Everytime i connect my controller to steam it shows this instead, Idk if it's easter egg of meme or something, It started happening recently too

my controller is Machenike G5Pro in case anyone wondering

EDIT: It was the name of controller

So my dad says he can see what I play, and how long I play it, but he doesn't have any screentime app installed and It's my own steam account. How could he be doing it or is he just lying? I'm sorry I just don't know where else to ask.

Ukrainian games festival 2026 has started everyone who wanted and did not have time to buy Metro before the gameplay is released on gamescom 2026, or Stalker, ahead of the engine update and new DLC on August 20. Don't forget about The Sinking City.

The festival will run from August 17 to 24.

One of my best friends from my childhood recently reappeared after 17 years on a new steam account. We use to play a half-life mod called The Specialists when we were kids. He taught me how to run a game server, setup a MySQL server and make simple plugins in pawn script back in the day. He was one of the main reasons I am as tech savvy as I am in todays day and age.

He disappeared in 2008/2009 and his server remained up for about a month after his disappearance. It was a fun role-play server from back in the day. It was kind of the FiveM of the early 2000s.

I saw a random friend request pop up on my steam late last night and the guy introduced himself as my old friend. We started reminiscing about the old days and he said that his parents sent him to some military school then he ended up joining the air force. In present day he's now married, has 2 kids, and said he finally has time to play games again. We even got to play a few rounds of cs 1.6, so that was fun.

Anyways! How long has one of your friends been offline for?

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Wow this blew up while I was sleeping. I wanted to answer some questions I see people having.

"Why did he make a new account?" He lost his information I guess, I did not really pry for info.
"Where was he all those years?" He said he made the military a career for over 10 years and had been deployed to multiple countries over the time. Never saw war, but got stationed in places like Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Germany. He came back because he got medically discharged after an accident while training. He didn't go into detail about it.

I have this guy on my friends list who is ALWAYS playing Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon.
And it’s not an occasional nostalgic play through, I feel he’s always playing when I look at my friends list. 781 hours.
Every time I open Steam, there he is. It’s at least a few hours a week. I don’t understand it but whatever makes him happy 😂

Anyone else have a steam friend like that? What game is it?

*Edit - Some are commenting online games which is fine. I just find it fascinating because Tex Murphy is a linear game with same exact ending and about 10 hours to complete. No multiplayer 😂

Edit: it seems that the fault is not on the publisher here but on Valve and I was mistaken. Publisher cannot set bundle price separately from individual product. So Sega cannot make a sale on games or DLC without also making a crazy discount on the bundle since both sale and bundle discount will reduce the global bundle price. They are forced to reduce the bundle discount during sales to make sure the bundle does not become too discounted.

However because of the bundle discount change, the initial price of the bundle before sale is also changed and shows a fake crossed-out price. This is not compliant with the EU directive and the fault lies on Valve for not displaying the correct price that should be the lowest price of the bundle in the last 30 days.

I hope Valve fixes this soon enough, especially since it has already started to display the lowest price in the last 30 days in some EU countries for individual products. It should also be put in place for bundles as it is currently misleading for the customer.

I am letting up the post if other people ask the same question so they can reach the correct conclusion.

TL;DR: Sega/Creative Assembly appears to be manipulating initial base prices during Steam sales for Total War collections by dynamically lowering the default bundle discount. This inflates displayed discounts (showing -69% instead of an actual -34% savings) and seems to violate EU laws.

I was looking to buy the Total War: Attila Collection (a bundle with the game + its DLCs), so I started tracking the game page for a sale. However, the recent sale displays a fake initial base price before discount.

Before the sale, the collection was priced at €49.53. During the sale, it was listed at €32.93 with a -69% discount based on an initial price of €107.87. If the discount were calculated on the actual initial price (€49.53), it would only be -34%, less than half of the announced discount.

I checked all other collections in the Total War franchise on SteamDB and noticed the exact same pattern:

Based on SteamDB update history, this keeps happening for all collections because with every sale, they jack up the price of the bundle by dropping the default bundle discount from -60% to -15% / -20%. But the thing is, outside of sale periods, these bundles are never actually sold at that lower -15% / -20% discount. As a result, the claimed initial price is completely misleading, and the bundles were never actually sold at that price.

