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If you are a Steam user, you should probably head on over to the Steam website and see what Valve has been working on. If you are not a Steam user, you should be. ;)

Discover your next favorite game. The Steam Discovery Update makes it easier to find exactly what you want when shopping for a new game experience. In the past nine months, over 1,300 new titles have been added to Steam. We know you can’t play them all, so we’ve updated Steam with new features and functionality to help you discover the best new releases, the classics, and the unique indie gems you might be interested in.
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I actually suggested game tags for just such a purpose. Along with Steam game organization, and a few other features I would not be surprised to see implemented in the future.

I am claiming origin of this idea, and a little ashamed of the person who read my post, and it stemmed to this.
 
Awful ugly mess! I dont care about their recommendations of buggy, unfinished pre-release games. I dont care how popular games are with other people as I'm not a moron who buys games based on how well they sell. I'd rather just have an easily searchable sales site.

If they want to improve Steam how about multi-threading the client or bringing the UI into this century.

I really wish someone competent would create a service rivaling Steam forcing them to improve the client.
 
What's wrong with the UI as it was?

My only gripe is that I now have to scroll further to get to the top 10 lists, which is what I generally use as a first line filter. Also, who the hell are these people that are qualified to recommend games?
 
simland said:
What's wrong with the UI as it was?

My only gripe is that I now have to scroll further to get to the top 10 lists, which is what I generally use as a first line filter. Also, who the hell are these people that are qualified to recommend games?
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historically, games are rated by its popularity - number of downloads, the most played, rated and commented on by users, etc. Like Amazon's rating system. Read through some comments and make your judgement from there.
 
Now add a filter to remove all greenlight games from the store page or being recommended.
 
NickJames said:
Now add a filter to remove all greenlight games from the store page or being recommended.
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And Early Access, Pre-purchase and many more.

In the middle of #GamersGate they decide to implement curators so groups like Kotaku & RPS can recommend stuff... Steam chooses a side. :D
 
simland said:
What's wrong with the UI as it was?

My only gripe is that I now have to scroll further to get to the top 10 lists, which is what I generally use as a first line filter. Also, who the hell are these people that are qualified to recommend games?
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This! What was wrong with just the way it was? I hope this is not headed in the retarded direction of google/youtube - since you browsed this game or own this game or this game sells the most, we recommend you buy this this and this! Umm NO!
 
Here is my wish list for the storefront UI:

Expand the top 10 new, popular, coming soon to 25.

On the right side of the price, I want quick indicators that show DLC count, strength of positive reviews, strength of negative reviews and I want some indicator that sums up forum activity. (See below)

I would want forum posts to be taggable as "Bug/Complaint" such that I can get an quick view of forum activity that has [Avg Posts per Day].[Bug/Complaint Posts]. There are ways to normalize the data and weight based on factors (greenlight, alpha, days released) but basic examples:

Popular and good: 1000.5
Popular and bad: 800.500
Indie and Good: 50.1
Indie and Bad: 10.10
 
I liked it the way it was, but the new way isn't too bad.
I really feel like both old and new, there's no way to find what you want without knowing what game you want and just doing a search for it.
Its always emphasized sales, specials and preorders.
 
SGA76 said:
I liked it the way it was, but the new way isn't too bad.
I really feel like both old and new, there's no way to find what you want without knowing what game you want and just doing a search for it.
Its always emphasized sales, specials and preorders.
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Its not even just sales now its ...

We recommend these games, other people recommend these games, other people are buying these. we also recommend these games on sale.

I dont buy games based on what other people like, especially the people these recommendations are coming from.
 
Metacritic -- which Steam actually links to -- has been a good way for me to judge people's complaints about various games.
 
Kalabalana said:
I actually suggested game tags for just such a purpose. Along with Steam game organization, and a few other features I would not be surprised to see implemented in the future.

I am claiming origin of this idea, and a little ashamed of the person who read my post, and it stemmed to this.
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I am the first person, in the history of the planet, to call a human being a douchebag.
 
What's bothering me is that Steam apparently can't decide whether its favorite color is gray or blue.
 
"In the past nine months, over 1,300 new titles have been added to Steam."

So, almost 5 new games per day, every day.

Some obligatory quotes from the wikipedia article about the North American video game crash of 1983:
"Adding to the industry's woes was a glut of poor titles from hastily-financed startup companies."
"Unable to return the unsold games to defunct publishers, stores marked down the titles and placed them in discount bins and sale tables. Recently released games which initially sold for USD$35 were in bins for $5."

Sound familiar? At least we don't have two or three dozen platforms like there was in 1982, and Steam titles are not sold in physical form, so no, I'm not predicting a huge crash, but I would expect the indie game industry to experience a large contraction at some point.
 
Hm, interesting. You'll have to go to the bottom of the main Steam page to choose between "Popular New Releases" and "All New Releases". The default is for "Popular".

Today's releases that got the "Popular" tag:
Gauntlet
Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies
DG2: Defense Grid 2
Ancient Space

Today's releases that did not get the "Popular" tag:
5 DLCs for Fantasy Grounds - Sundered Skies
Runaway Express Mystery
Schrodinger's Cat and the Raiders Of The Lost Quark
6 DLCs for Rocksmith 2014
Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery: Episode 2

I wonder how much money it costs a dev to get the "Popular" tag.
 
the personalized recommendations were crap for me.

it recommended
the episodes of liberty city. that is dlc for a steam game i could never even get running!
a bunch of free to play garbage, yeah i have and play tf2 which is free to play, but i bought the game when it was $20
A free2play game i already "bought to unlock..." and was amazingly disappointed in
Spin Tires uh, wtf? i bought trackmania?


games i have recently bought and played decent amount include:
skyrim, far cry 3, guild wars 2, star craft 2 wol and hots, the witcher, mass effect 1 and 2,

games i really enjoyed/played a lot of earlier
ut99, tribes 2, star craft, ut2k4,rise of nations, anno1404, braid, guild wars, crysis 1, half life 2.

so uh, these personalized choices just seem to be junk they want me to spend money on.
 
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