kanasta Apr 21, 2024 @ 1:41pm
Captcha is broken and needs to be removed.
Dumb excuses or workarounds like "use diffrent browser" etc is just stupid. Its broken and needs to be removed until its fixed. Chop chop.

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Nx Machina Apr 21, 2024 @ 1:53pm 
Ask Google as it their ReCaptcha.
Last edited by Nx Machina; Apr 22, 2024 @ 11:56am
Lithurge Apr 21, 2024 @ 2:21pm 
Why do people always say it's googles fault? It's not the only catchpa out there so Valve have a choice of what to use. They just continue to use one that ends up being problematic for people.
Nx Machina Apr 21, 2024 @ 4:22pm 
Originally posted by Lithurge:
Why do people always say it's googles fault? It's not the only catchpa out there so Valve have a choice of what to use. They just continue to use one that ends up being problematic for people.

Because the OP wants it fixing and only Google can do that.
Satoru Apr 21, 2024 @ 5:51pm 
Originally posted by Lithurge:
Why do people always say it's googles fault? It's not the only catchpa out there so Valve have a choice of what to use. They just continue to use one that ends up being problematic for people.

Because it’s Google ReCaptcha.

And who would you think you’re going to use for a captcha that can absorb the amount of requests steam goes through in an hour. Saying “there are choices” is like saying you think Access is an acceptable replacement for a SQL cluster
Lithurge Apr 22, 2024 @ 1:04pm 
Originally posted by Satoru:
Originally posted by Lithurge:
Why do people always say it's googles fault? It's not the only catchpa out there so Valve have a choice of what to use. They just continue to use one that ends up being problematic for people.

Because it’s Google ReCaptcha.

And who would you think you’re going to use for a captcha that can absorb the amount of requests steam goes through in an hour. Saying “there are choices” is like saying you think Access is an acceptable replacement for a SQL cluster
I get why people get frustrated with regulars. It's always somebody else has to fix it and not Valve and "I'm going to throw tech talk at you to make myself sound clever".

Valve is a multi billion dollar company they can afford to fix things and not rely on somebody else. Especially when that somebody else clearly can't cope with the volumes either.
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Satoru Apr 22, 2024 @ 3:43pm 
Originally posted by Lithurge:
Valve is a multi billion dollar company they can afford to fix things and not rely on somebody else. Especially when that somebody else clearly can't cope with the volumes either.

You do realize steam had its own in house captcha that was infinitely more terrible right?

You do realize that literally every company uses paid middle ware because, unsuprisingly, not every company is able to specialize in everything.

You do realize that not all middleware for the same product is equal right?

Again I'm not hearing the 'options' here. ANd people seem to think the other 'options' wont have similar issues. Have you seen the variouis captcha technologies that exist today? Have you? Do you know who runs them. Do you have metrics on their successes? Do you have metric on how they handle bots and thresholds for determining spam behavior? Are said system also under constant bot and spam attacks?

So again what are you 'options' here
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Date Posted: Apr 21, 2024 @ 1:41pm
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