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Steam W

they're getting rid of the three most annoying trends on Steam

Oh god this reminds me that we gotta get our toushin gent demo done

I think they need to fix developer/publisher pages still, because the things things I want to see are: 1) a chronological list of releases 2) upcoming releases 3) featured deals

but rn the new layout is a mess, and the legacy layout (that we use for Phijkchu Games, and devs like FromSoft use) don't sort or scale very well

this new tab also would have been massive for Jump Game btw

Free games and demos get such a massive boost rn

I was just about to post that

it's actually absurd

Damn

Can we email them asking for a new visibility period to compensate for this

demos for shitter game (like a map sim idle thing I played someone made in 5 hours)

got 10k concurrent players

Actually they might give us one if we did that

So Pirate, unirronically

I think if we got 20-30 people together, you pushed a nothing depot update and updated the steam page a bit (to fool their system)

we'd chart

I think you'd need 20-30, maybe rn though we'd still be burried by the new releases idk

It depends on how they do it I guess

but it feels like the bar isn't that high

The ideal thing to do would be

To put out an update and then apply for another visilibty period along with it

Or whatever they call it

Where they put you back in the rottion for all that shit

That you're initially in when you first release

Iirc their criteria was something like

It needs to be an 'expansion' or something like that

The demo material is basically done outside of that new content thing and then cleaning up everything to make the actual demo version

yeah, from my very cursory steamDB look

free games (not demos) need 20-40 to kick-off charting

We don't have that much longer I don't think

demos have higher initial support because Steam is pushing them so hard rn

The deadline is sometime in october and you probably need it up like 2 weeks before then

are you trying to hit the nextfest?

So like

the deadline is sooner if so

yeah

I posted it, let me find it again

Well me and garbage had like 30 arguments on when the deadline was

He insisted it was later than i thought

Oh there is one issue spooky, which is that I can't build LJG on my current PC

I could fix that if i sat down to do it but

Steamworks has this new view

that's super useful

Do we need Lennod jump game for something

only if you wanted to try to thing I was suggesting earlier

and get it to chart on its own again

since Steam is really open rn

there's a window for the next couple months, before people start to abuse it and it become non-effective

I'd say just focus on Toshin Gent

Well I don't know how we'd get 20-30 people together

and if you can get the demo out in time

This next NextFest will probably be a big one

since Valve has seemed really on this demo system the last couple months

I think we probably could get 20-30

Maybe like

Have a "LJG day" event

Where the whole server is invited to play LJG

Yeah we just need to have a day

See this is where the miniscule filesize comes into play

You can download it in like 2 seconds

You can open it on multiple computers

Just make 20 steam accounts

Also, I'm pretty sure I should spin up a VM, and use a burner Steam account to run these game 24/7

There is at least one person already doing that

because I think staying above 0 concurrent players at all times might be important

Although they probably do that for like all free games or something

It's over chat

LJG has had 1 average daily player every time I check steamworks

Or well at least 1, sometimes it's 2

Anyway spooky

I can leave ljg on all the time

I don't care

I guess we should probably make the actual steam product as soon as we can