Steam - Changes coming to the upcoming Tab

Chairmanchuck (另一个我) · Jul 11, 2018

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1699429118305015582

Some changes. If you follow a curator or dev/pub, they will be shown on the upcoming tab.

The upcoming tab also filters now from your preferences, so you most likely wont see any Asset Flips or "Putin vs Boobs vs Trump".

The previous iteration of Upcoming was just too unfiltered for most customers to use it effectively. A piece of data for you: the old Upcoming list was only clicked on by less than half of one percent of customers whereas Top Sellers is clicked on by almost four percent. It's clear to us that a brief (and sometimes very brief) spot on Steam's front page isn't useful if your game is shown to a random set of customer

Also its a bit surreal to see Yakuza, Shenmue or MH in that promotional image by Valve. Imagine 6-7 years ago, we would have believed its fake.

Iichter · Jul 11, 2018

Steam's new UI slowly taking shape...

Hektor · Jul 11, 2018

Changes looking good.

Especially the part where you still have access a completely unfiltered view.

Randomly Generated · Jul 11, 2018

Seems like the new UI is coming in pieces rather than a big update?

alosarjos · Jul 11, 2018

Seems they are implementing the UI changes to the HTML of the website in small portions instead of the complete overhaul. (Which is good for them for debugging but not so much spectacular for us...)

Chairmanchuck (另一个我) · Jul 11, 2018

This is how mine looks like now:

Nabs · Jul 11, 2018

I like it a lot already.

OniluapL · Jul 11, 2018

That looks pretty good indeed.

GameZone · Jul 11, 2018

Give me the new Big Picture Mode.

dude · Jul 11, 2018

Nice. This seems much more useful.

Anno · Jul 11, 2018

Seems like a really nice change. Also there's an upcoming release queue at the bottom? It empty for me right now. A discovery queue just for upcoming games would be kinda nice though.

crimsonheadGCN · Jul 11, 2018

I really like the update.

galv · Jul 11, 2018

Here I thought Steam needed some serious curation and that Valve have made zero effort to update the store...

Good on Valve to finally realize the problem.

In before "Valve wants you to do all their curation for them" comments.

Memphis-Ahn · Jul 11, 2018

Just found out about three interesting games thanks to this. Nice.

ThreePi · Jul 11, 2018

There's a MegaMan collection coming to Steam?

crimsonheadGCN · Jul 11, 2018

ThreePi said:
There's a MegaMan collection coming to Steam?

There's already 2 collections on Steam and the X collection will come to Steam when it's released.

F-Pina · Jul 11, 2018

This is interesting.
Also cool to see how everyone's steam front page looks like.

Gelf · Jul 11, 2018

I really like the look of this. Its already far more relevant to me then any method of discovery they've attempted to provide so far.

Dinjoralo · Jul 11, 2018

Thank you... I can actually look at stuff coming soon to Steam. Maybe. I'll have to test-drive it.

shintoki · Jul 11, 2018

I just want a lean steam, its better, but let me take pictures off

sredgrin · Jul 11, 2018

Looking better already. Discovered Wayward Souls is finally getting its PC port in the popular upcoming tab, been wanting it for a couple years now.

Arulan · Jul 11, 2018

It's already working very well.

Steam is so far ahead of any other storefront, and it continues to see updates regularly.

Ge0force · Jul 12, 2018

This is a great improvement! I hope Valve continues updating and improving their existing screens. Personal preferences is the key to finding new games you may like.

Parsnip · Jul 12, 2018

Good stuff.

langgi · Jul 12, 2018

This is really cool, but the only way to access it is by clicking 'more upcoming releases' on store home page?

It should be on default homepage tbh, after the featured banners & special offers. It's cleaner than the current homepage layout.

Durante · Jul 12, 2018

It seems to work rather well.

I mean, I'm not a huge fan of DQ, but Steam can't really know this from my Steam history :P
VC4 and Bloodstained are two of the upcoming games I'm looking forward to most.

(Also, it seems like "changes coming" with these UI things on Steam is often "changes are here")

Deleted member 1781 · Jul 12, 2018

That's a good change.

Skyfireblaze · Jul 12, 2018

Umm on the risk to sound dumb, where do I access the Upcoming page inside the client? o.o

Chairmanchuck (另一个我) · Jul 12, 2018

Skyfireblaze said:
Umm on the risk to sound dumb, where do I access the Upcoming page inside the client? o.o

Mainpage, go to the Popular Upcoming tab, scroll down and click "Upcoming".

Skyfireblaze · Jul 12, 2018

Chairmanchuck said:
Mainpage, go to the Popular Upcoming tab, scroll down and click "Upcoming".

Ah thanks!

Deleted member 23094 · Jul 12, 2018

The upcoming games section was utterly useless before, this makes it something I will bother looking at from time to time, so yeah job well done on that front.

Ascheroth · Jul 12, 2018

That new page does a pretty nice job on a first glance.

iceblade · Jul 12, 2018

Yeah, really liking this update. The changes they've been deploying as of late seem well thought out and useful, and it might just be me but they really seem to be making Steam easier to use, and better able to help you find what you're looking for. I also like the kind of "frosted glass" aesthetic they've been using on things like the tabs (in chat) and the backgrounds (in the developer pages).

Hamchan · Jul 12, 2018

Yes, I like this. The less garbage I see the better.

LRB1983 · Jul 12, 2018

Whatever they do I hope they don't remove unfiltered view. I fear they make something like google did time ago with its always on safesearch at some point.

Tizoc · Jul 12, 2018

I just learned about this and so far I found one game recommended to me that I quite liked if only for its banner XD

90% of my Upcoming, Recommended tab are games I already wishlisted though.

GiantEnemyCrab · Oct 19, 2018

I didn't know where else to post this:

On the Steam store page when I go to "New releases" below, all the images in the list won't load and if I inspect it (I'm using Firefox), it says the connection is not secure.

The owner of cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.

And advanced info:

cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: a248.e.akamai.net, *.akamaihd-staging.net, *.akamaized.net, *.akamaihd.net, *.akamaized-staging.net Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

I had this issue for a long time now, first I thought Steam would fix it but apparently not. Maybe it's on my end.

Anyone else have this issue?

AlanOC91 · Oct 19, 2018

GiantEnemyCrab said:
I didn't know where else to post this:

On the Steam store page when I go to "New releases" below, all the images in the list won't load and if I inspect it (I'm using Firefox), it says the connection is not secure.

The owner of cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.

And advanced info:

cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: a248.e.akamai.net, *.akamaihd-staging.net, *.akamaized.net, *.akamaihd.net, *.akamaized-staging.net Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

I had this issue for a long time now, first I thought Steam would fix it but apparently not. Maybe it's on my end.

Anyone else have this issue?

I had this issue with some other sites recently. Checked and noticed my hosting provider moved me over to ipv6. Rang them up and asked them to be put back to ipv4 and things have seemed fine since.

GiantEnemyCrab · Oct 19, 2018

AlanOC91 said:
I had this issue with some other sites recently. Checked and noticed my hosting provider moved me over to ipv6. Rang them up and asked them to be put back to ipv4 and things have seemed fine since.

Thanks!

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