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[flaxknuckles]

Looks great. Might get me to pop it open more often. I wish Valve would modernize Steam. Sucks that the number one platform looks like it's stuck in 2006.

They aren't perfect but Steam skins like Pressure 2 and Metro make Steam look a lot better.

 

[Easy_D]

How about they design it so it works in a small window like Steam? I fucking hate having to scroll past those giant-ass icons.

 

[Blam]

Properly implemented html/js is great for ui:s. Just so often not done properly.

I wasn't really being serious. Mostly snark.



AFAIK Origin uses the Qt toolkit. It is possible that the UI is designed in QML which is similarly declarative to JS.

Just saying this because I've seen many a web app use chromium and it hogs a shitload of resources for no reason. *cough* Discord *cough*

 

[gabbo]

They aren't perfect but Steam skins like Pressure 2 and Metro make Steam look a lot better.

I use Metro, and while I agree they're beter than default, Steam could use more chnages under the hood to really bring it up to date

 

[Mad Season]

ive been opted in and still cant get beta update...

 

[Mivey]

ive been opted in and still cant get beta update...

Probably a region thing, maybe based on your IP? EA doesn't acknowledge the update in their website yet (this one) so most users might have to wait for the normal release.

 

[Shifty]

The Steam client might not be a looker, but it has a large number of features that all competing systems are currently missing. It's also basically two clients at this point, for distinct use cases - the BPM client and the desktop client.

For sure, you'll hear no counter-argument from me there. I quite like what they've done with BPM, but wish they'd redeploy that tech for a new iteration of the non-BPM client.

Looks great. Might get me to pop it open more often. I wish Valve would modernize Steam. Sucks that the number one platform looks like it's stuck in 2006.

Properly implemented html/js is great for ui:s. Just so often not done properly.

This. Modern web standards (plus some older ones; AJAX, anyone?) and a browser implementation with reasonably intelligent caching would go a long way toward improving Steam's UX.

 

[Mechazawa]

Everything looks like Spotify now and I'm ok with that.

 

[Delusibeta]

lol, even with the screenshots, the demo accounts has a duplicates of Bejeweled 2.

So they looked at GoG Galaxy and told the dev team "do that" ?

Pretty much. GOG Galaxy is a decent design to copy, though.

 

[SOR5]

A lot cleaner, nice

 

[netBuff]

Currently you can not change the size of the tiles, so navigating through my library is actually worse (only slightly though) than before.

There's a slider on the top right of the current Origin client that allows for resizing the game tiles.

 

[Wowfunhappy]

Old one looked better. Still looks nicer than Steam though <_<

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

Have they improved the storefront? That's the worst part about origin imo. Steam's storefront is lightyears ahead of that.

On the whole, I don't mind origin aside from forced client updates or being forced to play offline.

 

[Pakoe]

Looks pretty good.