If you’re paranoid about this then just make a new account on a VM or fresh install of an OS - you’ll be in a VPN anyway, only other possibility would be if they were tracking the other accounts that had been logged in locally and associating them.
It might actually be unenforceable, I’m surprised they haven’t quietly dropped it, but I think it’s there so they can bust people for abusing a VPN to cheat the system (Buy games where the exchange rate is more favorable for an American gamer)
Yeah, I’ve always expected they reserve it for people mass buying games from other regions. Or at least some legal defence if someone complains about people playing games that aren’t allowed in their region.
People abusing that is also often brought up as a reason or at least excuse for publishers to bleed developing countries dry when it comes to pricing, ask me how I know :/
I feel so bad for countries that had to settle for what’s known as “SlavJank”, because back in the day the tax on imports was so high that doom cost you 5000 dollars. The ones that didn’t have copyright laws at the time and thus could get bootlegs really easily had it lucky.
Btw, anyone ever hear of the Eastern European exclusive Monkey Island sequel “Donkey Island” ?
TIL I’ve been breaking the TOS for years. I regularly use a VPN to access steam, though only incidentally as the machine is usually connected to the VPN all rhe time. Never had a problem.
One time I fucked up and accidentally had my VPN set to Ireland (I usually set it to Florida or New York, I’m in NC and they passed a porn ban here, so it’s the only way I can get e621)
Glad I noticed that my prices were suddenly in pounds instead of dollars before I fucked up
I think the rule would only apply to paid games since it exists to prevent people from buying games for cheap on markets other than theirs. So I’m not sure Valve would ban users for adding a F2P game to their library with a VPN.
I don’t remember where its actual folder is, but Steam creates a link to it in your home folder. ~/.steam/steam should take you there. In there, games are installed in the steamapps folder. If all else fails, you can delete the game’s folder from there.
This is assuming the game in question is installed on the same drive as Steam.
steam’s cache of installed/downloaded/updates to games can get corrupted and cause this. try the ‘clear download cache’ option in settings and then restart steam and try to uninstall a game again.
For anyone considering the game, there’s a relevant quote from the developer in one of their blog posts, that I think could help them decide whether it’s a game for them or not:
Although Pal World is a very interesting game, I would like to add one point: it is not at all suitable for players who prefer single-player games and want to enjoy the story, so please be aware of that. There’s almost no story, so those people won’t enjoy it. Fans of survival craft genres such as Minecraft and Valheim will enjoy this game.
Not really, but that record number was set at the height of its release. I was told the number is really high because it took off in China, but it has me wondering why other games haven’t done the same. Does Steam no longer include or receive player counts from China? Are other games just not as big of hits there? I am specifically curious if Palworld has a large number of players in China.
What does that have to do with seeing if the gameplay looks fun? I mean, I suppose they could recommend some YouTube “let’s play” videos instead, but either way, watching someone play the game in a contiguous timeline is probably the best way to see if it looks fun.
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