Spring Cleaning Event - Are Valve devs on drugs?

[Pepe]

How can you give me two rooms recommending to play Windows only games?! You could have asked a seven years old and would have come up with a better code than this trash.

Edit 1: actually it's just one room. My bad, one room has just one game working on GNU/Linux, but it's 65GiB in size, and I don't have space at this time for that.

Edit 2: I have over 130 games in library that work on GNU/Linux, so it's not like they have nothing to suggest.

[i_nive]

Nothing wrong with cleaning up some Windows-only games?

[Pepe]

I forgot to mention I have installed two games from two rooms, and, guess what? After stopping the first game from playing and started the new game, the second room reset its games list, unfortunately it wasn't the room with the big game + Spydows games.

[Pepe]

Originally posted by catbox:

if your games are windows only and you do not want to use proton

go to your account and remove them from your account

you wont get a refund but you also dont have to deal with windows games in your account.

Thanks, captain!

[x_wing]

You don't have to install or remove your games. Just open the directory of a native game and create near the binary a file name "steam_appid.txt" and inside write the game id that Cleaning Event ask to play. If you execute your game from terminal (directly calling the game binary), then steam will detect that you're playing your windows game

[Pepe]

Originally posted by x_wing:

You don't have to install or remove your games. Just open the directory of a native game and create near the binary a file name "steam_appid.txt" and inside write the game id that Cleaning Event ask to play. If you execute your game from terminal (directly calling the game binary), then steam will detect that you're playing your windows game

It didn't work for me with a game that didn't have a steam_appid.txt, but it worked with one that had the file there. Thanks!

[flesk]

I guess Valve forgot that not everyone uses Windows, or want to enable Proton and download an entire game just for the sake of launching it once.

If anyone's interested, I made a modification to an abandoned project of mine to fake launching (and immediately quitting) a game in your library for this event:

https://gitlab.com/fleskesvor/steam-idle-go/-/releases/spring-cleaning-v0.3

It's a 2.4M binary, and the source code is 50 something lines, if you want to inspect it.

[Pepe]

Originally posted by flesk:

I guess Valve forgot that not everyone uses Windows, or want to enable Proton and download an entire game just for the sake of launching it once.

If anyone's interested, I made a modification to an abandoned project of mine to fake launching (and immediately quitting) a game in your library for this event:

https://gitlab.com/fleskesvor/steam-idle-go/-/releases/spring-cleaning-v0.3

It's a 2.4M binary, and the source code is 50 something lines, if you want to inspect it.

Great work!

[WarnerCK]

FWIW, all the games the Spring Cleaning event suggested to me were Linux-native. I have no idea if that's because it's following the store preference of only showing Linux games, or if I just got lucky because most of the games in my library are Linux-native.

[flesk]

It does not follow the store preference, since I have that set to Linux, and still only got Windows games on one of the floors. For me that was the floor of the first games I played on Steam, from before I went all Linux six years ago.

[Cat on Linux]

why do you need to participate in this childish event anyway? it designed for people who has nothing better to do than following Valve's instructions and playing what they wanted you to play.
In this case you have to be willing to allocate time for finding free disk space, downloading Gbs of data, dusting off old Windows partition etc.

if you can't enjoy it for a tiny virtual badge what kind of gamer are you? /s

if you want to do spring cleaning, do it on your terms, not on Valve's terms. there's game random pickers on the web (one on SteamDB in your account as well). Pick random game you never played, if you feel good about playing it, do it. You don't need Valve to hold your hand.