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- Many games have tens of thousands of owners on Steam, yet no one will play the multiplayer solely because no one is playing it.
- This has become a big issue, but it has an obvious solution: Let all players know when people are likely to be playing that game.
- So, I bring you this:
- http://i.cubeupload.com/Ryomxq.png
- What you're looking at is a slight tweak to the Steam library.
- Every game with multiplayer elements that has an average playercount below 20 receives a session scheduler.
- The session scheduler allows you to vote for a time when you would like other people to play that game.
- The session time is the median of all votes: As you can see in the picture, for Hidden Dimensions 3 it's the 30th of October, 1PM.
- What happens when the session time comes about?
- Three things:
- 1) FOR ALL OWNERS OF THE GAME: For one hour, the game will display as orange in the Steam library. In the picture, you can see that "Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages" is in orange, meaning the session time was reached within the last hour.
- 2) FOR ANYONE WHO VOTED WITH THE SESSION SCHEDULER: A notification will appear, saying that the game is having a session.
- 3) FOR THE GAME: All votes are cleared, allowing a new session to be scheduled.
- As you can see, the system isn't annoying in the slightest.
- For anyone who doesn't vote, all they see is that games in their Steam library are sometimes orange.
- Does this fix playercount issues?
- Yes.
- If a dead multiplayer game is patched, it appears blue in the library.
- For a brief time, people play the game in hopes that other people are playing, because they know other people will have the same response.
- This is exactly the same thing, except that it appears as orange in the library instead, it's more regular than patches, and people have a warning so they don't miss it.
- This could revive tonnes of dead multiplayer games, if only for a few hours every several days.
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