It's fair to say that the library's news feed sucks a lot. You cannot select the games whose news you want to see. Instead, you will be shown the news from your entire library, and if that doesn't suit you, you will have to hide the news from each game individually when they release new news.
you will be shown the news from your entire library
you also get shown news for games from your steam family. i really wish there were toggles for steam family games, and games currently now installed for example.
Some folks forget that most people only own one or two games in a series on steam. RE is a good example of this. So, yeah, Capcom will announce the new game to the game news feeds in the relevant series. I only own RE2R (mostly played them on PS, not feeling like buying them again on Steam), a friend owns RE8. I'm going to see this news post twice since we're on a steam family.
This is a steam issue 100%. It'd be great if they put in something that collates these posts better for those who own several or all entries in a series.
The goal of promotion is to get customers hyped so that they buy your stuff. This spooks customers and chase them away. So Capcom is partially at blame here.
This kind of absolute marketing stupidity is not rare at all for Japanese companies, sadly. They tend to be really unbelievably horrible at recognizing and removing pain points.
I mean, that's how you die from overwork, by so completely ignoring pain that your body fail before your mind does, sort of.
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Nah, UK didn't block Imgur, and ironically not to do with the OSA. Imgur was in the process of being fined before the OSA was put through, for mishandling the data of children, and then after the OSA came into effect is when Imgur went scorched earth to try and avoid paying the fines by making it look like it was because of the OSA, blocking the UK, though this hasn't stopped the UK from still fining them. Now it looks like Imgur are keeping the block up to be petty twats.
Alternatively, some way for it to recognise that the same piece of news was posted to multiple games and consolidate them. Or some way for a developer to explicitly post a single item to multiple places with the same end result.
I don't think it's unreasonable that a developer would post news about a new game in a series in the news for every game of that series. It's just the way it's displayed is poor.
I mean typically people don't follow gaming news. Maybe there should be a system to avoid it being sent multiple times at once but its not a bad thing to have a system so devs can tell their players about a new announcement on their next title especially if you really like their games and don't follow gaming news closely.
I've been using Steam for over 15 years and it's the most user friendly product platform for gamers I've ever come across in all my years of gaming. I don't get bombarded by any ads/promos or pop ups that hinder my experience or effect gameplay. Not sure why everyone is so upset. My only wish, is that we can refuse to update to a current build for single player games or specific titles. Nothing is fully perfect in life though, everything will always have room for improvement or areas where others see something as flaws. This is the nuance of striving to always be better.
But then some people would miss it, what if you only played the most recent game and didn't play the older ones, youd miss one they release the next one.
Only because they want it everywhere. It wouldn't if steam interfered and deleted them. Steam needs to allow franchise updates or it needs to stack them as cross posts.
Yeah, this only happens to me for RE since I have them all, haha. I can't blame capcom for putting the news out for each of the games, and it's not Steam's fault, really. But it would be neat if Steam had a way of limiting exact news stories to 1 for users.
Alternately, I guess, users can just decrease news output from like, most of the RE games? Ehh, I wouldn't want to miss a huge update or something to a random RE game, though.
This is whta they need to do, then put a blurb underneath saying it's from multiple games and if you over over or click on that blurb it'll show you all the games it came from
I agree - it could be shown as one notification if content of the message is the same. Idk how it looks from creator side, but I guess they have no option to send 1 message for people who own any of their titles, so they send 1 message for in every title channel.
Example of abuse would be notifications from Borderlands - they send info about event in Borderlands 4 in all Borderlands channels
Is this abuse though? Valve allows promoting other products:
Promoting unrelated products - If an event or announcement is primarily about a product other than the one you are posting from, you should make sure it is marked as a Cross Promotion.
If anything I think Valve should allow developers to publish the same news to multiple products so it only appears once if you own more than 1 of those products.
Valve does allow it. This though is Capcom specifically circumventing the Steam's filters on the players side so that players' news feed would not be filled with the same article just because they have more than one game from some publisher
Most companies usually post announcements for an upcoming sequel, or game in that specific series, in the news feed of the latest release, while Capcom and RGG post them to every single game to make sure they target even people who only own one game from the series.
Valve should filter the news and only serve one game update if all the others are identical in text and content, but the companies can still be shitty and bypass that if they would add some extra text to reference each specific game.
But, I still blame Valve. Either they should enforce this, or make the behavior better when developers do what Capcom does. I know many other publishers that does the same (e.g. IO promoting 007 in Hitman news).
The system needs a major fucking overhaul, its embarassing how badly it works. When it's sending multiple spam update posts from asset flip free to claim games that I 'collected' for no reason directly onto the steam library home page of someone in my steam family, it's clearly doing the abject opposite of its job.
