiculous practice (see: Scrolls/The Elder Scrolls), but it's normal for that type of copyright law. Bigger businesses have teams that just scour the internet for anything that could possibly be a threat and then their legal teams start taking action to try to "protect" the company from anything that could be detrimental. But in a world where someone once spilled coffee on themselves and got a multi-million dollar settlement because there wasn't a warning that the coffee would be hot, everything legal has seemingly become an exercise in protecting your own ass and limiting liability.

I'm not condoning it -- I'm just merely saying that they did back off.
 
I have a small list of mostly user-submitted issues that are things I'm planning on adding/fixing on Github. Other than that, I just look for ways to make people's experiences on Steam better in general. I try to search forums like this one and other Steam forums and communitues for common frustrations people have and try to find solutions that can be worked into Enhanced Steam.

Sometimes I pick something at random from this guide that I can fix, and (if I feel like the fix would be beneficial) I fix it.

I have a minor suggestion that I know would be useful to me come sale time. When going through your wishlist, is there any possibility to have a button to have certain percentages off to be added to cart? For example, options to add everything at 75% or better to cart and 50% or better to cart. It might seem silly but for people with large wishlists it may be useful. You may also consider add all games under $2.50, $5 or under $10 to cart as well.

I noticed the add all from wishlist to cart button is gone so I don't know if that posed problems or bogged down the system (I may just be unable to find it). I just feel like the wishlist customization could use a bit more.
 

yuraya

Member
Well that is nice, for those of us that got that lovely Darksiders 1 and 2 (and something else) bundle off Amazon not too long ago, they got around to putting up the key or download option for the formerly missing Darksiders 2 Shadow of Death DLC in the "Games and Software Library" section of one's account..

Thanks for the reminder. Had a feeling they would do that.

Edit: bad engrish
 

The_Super_Inframan

"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Just found this key. I'm not 100% sure if it works but it should, if not sorry in advance :)

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Parsnip

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So a friend on Steam suddenly came online and immediately opened a chat with me, shouted FEELS TIME!! and linked me to two youtube videos... from the ME3 OST :|

...

fuck :'(
In my humble bumble opinion, that's 2 out of 3 of the actual good songs from the ME3 OST. The third one being An End, Once and for All.

Really disappointing soundtrack overall, especially after ME and ME2 were so solid.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I have a minor suggestion that I know would be useful to me come sale time. When going through your wishlist, is there any possibility to have a button to have certain percentages off to be added to cart? For example, options to add everything at 75% or better to cart and 50% or better to cart. It might seem silly but for people with large wishlists it may be useful. You may also consider add all games under $2.50, $5 or under $10 to cart as well.

I noticed the add all from wishlist to cart button is gone so I don't know if that posed problems or bogged down the system (I may just be unable to find it). I just feel like the wishlist customization could use a bit more.

I've already added a few sorting / filtering options to the wishlist that somewhat alleviate this. I'm planning on adding checkboxes similar to the ones I put on store pages for lists of DLC. As with those check boxes, there will be an options panel that will allow you to select games in bulk by certain conditions (such as "Under $5", etc). Then there will be multiple buttons at the bottom such as "Add Selected To Cart" or "Remove Selected From Wishlist".

You mention that you have a large wishlist and that the "Buy Wishlist" button is gone and that's probably the cause. Steam sometimes times out on this request when you have a lot of games on your wishlist, usually people start seeing problems when they have over 200 games on there.
 

Acccent

Member
In my humble bumble opinion, that's 2 out of 3 of the actual good songs from the ME3 OST. The third one being An End, Once and for All.

Really disappointing soundtrack overall, especially after ME and ME2 were so solid.

Eh, I prefer the ME3 one over 2. ME1's is not really comparable, it sounds so different (like pretty much everything in the game).
 

morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
While I'd assume people with disabilities have speech recognition software installed on their system anyway, I didn't think of that.

Don't mind me anyway, I slip into my contrarian mode every now and then.

I can't have my switch flipped to beast mode all the time, you know.
 

Jawmuncher

Member
I have 100+ hours in ME1 and 60 in ME2.
I prefer ME2 to 1 any day of the week. Actually really like ME3 as well but the limit on choices in the game was my biggest disappointment. Sucked that everything was simply good or bad. No more middle ground type answers.

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I have played some more of War of the Human Tanks. Gotta say this game is getting better and better as I play it. The gameplay is a really neat mix of strategy that's well worth trying out if you're into that sort of thing. Also the soundtrack is top notch.
 

The_Monk

Member
After finishing XCOM decided to change for a different genre and started Mafia II.

This game looks really good on PC, I'm surprised. The bridges and the city looks really nice the snow is amazing and running all this on 60 FPS is quite nice too, facial expressions nicely done, I'll try to play a bit more since I'm only 2 hours in.

On a side note, are expecting another Weekly bundle today? I've been avoiding most of the bundles lately since there only seems to be one title I'm interested in in those different bundles and when I look to my Backlog I keep on avoiding them.
 

Jawmuncher

Member
After finishing XCOM decided to change for a different genre and started Mafia II.

This game looks really good on PC, I'm surprised. The bridges and the city looks really nice the snow is amazing and running all this on 60 FPS is quite nice too, facial expressions nicely done, I'll try to play a bit more since I'm only 2 hours in.
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Hope you enjoy it.
Mafia 2 is one of my favorite games that I have played last year when I did a backlog blitz.
The biggest thing I can say is play it as a story focused experience. True it's an open world game but I personally felt it was only open for the missions. Since there really is nothing worth doing in the environment. The story and the conclusion are top notch. Never played the DLC though.
 
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