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.
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.
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 get it from their perspective, featuring dwarves in a game doesn’t really help others find similar games in the same vein. On the other hand, they have a tag for pirates and Black Flag differs quite a bit from puzzle pirates.
Wouldn't a ninja tag technically say more about a game than a dwarf tag though, since a Ninja is a profession, meanwhile dwarfs are just short creatures fond of drink and industry?
This is the original meaning of the phrase “the customer is always right”. It’s been warped by “karen” types into a weapon used against minimum wage workers, but what it’s supposed to mean is “the customer is always right in matters of taste”. Meaning if a company doesn’t want to do something because they think it’s dumb but the demographic says “I like that” then the customer is right, and the company should do it. I know the dwarf tag isn’t about money, but it’s still a matter of listening to the customers on the platform.
they rejected the request of Deep Rock Galatic and Dwarf Fortress to add a dwarf tag, the two teamed up on a co marketing campaign to get the decision reversed, Steam acquiesced.
As far as I’ve gathered Valve “accidentally” created the elf tag instead when the dwarf tag campaign happened. When someone noticed they went “oh, whoopsie, hehe” and added the dwarf tag too. So elf should also be a tag now.
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