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2 months is the typical amount of time for an "old" thread to be locked.
Nope, as stated its pretty norm, your not supposed to bump threads from months ago and make a new thread and link the old one if its related.
I've found tons of threads and comments... mainly OFF of Steam, mind you... referring to this issue. The "corrupted downloads/server unavailable/etc" issues which occur after certain auto-update events fail. This is an ONGOING ISSUE.
You'd think someone there would recognize that these issues ought to be addressed in some more permanent fashion. Instead of having a metric @#$*-ton of individual posts, one from every person experiencing it, having one (or perhaps just a few) "master threads" which anyone experiencing the problem can refer to.
That's how this site USED to work, by the way. I was one of the very first users of Steam, back when it first launched, and when there were, literally, only about two dozen items available on the platform (mostly the original Half-Life and its mods, and Half-Life 2, plus a few "experiments" like "Codename Gordon" or "Spacewar.")
Basically, these days, "Steam Forums" have been rendered virtually useless for any form of technical information, because there are a huge number of redundant threads, most filled with the exact same (unhelpful) suggestions, and a pile of "wanna-be-kewl-kids" trying to be disruptive.
But I'm facing a big pile... a couple of dozen... Steam games I've bought and paid for which are no longer available to me because of these issues, and Steam is utterly unhelpful at providing support. And even the "community support forums" are useless, because of this, frankly, pretty ridiculous practice of "locking threads which are older than a McDonald's drive through timeframe."
Thankfully, I no longer really buy much from this site, but I'd sure like to keep all the thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of purchases I've made over the years. Valve/Steam really ought to do their best to help its paying customers keep their purchases. (sigh)
Sounds like the Windows 7 bug.
I'm sure they will be fine without the dozens of dollars that would have otherwise been spent here.
Unless you're referring to how Valve started "turning off" access to Steam on Win7 as Microsoft's "end of support" date was approaching? And suggesting that maybe they're "turning off" Win10 support now, in the same way?
No. Just Win 7 issues.
Valve hasn't done anything with Win 10 support.
I sure hope that's not what THEY are thinking. And if that's how YOU think about relating to other people, well... it's best you never get into a position where you have to interact with other people.
Nobody said anything about "what's best for Valve." We all know that what's "best for Valve" in that context is for us to hand over our entire wallets and then walk away, getting nothing at all in return.
But I'd hope that the majority of people working at Valve are not, in fact, sociopaths. And that they'd acknowledge that cheating people is not, in fact, in anyone's best interests, their own included.
But in any conversation about... well, almost ANYTHING here... someone always comes along and says something like you just said. In effect "drop trou, bend over, and take it!"
Which is (a) not helpful in any way, and (b) pretty damned evil.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/3238670/discussions/0/594022859095939680/#c594023708174098589
I hope that's not related to my current issues... but I'm on a system without any SSDs (my "online games" drive is a 24TB Seagate Exos drive, by the way, with stuff from Steam and several other clients all sharing that drive).
And none of my content with which I'm having issues is "new content." Case in point... "Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon" is one which failed (and the base "Far Cry 3" as well). Another is "Star Trek - Bridge Crew." And pretty much EVERY "Assassin's Creed" game, except for the first two.
One thing that is absolutely consistent is that every "Ubisoft Connect" connected game on Steam which I have has the same issue. But it's not JUST limited to that... for example "World of Tanks" has the same issue. So far, it's the only non-Ubisoft game I've experienced t his with, but it's hard to say that this is not going to expand from here.
By the way, I appreciate your approach here... civil and informative. Sadly, a rarity in the Steam forums as of late, I've noticed.
It was you that said you were no longer able to afford to buy from the site.