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stuminus3 said:
Hey, I own Project Snowblind on Steam. I guess it must have been bundled with something else I bought. Huh. And the cycle continues.
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It's like finding that you got a present out of nowhere.

Think I'll grab Deus Ex from GMG today.
 
stuminus3 said:
Hey, I own Project Snowblind on Steam. I guess it must have been bundled with something else I bought. Huh. And the cycle continues.
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Haha, because of this, I checked my Steam library to see if I owned it as well. I don't, but the fact that I even had to look says something. <3 Steam.
 
Guys, need help. How do you folks organise your Steam libraries?

I like to try to keep on top of my content, so I've just had a go.. but damn it's tough trying to find a nice enough solution.

I'm relatively new to PC gaming, only within the last 2 months or so, and I have 50 games installed at the moment which is already giving me an organisational headache.. and yes I'm aware the situation is only ever going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

So far and having just played around with afew category names, I've come up with Classic PC Games (everything Valve does etc), Classics 2000-2005 (everything I associate with PS2 era), Current Gen (stuff from 2006 onwards really), Indies and Favourites, which is usually the two or three games I'm playing at the moment. Not sure if I'm happy with that though.. it's not an elegant solution and there's afew games that could fit into a couple of categories.

How do you manage it? Suggestions very much welcome. Also apologies if this has inevitably been discussed before..
 
Mat C said:
Guys, need help. How do you folks organise your Steam libraries?

I like to try to keep on top of my content, so I've just had a go.. but damn it's tough trying to find a nice enough solution.

I'm relatively new to PC gaming, only within the last 2 months or so, and I have 50 games installed at the moment which is already giving me an organisational headache.. and yes I'm aware the situation is only ever going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

So far and having just played around with afew category names, I've come up with Classic PC Games (everything Valve does etc), Classics 2000-2005 (everything I associate with PS2 era), Current Gen (stuff from 2006 onwards really), Indies and Favourites, which is usually the two or three games I'm playing at the moment. Not sure if I'm happy with that though.. it's not an elegant solution and there's afew games that could fit into a couple of categories.

How do you manage it? Suggestions very much welcome. Also apologies if this has inevitably been discussed before..
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Just put the games you're playing in favorites and let Steam alphabetically sort the rest. I tried making folders for different genres once but it didn't quite work out.
 
Whatever Steam has done with the new content system is fucking great, been maxing out my connection here in Australia for all my recent downloads

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How I organized

Games
Play
No Play

Games include ones that aren't a backlog. No clear finish point. But I play anyways. Like Killing Floor, TF2, Civilization, etc.
Play are games that are backlog. Clear finish point, beating the Single Player.
No Play, Whatever crap I want, mods, etc.
 
zkylon said:
Just put the games you're playing in favorites and let Steam alphabetically sort the rest. I tried making folders for different genres once but it didn't quite work out.
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Up until now that's what I have been doing, but sometimes when I'm drifting between games and trying to decide what to play, staring at an alphabetical list becomes overwhelming. I'd like some level of organisation.

Genre is probably the easiest solution but wondering if there's a golden alternative out there.
 
gdt5016 said:
Pre-loading now. Does it auto unlock at the stroke of midnight?
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It should unlock around midnight EST, at which point you will need to restart Steam. If you restart Steam and the servers aren't too swamped, then you can start decrypting it. It might take 30-45 minutes to decrypt, as a rough guess, and then it might take a while longer before you can actually get into the game if the Steam servers are as swamped as they were with Portal 2 (perhaps not likely).
 
My categories are as follows:

Currently Playing
Finished
Ignore
TellTale
Unfinished

I put things like the Team Fortress 2 Beta and games that I originally bought on Steam but then purchased later on GOG (first Witcher) in the Ignore category. I made a TellTale category since their games are broken up into so many episodes. I leave games that haven't been installed, and pre-orders, in the default Games category.
 
So i've decided that i'm going to preorder Human Revolution today. It's just a matter of if I want to pay an extra $8 for some TF2 items...
 
thefil said:
I loathe every one of you that can afford Deus Ex. I shouldn't have pre-ordered Skyrim so early.
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You are going to feel worse when you find a better Skyrim deal closer to release. It is a Steamworks game after all.
 
