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STEAM | September II 2014 - Ride the Lightning

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astrogamer

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Didn't see this until I decided to full screen my steam browser. I don't know why stealth is there. Maybe for the 5 minutes of Monaco I played or all the idling
 
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Freeza Under The Shower

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depending on how this curator group thing works, wouldn't it be easiest to make the neogaf group a curator anyway?

edit: oh, it already is. "follow this curator" is on the page group under curator. Bit hidden away.
 
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Nzyme32

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For reference

Discovery Update Changelist Sept 22nd, 2014

General
  • Changed ‘New Releases’ to ‘Popular New Releases’ to filter out less popular titles and provide a more functional release list.
  • Adding colored indicators wherever titles are listed that show the item is in your library, on your wishlist, or in your cart.
  • Updating the main ‘Games’ drop-down menu to link to tag pages for most popular genres. Browsing genres pages through these links now come with the benefit of the powerful filtering controls on the right-hand side of each tag page.
  • Adding a main ‘Software’ drop-down menu for quicker browsing to specific software genres.
  • Updated the visual design, layout and typography of the store to reflect a more contemporary Steam brand direction (also commonly referred to as “Making the store blue”).
  • Removed the ‘Recommended for you’ page. This page has been replaced by the entire home page of Steam.
  • Most areas of the store now default to showing you games only for the operating system you are currently browsing from. This can be overridden by changing the ‘Customize’ options in many sections or by removing the OS filter (for search results and genre pages).

Home Page
  • Updated with new visual styles.
  • Main capsule now includes recommendations based on games you’ve been playing.
  • Main capsule by default excludes titles that are already on your account. This setting can be changed by clicking the ‘customize’ button.
  • Main capsule added a ‘Customize’ button which lets you toggle showing Top Sellers, Early Access, Games you’ve already bought, Recommended for you, Pre-purchase, Software, DLC.
  • ‘New on Steam’ section now offers a ‘Customize’ button which lets you toggle showing Early Access, Games you’ve already bought, and Software.
  • ‘Recently Updated’ section now offers a ‘Customize’ button which lets you toggle showing Early Access, Games you’ve already bought, and Software.
  • Added a new ‘Recommended For You’ section to the right-hand side to highlight games that Steam recommends for you based on what your friends recommend, what's on your wishlist, or similar to games you have recently played.
  • Added Discovery Queue entry point (see below for details on Discovery Queue).
  • Added Steam Curators entry point (see below for details on Steam Curators).
  • Added a Recommendation Feed to the bottom of the home page. As you scroll down the page, this section shows you products recommended based on what you've recently played, what your friends recommend, what's on your wishlist, and well-reviewed titles from categories across Steam.

Added New Discovery Queue Feature
  • A queue of 12 titles personalized for each user, which includes recommended titles, new titles, and popular releases.
  • Added an entry point for the Discovery Queue on your home page, which takes you to the first title in your queue.
  • Each user has controls to customize their queue by toggling the inclusion of Early Access, Unreleased, or OS specific titles.
  • Added a link to queue from ‘for you’ drop-down menu.

Added New Steam Curators Feature
  • Added a display of popular curators to follow on your home page (Recommended curators will appear once there are enough popular curators in the system).
  • Once you follow one or more curator, the Steam Curator space on the Steam home page will show you specific titles recommended by curators you follow.
  • Added a link to Steam Curators from ‘for you’ drop-down menu.
  • Added a page where you can find all the products recommended by curators you follow, sorted by titles that are recommended by the most number of curators at the top.
  • On each product page, added a display of popular curators that recommend that title. If you follow any curators that recommend that title, those curators will be listed first.

Product Pages
  • Updated with new visual styles.
  • Added queue controls to each page so you can quickly jump to learning about another product.
  • Added a ‘Not Interested’ button to each product page so you can indicate which products you don’t wish to see recommended or featured to you.
  • Percentage of positive and negative reviews for each product is now summarized at the top of each product page.
  • Changed “Join Official Group” to “Follow” for games to more accurately describe the benefit of creating a relationship with that game. Following a game means you will see announcements from that game in your community activity feed.
  • Changed the order of features in the right-hand column to remove redundancies and prioritize friend activity.
  • For titles that are in your library, the page now move all the relevant information to be together in one place, so you can see the game is already in your library, launch the game, see how much you’ve played, and write a review.
  • DRM is more clearly called out in right-hand column.
  • Added links to view any 3rd-party EULAs required by the product.
  • Added a screenshot viewer for quickly viewing high resolution screenshots.
  • DLC lists on product pages now indicate which items are already in your library, on your wishlist, or in your cart.
  • Updated the product page background images to have different masking and coloring applied to match new visual styles.
  • Written description and special announcement areas are now default to being collapsed to make it easier to scan down the page and find reviews. You can expand each section to read more if you wish.
  • System requirements for titles with multiple OS support will now display a set of tabs and default to showing the requirements for the OS you are viewing from.
  • Changed user-tag reporting to no longer need a specified reason. Since the list of available tags is pre-approved now, the only reason to report a tag is if it is improperly applied to a specific game.

Browse by Tag page
  • Updated the visual presentation of featured titles at the top.
  • Items featured at the top no longer include items already in your library or that you’ve indicated as ‘Not Interested’.
  • Paging through lists of titles now remembers which page you were on.

Browse Free to Play & Browse Early Access pages
  • Updated with new visual styles.
  • Now includes multi-select filtering controls in the right-hand column to help narrow down search results based on tags, product type, feature, operating system, or language.
  • The default tab on these pages is now ‘Popular New Releases’.

