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Valve Announces Major Update to Steam Community.

i accidentally changed my name to "invid02 - watching olympics" while i was watching the olympics one night

i thought it was like a temporary status update but now it shows up under aliases this person has used, wtf lol
 
they're not reinventing the wheel, but they're definetly making the community aspect of steam more competent and competitive feature-wise.
 
Who is invited to the beta?

2 beta invites each are going out now to the first 50,000 recipients of the Pillar of the Steam Community badge. More invites will go out daily until we end the beta period and turn it live for everyone.

If you are not in the beta, you can check out the new stuff by going to these links:

Team Fortress 2 Game Hub: http://steamcommunity.com/app/440
Steam Community Beta Group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/NewSteamCommunityBeta
Beta group discussions: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/NewSteamCommunityBeta/discussions
 
Steam Community said:
2 beta invites each are going out now to the first 50,000 recipients of the Pillar of the Steam Community badge. More invites will go out daily until we end the beta period and turn it live for everyone.
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Ooh, I knew I got that badge for a reason! Although it says the first 50,000, so I'm not sure if I was one of the first. Anyone have any more info on this (like when the invites are going out if they haven't already)?

Also this Friends update reminds me of another social networking site...what was its name again?

EDIT: Ack, beaten by a hair!
 
Weird, facebook on steam. Don't really care about any of this stuff except for one one thing.

Nicknames (Finally! Praise the Gaben!)

Awesome, people without facebook accounts are locked out of the community Beta. Way to fail Valve.
 
I'm really thinking that the Steam User Forums will be phased out soon. They're taking feedback about the update within the community discussion areas and not the Steam forums like they normally do.

And the discussions areas can be divided into sub-discussion areas, so they can probably create a general Steam group that everyone is automatically added to and have General, Community, Hardware, OS, and Off-topic sub-discussion areas.
 
What was the Pillar of the Steam Community badge? Getting all achievements during the summer sale? Cause it took forever to get the last vote one :(
 
crimsonheadGCN said:
I'm really thinking that the Steam User Forums will be phased out soon. They're taking feedback about the update within the community discussion areas and not the Steam forums like they normally do.
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Yeah, game groups receiving their own discussion boards gave me the same impression.
 
Wario64 said:
What was the Pillar of the Steam Community badge? Getting all achievements during the summer sale? Cause it took forever to get the last vote one :(
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No it was the one that required you to link your Facebook account, post a video via YouTube, post a comment on a picture, etc....
 
Wario64 said:
What was the Pillar of the Steam Community badge? Getting all achievements during the summer sale? Cause it took forever to get the last vote one :(
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It was the general Steam Community achievement. It included tasks like linking your account to Facebook, posting a recommendation and posting a screenshot.
 
Wario64 said:
What was the Pillar of the Steam Community badge? Getting all achievements during the summer sale? Cause it took forever to get the last vote one :(
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Posting comments, screenshots, videos, linking facebook...etc. I never got it because I didn't post a video to youtube.
 
Wario64 said:
What was the Pillar of the Steam Community badge? Getting all achievements during the summer sale? Cause it took forever to get the last vote one :(
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No, it's independent of the Sale. You can still do it now.

Edit: Oh, you already have it. I assumed the past tense implied that you believe you may have missed it, haha.
 
Just got my invites. FWIW, my profile says I got my badge on Jul 12, 2012 11:09am (PDT).
 
oh my god finally nicknames...this will help so much with all the people in hon/dotagaf who change their names every day
 
Unlocked: Jul 14, 2012 7:38pm

No invites here. Looks like you had to be day 1 or something. If I remember correctly, badges went up as soon as the sale started, which was on the 12th.
 
Weird, my inventory isn't showing the Steam category right now, even though there's definitely stuff in it.

Edit: Okay, now it's back. But no invite :(
 
Got mine, most of it is still using the old layout but I guess now it's kind of like a facebook clone as with all social network type things sadly. The achievement feed in the friends part is crazy cluttered, omg :O
 
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