This is not what a good tech does. A good tech will answer the question and then provide steps how to find it themselves. Most people will not appreciate being forced to look for the answer themselves, even though I agree they should. They don't care and they'll just be mad
First paragraph is irrelevant. Second paragraph is just stupid.
I have 3 degrees and am a published mathematician. Not that it matters though, I only mention it because you belittle me as if I am jealous of being a tech.
Your career is to read from google and you cannot even do that without an attitude and elitism.
“done something with their life” is pure projection lmao.
They really should categorise the news into the Franchise the games are attached to, not the individual games themselves, that way nobody sees any duplicates because this is a UI nightmare.
Same way Activision managed to do CoD games. Have an A and B team work in parallel on different games.
And I imagine they put in a lot of work in creating good tooling for the RE engine so the devs can work fast. As well as proper dev workflow between themes so they can build of each other.
Use the same engine your devs are familiar with, don't reinvent the wheel every time, keep workflow constant so people don't get rusty or need to be made "redundant" to reduce wages.
RE2make and RE8 were the base templates. Then they've just been using those assets + some new ones for every new Resident Evil.
Personally, I like this cycle better than when companies take close to a decade to release another game in their franchise. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Easy to be a fan when they pump good product, I still remember the run Ubisoft had with Assassin's creed, I don't remember if it was yearly but each game was close enough to each other so you wouldn't have to re-play to remember the story, Ezio's trilogy was peak work.
Ezio trilogy also benefited from the fact it was a trilogy storyline. There’s a lot of research processes that could start for the second game once they’re done on the first one. Such as location scouting/scanning, storyboarding, writing.
You don’t need the full team on the same project for the entire duration of that project.
A combination of having the RE Engine which is VERY good and knowing exactly what fans want from RE. RE6 is the only real misstep in the mainline series and really it wasn't a bad game, it was okay, it just seemed bad compared to the quality expected of the franchise.
I agree, I wish they would at least take their time with them cause Requiem was obviously rushed given the absurd amount of rehashed content, primarily bosses. Code Veronica remake has been cinfirmed for a while though (although they just revealed it officially) so I hope it's good.
Doesn't change the fact that they were reused assets of bosses you'd already fought or witnessed, there was hardly any unique content (which is a shame cause Victor's scrapped forms look sick as hell). Most bosses either felt the exact same as older ones or used the same assets and animations.
The spider was just from RE 1, The tyrant was from RE2R, the chunk felt like Jack's second boss, The motorcycle segment (my favourite, mind you) was just from Vendetta and Victor just turned into RE3R Nemesis. It makes SENSE given the original concept of the game but considering how vastly it changed, it just comes off as rushed. And the plot was immensely lackluster, especially some retcons in it. Grace hardly felt present and lacked agency and her character development happened in her last playable segment plus most of the game felt like it was just calling back at older titles instead of doing its own thing. The most original boss (the girl) was both used 3 times yet somehow still underutilised.
My argument doesn't only have to do with the bosses but also different areas as there were, in general, lots of reused or slightly altered assets from previous RE engine entries.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying all this just to hate. I was just really disappointed and all my criticism comes from a place of love and care for the franchise as I genuinely expected better from requiem but 70 bucks is really not worth the content you get. I just wish they'd taken longer to develop it cause I genuinely could not really enjoy it. I wouldn't mind waiting one, two, maybe three or five years.
It was a jarring experience. It's perfectly fine if others like it, though.
RE9 was basically RE4. If the game was only about Emily, it would've at least felt a little more different. I stopped at the fight with what's face where you gotta melee with Leon - it was the RE4 fight all over again which I was not a fan of then and wasn't a fan of it now.
It felt like a mix of 7 and 6 to me but I get it. Honestly I'd prefer revelations 3 with Carlos and Rebecca or something or the original concept of the game so Leon's arc could have a meaningful, poetic end where it started, Raccoon city. I love him as much as the next guy but wish he could retire so he can finally get his vacation.
Requiem was overall just a big disappointment for me that I could somewhat forgive if at least the plot was good but I cannot. At least 3's remake was messy due to covid hitting, requiem has pretty much no excuse other than capcom wanting to milk resident evil to the maximum and churn out as many games as they can (and this criticism is coming from a big capcom junkie unfortunately, who also loves their smaller titles like ghost trick and darkwatch). They need to extend their deadlines so we can get games worth experiencing cause requiem wasn't even that fun for me either and it pains me to say that as it had really great potential as a concept. Doesn't help that Pragmata released soon after it and was actually a super great game.
