How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

Ordered a left index controller for a partial kit I bought off of Facebook Marketplace, and was genuinely not expecting support to actually do this. Now if only Valve's anti-cheat was anywhere near as good their support...

A neat little surprise

So back in 2024 I gifted Atlyss to my girlfriend because we wanted to play it together, and I distinctly remember playing it with her briefly, but awhile back I noticed that in our steam family library, there was only one copy of the game, she should have it in her library but she says she doesn't. Is there anything that could've caused the game to be removed from her library?

ok, so, who here took a windows update yesterday shortly before seeing this notification?

image credit: u/Comfortable-Bird-381 from thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1x5woph/never_seen_this_before_what_is_it/

this is just a basic informal cause/effect poll.

A lot of people seemed invested in this saga and I've hit a wall presently. I hope people have some other ideas.

I have:

• contacted Steam support and got this lame response:

Hi there, Thank you for contacting Steam Support and reporting this to us. Please note that Steam Support cannot connect you with the device’s owner. We recommend that you report the found Steam Deck to your local law enforcement so it can be handled appropriately and returned to its rightful owner. We appreciate your honesty and for taking the responsible steps in this situation. Steam Support Oliver

If anyone has advice on how to break through this wall let me know!

• Posted in several subreddits, getting a lot of traction!

• Commented on a guy's post and messaged him directly who I think for several reasons is the owner, no response

• Added the owner as a friend on Steam, no response

• Tried to log into the account itself to see the billing information or any other means of contacting the owner. I can see what account the deck is associated with in the settings, but I can't access anything else without being routed to a login screen. I can see the username & friend code only.

I throw it out to Reddit, any other ideas? I got plenty of comments last time saying my mother-in-law should have turned it into Amtrak when she found it months ago - and I agree! But she didn't! So there is nothing I can do to turn back the hands of time and I highly doubt it will get to the right person if I turn it into Amtrak now... at best, they'll just give it to the most recent person who claims to have lost a Steam Deck, at worst it lives in lost & found purgatory or is taken home by an employee.

Original post: This is a long shot but .....

Several months ago my mother-in-law found a steam deck left on an Amtrak train. She had no idea what to do with it or how to even turn it on. She just came to visit and handed it over to me this weekend. I was able to boot it up and see the person's username. If it's yours, please message me with the final digits of the username and what Amtrak line you were on when you lost it, and I'll get it back to you.

I'm the developer of HoloMapper, a projection mapping application on Steam. Users operate the software from one display while projecting to another. Steam Remote Play currently streams both displays, making remote operation difficult. A monitor selection option in Remote Play would greatly improve support for professional multi-monitor workflows.

For clarification, HoloMapper is a Unity application that uses two displays:

- Display 1: Main editor and controls.

- Display 2: Fullscreen projector output.

The actual problem:

Steam Remote Play initially streams Display 1 correctly. However, as soon as the projector output is activated on Display 2, Remote Play switches to capturing both displays side-by-side in a single stream.

This causes the editor to occupy only half of the Steam Link/Steam Deck screen, with the other half wasted on the projector output.

What we need is the ability to stream Display 1 only, while Display 2 continues operating normally on the host computer.

The newer "Primary Display While Streaming" setting doesn't resolve this behavior. We need an explicit option to select which display Remote Play captures, even when an application uses multiple displays simultaneously.

I've gotten it and am a little worried due to the things peopleare saying about it. First thought was something broke but after looking it up it seems like an error a couple people have gotten in the past. So I just installed and checked if that fixed the error.

Then I see a lot of people have gotten it today, and so many of them are talking about it being malware or suspicious.

I want to ask what it is EXACTLY, I want someone who actually knows what they are talking about to tell me what this popup means in the context of so many getting it recently.

I cannot afford to screw around with potential Malware.

The issue has been resolved and as soon as i clicked the blue button the animation immedietely began and crafter the badge for me. Thanks to everybody who replied!

So i bought the ultimate street fighter 4 form steam and i am using cosmic byte blitz controller which is xbox layout controller and nothing is working except basic movement and attack. I cant use ultimate, combos anything else.

Is their any solution?

I have the two DualSense touchpads mapped to the Steam Overlay and screenshots. Previously, I could toggle the overlay on and off, but now I can't turn it off using the controller, only the keyboard. Taking screenshots while the overlay is active also only works via the keyboard. Did Steam change something in an update? Is there a way to fix this, or is it a bug on their end?

i have 100$ i want to add but paypal is asking me to add in a card which i don't have (my family helped make the account)

i did research and say people using the "paypal" option and leave the box unchecked for options to pay 4 later (i am paying for full cause i don't want to loan)

before i could do that, should i also cancel automatic payment of paypal first? if not, should i use it for other game sites for steam keys?

