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In our experience, refunds on Steam will typically be processed in less than three business days, and quite often will only take a day or so to be approved — provided the refund requirements are ...
Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It is the developer of the software distribution platform Steam and the game franchises Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and Dota.
Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002. When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. [1] It may kick players from the game if it detects errors ...
Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005. Steam offers various features, like game server matchmaking with Valve Anti-Cheat ...
The review bombing reduced Grand Theft Auto V ' s overall Steam review rating from "positive" to "mixed". [7] [5] Crusader Kings II was review bombed the same month by customers after Paradox had raised the prices in some regions. [6] In 2017, Valve changed policy to make unpaid games of any kind not count towards the game's review scores.
Steam Spy. Steam Spy is a website created by Sergey Galyonkin and launched in April 2015. The site uses an application programming interface (API) to the Steam software distribution service owned by Valve to estimate the number of sales of software titles offered on the service. Estimates are made based on the API polling user profiles from ...
Steam was released in Beta form in late-ish 2003 as an optional way to play CS 1.6. Early in 2004 Steam shut down the WON servers and required all CS 1.6 players to use Steam; On Half-Life 2's release, Valve required Steam to be used even for retail results - at this point, it didn't seem to be considered a beta anymore.
Epic Games Store. The Epic Games Store is a video game digital distribution service and storefront operated by Epic Games. It launched in December 2018 as a software client, for Microsoft Windows and macOS, and online storefront. Android and iOS versions of the store launched in August 2024, with the iOS version only available for European users.