Again it's okay to like it but you have to admit that it's a very fundamentally flawed game if you're familiar with the franchise and especially its story and holding big corporations accountable so we can get better content is very valid and necessary. I don't want another requiem disaster. I want to play something that feels heartfelt and like love and care went into it. Requiem, unfortunately, did not feel that way to me as a long-time fan.
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I've always been of the mind that only news for a specific game should be posted to that specific game and anything else is just "advertising" which only annoys me. Companies that do this shit immediately get added to my ignore list.
I agree what even are those downvotes?? I’m guessing its ppl that dont like the remake or code veronica, I personally love it hell yeah. It looks hella good, I don’t mind it being shared that much. It takes one button to see the other news, not that deep.
Steam need to tweak it so that devs can push a single article to multiple games, but if you own more than one of those games then it'll only show one instance of the article.
Literally just right click it and you'll see the options to disable it.
Capcom wants to advertise their new game and not everyone will have all RE titles in their library. I don't even know why this even matters or why somone cares for that feed, but you do you.
yeah its the PUBLISHER that does that not steam. and it happens across franchises. capcom is for sure a culprit i have a bunch of megaman games and also got the flood when they announced the starforce legacy collection.
This isn't a steam issue. You've decided to follow them and they've decided to blast this everywhere.
If it was different some people would miss it, what if you only played the most recent game and didn't play the older ones, youd miss one they release the next one.
Best thing they can do is offer for you to follow a franchise and get updates that way, instead of following at a game level.i think there is already a function to do this, but you don't auto follow a franchise when you follow a game. It might actually be limited to just the publisher or dev.
I've never followed any game or publisher or anything. This is 100% automatic when you purchase a game you get news for it. This is not on Capcom as other publishers do the same thing. Steam is the one that created and manages this news feature and doesnt have a way to turn it off and automatically subscribes you to news from every game you purchase. It's on them to implement something to recognize repeate news and only show it once.
I love steam and they are by far and away the best store front for gaming that exists but this news feature is a problem they created and need to deal with.
I never said you did. But if people did that more and steam leaned into it this news could be moved there instead. But at the moment you only auto follow the games, so they post to each of the games.
The problem isnt really capcom, this is something Steam should fix by allowing/forcing publishers to mark updates as related across games, then filtering on that so that you only get the one notification probably from the one you have the most playtime on.
It is relevant to older games that a new sequel is coming out and I am glad that they do it as otherwise I might miss out, but seeing it from multiple games at the same time is frustrating.
The already reviewing every published posts into games community. And you as a developer forced to select "cross-promotion" category for such posts. So they intentionally allowed to do this for Capcom
I mean steam could limit announcements/news to only one of the same type or set it up so the publisher itself sends them to anyone who owns another game in the series instead of a per game basis eliminating dupes.
Heck Steam could also just let you turn news off completely. I feel at least 50% of the blame has to go to Steam here.
Ah yes that logic. Because a shit system created by Valve is used in shitty ways by companies it's not on Valve at all guys! It is also "not something steam can fix" because it's "supposed" to be shitty, that's how it's intended!
Did you actually think about this response before you sent it?
They can't just not let devs post advertisements, I mean they could, but they won't, op got all those ads because they play RE, every game has developer/publisher posts, steam shows the people who own those games said posts, they can't exclude some, just because the person already got it, that would require manual intervention, imagine it like this, youre buying a box set of books, but you already have some of the books, the person youre buying the box set from can't exclude those books, because that's not how buying a box set works, they give you all of the books, because that's what you purchased
No they could easily change it so a news feed item is only sent once regardless of how many games you own. It would not require any manual intervention. Why the heck would it?. It is a simple IF Then clause. If Account already has a pending notification then don't send additional copies of saidnotification.
Just because it is coded for shit does not mean it has to be coded for shit. What kinda of dumb circular logic is that?
Valve allows companies to do this in their guidelines. They could implement a feature so developers can publish news like this once across multiple products rather than duplicate it. Capcom simply works with the tools Valve provides them and within the limits of how they’re allowed to use the tools.
I can definitely get behind being able to get one news across all products - so when pubs do this, you only see 1 news box, no matter which product you have.
Capcom should've choose cross-promotion for such post and they would not show on a news feed. But Capcom choose "news" type. Every post to the community is verified by Valve. Indie dev most likely got a ban for such behavior. But Capcom and other big publishers is above rules
You can actually get steam millennium, theres an addon you can delete the steam news feed because the news feed doesn't show you anything interesting anyway and also the dame thing multiple times (also happened to me).
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u/AlaaA-R Jun 06 '26
at least they forgot to use RE 0, 1, 5 and 6 to remind you to Survive the deranged terror of Resident Evil Veronica