They are both 2.0 Base stations but are they both the exact same or different just because of the box? My Valve index needs new base stations and idk which one to get because they both seem the same but idk.
Out of the box they both look the exact same and they’re identical lol

I had no idea what else to do lmao so I’m on Reddit lol

I’m a chef, and I’d love to customize my Steam profile to reflect what I do for a living and what I’m passionate about: cooking.

What profile backgrounds, animated backgrounds, or other profile items would you recommend for a cooking or food-related theme? I’d especially love to find something that shows someone preparing food, working in a kitchen, or anything along those lines.

Also, what are some of your personal favorite Steam profile backgrounds, regardless of the theme? I’m curious to see what you guys are using!

I thought for sure I had it in my library. Resurrection is there but not the OG games.

I don't play muchshooters and don't like how there is so much travel on the trigger buttons. Is it possible to make it so that it acts like the shoulder button with minimum travel within steam controller setting?

Think there is some games that harden the triggers for some scene/guns.

i recently bought a game so my little sisters could play it, but I'm wondering if, while they play, I could stream another game to a different device and play my games there at the same time.

so that, can i have them playing on the main PC, while at the same time i stream (from the same PC) another game to my secondary PC for remote play?

Today i have had a update

For steam when i opened it as i havent opened it for a few weeks once the update had finished

I had a oblong box come up from steam saying install service so i click on it

Does anyone know what this was

I have a couple of games installed i steam and 1 program

I was checking on my Steam account and I found out I got this gray Cuphead card.

All the other cards I got have the average market price on them, but not this one...

I really don't understand how this collectable cards sistem works.

I stored codes for steam guard on phone A, now that I've had a new phone, which I transferred steamguard to, does that make the old one time use codes invalid or not?

So... I've recently ran into a lot of problems regarding game restrictions.

First of all. I understand why it's not allowed to switch regions to not abuse buying games from regions where the currency is really bad and thus getting games for abnormally cheap in a country that's fairly well of, so to speak.

What I don't understand is, why are some games completely blocked out in countries with no active game laws. For example, as someone who lives in Slovakia, whenever I try to look up AION 2, nothing shows up. Not only does nothing show up, there's absolutely no reasoning anywhere as to why the game is blocked in my country when we don't really have any game laws here and I don't see how an mmo would break anything so much so they'd have to completely block it off.

I have a friend in Turkey, whom I often play games with and I tried to get him Smallands, but apparently that game is completely blocked from his country too. No information available, no reasoning, again. From what I've heard, a lot of things are blocked in Turkey, but I don't see why an insect co-op game would be.

Both of these issues seem fairly unreasonable here. Why restrict such games completely from some people? There's similar games out there that are completely available despite their gambling aggressive mechanics and similar features, where they only warn you to play at your own risk.

So why are some games completely blocked off? And why is there no way to get to play a game like that? The only other way I'm assuming to get these games is get an actual copy of the game, cracked, and play it this way. But that's also against policy. So then, are people completely restricted from these games forever unless they move to another country? How does this make sense?

Probably been asked a gazillion times but i just would like to know if its possible.

I recently completed a game called Graveyard Shift and it is not counting towards my achievement showcases. As far as I’m aware it does not have any restrictions, like “Steam is learning about this game” or “Profile features limited.” I also own the license to the game and don’t use family sharing. I’ve tried deleting web browser data, logging out of Steam and logging back in, letting the game run for a bit again, getting achievements in other games, but none of that has worked and I’m out of ideas. I contacted Steam support and they don’t know and closed my ticket.

Anyone have any ideas?

I installed Steam onto my computer about a year ago. I also installed Fallout 4 and recently the Elder Scrolls Online. Yesterday I uninstalled Fallout 4 on my computer and also deleted a Games folder that was on my computer after installing Fallout 4. I don't remember why the Games folder was there. But I deleted the Games folder after uninstalling Fallout 4. After doing all this, I turned off my computer and didn't turn it on again until the next day and noticed Steam was gone and ESO would not work. So, I installed Steam again, but ESO still didn't work even after all kinds of things I did to try and make it work. In the end, I accepted the ESO was gone. So, I deleted the ESO icon and only had Steam on my computer. Now, the next day, I noticed after turning on my computer that Steam is once again gone. What is going on?