Steam Achievements In

Topic started by andy on June 12, 2009. Last post by TwoLines 4 months, 4 weeks ago.
Post by andy (205 posts) See mini bio
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You can now link your Steam accounts to your GB account.  Like XBOX Live, your Steam account must be set to public so that we can see your achievements.  I'll be watching throughout the day making sure there aren't any errors in the process.


Post by TheBeast (939 posts) See mini bio
283 ACH / 2465 P

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Great stuff, I was originally a bit confused because it asks for your Steam username, which for me, is different from my nickname and Steam Community 'Custom URL' - I had to use the latter to get it to work.


Post by Peewi (218 posts) See mini bio
482 ACH / 2553 P

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Right now it just says "username". I assume what you really need to enter is your custom URL. Anyway, it's fetched my avatar so, it's working for me so far.


Post by carlthenimrod (361 posts) See mini bio
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Awesome. It's a shame you guys can't get Sony to play nice. Would be nice to have a central area thing for all my gaming profiles.


Post by Out_On_Bail (1,193 posts) See mini bio
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great, now everyone can know how much I suck at TF2 - thanks! ;P


Post by Peewi (218 posts) See mini bio
482 ACH / 2553 P

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Does the games have to be tied to Giant Bomb pages manually or something? 'Cause Portal and Audiosurf seem to be working 100% fine, but my other Steam games are missing game icons in my games list and gives 404s when clicking their achievements. I actually have the same problem with the PC version of Kane & Lynch, which is through GFW Live.


Post by TheBeast (939 posts) See mini bio
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Mine's 'finished' but empty, I assum it's just because it hasn't processed correctly yet but it looks like it's working for others.


Post by SuperMooseman (2,246 posts) See mini bio
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Mine has processed, but at the top it says:
Whoops. Please make sure your XBOX or STEAM privacy settings on their Web-sites are set to public. Once changed, your data will correct itself within 24 hours.
and it isn't displaying any games. And yes, it is set to public in Steam.
http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/supermooseman/games/


Post by timay (74 posts) See mini bio
875 ACH / 7680 P

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Just added mine and seems to be working. No icons for some games but the links seem to work.


Post by TwoLines (210 posts) See mini bio
747 ACH / 11320 P

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@SuperMooseman said:
" Mine has processed, but at the top it says:
Whoops. Please make sure your XBOX or STEAM privacy settings on their Web-sites are set to public. Once changed, your data will correct itself within 24 hours.
and it isn't displaying any games. And yes, it is set to public in Steam.
http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/supermooseman/games/ "
Same here.
Maybe we have to wait 24 hours..


Post by LordAndrew (4,509 posts) See mini bio
116 ACH / 0 P

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Very nice. Thanks. :)


Post by Blueblur1 (73 posts) See mini bio
1089 ACH / 18428 P

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@TwoLines said:
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@SuperMooseman said:
" Mine has processed, but at the top it says:
Whoops. Please make sure your XBOX or STEAM privacy settings on their Web-sites are set to public. Once changed, your data will correct itself within 24 hours.
and it isn't displaying any games. And yes, it is set to public in Steam.
http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/supermooseman/games/ "
Same here.Maybe we have to wait 24 hours.. "
I'm also having that pop up.


Post by snide (831 posts) See mini bio
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Use the "Custom URL" name. We're fixing some of the wording in our forms, but that's what needs to be used. Also note that this is a case sensitive name. For Jeff "GiantBombing" did not work because the url was "giantbombing".

Sorry, I have no idea why Valve uses 3 acount names either.


Post by LordAndrew (4,509 posts) See mini bio
116 ACH / 0 P

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@Blueblur1: Are you using your steamcommunity.com URL name? You may have to create one if you don't have one yet.


Post by TheBeast (939 posts) See mini bio
283 ACH / 2465 P

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Cheers Snide, that last point just fixed it for me, I was using TheBeast instead of 'thebeast'.


