derExperte
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Hmm, so no official W10 Consumer Preview at least for now.
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STEAM | January 2015 - Steam GOTY results: Delayed
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Win8 was a mishmash of ideas and no focus. It may not have been bad for you, but it broke all kinds of workflows for me. There were also a lot of small interface things that really bugged me in the desktop view. Small things pile up and at some point it was just more convenient to use Win7.
I didn't use 8.1 though.
The updated activity feed design looks nice. Also, links to store and greenlight items present in Steam Community hub posts now generate widgets (most obviously exampled in the main Keys Added thread).
Baron_Calamity
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The porn industry next platform.
AHA-Lambda
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oh god, don't remind me of that travesty.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Before 8.1 I'd have picked 7 over 8, and after 8.1 I'm largely indifferent between the two. It's not because I'm a raving lunatic, it's because MS designed an OS to prioritize things that I don't care about at the expense of things that I do care about. (Note: I prefer OSX to Windows in general)
Tizoc
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This is prob. new thread worthy if one hasn't been made yet.
Also I think I'm starting to have a sour throat ugh.
freshVeggie
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You always want people to make threads.
What happened that you lost your own ability? Too many threads?
isn't it if you transfer from W7 to W10 within a year, it's free for life? If you don't redeem and install W10 after a year, it will cost you.
it's apparently a one year period where upgrading is free. thats it. after than you pay the price if you haven't gotten it.
That's not new, it has been there for pretty long.
There's been a thread on the first page of gaming for like 30 minutes.
It's a free upgrade offer. The offer will last for one year. If you wait to upgrade until after the year is up, you'll have to pay. I know Microsoft tends to be evil, but it's really as simple as it sounds.
Edit - It wouldn't surprise me to see Microsoft push the upgrade out as an option using standard Windows Update. It's in their best interest to get as many computers onto Windows 10 as fast as possible.
freshVeggie
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Aw, the thing they said "stick till the end" was holostuff, not MCC
It was a good show I think.
Time get dinner.
It was a good show I think.
Time get dinner.
It wasn't the case just hours ago. I check that thread daily.
MMBosstones86
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"Please be excited?"
ashecitism
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Nabs
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Store pages and Youtube links would generate automatic widgets in the activity feed. Greenlight might be a new one.
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Yeah, but I'm referring to the Steam Community forums. Admittedly that isn't immediately clear.
Edit: Fixed up my post.
ashecitism
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Or maybe they could announce actual PC exclusives. New AoE etc.
No I have seen widgets in community forums months ago. At least store, not 100%-sure about greenlight.
Eh so nothing bad, nothing really new either (well apart from some loopy hardware experiments and 'hologram' stuff).
My initial thoughts were 'oh noes Fable Legends that really exciting game has achievements....' and I'm just as riveted for it now. They acknowledged Steam, seem to be doing some moving and shaking with DX12 adoption (though BUILD will more than likely be the best place to show more on that) and 12 months free upgrade to 10 for 7, 8 & 8.1 users. Though I bet that's going to be a royal pain if you want to swap back to 7 or what have you. Guessing it's going to be key redemption via their CDN but I hope they give you bootable media and not tie 32bit users to a 32bit OS again like 8 users had upgrading to 8.1.
So no apple cart upsets thankfully.
My initial thoughts were 'oh noes Fable Legends that really exciting game has achievements....' and I'm just as riveted for it now. They acknowledged Steam, seem to be doing some moving and shaking with DX12 adoption (though BUILD will more than likely be the best place to show more on that) and 12 months free upgrade to 10 for 7, 8 & 8.1 users. Though I bet that's going to be a royal pain if you want to swap back to 7 or what have you. Guessing it's going to be key redemption via their CDN but I hope they give you bootable media and not tie 32bit users to a 32bit OS again like 8 users had upgrading to 8.1.
So no apple cart upsets thankfully.
JaseC has now 4000 games.
And 2k badge. Getting games faster than Valve can come up with badges...
TheAutomator
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That's great news.
Baron_Calamity
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hmmm the plot thickens
It's german for "his" or "be"/"being", if you ignore that it's written in small letters.
As a regular poster of that thread, just want to clarify a bit about what JaseC said is true.
We used to hide store links inside the texts in order to save more spaces, like this
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[url= http://store.steampowered.com/app/340050]Survivalist[ /url]http://steamcommunity.com/groups/KeysAdded/discussions/1/34095684716814440/#c613948093872930167
In addition, as you already know that Valve has set a plain store link like http://store.steampowered.com/app/340050 would generate a widget at the community, now this setting has been applied on texts with links.
YianGaruga
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Cards can drop even for unreleased games, like for early review copies.
Nabs
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That explains why achievements are still hidden.
arts&crafts
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Appears to be gone again
AbundantChoice
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Yeah, it's really easy to pop-open and very, very roomy inside (one side-effect of the thing being *huge*). It actually runs really quiet; there might be something to that whole "hexagon design with the upward angle on the front and back panels = good airflow" thing. Even under max game load I can barely hear the fans, and heat has been a complete non-issue. The "handles" at each vertex of the case come in handy because the thing is really heavy, 40+ pounds. All the LED bars are controllable via the Alienware program and can be set to whatever color you want, color cycling, etc, individually or in groups.
It's interesting where the HDs are located "underneath" the motherboard while the graphics cards are located "above" it, but it makes them both easy to get to (the RAM isn't crammed together too bad either). About the only thing that would be hard to get to is the power supply, but given it ships with an 800 or 850W supply I don't see much of a need to upgrade anytime soon.
The CPU comes water-cooled and overclocked from Dell, so I didn't need to fiddle with that much. I do like that since it's built off Haswell-E and DDR4 RAM and the underlying chipsets that support it, it's pretty future-proof and if I need to upgrade it a few years down the road it shouldn't be an issue
BinaryPork2737
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I'll believe that when the ports are actually revealed.
Whatever it is they have been working on it for about a year.
# Change #317983 about a year ago
Added name Sein for Beta Testing
ANuclearError
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Could it just be the Steam app for Fable Legends?
Yeah, could be anything, even MCC.
Edit: They announced Halo: Spartan Strike for Steam. But I doubt they've been working on it that long.
That used to be the case, but some devs and others with RSO (release state override) copies began selling their cards on the market at high prices while the game in question was unavailable to the general public, so Valve responded accordingly.
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