DLC counter glitched out.

[UN0W3N]

One hour ago I had over 4250 DLCs showing up on the "Game Collector" showcase. Now it's just 1815. I tried adding a few new games, even a DLC pack, but the DLC count seems to be stuck or something.

No ban wave has been initiated and none of my Steam friends seems to have lost anything from their DLC counts. Is there a server or Steam API issue somehow only affecting a small number of users? Any suggestions or information would be welcome.

[NiceGuy]

Ending all the discussion and none of the speculation about "It was broken before, it was showing more" is true as least about this incident of DLC slash on libraries and sadly I can prove that to anyone interested as it's most simple.

Your Account Data is Server side stored at https://store.steampowered.com/dynamicstore/userdata/ that you can only access if you're logged into Steam within your browser. Copy that wall of text to a decent Text Editor (like Notepad++) and Cut Out the parts before and after the whole section of "rgOwnedApps" so that it reflects ONLY everything you owned including both Games and DLCs. So delete before all numbers belonging to rgWishlist and rgOwnedPackages and delete after anything starting after rgPackagesInCart. So it'll be like:

"rgOwnedApps":[10,20,30,40,50,60,70 ... (lots of numbers, your number will differ, only care punctuation) ... 1200210,1205380,1208820,2028850],

This leaves lots and lots of numbers depending on your total ownership of both Games and DLCs. What you need to do is simply "Count Commas"+1 (last one doesn't have trailing comma) and that number matches your non-bugged Games "+" DLC count. If you simply subtract the Games shown on your Steam Profile from that count (that leaves only DLC count), you'll see that there's huge mismatch between server stored AppID numbers and your DLC count in your profile.

So if you think it was broken before then worst news for you, it's now broken far far beyond your expectations or speculations. rgOwnedApps AppIDs can be checked from SteamDB to prove they reflect ownership so that there's no room for error in this calculation. While rgOwnedApps is almost perfectly matching (few games error due banned and alike counted in rgOwned but not counted in Profile) your old profile which you can check back via https://archive.org/web/ or https://archive.md/ stored Games "plus" DLC count, new bug making lots of your owned DLCs invisible in count.

Don't take my word for it and Google everything written here to apply same methodology told above to see it's the hard truth, not a myth, not a gossip, not a hear-say. One last thing as some claiming it to be about removed games, Valve removed "Fixed" number of games but DLC lost is VARYing per each individual (almost always half) so that none of your theories go beyond conspiracy theory of empty expectations.

[UN0W3N]

Thank you for digging further into this matter than anyone else on this thread or similar ones. What happened to the DLC counts during this Winter Sale was nothing short of a punch in the gut to any collector giving a rodent's backside about his or her efforts and investment here. I can only hope this won't get swept under the rug, but honestly I'm not gonna hold my breath for a solution in our favor either.

[Alexspeed]

Цитата допису NiceGuy:

Ending all the discussion and none of the speculation about "It was broken before, it was showing more" is true as least about this incident of DLC slash on libraries and sadly I can prove that to anyone interested as it's most simple.

Your Account Data is Server side stored at https://store.steampowered.com/dynamicstore/userdata/ that you can only access if you're logged into Steam within your browser. Copy that wall of text to a decent Text Editor (like Notepad++) and Cut Out the parts before and after the whole section of "rgOwnedApps" so that it reflects ONLY everything you owned including both Games and DLCs. So delete before all numbers belonging to rgWishlist and rgOwnedPackages and delete after anything starting after rgPackagesInCart. So it'll be like:

"rgOwnedApps":[10,20,30,40,50,60,70 ... (lots of numbers, your number will differ, only care punctuation) ... 1200210,1205380,1208820,2028850],

This leaves lots and lots of numbers depending on your total ownership of both Games and DLCs. What you need to do is simply "Count Commas"+1 (last one doesn't have trailing comma) and that number matches your non-bugged Games "+" DLC count. If you simply subtract the Games shown on your Steam Profile from that count (that leaves only DLC count), you'll see that there's huge mismatch between server stored AppID numbers and your DLC count in your profile.

So if you think it was broken before then worst news for you, it's now broken far far beyond your expectations or speculations. rgOwnedApps AppIDs can be checked from SteamDB to prove they reflect ownership so that there's no room for error in this calculation. While rgOwnedApps is almost perfectly matching (few games error due banned and alike counted in rgOwned but not counted in Profile) your old profile which you can check back via https://archive.org/web/ or https://archive.md/ stored Games "plus" DLC count, new bug making lots of your owned DLCs invisible in count.

Don't take my word for it and Google everything written here to apply same methodology told above to see it's the hard truth, not a myth, not a gossip, not a hear-say. One last thing as some claiming it to be about removed games, Valve removed "Fixed" number of games but DLC lost is VARYing per each individual (almost always half) so that none of your theories go beyond conspiracy theory of empty expectations.

Thank god, someone with the technical knowledge to understand and explain the issue shows up. Thank you!

Maybe someone at steam can look at this now, and bring it to the tech guys that do this stuff, and tell them to fix it. Now that would be nice. Lets go.

