The New Steam is here!

[Patrick Wolf]

I joined the beta this morning, 8 hours later it officially releases. lol

I like it.

http://store.steampowered.com/uiupdate

 

[thedosbox]

The new UI is nice, especially the game-specific pages. I still use the mini-list 90% of the time though.

Unfortunately, they've also changed the forums in an attempt to keep in-line with the new look (white text, very dark background). Using their forums is like a throwback to the bad old days of the web when EVERY "kewl" site had that eyestrain inducing look.

 

[GhettoFob]

Looks cool so far.

 

[cplpro]

Better than before. Looks nice.

 

[Ika]

What I don't like is how it's gonna take me a while to get used to the new UI. I still think it's too bright.

Also I was using the beta for a while but I think it started causing my CS to crash, so I took it off. Hopefuly they've fixed any outstanding issues with it.

 

[pontifex]

gonna take a bit to get used too. Everything used to be so concise, now it seems like there's no boundaries and stuff is all over the place.

 

[Zenoth]

gonna take a bit to get used too. Everything used to be so concise, now it seems like there's no boundaries and stuff is all over the place.

Agreed.

Also what's going on with dark backgrounds nowadays? Is it a new trend to respect from any site makers and web masters around? New sites or forums UI is often composed of dark colors in the background or "behind" the text, and the text itself is often too bright and provokes eye-strain in combination with the dark background, it's just... I don't get it, are the guys designing those UIs even looking at them?

Anyway, I guess that changing something for the sake of changing it was a good idea, I for one don't think that it was nowhere near necessary, although I don't think that Valve is doing it out of necessity either, I'm not actually sure why they're doing a new interface, I thought it was good enough as it was.

 

[Ika]

Agreed.

Also what's going on with dark backgrounds nowadays? Is it a new trend to respect from any site makers and web masters around? New sites or forums UI is often composed of dark colors in the background or "behind" the text, and the text itself is often too bright and provokes eye-strain in combination with the dark background, it's just... I don't get it, are the guys designing those UIs even looking at them?

Anyway, I guess that changing something for the sake of changing it was a good idea, I for one don't think that it was nowhere near necessary, although I don't think that Valve is doing it out of necessity either, I'm not actually sure why they're doing a new interface, I thought it was good enough as if was.

I realized a while back that I preferred white on black than black on white. sure, text stands out more, but i'd rather not have eystrain from the entire monitor blaring white.

 

[manimal]

I dont like this new UI. It feels like health care being rammed down our throats. To MANDATE everyone use this is unamerican. Where Is my freedom?

Just got pulled over in arizona for wearing a sombrero while eating a burrito. Never mind...

Nice update!

 

[Sylvanas]

I dont like this new UI. It feels like health care being rammed down our throats. To MANDATE everyone use this is unamerican. Where Is my freedom?

Just got pulled over in arizona for wearing a sombrero while eating a burrito. Never mind...

Nice update!

You just wanted to make a politcal statement in a PC Gaming forum.

 

[Lonyo]

I dont like this new UI. It feels like health care being rammed down our throats. To MANDATE everyone use this is unamerican. Where Is my freedom?

Steam has never been about freedom. In fact it's the Big Brother of DRM.
Steam itself is un-American, as a concept and a product.

You gave up your freedom when you started buying games on Steam. It will only get worse from here, as you can already see with this update.
No freedom to do things you want with your games or account, and now no freedom to keep using the old UI! The slippery slope towards totalitarianism is already well on its way.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Been using it for a long time. It's obviously a better UI in every conceivable way. Anyone who disagrees is wrong. This is not a matter of opinion.

 

[TwinsenTacquito]

The new UI is literally worse in every way. I cannot see how a person could argue it is better. Everything that took one click now takes 2 to 4. They rounded all the edges and enlarged everything. Sweet, round edges, I give a shit. As if steam didn't hog memory enough, now it has to hog VRAM too.

The new friends list starts with invites instead of friends. It's not an invites list. IT IS A FRIENDS LIST! Why?! Might as well put a list of all 50 states on there before the friends list too. Might come in handy.

The shift-tab menu is covered in shit. I want my friends list, and 2 or 3 chat windows open to talk to friends. I don't want a friends list, another friends list that only shows 4 friends, news that shows nothing, achievements list that means nothing because steam keeps resetting all my achievements anyway, and whatever other crap they threw on there just to eat up VRAM and make it hard to fit 3 chat windows on there.

The games list is gigantic and annoying, I didn't have to scroll before. It didn't work at all for the first hour that I updated, and it didn't for any of my friends either. We could start a lobby, but none of us could join anyone else's lobby or join any games. "Disconnect: Session no longer available."

At least make it so I can customize or turn off any of this new shit. I couldn't move that invites bar, and it defaults to open. Just to make a 1 click operation into a 5 click operation and a scroll. Make it so I can turn the games list back into a size that isn't gigantic. No, the text doesn't have to be size 120, you can put it back to 12 so it's all one one screen instead of 7 pages long.


But other than being worse in literally every way, it's ok. Did I mention it sucks moldy animal penis?

 

[totalnoob]

Did they reduce the insane loading time for games like Team Fortress 2 yet? The first map you load during a new game usually takes like 60 seconds..and it's impossible to press the "cancel" button.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

The new UI is literally worse in every way. I cannot see how a person could argue it is better.

This is not correct.

 

[zerocool84]

Been using it for a long time. It's obviously a better UI in every conceivable way. Anyone who disagrees is wrong. This is not a matter of opinion.

this

 

[Lonyo]

This is not correct.

So he goes through his reasons why it's worse, and you just say "This is no correct"?
I find your argument compelling and I cannot help but agree with your well reasoned objection.

 

[Ben90]

I hate the subpixel anti aliasing on the font. Its too small and is a lot harder to read than the older font. That's my only complaint

 

[shortylickens]

Steam has never been about freedom. In fact it's the Big Brother of DRM.
Steam itself is un-American, as a concept and a product.

You gave up your freedom when you started buying games on Steam. It will only get worse from here, as you can already see with this update.
No freedom to do things you want with your games or account, and now no freedom to keep using the old UI! The slippery slope towards totalitarianism is already well on its way.

 

[Mike Gayner]

Did they reduce the insane loading time for games like Team Fortress 2 yet? The first map you load during a new game usually takes like 60 seconds..and it's impossible to press the "cancel" button.

I'm pretty sure Valve-designed cancel buttons have only ever been cosmetic.

 

[TwinsenTacquito]

I hate the subpixel anti aliasing on the font. Its too small and is a lot harder to read than the older font. That's my only complaint

Is that what that is? It just seems... oddly blurry. Hard to read and I couldn't explain why. Oh, I see what it is. The background of chat windows is a gradient, so the top of them is hard to read because it's grey on grey. But I guess it's prettier, right?

 

[Maximilian]

New UI sucks. Change for the sake of change is usually a waste of time.

 

[Tristicus]

It's a great looking UI. Other things have gotten UI updates like Facebook and Youtube, and they sucked, but Steam did it right.

 

[stag3]

agreed, i prefer the old ui as it was easy and less clicks to get what i want.
anyone figure out how to remove the games when you right click the task bar icon?
i'm used to clicking it to goto games, then finding the game i want
i keep launching the first game now out of habit argh..

 

[Liet]

I'll have to wait until tomorrow to have a look.... but more clicks is always bad.

I dare anyone here to name a program revision where more clicks for the same result was an improvement. DARE YOUUUUU!