If you want to check sources for a game, there are plenty of ways to do that. For legitimate sites try IsThereAnyDeal[isthereanydeal.com] or GG Deals[gg.deals]. For other sources I tend to check AllKeyShop[www.allkeyshop.com], but there are plenty of other ways to check this.

It's fine to post information on sources of games, but they don't really need to be discussed in so much detail, some sites have regional availability and some just run out of stock. If you want help getting a game from a specific site, you can make a post in the trading forum, and if you want to discuss a particular site to get more information on it, you can create a new post in the public forum. I feel like that should satisfy most people here.

Originally posted by Revadíke:

Give it to Revadike#5247 too while you're at it :)

He was in the wrong server, everything is sorted out now ^^

Are you already in the server? I'm not seeing you. If you are, PM me on discord.

What's your discord name?

Originally posted by peremptor:

BTW do the profile limited games ever get full blown steam game status? I see some that are over 3 years old that still are.

I take it its based on reaching a certain sale number that has to be reached of copies sold through the steam store itself?

There are theories for how games pass through the Steam Learning system, but we have no definitive information at this point. Plenty of games have made it through, but that's considering the thousands of games that have been released on steam in that time, most of which are honestly not that great.

Ghost in the Shell, Deadpool, and Adventure Time are not banned, they all show up fine in profile scans, you can use mine as a reference, https://steam-tracker.com/scan/76561197994153029 . (GitS isn't there because the free license is still available using the direct install link.) The only licensed game that was banned seems to be Transformers: Devastation, but Barbie and Her Sisters Puppy Rescue is hidden from the api, just not banned. Right now we have no idea why this happened with these games, unless someone knows something I don't and hasn't filled me in.

The easiest way to tell the difference for something like that is by checking the achievement page. A banned game's achievement page will redirect to the player's steam profile, https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/profiles/76561197994153029/stats/AppID/338930/?tab=achievements , but a game like Barbie still has a visible achievement page, https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/MisterXYZ/stats/AppID/396390/?tab=achievements .

Originally posted by peremptor:

Any list of all the banned games? Would like to see just how many of those I got haha.

https://steam-tracker.com/apps/banned

The only issue is it won't detect ownership, so you'd have to go through it manually ^^
There are userscripts that could help show you what you own from the list but with a list that size it tends to lag a lot.

Originally posted by ◢ k r i s ◤:

That's really too bad. Why are they banned on API? Their Community Hub and game downloads still works for some of these that return false on the API, so it's peculiar to me that they were removed.

curl "https://steamhost.cn/api/appdetails?appids=369200&cc=us" {"369200":{"success":false}}

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Also I just copied all the highlighted-owned lines from tracker and it came to 184, so I guess it will be a short while before I can join then.

Games are generally api banned because of developer actions, usually fake reviews or something along those lines. Consider it the same for steam learning games, which are also not detectable by external means, except this system makes games earn the ability to count towards your game count while banning punishes games and removes them from your count.

As for your total, the categories that count are delisted and purchase disabled games, unavailable free games have never counted towards the requirement of the group. Your current total is 142, which still isn't too bad, it shouldn't take long for an active collector to hit 200 from that point.

Nothing outside your own library can detect ownership of api banned games, and in order to verify what people own when joining, we don't consider these towards the requirement. If banned games were scannable, the requirement would be well over 500 at this point because of how many there are.

Buying Steam accounts isn't allowed according to the TOS, so you can't post about buying one here, sorry.