Post by MattyFTM (6,606 posts) See mini bio
708 ACH / 7770 P

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Awesome. Added my account. This 15 minute wait seems like an eternity though.


Post by MattyFTM (6,606 posts) See mini bio
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Well, that was a quick 15 mins. It took about 30 seconds. Awesome.


Post by mracoon (1,795 posts) See mini bio
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All my achievements come up as rare. Also I have 11/12 Braid achievements yet I have a D rank.


Post by snide (831 posts) See mini bio
508 ACH / 5875 P

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Grades and rarity only get updated once a day. We'll run it sporadically through the day for steam today.


Post by Peewi (218 posts) See mini bio
482 ACH / 2553 P

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@snide said:
"Use the "Custom URL" name. We're fixing some of the wording in our forms, but that's what needs to be used. Also note that this is a case sensitive name. For Jeff "GiantBombing" did not work because the url was "giantbombing".

Sorry, I have no idea why Valve uses 3 acount names either.
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Why is it case sensitive? The Steam Community website isn't case sensitive.


Post by Blueblur1 (73 posts) See mini bio
1089 ACH / 18428 P

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I got it. It has to be the same way it appears in the URL like Snide said. 'Blueblur1' kind of worked (my avatar showed up) but it wasn't grabbing data. I changed it to 'blueblur1' and it says its now grabbing my data.


Post by SuperMooseman (2,246 posts) See mini bio
210 ACH / 0 P

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There we go, typing it all in lowercase works. Thanks guys!


Post by Scooper (2,973 posts) See mini bio
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Haven't got and done it yet but all I can say is "YES!" in a Jeff voice.

Added my account no problem at all. It says wait 15mins for it all to build...

Before even refreshing my page I got a PM saying
"Just letting you know that we've finished syncing your account, danger_danger, on the Steam service. You can check out your cool stats at http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/scooper/games/."

Really slick, you guys are good at what you do for sure.


Post by Monk (9 posts) See mini bio
1276 ACH / 18075 P

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Hi, I got an error with using a Custom URL e.g. http://steamcommunity.com/id/monk-tf2.

The dash seems to cause a problem so I changed it to http://steamcommunity.com/id/monktf2. Some issues with special characters?

It is all working now though.


Post by LordAndrew (4,509 posts) See mini bio
116 ACH / 0 P

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Weird. I used "LordAndrew" and it worked great. I don't know why some people are having problems with case.


Post by damswedon (692 posts) See mini bio
1455 ACH / 25290 P

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aw my 3 audiosurf achievements look sad


Post by Scooper (2,973 posts) See mini bio
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I'm happy the world can see I got the fastest time in the world on Trails 2 but sad at the fact that there are a few games I've bought but not even installed yet or played like once.


Post by snide (831 posts) See mini bio
508 ACH / 5875 P

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@LordAndrew said:
" Weird. I used "LordAndrew" and it worked great. I don't know why some people are having problems with case. "
We've auto-lowercased everything since we noticed the original problem. We also removed http://whatever for people that can't read instructions. This is a good example of why you don't allow your users to have 3 different account names. It just breeds confusion.


Post by Kiemoe (551 posts) See mini bio
505 ACH / 7765 P

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@Blueblur1 said:
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@TwoLines said:
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@SuperMooseman said:
" Mine has processed, but at the top it says:
Whoops. Please make sure your XBOX or STEAM privacy settings on their Web-sites are set to public. Once changed, your data will correct itself within 24 hours.
and it isn't displaying any games. And yes, it is set to public in Steam.
http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/supermooseman/games/ "
Same here.Maybe we have to wait 24 hours.. "
I'm also having that pop up. "
Same here, not really sure what to do, I'll just wait.


Post by Blueblur1 (73 posts) See mini bio
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@Kiemoe: Check the previous posts in this thread. You gotta user your custom URL name and type it in lowercase letters.