Steam

Why, oh why, is Steam being impossible for me to sign up to?

The installer worked fine. I try to sign up for my son with his email and it tells me I have an account. I do the forgot password thing and it sends an email, then when I click the link it says I don't have an account.

Why would it send me the forgot password email?

I then try another email, follow the set up, click the email to verify. All good. When I set up my name, no matter what name I use it says available, but when I try to proceed it says Only use A-Z and 1-9, which each of the dozen names I tried was.

Then it takes me back and I try again. It tells me I have an account and to click the email verification link. I click the new link and it tells me I'm already signed up. Then I try the name thing again and the same nonsense happens.

And the extremely contrived captcha... I'm clearly not a robot or I would have given up due to the illogical nature of the process.

What the hell?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20698832

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21789887

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/21789832

Cross of Auria has me playing 14 minutes in the last two weeks. However, I have not played this game in months.

Why would the playtime clock have time on it?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/14794241

Source: https://x.com/thexpaw/status/1795720970742993331

I have not been able to correlate it to any event in steam. I watched the volume mixer to find out that it was steam. I tried to turn off all notifications but obviously I have missed something. There is no visual cue just this sound in the background.

I appreciate any hints.

The amount of discounts and severity of said discounts turns what is a 20-60 dollar game into a 2-10 dollar game, and valve has been doing this constantly. I'm not complaining, because I get more games for less like you could back in 1970, but it's almost concerning how much Valve is doing this.

Do you ever notice how 99.9% of the time when a reviewer says this, they err on the side of a negative review? 🤔