Oooo, Shiny: Valve Releases New Steam Client
Oooo, Shiny: Valve Releases New Steam Client
Posted 04/26/2010 at 9:34pm
| by Nathan Grayson
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Don’t get us wrong: Steam’s a wonderful platform built on a rock-solid foundation of functionality and excellent deals. We wouldn’t trade that for the world. But we’re also incredibly vain people, and we have to admit that – for a while there – we had to imagine other game platforms when we were in bed with Steam. Playing games. On our laptops.
Now, though, everything’s shiny and new again. Valve’s completely overhauled Steam, upping the platform’s geek chic factor with a brand new coat of paint. On top of that, the new Steam brings with it a slew of new features, which Valve has handily outlined here. The long and short of it, however, is this: a revamped friends list, a customizable news feed, a more functional achievement system, and a games library that you don’t need a GPS to navigate.
So then, if you haven’t done it already, make with the downloading. Well, unless you’re a Mac user. Then, according to Valve, you’ll be playing the waiting game for a bit longer. “Soon” is the official word. Let’s be honest, though: you’ve already waited for years. What’s another month or two?
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ajax344
April 27, 2010 at 11:26am
The U.I. update is so awsome, it makes steam look less ill-legit to the masses, I dont have to hide steam anymore because it dosn't look horrible! And the spam filter sucks..
Danthrax66
April 27, 2010 at 8:14am
Fuck this spam filter, and all the web development staff at maximum pc you guys are assholes.
Neufeldt2002
April 27, 2010 at 7:30am
I HATE THE SPAM FILTER
Original post says: I love that it is no longer tied to IE since I uninstall IE. But much nicer with abit more detail but the SPAM FILTER BLOCKS LEGIT POSTS. >:-(
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Please fix the spam filter it does not work right.
Muerte
April 27, 2010 at 7:17am
Just like anything new, you'll have to get used to it. It is much prettier and so far I've been able to find everything I need. I do wonder why things need to be relabled. Like my games list was called Games, now its the Library. Not that it was hard to figure out just threw me for a second.
GFC
April 26, 2010 at 10:33pm
I'm most likely in the minority, but I really don't like the new UI. Maybe I'm just used to the old one, but this one just looks like someone just figured out photoshop has gradient in it or something. Also - google reader (popup) doesn't work in the new browser so it's not only badlooking, but also broken to me.
Mighty BOB!
April 26, 2010 at 10:17pm
Been using the beta of the new skin for a while. It took some getting used to.
savior
April 27, 2010 at 1:29am
soon as I heard the beta was out I updated it....been using it since, i enjoy it
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