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[jshackles]

https://www.pcgamer.com/new-steam-design-2019/

 

[VincentMatts]

MS should take queues, i still despise the xbox one UI despite it being my primary gaming device.

edit: actually now that i take a good look at it, it just looks busy as fuck.

 

[iconmaster]

Well... it definitely looks like it was a UI challenge.

 

[metareferential]

The only thing I care is responsiveness. Fuck the way it looks, make it snappy and make shortcuts available. All we need.

And I don't care about crappy suggestions. Just give me the bare minimum.

 

[Hendrick's]

Looks like shit still.

 

[Threeshotgamer]

I dig it especially them extending the tag system into the library for better searching/organizing.

 

[Jigsaah]

The only thing I care is responsiveness. Fuck the way it looks, make it snappy and make shortcuts available. All we need.

And I don't care about crappy suggestions. Just give me the bare minimum.

No it needs to functionally pleasing, which the aesthetic is tied to. Things need to be organized in such a way that it's easy to find and intuitive. This looks better than the current version.

 

[angelic]

30% better.

 

[metareferential]

No it needs to functionally pleasing, which the aesthetic is tied to. Things need to be organized in such a way that it's easy to find and intuitive. This looks better than the current version.

Could be. But if it's sluggish as usual it's still useless.

 

[Gavin Stevens]

Can you say...... damage.... control?

Still, it’s nice to have this coming at last. Been in development for a long time.

 

[SlashBringingHasher]

somehow looks even worse.

 

[Stitch]

OMG Mirror's Edge Catalyst confirmed for Steam!!!

Ehh looks OK I guess. I have to use it to actually find out how much I like or hate it lol

 

[CyberPanda]

Too cluttered. Seriously, I love the Switch UI the best.

 

[TimFL]

Their design language is simply horrible. It looks like they really have no proper UI designers at Valve, what a bummer.

Their whole offering needs a complete design overhaul. I mean it's mind boggling that the only good looking element they offer are their doodles for Steam sales with the mascots...
Everything else looks like an intern created it with sweaty hands and they went "oh good enough, we'll tweak the design with an update later on" and then they forget about it. Just like the Steam chat has some of the worst padding I've ever seen with their compact mode.

 

[Paasei]

I still don't like it. The suggestions and community pages should be bale to be turned off. I do not use anything on Steam besides buying a game and ask friends to come on TS to resume the chat and play together. Give us an option to make up our own layout.

 

[Roni]

I dig it. When does it launch?

 

[Wolfgang Jr]

Worst UI ever

 

[spandexmonkey]

Friend activity next to recently played works great for me. I mostly just use the recent filter anyways unless I'm digging for an older game and I like seeing what my friends are doing before I launch into something.

 

[Musky_Cheese]

BREAKING NEWS!!!

New Steam UI is now a Epic Store exclusive.

 

[LAMeduck]

About time, looks good.

 

[jshackles]

(My opinions)

Good

• The library home page that has smart lists - this should help people find stuff to play
• As Threeshotgamer pointed out, adding tags to the search is a welcome improvement
• "Save as collection" in search is interesting, I guess it just makes a new category probably? Could be useful.
• This looks like it was designed with vertical as well as horizontal scaling in mind, so it'll definitely be an improvement for users with 1440p or 4k screens
• The top of the game library page has the most relevant info, with information below designed to be scrolled to as needed

Bad

• The box art on the games looks too tall. Definitely a strange choice not to keep the "DVD box art" dimensions.
• That game detail page is seriously cluttered with extraneous data
• Friend activity on the library home is an odd choice, but I guess kinda makes sense for discovery purposes
• "Unread" game updates being blue dots that presumably won't go away until you read said update is a terrible way of doing this
• keeping two horizontal menus at the top (one small, one large) is a weird design choice and definitely makes this feel more like Windows 95 and less like Chrome

 

[Gamezone]

My guess is that they probably didn`t improve their boring achievement system at all.

 

[Kadayi]

My guess is that they probably didn`t improve their boring achievement system at all.