Search page
  • Updated with new visual styles.
  • Now includes multi-select filtering controls in the right-hand column to help narrow down search results based on tags, product type, Steamworks feature, operating system, or language.
  • Updated page to function as browse page for more types of items. For example, ‘Items under $5’ and ‘Items under $10’ now point to the search page, which provides more powerful controls for filtering or sorting the results.
  • The filters you apply and the page you are on will be remembered when you click into a game page and then use the ‘back’ button to return to your search results.

Browse Demos page
  • Updated with new visual styles.
  • Added filtering controls to narrow results by tag, feature, or operating system.
  • Added pagination to allow for deeper exploration into the list of demos.
  • Demo page remembers which page of results you are on when you use the ‘back’ button in Steam or your web browser.

Steam News pages
  • Updated with new visual styles and larger type for improved readability.
 
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CrunchyFrog

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Love the new UI, really slick. Reviews need an extra filter to sort by amount of time played. I tend to value the opinions of someone who's played 10-12 hours of a game more than someone's who's played for 90 minutes or less.

EDIT: WIshlists seem to be bit bugged atm. It's giving me the option to add games to it that I've long since already added, though clicking the button does reveal an "oops, sorry" message so it seems at least they've got the error handling down.
 
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spindoctor

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They really need to give us an option to collapse the curator and queue boxes. Or let us move them to around on the page.

They also seem to have removed the direct link to a game's forum from the product page. Now you have to go through the community page.
 
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BinaryPork2737

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ANuclearError said:
All new releases is still an option, but it's no longer the default one. In the 4 tabs in the previous store, it used to default to 'Top Sellers' for a while didn't it?
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It did defualt to top sellers, but jshackles had the option to fix that in ES, no idea if it was changed back to new releases for the vanilla version of Steam's site.

Actually, I miss the option of just being able to scroll through the 100 latest released games or the 100 top sellers,etc. on the front page instead of having to go to a new page. That's kinda annoying, but I'll get over it.
 
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Turfster

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And then my queue tried to offer me a game that isn't available in my region.
Zombie Monsters Robots apparently...
and of course it's another fucking F2P thing
 
derExperte

derExperte

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No direct link to the discussion forums on the store pages anymore?

And the blue backgrounds make some pages harder to read, for example the news section.
 
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Gianni Merryman

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A lot of new features, I'm quite impressed with this update I must say.

That's a lot of stuff, but at first sight some features micked my interest

The filters you apply and the page you are on will be remembered when you click into a game page and then use the ‘back’ button to return to your search results.
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Main capsule by default excludes titles that are already on your account.
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I also appreciate the "follow" option besides the "wishlist", as it happens to me very often I want to keep track of a game that may be inetresting but I don't know yet if it is good.

derExperte said:
No direct link to the discussion forums on the store pages anymore?
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I hope not, otherwise they should provide another way to search for a discussion forum dedicated to a game that one doesn't own.
 
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Turfster

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And then it suggested Dragon Age Origins, which I already own but is a different package than Ultimate I guess.
DRM said:
Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA
Unsupported EULA (editing is disabled)
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Still some things to iron out, it seems.

Edit: and then it tried to suggest the same fucking out of region f2p game again
Edit²: and again when I tried to start a queue.
Sigh. No more queues for me.
 
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CrunchyFrog

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Also what's the story with Gauntlet releasing tomorrow? It looks promising but I've heard next to nothing about it, previews, reviews, ANYTHING really.
 
Jawmuncher

Jawmuncher

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Uh Thanks Steam?

Tags recommended for you
Atmospheric
Horror
Singleplayer
Detective
Post-apocalyptic

Gotta say this might turn into something decent, but at the moment I hate it.
All the games it's recommending are shit I purposefully don't want to play.
 
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Locust

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I got a curator group to front page by being fast enough at setting one up. 15 mins later a game dev randomly adds me and drops me a key for their game, haha.

So yeah, if anyone was seriously thinking about starting to curate stuff I think there may actually be some benefits to it. :v
 
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CrunchyFrog

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Chairmanchuck said:
I think the curator idea is really nice, but I somehow see in about 1 month there will be about 20-30 "popular" curators like Kotaku, some YouTube e-celebs and the likes and nothing much more to be followed.
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They mention in the update that initially the recommended curators list will be based mostly around popularity, but that they're looking into alternate methods of curator discovery and promotion. Probably something along the lines of a featured curators list or a pseudo random list.
 
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Nzyme32

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Jawmuncher said:
Uh Thanks Steam?

Tags recommended for you
Atmospheric
Horror
Singleplayer
Detective
Post-apocalyptic

Gotta say this might turn into something decent, but at the moment I hate it.
All the games it's recommending are shit I purposefully don't want to play.
Click to expand...

Yeah, my tags are basically everything relating to LA Noire, because it is the only game I have played in the last month because I wanted to finish it once and for all.... although it has a couple of other tags that are actually quite suitable
 
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r3n4ud

Member
Jawmuncher said:
Uh Thanks Steam?

Tags recommended for you
Atmospheric
Horror
Singleplayer
Detective
Post-apocalyptic

Gotta say this might turn into something decent, but at the moment I hate it.
All the games it's recommending are shit I purposefully don't want to play.
Click to expand...

Same here. Guess it'll take time to get used to. With all the f2p and mmo shit Steam is recommending me, it's like they don't know me at all :/
 
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