Steam

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/43688600

More details here: https://www.techspot.com/news/111951-steam-could-soon-show-estimated-fps-based-crowd.html?hl=en-US

I like checking on Popular New Releases to see what's trending in a given week, but it just does not do that anymore since a handful of weeks ago. It's showing entries from all the way back in 2020, ones that have – as far as I checked – not even new DLC.

There's several decently sized games I've just not seen launch because the feed is.. broken? It's probably but broken, I assume this is intended, but why.

If you happen to know what's up with this, please do tell. But I mostly just want to complain I guess. I can check my Steam release calendar but that's hidden behind several menus. Sigh.

This is like a bunch of months late, but I am curious what people here thinks about steams new AI disclosure policy, which I think requires you to disclose or refrain from making AI content that is consumable, e.g the player sees and interacts with, whereas anything on the backend does not need to be disclosed, I know people are upset steam didn't push for a complete disclosure, but imo I agree with this approach, if anyone uses it for asset generate, i think thats prohibited given they previously took down a game for potential copyright violations, but for things you can interact with, those are like the first thing that can appear as bugs which could very quickly fill steam up with slop/buggy games, but for stuff less visible, I don't know, I guess wont matter as much? I worked on a few singleplayer games in the past (nothing on steam, also i did not use ai then). So I don't know is it an important distinction? I don't think i would be in favor with steam forcing people to disclose ALL uses of AI, like if its used appropriately like a tool, because too alot of people its all the same with no nuance, but thats just my opinion.

In other very late news, pre-generated content and live-generated content is an important distinction with steam, with live-generated having much more scrutiny and being banned for any 18+ content, this makes sense for me, I don't think anyone would disagree with this, but if anyone has any thoughts on this I am curious on what they are.

There are two new entries for most popular operating systems listed for Linux Only. This coinsides with the 5% breakthrough of total Steam population (finally). But I wonder if this is an error (or April Fool's Day joke?). The two entries are just named 64 bit and 0 64 bit and its puzzling, as they have a huge percentage.

Does anyone have a clue what this is or could be?

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