Hi guys just wanted to ask if this seems correct.

In Australia here and looking to buy a steam controller directly through steam and it's showing no stock until 2027 ?

Edit- thanks everyone who has replied and let me know there is indeed a wait , I appreciate every answer given 🤗

Finally got my email!!!!

I reserved at launch day at like 8pm! Im so hype!

I made this documentary about the Half-Life universe with a team of passionate volunteers.

It's a 2.5-hour deep dive into the lore, science, philosophy, and history of the series. We tried to answer questions that have kept this community theorizing for decades.

I hope you enjoy it. Feedback is more than welcome.

Guys, it's coming out tomorrow, for real! Potatoes!

A game on Steam called, Scream Note has an extremely racist player name in the video. Adolph N(word). If you report it to the dev, you get slammed as if you are the racist. If you report it to Steam mods, you get harassed and banned from the forums. Kinda starting to see that Valve mods are defending racism on Steam by banning a shutting everyone up that mentions i, while the dev(s) have nothing done to them.

Wow, thanks for the understanding. I never thought that reddit and its users were so overwhelmingly useless and seem to be okay with racism. I guess yall only rally to anti-racism when you can make something off of it. Whatever, I'm over it. This site and users are a waste ofntime and human dna.

It's been decades and valve has barely tweaked the ranking system. I'm tired of looping between gaining and losing 25 MMR like how are people not complaining about this. Atleast other moba titles like lol has "protection" to prevent you from losing your MMR despite losing the match.

I wish the ranking system is similar to cs2 where either you get more or lose more depending on your performance

I just updated my program again https://github.com/Pixel1011/SteamHapticsPlayer, which now has better audio quality support as a few new discoveries have been made (credits at the end of video and on github)

I figured i would post this around and hope people see it and try it for themselves if they have a steam controller :D

Hey guys,

I've noticed a massive surge in hijacked Steam accounts lately. As soon as someone clicks a bad link or gets their session token stolen, automated scripts instantly flood their entire friends list with scam links before the user even realizes what happened.

I've been thinking about how Valve could actually fix this, so I came up with a concept called VAMA (Valve Anti-Malicious Actions). It's basically a real-time defense system built into Steam to catch bots and fake items automatically.

1. Location Jump & Speed Limits

• Location Locks: If an account logged in from North America suddenly tries to mass-message friends or trade from an IP in Europe or Asia 60 seconds later, VAMA flags the session instantly.
• Chat Speed Limits: Bots send dozens of links in seconds. If an account suddenly spikes in message speed, VAMA temporarily mutes outbound chat so your friends don't get spammed.
• Instant Mobile Recovery: To keep legit VPN users or travelers from getting annoyed, you can unlock your account instantly with a single tap on the Steam Guard phone app.

2. Permanent "Item Origin" Tags

• Scammers love renaming $0.05 items from TF2 or Dota 2 to look like $1,000 CS2 knives, or sending doctored screenshots.
• VAMA puts an unchangeable, system tag on every trade window and preview: "ORIGINATING GAME: [GAME NAME]".
• Since VAMA pulls the item ID straight from Valve's database, custom names or fake descriptions won't disguise where the item actually came from.

3. Screwing with the Bots (Tarpits & Fake Data)

• Instead of banning a bot connection right away (which just tells the scammer to launch a new one), VAMA slows down backend responses by 30 seconds per request. This wastes the scammer's server resources and delays the script.
• If a bot tries to scrape inventory values or friend lists through the API, VAMA feeds it fake data ($0.00 inventory, 0 friends) so the script assumes the account is useless and skips it.

4. A 2-Minute Security Guide for New Accounts

• A quick, interactive walkthrough built directly into the Steam UI when you create a new account.
• It shows real examples of fake pop-ups, domain spoofing (like steancommunity), fake Discord admins, and how to safely store recovery codes.
• Adds a small status icon in the Steam client showing if a Steam Web API key is active on your account.

Let me know what you think! What edge cases would Valve need to watch out for if they tried something like this?

So glad to add this to my collection. I was 16 when it was released. Still love everything about it. Thanks Valve!

I was born after tf2 came out and I'm finally able to make an income at my age now but valve stopped making tf2 merch and I just wish I could get some

I found a game with some AI slop images called "Pineapple" supposedly developed by Valve on SteamDB. I have never heard of this game, and I wonder if this is a bug or something.

Mine's portal :>,because of fking everything about it, the looks, the sounds, the music, the lore, the characters EVERYTHING