How would you know?

 

[Gamezone]

How would you know?

I don`t know? That's not my profile.

Here you go, if you want it. https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970604046/

Yeah, I also corrected that in my profile.

 

[Jigsaah]

Could be. But if it's sluggish as usual it's still useless.

Oh for sure, that's part of the functionality. Was the old version sluggish? I didn't notice.

 

[Helios]

Can you say...... damage.... control?

Damage control to what? The UI overhaul has been leaked for quite some time. It's just Valve working on Valve Time™

 

[kyubajin]

I was banned "somewhere else" for saying Thanks Epic... Please don't ban me here, it's a joke All of that aside, finally a much needed revamp of the fugly Steam client, a welcome one indeed.

 

[Kadayi]

Yeah, I also corrected that in my profile.

Don't worry, it's bookmarked. Gotta love that favourite group though.

Also, what's the issue with Achievements? At Least Steam has them. They're basically dictated by the developer and in large part, especially with multi-platform games outside of their control. What's the beef?

 

[LucidFeuer]

Thanks, so where is the new UI exactly?

I was banned "somewhere else" for saying Thanks Epic... Please don't ban me here, it's a joke All of that aside, finally a much needed revamp of the fugly Steam client, a welcome one indeed.

Why would you be ban for saying something that coherent? They haven't done or changed SHIT for decades even though making money like leeches on the back of publishers and users alike, and suddenly they change the UI? Of course concurrence and criticism has to do with it.

 

[Barakov]

Seems like it has the same problem Xbox UI has, it's too busy and cluttered. I feel minimalist is best. That's the problem when you try to jam in so many features for something that wasn't designed for it.

 

[kyubajin]

Why would you be ban for saying something that coherent? They haven't done or changed SHIT for decades even though making money like leeches on the back of publishers and users alike, and suddenly they change the UI? Of course concurrence and criticism has to do with it.

Even though it might seem like a reactionary measure, I'm sure this has been in development for quite some time, I'd say it's barely a coincidence with Epic's recent endeavours.

 

[jshackles]

Seems like it has the same problem Xbox UI has, it's too busy and cluttered. I feel minimalist is best. That's the problem when you try to jam in so many features for something that wasn't designed for it.

A common complaint that could be easily remedied if Valve gave users the option to turn certain features on/off in the settings.

 

[Kadayi]

Even though it might seem like a reactionary measure, I'm sure this has been in development for quite some time, I'd say it's barely a coincidence with Epic's recent endeavours.

This stuff has been ongoing for quite some time: -

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/1697194621363928453

: -

2019 and Beyond

Doing this sort of retrospective is useful to us as a team, because it helps us better understand what we've done and where we should go from here. While we feel like we've accomplished a lot in 2018, there's still a ton more work to do, features to build, and hard problems to solve. Here's a sneak peek at a few of the more notable things we plan to ship this year:

• Store Discoverability: We’re working on a new recommendation engine powered by machine-learning, that can match players to games based on their individual tastes. Algorithms are only a part of our discoverability solution, however, so we're building more broadcasting and curating features and are constantly assessing the overall design of the store.
• Steam China: We've partnered with Perfect World to bring Steam onshore into China. We'll reveal more details about this in the coming months.
• Steam Library Update: Some long awaited changes to the Steam Client will ship, including a reworked Steam Library, built on top of the technology we shipped in Steam Chat.
• New Events System: We're upgrading the events system in the Steam Community, enabling you to highlight interesting activities in your games like tournaments, streams, or weekly challenges.
• Steam TV: We're working on expanding Steam TV beyond just broadcasting specific tournaments and special events, in order to support all games.
• Steam Chat: We're going to ship a new Steam Chat mobile app, so you can share your favorite GIFs with your friends while on the go.
• Steam Trust: The technology behind Trusted Matchmaking on CS:GO is getting an upgrade and will become a full Steam feature that will be available to all games. This means you'll have more information that you can use to help determine how likely a player is a cheater or not.
• Steam PC Cafe Program: We are going to officially ship a new PC Cafe Program so that players can have a good experience using Steam in hundreds of thousands of PC Cafes Worldwide.

