Apparently, Valve keeps getting builds that were never run through Steam at all, which is how games end up with broken launch options or missing depots.
What the actual fuck
The last time I hit submit I had three thousand hours clocked on the game
Everyone assumes it’s just to stop the slop, but I had the same issue with gta4. Could not get past its launcher.
Same reason Mario maker required completion before sharing the level you made.
Of all the Nintendo games that will never make it to Steam, that would be one of the best on PC.
Allegedly, Miyazaki is required to beat every game of From Software (Dark Souls, Sekiro, Elden Eing, etc.) before it can be released.
(There are occasionally glitches that allow you to bypass bosses. For this reason, they are called “Miyazaki’s passways”.)
Japanese standards are hilarious, if you can beat sekiro you are quite good at action games by western standards
Four months or so Blizzard dropped a new season for Diablo 4 (along with a new game update), while being “Steam Deck Verified” and the new version of the game didn’t launch at all on Linux anymore.
The Proton team had to make an experimental Proton build which took around a day before it was fixed iirc.
So really, even AAA devs can’t seem to test launching their games for all scenarios.
A game can be “Steam Deck Verified” by Valve without the publisher making a request. In fact request by the publisher is the last option after automatic heuristics and Valve identifying a game as improtant.
Meanwhile we were so afraid to hit submit we tested for months even if we were just launching a playtest build. Sweating before every early build submission and our steam review.
Even if it was actually a rubber stamp im glad we took so much care and am glad steam is setting up more tests like this.
But looking back, do you think that after you were done with testing, you could have said: “These tests we’ve run show that our game runs according to our standards” with confidence?
Glad there’s some devs who do care. Do You mean any specific title here?
This new law is probably aimed against ai slops or/and super bugged self crashing crap… bethesda :V
I am a co founder of Hermertia Wars. Bunch of indie devs making our dream come true by working on an Action RTS that takes characters from our 13+ year lore playing minecraft community, and makes them heros you control while recruiting villagers, soldiers, and directing economy. Like AOE/warcraft 3 meets smash bros. Early game. We have a long project in mind. Would love new playtesters or meet folks interested in indie dev :). We are also a workers cooperative which is the best part.
For last few days and probably few weeks more, I’m deep diving another game that I just acquired (Soulframe). Hermertia Wars got wishlisted and installed and defo gonna check, may even do some infodump about at some point.
Much thanks for doing games with passion.
Oh thank you! Its most fun with friends as an arena game as the NPC ai is still just getting going. Feel free to join our discord to find other players. We have a mini tournament every Monday night too. :) we hoped to meet other gamers or devs on this journey. Awesome! https://discord.gg/ahZGXCvTH
You got me intrigued.
Indie, the game type, you being in a workers cooperative, aiming for a long project and thorough development sound so good.
I’m going to join the playtest!What’s the preferred way to provide feedback aside from Discord, which I don’t use.
We are now living in time where the platform holder asks the developers to at least play their game for 5 minutes. The quality bar is that low.
Tim McSweeney next week:
Steam’s terrible choice to demand that developers play their own game is incredibly anti-consumer and is cyber-bullying me specifically. How can anyone compete in such an unfair ecosystem?
Well yeah, he’s got a point. Would you want to be forced to play fortnite?
heroes3 remake on Steam, few months ago :D
What was that download? Like 300KB?
did research… 23.49KB
If it was Epic, they’d be bragging about how fast the game installs.
Games with launchers becoming trendy in 1, 2, 3…
That’s a nice way to leverage Steam’s own stats against dumbasses.
Ah yeah? make them 100% the game first