Baha said:
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Preloading and PREORDERING are two different things. I'd assume that means that you'll get the items but only if you preload before the game comes out.

Edit: Oh whoops, just saw the GMG message. So you guys with GMG keys aren't able to preload? That sucks. :(
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zkylon said:
Just put the games you're playing in favorites and let Steam alphabetically sort the rest. I tried making folders for different genres once but it didn't quite work out.
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That's exactly my scenario. At one point I tried organizing my games into genres - it was kind of cool but the list was so huge and complicated it really defeated the purpose. Many modern games don't fit into stereotypical genre roles either, at least, not handily within the confines of keeping the amount of categories limited at all. I mean, do you have an "Action Game" category with 80 games or do you break it up into "First Person Shooter", "Third Person Shooter"? Do you go more vague so you can fit games that don't actually include shooting? Where does Portal fit, Mirrors Edge? Do you make a whole category for your ONE fighting game, your ONE roguelike game, your TWO platforming games, etc? It's just convoluted...

Now I just have my default alphabetical list with a half dozen of the ones I'm currently playing tagged as my favorites up on top.
 
Aselith said:
Preloading and PREORDERING are two different things. I'd assume that means that you'll get the items but only if you preload before the game comes out.

Edit: Oh whoops, just saw the GMG message. So you guys with GMG keys aren't able to preload? That sucks. :(
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They can preload just fine, they just don't get TF2 items.
 
Houston3000 said:
That's exactly my scenario. At one point I tried organizing my games into genres - it was kind of cool but the list was so huge and complicated it really defeated the purpose. Many modern games don't fit into stereotypical genre roles either, at least, not handily within the confines of keeping the amount of categories limited at all. I mean, do you have an "Action Game" category with 80 games or do you break it up into "First Person Shooter", "Third Person Shooter"? Do you go more vague so you can fit games that don't actually include shooting? Where does Portal fit, Mirrors Edge? Do you make a whole category for your ONE fighting game, your ONE roguelike game, your TWO platforming games, etc? It's just convoluted...

Now I just have my default alphabetical list with a half dozen of the ones I'm currently playing tagged as my favorites up on top.
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Definitely the way to go.

One other thing i'm considering is making a category for all the 5 minute games like Audiosurf or Inside a Star-Filled Sky that i play when i don't have time for focused gaming.
 
My Steam categories are:

Archived (completed)
Multiplayer / Sandbox
Played / Playing
Unplayed
Ze Junk Pile

I keep Archived and Junk Pile minimized. The rest open.

I like this category setup because from top to bottom it lists things in approx. the order I'm probably looking for them. Although you can never "beat" a game like Football Manager, I reserve the right to move it from Sandbox into Archived at my discretion.
 
x3sphere said:
Hm, seems like it uses Steamworks? That's a change for Ubi.
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Not at all. Ubisoft is only publishing it. This usually means developers are free to choose their own DRM and online system, so they naturally go with steamworks. RUSE, Cliffs of Dover and Call of juarez: The Cartel are a couple more examples.
 
thanks, i just bought it. they charged me sales tax which is a bummer but i guess that's just what they do.

bought like 5 games for less then $5 each past 3-4 days. i'm a steam addict now.
 
thefil said:
I loathe every one of you that can afford Deus Ex. I shouldn't have pre-ordered Skyrim so early.
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I wish I could afford any new games on Steam, I want Dead Island, Skyrim, and Deus Ex but I can't afford any of them ;_________________;.
 
GDJustin said:
My Steam categories are:

Archived (completed)
Multiplayer / Sandbox
Played / Playing
Unplayed
Ze Junk Pile

I keep Archived and Junk Pile minimized. The rest open.

I like this category setup because from top to bottom it lists things in approx. the order I'm probably looking for them. Although you can never "beat" a game like Football Manager, I reserve the right to move it from Sandbox into Archived at my discretion.
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I think I may copy this category list, though I think I'll add a casual section in there somewhere
 
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