[Alexspeed]

I just found this information:

Steam Soundtrack Updates -
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/1691596648440131992


tl;dr:

- Soundtracks will have a new interface on Steam

- Customers can now download and purchase soundtracks without downloading or even owning the base game

- Customers will be able to define a dedicated music directory, so that soundtracks don't end up in the game files

- Soundtracks will be able to support multiple quality levels (i.e. MP3, FLAC)

- Soundtracks will be able to include album art and liner notes

- There will be a Soundtrack sale event on the 20th

- Publishers will be able to create a new "soundtrack" app (i.e. not a DLC)

- Soundtracks can be managed directly via the partner site, no SteamPipe required

- There's a conversion tool for existing soundtrack DLCs

- Soundtracks can be sold even if the base is not currently available for purchase on Steam


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If you connect this now to our missing DLC count issue, then you could assume, that a lot of the missing dlc count would possibly be able to be reclassified to this new Soundtrack category, which we did not have before.

If, and to what degree, this is connected, really only steam can tell us. But they dont answer to any customer concerns, as we all know, they only take our money, not explain anything.

As per above new information, developers have the power to migrate existing soundtracks that were set up as DLC, to this new Soundtracks format.

I guess we will see our soundtracks number rise (without our involvement), in corellation to what we have lost. But not every Developer will do this. Some are defunct and others just dont care, or are to stupid to understand this at all.

So to sum up, we will get a part of the lost dlc count back, in the form of Soundtracks, if my speculation is correct. Just those DLC´s that wont be converted will be lost from our DLC count.

BUT there could still a part of the DLC count missing, which is not accounted for by this dlc Soundtrack switcheroo. The high number of DLC which went missing, seems to me like it is bigger then what would account for soundtrack dlc. But thats my personal gut feeling. Only someone from Steam can tell. But they dont talk to us as we all know.

[Aythadis]

That's a great update to music. I figured something was up with all the news updates on games about their soundtracks, lol.

https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791445013422/announcements/detail/1699479856166211070
https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791454739032/announcements/detail/1699479856166758680

[UN0W3N]

Couldn't anyone at the top ANNOUNCE this thing BEFORE messing up our DLC counters three weeks ago? Does this have any resemblance to the concept of "professionalism"? I'm asking for too much, right? Yeah, that must be it...

[Charmed76]

DLCs have same thing what games have: *Steam is learning about this downloadable content*. I bought both Telltale Batman Shadows addons and those didnt add anything even when games count. Then I added Kickstarter addons which dont have that and it did add +1.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1182000/Telltale_Batman_Shadows_Mode/

[rawWwRrr]

Цитата допису UN0W3N:

Couldn't anyone at the top ANNOUNCE this thing BEFORE messing up our DLC counters three weeks ago? Does this have any resemblance to the concept of "professionalism"? I'm asking for too much, right? Yeah, that must be it...

DLC counts have been wrong for a while. They don't count towards anything other than to give you a good feeling about how much of them you "own". Even now I still don't trust how accurate mine is, but I don't care because it doesn't matter to anything.

[Alexspeed]

Цитата допису Charmed76:

DLCs have same thing what games have: *Steam is learning about this downloadable content*. I bought both Telltale Batman Shadows addons and those didnt add anything even when games count. Then I added Kickstarter addons which dont have that and it did add +1.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1182000/Telltale_Batman_Shadows_Mode/

Thank you for bringing that to our attention. I did not notice that until now.
It could be connected to the missing DLC count as well.

[JJ]

For me every new game i get. Games owned +1 but dlc owned -1. What ever valve did it's totally broken now...

[The HopelessGamer™]

Цитата допису JJ:

For me every new game i get. Games owned +1 but dlc owned -1. What ever valve did it's totally broken now...

Yeah your not kidding. I just bought a game and it went down.

Before purchase, DLC Count: 485.
After purchase of game, DLC Count: 483.

Thanks steam..........

[Longy999]

After buying a game during the winter sale I got -3 games and -600+ dlc, seems to have been counting correctly since then though.
To be fair around a year ago I bought a few games and my dlc jumped by around 300-400 so I'm wagering its been wrong since then and whatever has happened recently is just reflecting a more accurate count of what I own

[The HopelessGamer™]

Цитата допису Longy9999:

After buying a game during the winter sale I got -3 games and -600+ dlc, seems to have been counting correctly since then though.
To be fair around a year ago I bought a few games and my dlc jumped by around 300-400 so I'm wagering its been wrong since then and whatever has happened recently is just reflecting a more accurate count of what I own

Steam did recently update it which should have fixed all this... It is why a lot of users DLC counts changed how ever it seems to have more issues now. My guess is that they fixed it from doing what it was before but have introduced a new bug haha.

[Longy999]

Цитата допису The HopelessGamer™:

Цитата допису Longy9999:

After buying a game during the winter sale I got -3 games and -600+ dlc, seems to have been counting correctly since then though.
To be fair around a year ago I bought a few games and my dlc jumped by around 300-400 so I'm wagering its been wrong since then and whatever has happened recently is just reflecting a more accurate count of what I own

Steam did recently update it which should have fixed all this... It is why a lot of users DLC counts changed how ever it seems to have more issues now. My guess is that they fixed it from doing what it was before but have introduced a new bug haha.

As soon as I noticed the drop I figured it was just a fixed counter, there was no way I had over 1200 dlc considering I only had around 430 games at that point.

To be fair anything I've bought since seems to be counting up correctly now and truth be told it just isn't that big of a deal to me anyway, I was more curious to see if it had happened to anyone else