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Owned games from large bundles aren't indicated as owned on their game page

A topic by edderiofer created Feb 15, 2022 Views: 412 Replies: 3
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As per the title. I've bought both the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality (2020) and the Indie bundle for Palestinian Aid (2021). By default, these bundles are hidden to avoid flooding my library, which I'm not too concerned about. However, if I go to the page of a game that is in these bundles (e.g. Celeste from the latter bundle), there is no indication that I own the game. Contrast this with a game from a smaller bundle (e.g. Family from The Detective Bundle), which does say on its page that I own it.

Right now the only way to tell if I own Celeste (or indeed any game that doesn't tell me on its page that I own it) appears to be to use the search function individually in each bundle, which is inconvenient and will only get more inconvenient with each new large bundle that I purchase.

(As a related suggestion, a nice feature to have would be a way to search one's own library, including hidden bundle games.)

The reason for this is the 'key' claim isn't added to your account until you attempt to download it. This is how I assume 'hiding' the bundle games work. The solution for this is to go through the bundle purchase page and manually click download on any games you think you're likely to play. Kinda lame, but worked out fine for me.

-E

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I see this as scummy, i dont think its malicious but if the store page tells me i need to buy it even tho i own it from a bundle that could be seen as trying to sell me the game twice. i would realy love to get at least a warning on the store page like "Hey, u already own this bundle and it should be included in it". this way they dont have to acually add it to my account but if the store page looks for bundles it was included in, this could be fixed.
At least personally im not willing to pay for a game twice.

I also have no problem if it gets solved, by an add all button, im not conserned about cluster in my library.
All i want is that the store no longer tells me "In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of ..." in a game i purchased in a bundle.

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OK, I just checked today and it looks like this has been fixed!  Guess we can close this topic now.