Valve To Overhaul for Steam GUI

#5652944

WhiteLightning

Moderator

2019-03-22 08:51

Nice more bloatware in the app.

#5652946

cryohellinc

2019-03-22 08:56

Indeed, more bloat. I prefer steam the way it was back in the day - nice and simple. Personally, from all those features steam has now, I use 20% tops. But then again, if they keep an option to disable stuff that you don't need then I'm fine with additional stuff. If people want something, let them use it, just don't make it mandatory. Give people Choice.

#5652949

The Goose

2019-03-22 09:05

WhiteLightning:

Nice more bloatware in the app.

Could you elaborate.

#5652975

fantaskarsef

2019-03-22 09:59

Meh, I was wishing for a more clearer look too. As well as mostly, a more responsive and logical market interface.

#5652981

Perjantai

2019-03-22 10:07

Finally.. I hope it will bring some much needed features to easily organize bigger game librarys.

#5652996

WhiteLightning

Moderator

2019-03-22 10:58

The Goose:

Could you elaborate.

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The Goose:

Could you elaborate.

Features i will not ever use. More useless memory usage. They should be start using modules to save some.

#5653004

Richard Nutman

2019-03-22 11:26

Vast majority of the time I never even open Steam app. All my games have desktop shortcuts that I use.

#5653010

RealNC

2019-03-22 11:39

Let me guess, it's going to be yet another desktop application that looks like a mobile app. What happened to desktop computing? What the heck is going on?

#5653011

Embra

2019-03-22 11:43

UGH! ... Is steam becoming the huge ugly monster so many companies strife to be??

#5653017

Alessio1989

2019-03-22 11:52

The Goose:

Could you elaborate.

Software bloat is a process whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower, use more memory, disk space or processing power, or have higher hardware requirements than the previous version—whilst making only dubious user-perceptible improvements or suffering from feature creep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bloat Let's find something that is not bloatware in that screenshot. Hint: all the "library" should do in Steam is just a collection of games symbolic links

#5653023

XP-200

2019-03-22 12:16

Although my main use of steam is to fire up a game and occasionally throw my money at it during sales, i doubt anything here will have any major impact on what i do with it already.....although if it helps improve steamVR with third party HDMs then that would be nice.

#5653065

vbetts

Moderator

2019-03-22 13:39

Yakk:

Updated GUI was sorely needed.

I strongly agree with this. And Big screen Mode needs updated bad.

#5653067

emperorsfist

2019-03-22 13:46

If it's customizable and responsive, I don't mind.

#5653071

Ricepudding

2019-03-22 13:55

Can they add an option to get rid of all the crap that get released? don't want to see 10 million B**B anime simulator dating games, Rather see the good games. Kinda makes me sad i could be missing another great indie game like Bastion because the indie section is just full of tat 😏 The GUI looked fine before, they keep adding too much that you have to scroll down now to see the useful stuff. Just want something clean and simple that i can customize to my liking, if i don't wanna see a certain type of genre then let me do that

#5653074

emperorsfist

2019-03-22 14:03

Ricepudding:

Can they add an option to get rid of all the crap that get released? don't want to see 10 million B**B anime simulator dating games, Rather see the good games. Kinda makes me sad i could be missing another great indie game like Bastion because the indie section is just full of tat :/ The GUI looked fine before, they keep adding too much that you have to scroll down now to see the useful stuff. Just want something clean and simple that i can customize to my liking, if i don't wanna see a certain type of genre then let me do that

Can't you already filter out genres or types of games that don't interest you? I distinctively remember getting rid of visual novels this way.

#5653075

lucidus

2019-03-22 14:05

emperorsfist:

Can't you already filter out genres or types of games that don't interest you? I distinctively remember getting rid of visual novels this way.

Yeah, you can. I don't even see that stuff at all.

#5653079

emperorsfist

2019-03-22 14:11

lucidus:

Yeah, you can. I don't even see that stuff at all.

I mean, there's the "not interested" checkmark that (after a few of these on a certain genre) already modifies the recommendation algorithm, and I am fairly positive that you can manually get rid of entire genres from the get-go (I'm at work now, so I can't check). What I would like is the ability to filter out the "gaming news" bar that appears in the library under selected games. Or at least to set preferred sites. I can't stand RPS, but I would like to have more of Eurogamer, for example.

#5653081

lucidus

2019-03-22 14:14

emperorsfist:

I mean, there's the "not interested" checkmark that (after a few of these on a certain genre) already modifies the recommendation algorithm, and I am fairly positive that you can manually get rid of entire genres from the get-go (I'm at work now, so I can't check). What I would like is the ability to filter out the "gaming news" bar that appears in the library under selected games. Or at least to set preferred sites. I can't stand RPS, but I would like to have more of Eurogamer, for example.

Yeah, I'd like to remove all gaming news or at least tweak it. I had stopped going to those sites over a decade ago but have disdain for them since 2014. I wouldn't mind blocking thrash like rps, polygon, and waypoint. Yep their recommendations are determined by what you own, wishlisted and their own ai. You can also remove VR, early access, and tags (like walking simulator and novels) and the not interested button.

#5653090

Cave Waverider

2019-03-22 14:41

I just hope they won't do away with the classic "Small Mode" option.

#5653091

emperorsfist

2019-03-22 14:45

RzrTrek:

https://i.imgur.com/vRoswte.jpg @Ricepudding i know it's painful, but you can just "ignore" all of those games manually (which is what I've done), took me little over an hour (more than 100 pages), just click on the "anime" tag and then block everything. ~~However I wish the process had been much simpler~~ (not that I want to censor, or tell people what they can't buy), but I'm definitely not their targets audience; hence why I blocked it all. I know you can active some kind of "warning" on the community pages and block mature content, violence and blood with a few clicks in your settings (which would effectively turn your Steam client into EGS and Chinese territory of censorship), but I think that's taking it a bit too far and I'm not easily offended; just easily triggered by low-effort anime jigsaw puzzles. https://i.imgur.com/ZsJq1sB.jpg Apparently I had overlooked my settings and forgot about the "exclude" tag feature...

lucidus:

Yeah, I'd like to remove all gaming news or at least tweak it. I had stopped going to those sites over a decade ago but have disdain for them since 2014. I wouldn't mind blocking thrash like rps, polygon, and waypoint. Yep their recommendations are determined by what you own, wishlisted and their own ai. You can also remove VR, early access, and tags (like walking simulator and novels) and the not interested button.

So, all that @Ricepudding wants is already there XD