Report: Valve planning a refresh of Steam interface
The developer will touch up Steam's Home page and add a 'Popular Among Friends' section.
A post on NeoGAF indicates that Valve plans to redesign Steam's storefront (via GameSpot).
Originally posted as a developer-only blog on Steam circulated among SteamWorks devs, the post details plans to refresh the digital outlet's home page and add a 'Popular Among Friends' curation option.
"When we launched the Steam Discovery Update, we introduced a new and smarter Steam store built around personalization and recommendations," the post reads. "In the time since the Discovery Update, we've iterated on the features and made improvements to support the goal of helping each customer find the titles they are most likely to enjoy playing. We think our progress in this direction has been really valuable in supporting a broader variety of gaming experiences big and small, while better serving individual customer tastes."
Assuming this report pans out, Valve will overhaul Steam's home page to weed out unnecessary visual elements and display larger game images where appropriate. A new array of links will dock to the left-hand column, and the Popular Among Friends section will affix to the homepage so you can see what users on your friends list have been playing.
The post ends with the most salient info. "We're actively working on this set of features, and planning to roll out the update in a few weeks. We're looking for your feedback on these changes and your suggestions for how we can best connect your game with the customers most likely to enjoy it."
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Long over due imo. Its really dated and hard to navigate.
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Yes please let us click a button and filter out all those weeb anime games plz.
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Probablly never. Steam account stealing is a real problem. Imagine if someone steals your account and then changes the username. Normally you can just recover your password and change it, but when you no longer have the username either? All sorts of headaches come with that.
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I agree, but I and a number of other people would pay money to have a one-time change from a dead email address to a username. I was in the beta for Steam in 2002, before I knew what it really was, so my username is an email address that is both dead and similar enough to my current email address (think a@b.com vs a@c.com) that it fucks me up all the time.
They could set up a limited set of circumstances - if your account is old enough to where you predated the use of names instead of email addresses, AND your username is an email address THEN have a one-time paid username change. Done. Provided no one's registered your preferred username. -
XBL, Bnet and others have all found ways to make the feature work
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Are you sure about XBL? My Xbox Live/Microsoft account name is the same decades-old and defunct email as my Steam account.
I've changed the primary email associated with it, but the login remains the same.-
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Your gamertag is not your login username. The login username is an email address.
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That's basically awesome.
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Juno.com represent! So bad.
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haha yes!! my username includes a now defunct domain name.
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We all want this, but do we REALLY want this? I mean what are the odds they don't completely fuck it up? It seems like every redesign of every sight ever is always terrible. Dunno if I trust Valve.
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Yeah, I'm picturing borderless sections for each game, large gaps in between, tons of unused screen space, and everything ordered vertically with a fixed maximum width. No tabs, just sections you have to scroll to.
That seems to be the pattern of most web design these days, anyway. Make everything spread out and impossible to display all on a single page, despite showing you LESS information. I'm afraid Valve may get on the same boat.
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About time, I've always hated it. Slow and clunky. Maybe now it won't have to update itself every other time I open it.
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Oh man, Valve, don't stretch yourselves with anything too difficult...
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So steam2? This will be the last steam version we ever get.
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Let's bring back olive green!
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I uninstalled a few games today. Stuff I don't play for a long time.
Half life 2 showed last played December 2004...
Anyway, how come deleting games is so fast? If you uninstalled any other program via control panel, it would require a few clicks on a wizard but on Steam the removal is instant.-
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I have always wondered about that too.
I am thinking steam just lies to you and continues to uninstall in the background
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That's great news but i bet it will take revisions to get it fixed/working again
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HL3 confirmmmmmmeeeedddddddd lalalaalala *sticks head in sand*
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