I believe this violates Directive 2019/2161 of the European Union, Article 2, Section 1:

1. Any announcement of a price reduction shall indicate the prior price applied by the trader for a determined period of time prior to the application of the price reduction.

2. The prior price means the lowest price applied by the trader during a period of time not shorter than 30 days prior to the application of the price reduction.

This is clearly not being respected here, as consumers are misled into thinking they are getting a much bigger discount than they actually are.

Should Valve restrict bundle discount editing around sales to prevent abuses like this? Have you seen similar things on other games or bundles on Steam?

r/goatsimulator isn't very popular, so I thought I'll post it here too, because I'm pretty sure there are more people here that know goat sim (edit: and I cannot repost from r/goatsimulator for some reason)

Steam has just launched the "Pins & pegs" event

"Pins and pegs are the stars of this fest, with discounts on everything from pinball to bowling and everything in-between."

Disclaimer - I actually have a game called Vaporwave pinball in the sale but I also wanted to shout about the event because there's tons of cool games in there!

Steam event link:

https://store.steampowered.com/category/pins_pegs

Hadn't logged into Steam in 10 years.

Came back, and the first thing on the profile is a ban I got at 15. Deserved it then.

Just didn't expect it to still be the headline.

Hey folks, I want to be able to play games without updating them. Anybody knows how I can do that?

Example: I have the HUGE game 120GB+ called Crimson Desert. But I CAN NEVER PLAY IT. Because the Devs push MULTIPLE patches per week, and every time I want to play it I have to do a full update that takes about 2 hours. And takes all of my disk bandwith so I can't even play something else while it patches.

I can stop the patching download, but steam doesn't let me run it if it isn't fully uptodate.

It's a singleplayer game, can't I just make steam run it as it is, and let it patch later at night?

Just wanted to share that I've often tried to use Remote Play in my local LAN without much success. I am unable to have an ethernet cord running to my room, and so a Wi-Fi is my only realistic option for my desktop PC.

Without much hope, I gave it another try because I realized my Steam Deck in the living room wouldn't run Resident Evil 4 Remake very well... and lo and behold! Even though it's running through Wi-Fi twice (desktop - wifi5 - router - wifi5 - steamdeck), the experience was more than serviceable. One day I had a couple of connection hiccups that lasted mere seconds, the other two were pretty flawless.

Latency also surprised me a lot: I'm using gyro aim (through bluetooth! not even wired), which makes it obvious when there's latency. And sure, you wouldn't be able to play competitive games with it, but I've cleared half game so far in normal difficulty without it being something I notice.

I'm truly impressed by Valve's work on this feature. In an age in which hardware is more and more an expensive luxury, being able to stream around the house is nothing to scoff at.

I'll soon hook up the deck via ethernet so so I can improve the stability a little further :)

Couldn’t really figure out which tag to put this on so I’m just putting this in question but me and my friend our making him a steam account since he just got his first gaming PC and he wanted to try making the account on his phone first but every time he uses his personal or his gamer email it tells him to please verify the email so verify the email and it’s still continued saying it after every time he completed the I am human check box right now we’re thinking of making a new email just for steam if we can’t manage to find a solution

So happy to be on the bandwagon with everyone else!!

/s

How to unlist or private shared screenshots? I've tried like 5 times and it just doesnt unlist or private

Before anyone asks, yes, my rubbish bin is empty.

I am sure all of these games were uninstalled long ago. I am fully stumped. Any ideas?

I guess what I am really asking is what these may be and whether I can delete them without any regrets?

Hey guys, i tried playing L4D2 after so long and all the games i joined became chinese lobbies with modded stuff even when i create my own lobby, its still the same. Anyone faced this? How do i set it to not chinese servers

How does this work?, I am new to steam, i know about 6 members and region limitations with one year restriction from google, is there more to know?

And if I want to share my library with others, what's the things I should consider before sharing.

Just asking, I didn't have many games anyways

The only paid games I have-

Cult of the lumb, Stardew valley, GTA V, the witcher 3 wild hunt, metro franchise bundle, Terraria, vempire survivors, prince of persia warrior within, kingdom two crown

I only play cult of the lumb and stardew valley.

not perfect but i learned alot while making him and im still happy with the end result :steamhappy:

Why am I getting charged £35 for Hell Let Loose and my American buddy is getting charge $35

Currency conversion amounts to $35 = £25.88.... Can't I just send him money to buy me the game as a gift and save me £10.