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Valve Announces Major Update to Steam Community.
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crimsonheadGCN
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There is 3 new things in the client. A My Profile drop-down menu, a Friend's Section and a Community Section. No News.
I wonder if the Steam User Forums will still be around after this update?
I wonder if the Steam User Forums will still be around after this update?
They should stay.
I shouldn't have to install the client itself just to have access to a forum.
Seriously I bet they coded those changes this weekend after reading the ToS thread. WHO'S CRYING NOW?
Seems unlikely. Maybe just for general Steam stuff, but there's no reason for the game forums with the discussion sections of the hubs.
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
You could just sign into the Steam Community page then and go to the discussions there. Not saying it will be in the client only.
No mention of Half-Life. Valve is trying to make us forget about Half-Life 3 so they can cancel it subtly.
Dota and L4D are more important anyways
Also hats.
blackMamba1187
Member
Maybe big-picture mode can stream what your playing to other users, like with onlive, and thus be community driven. (don't hate on my dreams)
Aww Wendi, your classic Valve derping always brightens up my day.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Ugh, just blow up the entire forums. Bunch of horrible horrible people.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
I can't wait to see how the achievements interface gets overhauled. Current set-up makes everything way more difficult than it should be.
They announced Big Picture Mode at GDC '11. The last UI update for Steam was in April of '10.
They announced these Community features today and they're almost ready for beta testing. That's all I'm sayin'.
I wanted them to upgrade the Store pages, so I can see this being a good thing. High Rez Pictures :O, maybe showing user content for the games, etc. Better impressions for the games being sold.
What I'm still hoping they add in though is a service wide Beacon system like they have for XBL. Let people put what games they actively want to play up. You know, for those dead games no one plays, largely because they long in and see no one playing. Though you may have 15-20 people wanting to play.
What I'm still hoping they add in though is a service wide Beacon system like they have for XBL. Let people put what games they actively want to play up. You know, for those dead games no one plays, largely because they long in and see no one playing. Though you may have 15-20 people wanting to play.
I just want an easy link to the jpg so its easier to upload to imgur or wherever
maniac-kun
Member
Great looking forward to it.
Why not just copy the link to the image on Steam?
They didn't update the community portion at the time, though. They merely reskinned it and that's about it.
Here's steam community from 2008: http://web.archive.org/web/20080618095417/http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Valve
And here it is now: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Valve
They added a bunch of stuff since the UI update, like screenshots, workshop, new comments system etc. but they never did a full redesign since it launched in 2008 (or 2007?).
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Applications.
Mavromatis
Member
I think they missed DOTA on that list of Steam creations.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Game Hubs looks great.
Hmm, I notice some absences from the list of franchises Valve associates itself with. >_>
Hey Niro, stop teasing. Thats my job
Can't wait for the screenshots and videos of that.
Dota 2 is still in beta. Excluding that game, CS and TF have the largest current player base.
Everyone is over-thinking this.
Glass Rebel
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PixyJunket
Member
I bet there will be badges for clicking on pictures.
So are they going to allow us to capture game video with steam now? They mention videos, but steam currently doesn't have the functionality to record video. So is this mention just the current form of videos (youtube links) or will they update it to let us capture video (maybe even a live stream service?)
Jake Tower
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Nabs
Member
You can't remove demos, alphas and betas from Origin. Oh, you were talking about Steam, nvm.
Jake Tower
Banned
Junior drive-by.
hbkajshdvfbkjhvgkahsgdfka
Member
I'm pretty sure its a Steam side problem.
For example this counts as 9 games instead of 1. Valve also does it for some of their games.
Some may say 'who cares bro!', but the thread is about overhauling the Steam community, and a DLC skin or unit is not a game.
Cool, I hope better categorization/organization of your library is one of those to-be-revealed features.
If you actually paid a shred of attention, it was juniors who were making up a majority of the defense force.
If you actually paid a shred of attention, it was juniors who were making up a majority of the defense force.
crimsonheadGCN
Banned
I think a day or two will be about the revamped Trading and Looking for Group features. I think Valve is planning to use the new status, "Looking for Trade" and "Looking to Play," to allow for Steam users to search for people trade with or play a specific game with.