Steam facelift shown at gdc

I hate the idea of changing steam. but it is what it is.. So called Progress. But is it really progress when you have to get use to it all over again? :D

Well, new library page looks half-decent.
I wonder, should we start taking bets on how they'll fuck it up on the back-end side ?

I'm all for it 👍

I am not interested in any of these new features, not the re-design itself, not the focus on events nor what people in my friendslist do. And I never watch broadcasts. Personally, I see this (from those descriptions and the pic) as a wholly unneeded and unwanted change for me.

Personally I like it a lot, especially games view. New design makes use of space far more efficient, it's clear as day that old design was aimed at lower resolutions 10 years ago, while new one puts emphasis on full hd and above.

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Glad to see Steam's keeping their word. They excused the lack of visual and other updates for the client on having to accommodate for XP mainly (Vista as well). Now that they dropped them, they promised that they could finally start properly working on improving the client. It's been only 3.5 months and there's immediately a new overhaul to key aspects of their service? Yeah, I'm impressed. I'm down for an update. The client's looked pretty archaic for a long time now. Hopefully they won't sacrifice functionality for looks though :)

All I want is to have all my games in one place and in alphabetical order.

hope it supports subfolders for the categories

Out with the old, in with the new. It's pretty good.

New library looks great, but I don't care about events. I'd rather have a revamped activity feed.

I sense lots of cry incoming, better prepare the umbrellas!

It's about time they finally implemented library filtering by genre.

But I hate change :(
In all serousness I hope the library was designed with our massive amount of games in mind, I don't like the idea of a Origin/Uplay style interface but with thousands of little boxarts instead of a couple dozen, scrolling through that would be a pain.

Meh, should have focused in something more substantial than another face-lift.

Meh. I'm as change resistant as the next person, but so long as they keep the options open for classic-style, or at least have different view types (tiled, list, etc) like they do now, it shouldn't be so bad.

It's the same with any other redesign. Twitter, youtube, etc. It happens periodically, and they're rarely as bad as they initially feel, it's just that we're usually forced to get used to figuring out where the buttons and features have all moved to. That little extra delay can be frustrating for a bit, like having some strangers come and reorganise your room one day. The tidy-up and layout can be nice on its own but it's an unnecessary hiccup in a place we prefer not to have to play hide and seek with stuff we normally use :p

I wish they stopped fucking with things that no one wants or needs and instead worked on the things that actually need to be worked on.
Finding groups or users is still damn near impossible, games in our libraries still can't be sorted/searched for by tags, we still can't remove a game from our wishist directly from the store page, they still don't have any sort of quality control...

But hey, who cares! Let's make the library uglier instead, with huge thumbnails and everything!

its all useless bloat.
game page will move slower as it has to load a bunch of info and pics, when all i want to do is click play.

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Looks like shit. I'll only support it if they give us the option to keep the old look.

It doesn't look bad, let's see what the sort filters for the library display will be...

That's fine to me, I've been using Despressurizer since I reached 1k games and it's perfect, but having it's functionality built-in is even better.
About the event thing, I don't think it's useless, because there's always nice games receiving updates that we may skip without noticing, but I think it'll be a headache to clean spamming ones.

I'm pretty more up to know how the Game Menu will behave, when we click on the game and the options are show, I really need a better and a clean way to do that.

Also, the Game Overlay is a mess and should be improved somehow with streaming features, a Booster button to stop background services from windows (I know about what you're thinking), improved API to work even when the game is crashed so we can be able to close it without using task manager, maybe GPU API to change settings directly from Steam and save them on cloud. A Tetris mini-game should be optional.

PCGamer has an article about it as well.
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-steam-design-2019/

It has a little bit more information, and it looks like users will be able to search their libraries by tag now (and sort by tag as well).
I'm all for more options to organize/find things in my library, so it all looks good to me so far.

The friends list is now integrated into a right-hand column - But I don't always want to see them, then it's just in the way.
The top module shows recent games you've been playing with a library view reminiscent of Plex or the Apple TV - I don't need that.
The rest of your collection is shown with nice vertical thumbnails that can be scaled to show larger icons or more games - I just want a bloody text list thank you, what other clients fail to do, imagine going through 8000 screenshots to get to your game or scroll through.
The left-hand games list has a new look but is fairly similar to the existing design - It doesn't look great.

Keep it Simple Stupid.

The library looks really cool, the only thing about it that i don't like is probably the size if my window will be like this then this might be a bad update.

The current UI has so much wasted space. The new UI looks so much better.