Valve Announces Major Steam Update, Opens Beta to Public
Valve Announces Major Steam Update, Opens Beta to Public
Posted 02/24/2010 at 6:56am
| by Paul Lilly
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Valve on Tuesday announced a new version of Steam currently in public beta form. The opt-in beta is available now to all Steam users, new and old.
"In the last 12 months, Steam has grown 200 percent," Valve said. "There are now 25 million users, 1000+ games, 12 billion player minutes per month, and 75 billion Steam client minutes per month. To accommodate this growth, a new Steam client has been created."
The updated client includes a bunch of upgrades, most noticeably to the client's UI. As part of that, Steam now puts a much bigger emphasis on "friend-related info," making it easier to track what games your friends are playing and invite them for a frag session.
Other updated features include better game organization, a new downloads view, a new central aggregated news page, and other odds and ends.
If you want to check it out for yourself, click here and then select "UI Update" under Beta Participation.
Image Credit: Valve
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szore
February 28, 2010 at 8:33pm
I paid $60, for a digital download of MW2, the game is installed and i've played it, and the last 2 weeks everytime i try to play the game, 'STEAM' pops up tells me the game is 'unavailable'.
What the freak?
And how about a discount for digital downloads?
Oh yeah, that $ thing again...
Steam is sh** its garbage, the account has already been hijacked twice.
Caboose
March 01, 2010 at 7:28am
Waa! Waa! Waa!
Steam is just fine. You seem to be in the minority that has issues. As for your account being "hijacked twice" usually I suggest to my users when they are concerned with someone getting in to an account of their, they change their password and security question. Passwords of 8characters containing letters and numbers help big time. And not simple, easy to guess ones like "password1". And then there are security questions that only you would know. That helps a lot.
But I'm sure you do that already, don't you?
I've had my Steam account since Valve first launched Steam, and not once has my account been compromised!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
szore
February 25, 2010 at 7:29am
is making money. Every where you go on steam all they do is try to sell sell sell sell sell sell
sell sell sell
more money more money
$$$$$$$$
And the vast majority of games they are CONSTANTLY trying to sell sell sell
are GARBAGE!
Caboose
February 26, 2010 at 8:03pm
They're a business. What do you expect them to do?
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
mesiah
February 24, 2010 at 9:24pm
What really needs to be added is the ability to keep saved game data when uninstalling steam. If for some reason steam gets corrupted and you need to uninstall it but forget to go through and back up all your saved game information, kiss it goodbye because steam uninstalls all of your games along with itsself. After I was forced to do a reinstall I lost hundreds of hours worth of playtime over several different games, simply because I was naive enough to think that steam would leave the games, or atleast the saved files intact.
bigrigross
February 24, 2010 at 10:27am
I tried the beta UI. Problem was that it caused an MW2 update of 7GB. I contacted steam and they have yet to give me an answer about why. Luckily im on my college network so it didnt take long to download but its taking up space on my SSD for no reason. Anyone else have this problem.
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