Hey @DeeBeeDouble remember the Steam issue you helped me with some time ago? I just felt I’ll let you know 🙂
Here’s fun little update on this …
No relevant software was changed, but with the latest system update the Steam Flatpak runs all the udpates as it did before, but now this is logged (all the update and initial installation/setup stuff was done at this point):
<span style="color:#323232;">INFO:root:https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki
</span><span style="color:#323232;">INFO:root:Will set XDG dirs prefix to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam
</span><span style="color:#323232;">DEBUG:root:Checking input devices permissions
</span><span style="color:#323232;">WARNING:root:Missing permissions for input devices
</span><span style="color:#323232;">INFO:root:Overriding TZ to Europe/Berlin
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steam.sh[2]: Running Steam on org.freedesktop.platform 23.08 64-bit
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steam.sh[2]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
</span><span style="color:#323232;">setup.sh[74]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steam.sh[2]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Startup - updater built Sep 11 2023 20:48:54
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-no-cef-sandbox'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">09/22 21:54:27 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1694466342)/tid(137)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1000, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] 2. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] 3. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Verifying installation...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Verification complete
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/logs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf044a8f0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf04491c0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steamwebhelper.sh[143]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steamwebhelper.sh[143]: Running under Flatpak, disabling sandbox
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steamwebhelper.sh[143]: CEF sandbox already disabled
</span><span style="color:#323232;">CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 35 milliseconds to initialize
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 222
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steam-runtime-launcher-service[222]: E: Unable to acquire bus name "com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 222 exited
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 250
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steam-runtime-launcher-service[250]: E: Unable to acquire bus name "com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 250 exited
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 259
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steam-runtime-launcher-service[259]: E: Unable to acquire bus name "com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 259 exited
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service keeps crashing on startup, disabling
</span><span style="color:#323232;">src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (543) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
</span><span style="color:#323232;">src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (543) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
</span><span style="color:#323232;">09/22 21:55:16 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1694466342)/tid(137)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">assert_20230922215516_28.dmp[266]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">/tmp/dumps/assert_20230922215516_28.dmp
</span><span style="color:#323232;">assert_20230922215516_28.dmp[266]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
</span><span style="color:#323232;">assert_20230922215516_28.dmp[266]: response: CrashID=bp-0f81ef33-d093-4fd1-b98c-8bd202230922
</span><span style="color:#323232;">assert_20230922215516_28.dmp[266]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20230922215516_28.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-0f81ef33-d093-4fd1-b98c-8bd202230922''
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steamwebhelper.sh[278]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steamwebhelper.sh[278]: Running under Flatpak, disabling sandbox
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steamwebhelper.sh[278]: CEF sandbox already disabled
</span>
During this log output this message pops up at some point:
But no matter what I select except Restart steamwebhelper the Flatpak quits and nothing more happens. When Restart steamwebhelper is selected sometimes the steam UI shows up but I cannot select anything from any dropdowns and cannot change most of the settings sliders. But most of the time this is logged and nothing happens:
<span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Background update loop checking for update. . .
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Checking for available updates...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12?t=3700310497
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Manifest download: send request
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:54] Manifest download: finished
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:54] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12?t=3700310497 version 1694466342, installed version 1694466342, existing pending version 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:54] Nothing to do
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So we’re a bit further with this now. I now get an error message most of the time and occasionally can see the steam UI with partial access 🤣
So, who knows … maybe 2-3 more months and I can use Steam again like before …
Valve is a private company, so we don’t know for sure how much they are worth, but if MS wanted to buy them, I’d wager my house that the figure would be way more then they spent/will spend on Activison. By a magnitude of 3 or 4 at least. Valve is a literal money printing machine. They make so much money that they don’t care that they have a squeal they could release that would make more money than damn near any other game ever released.
And for the record, I’m not saying Microsoft can’t afford them, just saying it would hurt to do so.
Yeah, would take ages to recoup the cost. Plus, you might not even recoup the cost as markets may change or Steam gets mismanaged by new management. Strategically Steam and Valve would also offer little advantage to Microsoft for the price.
Well, remember that recent Microsoft leak that showed off a bunch of potential game releases?
In an email from Phil Spencer spotted by The Verge, there was talk about their plans including wanting to buy up the likes of Nintendo and even Valve with Spencer noting “But our BoD has seen the full writeup on Nintendo (and Valve) and they are fully supportive on either if opportunity arises as am I” (BoD being Board of Directors).
Not that Valve has any need at all to sell, they pretty much print money thanks to their 30% cut from most developers on Steam.
If the above ever were to happen, it’s not really likely they would continue all of Valve’s big investments into Linux given how even with the Steam Deck the market is small.
After all, Valve put all these resources into Linux because they don’t want to be entirely at the whims of Microsoft for their store, and Valve clearly want their own platform so Linux with Proton + Steam Deck is key to that.
So, Microsoft, please continue to keep your filthy hands off Valve (but keep putting your games on Steam okay?
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It looks quite fun indeed, I actually came back to payday 2 because od random YouTube videos, that made me discover that there is a Career Mode where missions follow a certain path which I didn’t even know before. Even after buying the game back then I was a bit scared of learning new levels, so I’m actually having fun discovering a whole new payday 2 now! Might move to Payday 3 after
Yes, it works for that but it will not work to make a game “unplayed” and have the achievements not count toward the overall completion rate. Unless things have changed.
Interesting to see Valve at 6.5 bn, I would have guessed they were higher given the extent of Steam as a distribution platform. But I guess that makes sense some other companies have a myriad of other digital and physical products, where Valve has only their small slice in both (Half Life, Counter Strike, L4D, Ricochet for digital, and Steam Deck, Index, some merchandise for physical)
An interesting thing to note is how big mobile gaming is when compared to PC gaming.
Apple and Google are largely on here because of their 30% platform cut (this chart only tracks gaming revenue). Steam takes the same cut yet has less than half the revenue.
(Note that while Tencent and NetEase are largely mobile publishers, they are not exclusively mobile publishers - League of Legends is owned by Tencent.)
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