Did something happen on Steam?

[shortylickens]

all of a sudden half my games needed updates.

 

[Tifosi248F1]

Can't say I've run into that issue, but I have had something else strange happen. Left 4 Dead 2 is being shared to me, but I don't have it installed. Suddenly, Left 4 Dead 2 Add-on Service has started appearing in the list of recent games when you click on the tray icon. A clean install of the Steam client cleared things up, but it came right back when I set up Sharing again. And it always comes back to the top of that list which is annoying. If I click on it, it prompts me to install but errors out with Invalid Install Path.

 

[MustISO]

Haven't had any issues with updates. I was playing a lot yesterday and today and no games updated.

 

[psychosiz]

I had 87 attempted log ins from China and Russia today.

 

[norseamd]

Ya LOL WTF?

8 updates.

 

[norseamd]

What games Shortylickens?

 

[Artorias]

Something to do with VC 2012 Redist

http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/2v1igy/anyone_else_just_get_some_games_randomly_update/

 

[StinkyPinky]

Yeah I got a lot of small updates, many were 12.8 meg

 

[gorobei]

last time something like this happened it had to do with steam family library sharing.

they probably did a patch on family sharing.

 

[iamwiz82]

It's down completely right now.

 

[shortylickens]

Yeah I got a lot of small updates, many were 12.8 meg

OK, good, I'm not the only one.

 

[ImpulsE69]

It's a VC update. I've been playing the stutter lagfest that is FF13 (I'm reserving my review of it until I'm done, but wow, this is the worst FF by a far stretch so far) and it actually improved it making it play smoother.

 

[TeknoBug]

Assetto Corsa, PES 2015, Arma II, Red Orchestra 2, lol

I have auto update disabled due to ISP limitations so I'll update when I want to fire up a game.

 

[futurefields]

i dont know which game did it but a couple months ago some game dumped visual c files all over my d drive without putting them in a folder...

 

[ImpulsE69]

That happens more than it should. You can safely delete the files.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Interesting, I got a message at the bottom of the Steam page that I could not connect, but my internet was fine and it said I was logged in.