 

[Barakov]

A common complaint that could be easily remedied if Valve gave users the option to turn certain features on/off in the settings.

That'd be nice. As it is, I really don't don't what PC Gamer or Polygon have to say about each individual game in my library. Given the option to turn things on or off would help a lot.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Finally ditched the MySpace design philosophy. Nice.

 

[Joyful]

personally i use the list view for my library page.
dont understand peoples obsession with covers/boxart. an icon is all i need
will immediately turn this extra info off if possible. the friend stuff especially since its already in the friends section so its redundant

 

[Musky_Cheese]

I was banned "somewhere else" for saying Thanks Epic... Please don't ban me here, it's a joke All of that aside, finally a much needed revamp of the fugly Steam client, a welcome one indeed.

Reported

 

[Gamezone]

Don't worry, it's bookmarked. Gotta love that favourite group though.

Also, what's the issue with Achievements? At Least Steam has them. They're basically dictated by the developer and in large part, especially with multi-platform games outside of their control. What's the beef?

Favorite group? My Steam obviously need an overhaul on its own. I'm banned from Era.

 

[Solid Slammus]

Why would you be ban for saying something that coherent? They haven't done or changed SHIT for decades even though making money like leeches on the back of publishers and users alike

that's patently untrue and implies that you haven't the least idea about what you're talking about. You don't even know what about Steam has or hasn't changed in recent years.

and suddenly they change the UI? Of course concurrence and criticism has to do with it.

this UI revamp has been known to be in the works since before EGS existed.

 

[Heebie Jeebies]

Never been a fan of the store library community username header, disappointed to see it remain. Those pages look....cluttered.

 

[Woo-Fu]

Long as it isn't obviously designed for mobile I'll consider it a victory.

 

[Fake]

The first picture don't show much change, but the others 2 are notible. I hope perfomance don't eat my notebook.

 

[Zephir]

it's...slightly more blue than usual

 

[TheShadowLord]

 

[Jenenser]

I don't like this change. looks seriously cluttered. Hope theres a way to keep it in classic view. (I do get that im in the minority with this)

 

[jshackles]

Also, what's the issue with Achievements? At Least Steam has them. They're basically dictated by the developer and in large part, especially with multi-platform games outside of their control. What's the beef?

Not sure about Gamezone but personally I feel like the biggest issue people have with Steam achievements is that there isn't any server-side achievement validation (outside of a dozen or so games) that's used to great effect on other platforms such as Xbox Live and Playstation Network.

As such, they're easily spoofed by users and are therefore not a good indication of a user's actual achievements. On Steam, my Final Fantasy XIII achievements that were earned with 100 hours of game play have the same weight to them as someone who opened up a cheat tool and clicked "unlock all".

 

[Kadayi]

Not sure about Gamezone but personally I feel like the biggest issue people have with Steam achievements is that there isn't any server-side achievement validation (outside of a dozen or so games) that's used to great effect on other platforms such as Xbox Live and Playstation Network.

As such, they're easily spoofed by users and are therefore not a good indication of a user's actual achievements. On Steam, my Final Fantasy XIII achievements that were earned with 100 hours of gameplay have the same weight to them as someone who opened up a cheat tool and clicked "unlock all".

True enough I guess, however you can see when a user unlocked an achievement if you look at their game. Ultimately at the end of the day, the achievements are for you no?

 

[120v]

i like. i was afraid they were going whole hog in making something different but i can log onto this and adjust right away

 

[Gavin Stevens]

Any chance they will actually bother to update their iOS app now? Because this shits old as hell, barely functional and the messaging is lightyears behind anything else...

 

[Kadayi]

Any chance they will actually bother to update their iOS app now? Because this shits old as hell, barely functional and the messaging is lightyears behind anything else...

They mentioned a mobile update this year

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/1697194621363928453