Steam Discovery Update adds Curators, personalized queues, and more
Steam's home page just got a major facelift, as well as some new features to help personalize your shopping experience.
Valve is giving its Steam storefront some new features and a bit of an overhaul. The publisher released the Steam Discovery Update, which is meant to improve the overall shopping experience across the service.
That means there's a whole new Steam home page that will filter out less popular games, as well as games that aren't available on your operating system. Also, Valve is adding new detailed filters to the search function. Steam Curators will also allow players to offer recommendations to other Steam users, based on past purchases, recent games played, friend recommendations, or contributing to Steam Community Groups. You can also find recommendations for yourself on the new Discovery Queue.
For more, check out the Steam update page.
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Steam's home page just got a major facelift, as well as some new features to help personalize your shopping experience.-
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I made my own steam group to test this curating stuff out. Then I made myself player of the week. So lonely.
I like the new design though. Navigating the midweek madness deals in the old layout was a bit of a chore, I like how all the sales are in one place now.-
Yeah when they had those japanese indie sales going on it was impossible to find if you didn’t already have a link to the page. Now it seems like you'd be able to actually find something like that with this update.
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It's the Discussions tab, top left.
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The client tracks your time played. Must be a way.
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So will there be an official Shacknews curator?
Just put Bionic Commando Rearmed and Mark of the Ninja on it and it gets my full support. -
That huge square just on top of the shop page of a game requesting you to write a review is pretty dumb, as it is putting the curators BEFORE the actual information of the game the devs put there.
And about looks, i like that bright blue as much as i like this bright purple on shacknews, and its on the same level of like as staring at a turned on light bulb directly. -
Can finally remove early access from showing up. nice.
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This is bad ass. A sweet new feature is indicating whether you already have a title on a listing page. This is a first world problem but when you've been through a few Steam sales there are always repeats on certain games and you may or may not remember whether you've already bought some of the titles.
This curator stuff looks good and the auto queue suggestions seem intelligent enough. -
I really like this curation feature. It's a good place to go for recommendations from friends and trusted sources.
If anyone is interested, my own curation (part of 3305 Local) is located here...
http://store.steampowered.com/curator/91962/
Just started it today, I'll be adding a number of games here in the next day or so.
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