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Valve is working on a new "Big Picture" mode, calendar, and a new review system.
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I totally agree with this comment. I only opened the Steam client recently to play Doki Doki Literature Club. The last time I used it was over a year ago.
It's bare bones and half-assed. There's very little if any features or sorting options to them beyond viewing global stats, no way that I know of to look at hidden achievements, too easy to cheat and unlock them all. Plus they go the xbox route of only having a flat percentage of completion tied to games so you can 100% a game but as soon as its dlc comes out your 100% goes down to 80 or whatever unless you buy the dlc and complete that too. At least on playstation you can get the platinum trophy and that's always displayed next to your percentage so even if dlc ruins it people will know you still completed it.
It'd be nice to at least have a dedicated section to achievements under your name on the client, like where badges and the activity feed are. I can't in good faith expect them to start giving me steam wallet credit for achievements like sony's doing with trophies right now but having a dedicated section for them like on the other platforms would be a good start.
I doubt many care that they're easily cheated. Achievements are really only for the player. Nobody cares about anyone elses. The narcissists in us like to think they do, but not really. Only time I've ever cared about anyone else is when someone on my friend's list (obviously) used an unlocker to spam my activity blog with hundreds and hundreds of achievements. I was not impressed, In fact, it so annoyed me (on many levels) that I removed him from my friends list. Other than that, I could care less. Valve only cares about achievements because they're an effective form of viral advertising (on the activity feed).
One of the greatest comments I've read. Had me rolling over in real.
Maybe they will merge the two UI's into one UI, one UI to rule them all.
I mean you can use BPM with a mouse just fine even though it's obviously not its main goal and lacks certain features of the desktop UI.
If they started the design from scratch I could see them at least trying to unify the two.
I mean you can use BPM with a mouse just fine even though it's obviously not its main goal and lacks certain features of the desktop UI.
If they started the design from scratch I could see them at least trying to unify the two.
"we don't sell ad space"? Uh I didn't expect that. I always thought those big banners for big launches were paid for.
This is the result of not having any competition. Origin is for EA games, Uplay for Ubisoft games, Microsoft wishes, but ends up half assed.
This. I want a sound made when I get the pop up as well as being able to read what I did to unlock it.
Well, Origin has been updated fairly extensively, to the point that it's a decent platform now.
This just showed up on the beta client:
Does this resolve the issue?
Oh goodie. I remember when the last Review update came out, a whole lot of peoples games fell to either Mixed or Negative.
Curator Reviews actually have that already.
Also between the revenue they make on Steam, TF2, CSGO and DOTA2 they have effectively unlimited money so they just don't have the pressure to ship content or updates like other companies.
Maybe 2018 will be the year they finally show off one of their VR games.
Not an updated Steam Controller either... :(
I just want comfier buttons/bumpers/flippers/touchpad buttons that require less pressure to activate.
Speaking of Valve games, I still firmly believe Stars of Blood -- a "space pirate" FPS -- has been or will be rebooted as a Source 2 title. Not that I'm expecting it this year either way, but 2018 would be a great time to capitalise on the hunger for an MP-oriented sci-fi FPS as Bungie seems intent on pissing away any and all of its goodwill with non-apology after non-apology for the myriad of questionable design decisions in Destiny 2, there's a giant question mark over how player-friendly the monetisation will be in Anthem, and Star Citizen is still firmly in alpha.
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What?
This is the first time I'm hearing of that Stars of Blood game.
Hi, everyone!
I'm Toni Domínguez (@AlegreDominguez), author of those tweets. I'm still shocked they've gone this far. Just in case you were wondering, no release dates were specified for any of the features.
Another fact they shared was 10% of the users play with the Steam Controller, which in my opinion is something huge considering how many active players Steam has.
Also, as you may have seen, there's a graph of the amount of concurrent Steam players in one of those pictures of the presentation. What I'm going to say is obvious but the impact of PUBG made the graph rise considerably.
Any questions? I check twitter multiple times a day ;)
I'm Toni Domínguez (@AlegreDominguez), author of those tweets. I'm still shocked they've gone this far. Just in case you were wondering, no release dates were specified for any of the features.
Another fact they shared was 10% of the users play with the Steam Controller, which in my opinion is something huge considering how many active players Steam has.
Also, as you may have seen, there's a graph of the amount of concurrent Steam players in one of those pictures of the presentation. What I'm going to say is obvious but the impact of PUBG made the graph rise considerably.
Any questions? I check twitter multiple times a day ;)
Big Picture mode looks the same, but the main client now looks great!!!This just showed up on the beta client:
Does this resolve the issue?
Valve's never really spoken about it. Gabe confirmed back in 2012 that it was in development and eventually cancelled, but that's it.
Uh, okay.
Anyway, it would be cool if they managed to make desktop ui and big picture seamless between modes, like BP is just a fullscreen desktop ui with design elements rearranged and embiggened.
YES IT FUCKING DOES OH MY GODThis just showed up on the beta client:
Does this resolve the issue?
Hi Toni!
By any chance did they also talk about improving (establishing is a more fitting term, actually) their communication with their customers/fanbase? Maybe hiring a communcations director or something? Or improving customer support at least?
Did they say when they're aiming to go live with this? Not that it matters that much in Valve time, but you never know...
And people say nobody uses it. That's, what, 1m-1.6m concurrent users using the Steam Controller? Is that number about right? Because if it is, that's pretty damn interesting.
They didn't talk about that. It was more focused on what they could do/were going to do for developers, even if they talked about some other stuff like the Big Picture update. Customer support has been great for me on Steam, though I've only needed some assistance when asking for a refund, so I haven't been on any situation that required an assistance that hasn't been well done before.
As I said on Twitter, no release dates yet.
One of the Powerpoint slides (which is here in this page, 2nd message) was showing a different UI concept for Big Picture mode, but they said it was just a concept. Don't expect it to look like that, but I'm sure they're working hard.
I feel like their customer support is better than they get credit for.
2 days ago I opened my first support ticket ever, I asked why Trails of Cold Steel is listed only as 'Partial Controller Support' even though Durante made sure even the launcher was usable with gamepad sand I got an answer just 5 hours later.
(Turns out you can't navigate the launcher with DirectInput).
Yeah, support is outsourced now. Possibly completely as Valve's employee count has dropped from ~360 in October 2016 to ~300 today as per the second slide in madjoki's post above.
Do you mean 20180? Well, yeah, I would expect it within the next ice age or two.
10% of concurrent users with a Steam controller, right (as opposed to overall)? I swear that lately I've been seeing more and more of my friends playing games with a controller of some sort. I don't suppose they mentioned anything else about the Steam Controller, perhaps anything about a revision?
When you see them delay a UI update by at least 6-8 month, you quickly realize what kind of time frame expectation you need to have for an actual game coming from them given the difference in scope.
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