A "download all updates" button and a "Download updates immediately" checkbox

[racecarlock]

Currently, if a bunch of programs have updates, I either have to go to them individually in my collection and hit the update button or I have to go to the downloads page and click every button individually there. And while this technically works, I think it could be more efficient.

So, a "download all updates" button would the amount of clicks you have to use to update your stuff and thus makes the experience more convenient, and a "Download updates immediately" checkbox would make it so steam immediately downloads updates instead of scheduling them for later, nixing clicks entirely.

Why have them both? Well, having the checkbox alone might make something download while you're trying to stream something, which wouldn't be ideal, but some people might be able to handle the slow down. Other people work in such a way that they wouldn't even want to click the download all updates button, so they would welcome the "download updates immediately" checkbox as it would remove the need to go to the downloads section and click on stuff to make updates happen in the first place. And, of course, you'd still be able to download updates for individual games like how steam works right now.

[PHOBIE]

Ah, those were the golden good times, when Steam was still offering automatic and immediate updates.

Steam has a setting for automatic updates. They broke it over 4 years ago, and then a year ago they said they did it because of Corona. So now we know Corona travels back in time.

If I can't have automatic updating I will take your "download all updates" button over having to click once for every game like now.

I still demand full transparency and a probe into that time travel phenomenon.

[nintendude794]

+1

[Satoru]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/2074411495515541375

Again they aren't going to giveyou a button that literally invalidates the entire reason they're doing it in the first place

[64Pixels]

+1

[SOM3AH]

+1

[PHOBIE]

Here is how Steam could choose to communicate what is wrong with the update feature:
[img ]https://west-games.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/steam-auto-update-not-working.png [/img]

Instead, Steam hides the truth in a year-old post, second or third paragraph, in a post droning on over several more paragraphs with vague relevance. After pretending wanting to help customers deal with their own problem. A problem that Steam created. Then you need a communication degree to follow the reasoning, and understand the neglect or audacity that went into that post. Or the leaving someone alone with a project too big for their paygrade and support. A picture would have said more than those hundred words.


I believe when someone sells a lot of people automatically up-to-date and state-of-the-art games, and also advertises this as the reason why they should buy their service instead of others, and then goes back from that promise after having established a large monopoly, that's a case for anti-trust.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/antitrust.asp
https://www.investopedia.com/the-u-s-dept-of-justice-to-file-antitrust-suit-against-google-5083194


In the case of false promises we learn that "Fraud against consumers is often related to false promises or inaccurate claims made to consumers, as well as practices that directly cheat consumers out of their money."
https://www.winston.com/en/legal-glossary/consumer-fraud.html
Naturally, as dictated by the sheer number of partners, platforms are more often on the controlling side than on the receiving one.


Now the pretext here is that there is a pandemic, and forgetting to mention when the measure is supposed to end, along with recognizing corresponding infringements of customer rights and on whose authority this happens, might be a deplorable oversight. Honi soit qui mal y pense.


But in the end it doesn't add up, not only because there has been high network demand before that pandemic, but also because Steam is going to publish a handheld device and promises "your entire PC gaming library in a handheld".
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/a-steam-portable-device-promises-your-entire-pc-gaming-library-in-a-handheld/


So that's going to cost additional network resources, right? Releasing a handheld for "two to eight hours of battery life for continuous gameplay." That's not counting that the storage they plan to sell will be too small to put that library there for many users. Because that would be reckless, promise a sheep and hide the wool, right?


It's more or less competitively priced against Nintendo's Switch at barely double the cost, and there is a good chance that it won't have automatic updates. Because bandwidth and servers don't grow on trees, and Steam doesn't seem to have enough to even satisfy our pre-handheld needs right now. And it doesn't seem like they are going to buy a lot of servers anytime soon, haven't seen an offer. So now we get a brick we can use for everything but what we want right now. And by the way your Switch has automatic updates enabled by default.
https://www.imore.com/does-nintendo-switch-software-automatically-get-updated-heres-how-turn-it-onoff


And this is all unfortunate, because this seems to mean what came to be announced as an emergency measure now does seem to never go away. No more automatic updates in this bright and competitive future. What a shocker. We will all arrive to our smart fridges and ovens, see a new update, instantly jump over and manually start the update, so we can cook or have a beer in an hour or so, dinner maybe in two. No more self-determined cooking! No more self-determined gaming! Could have been long done while we were gone, but no. Let us conserve bandwidth so crypto traders and Netflix can fill that gap.


[img] https://arcadedelight.games/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/53591/steam-winter-sale-2021-start-time-heres-when-the-gaben-deals-begin-664x335.jpg [/img]

Now when all hope seems lost we turn to Gabe, raise our hands in small gestures of surrender and defeat, with a hoarse "no more" on our dry lips. And the Lord speaketh:


“We think Steam Deck gives people another way to play the games they love on a high-performance device at a great price,” Valve founder Gabe Newell said in a prepared statement. “As a gamer, this is a product I’ve always wanted. And as a game developer, it’s the mobile device I’ve always wanted for our partners.”


Yes, Gabe. You've always wanted to sacrifice half of your precious time reserved for gaming to download updates and not play. With a device that will either last you 2 hours or 8 hours, we don't know. But if that update takes two hours via the communal wi-fi, while you willy-nilly play GTA on a jittery link same time with 500 ping, you won't have juice or fun.


If you don't have time for that, feel free to wait 3 weeks until the update has cleared and thoroughly circumvented any potential local network peak that may or may not have been actually there. That product you always wanted, I think we should talk about that. (In my mind, $1600 is more realistic. Please with the chat features we discussed in the other thread.)


Let's turn this around and I will sell you 2-8 sheep at double the price, hide the wool, pretend it's coincidence they came that way, one is lame, one doesn't give milk. You are fairly sure the remaining one will have wool or cheese next year, but I'll make sure it only has wool when you personally check - might take a while.

[img] https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/610750/ss_b35f9e776549e9e694864353e5d152a655358ec0.1920x1080.jpg?t=1567782578 [/img]

I really love making the world better for all people, and it seems that is precisely why I get shafted.

[SOM3AH]

ohh .. nice

[Zetus]

69 porn

[Satoru]

Originally posted by PHOBIE:

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Imagine writing literal paragraphs full of utter nonsense and lies and then being proud of that

[PHOBIE]

Imagine being so bitter you have to be toxic to people on Steam for no reason.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by PHOBIE:

Imagine being so bitter you have to be toxic to people on Steam for no reason.

I'm unclear how calling out your literal mountain of nonsense and lies is being 'toxic'. You can tart up your post as much as you want. But don't pretend its anything other than utter nonsense.

If you want to spew out such drivel without someone calling you out on your nonsense, make a blog and disable comments

[PHOBIE]

To take part in a discussion, you discuss something that is in the discussion and on topic, and use arguments and proof. Defamation is forbidden here.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by PHOBIE:

To take part in a discussion, you discuss something that is in the discussion and on topic, and use arguments and proof. Defamation is forbidden here.

Your post is literally 100% utter nonsense

Lying is forbidden and that literally what that entire post was. Lies and utter nonsense

But yeah good luck with that “defamation” nonsense in addition to your post which constitutes more defamation that you want to believe

[Ginja Leviathan]

I don't know if this was solved or if someone else suggested this but I got to my library search by type installed locally then click the first game, shift click the last, right click and click update selected. Works everytime

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Ginja Leviathan:

I don't know if this was solved or if someone else suggested this but I got to my library search by type installed locally then click the first game, shift click the last, right click and click update selected. Works everytime

Still no download all button since covid and the workaround works for installing too.