Lots of changes detailed.
You let me down Nick, I come to these threads so I can be lazy and not have to actually, you know, read the changes myself ;)
Easier tag access is nice, let’s see if those changes mean a thing though. Improvements to things like the discovery queue don’t mean squat if all it shows me is ‘in your queue because it is popular’.
BIG BLUE BUTTONS!
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(… fuck you, nazi Discourse post checker script …)
I know they won’t do it, because the point is to encourage me to see everything whether I want to or not, but I’d love to completely get rid of sections I don’t care about.
I dig these changes so far.
Problem solved.
There is still no way to get ride of all the clutter introduced a couple of years ago. Still having to scroll down about 5 pages to be able access the new releases category (which is still automatically filtered depending on the platform you are running Steam on - preferences won’t matter). The said clutter is now being displayed even larger than before.
As far as I am concerned, the Steam store front could just be a huge search box, it wouldn’t change my experience nor detract from it.
Yaaaay! You can turn off VR content! Also, you can de-emphasize up to three tags (albeit not turn them off completely), and the store tells you why it’s showing you a given game, mostly based on tags. This is not a great system, but at least they are now exposing it!
There’s a menu item on the top left to see new releases. Better than scrolling down anyway (which I agree was dumb before).
I like the new look. Sure they are still throwing a bunch of stuff at me but that’s kind of their point - to sell me shit I don’t need like every other store. Do you get mad at grocery store end caps?
“Why can’t they just put all the stuff I want to buy in aisle 1???” :)
I really can’t find it :(
While I dislike allegories in any instance, I’ll refer to yours to sum up my experience: this is a store where not only do they throw junk at me I do not need (fine), but then some personality comes in trying to tell me how great that stuff over there is, then the customer support tells me whose products they have been fixing, then my friends jump in trying to tell me what I should buy, before finally I can check the new junk I came to check in the first place.
This is precisely what I want to do: check stuff I don’t need. And that is what that front page is trying very hard to prevent me to do leisurely.
Agree. The current page order is
- Featured (bunch of stuff some algorithm believes I want, sometimes correctly)
- Special offers (stuff that is now cheap and I may want, but I probably would have wishlisted it anyway)
- Trending among friends (completely irrelevant to my needs)
- Discovery queue (some feature that still has not been sunset even though its usage seems low at best)
- Browse Steam blue buttons (useful, only because it contains the important one, New releases which I can get to with an extra click even if its on a tiny button)
- Steam Curators (a feature I never use and I have not seen much evidence others do either)
- Recently Updated (pretty useful, can always get my attention on an older game that just got updated)
- vive/ Steam Link ads(fine, I guess, but to be honest I know all these things exist, i dont need to be told every time I log in)
- New releases (yay we made it to the good bit! Very much imporved layout as well, love the extra info bar that they put it).
- Under $10 (fine, already covered in specials in part)
- Recommendations based on what you played (fine)
I would prefer the order of these elements to be:
- Featured
- New releases
- Recently Updated
- Browse Steam blue buttons
- Special offers
*rest of the stuff in whatever order you like coz I dont care :)
Thanks for the explanation but, damn! seems my screen resolution must be too small or my fonts too large, as this side bar doesn’t show up in my steam application (but it appears properly in a browser).
Wow that’s weird but I guess not surprising since it was just launched - lucky you!
I agree with most of what Rod says, except.
[quote=“Rod_Humble, post:12, topic:126859”]
Trending among friends (completely irrelevant to my needs)
[/quote] - I kind of like this - I am friends with Lord Gek and his taste in games is similar to mine and he tends to play some more obscure stuff I wouldn’t know about otherwise.
[quote=“Rod_Humble, post:12, topic:126859”]
Steam Curators (a feature I never use and I have not seen much evidence others do either)
[/quote] - You don’t follow Brian Rubin???
[quote=“KiloOhm, post:14, topic:126859, full:true”]
Wow that’s weird but I guess not surprising since it was just launched - lucky you!
I agree with most of what Rod says, except.
[quote=“Rod_Humble, post:12, topic:126859”]
Trending among friends (completely irrelevant to my needs)
[/quote] - I kind of like this - I am friends with Lord Gek and his taste in games is similar to mine and he tends to play some more obscure stuff I wouldn’t know about otherwise.
I do follow Brian Rubin! I come here and check his posts! :) Fair points though!
Hey guys! Did you hear about the big blue buttons! Because BIG BLUE BUTTONS!
The translation in my language of the whole news is quite horrible, but the one of that BIG BLUE bullet point stands out as hilarious. It could really be translated back to “Awesome, amirite or amirite?". It left me speechless.
Awww, thanks guys. :)
And still no DPI scaling for high res monitors on the steam client.
Tiny, itsy bitsy fonts.