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This is a landmark moment in Steam history

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ErrEff

Valve have finally decided to abandon their plans to permanently damage everyone's eyesight. In the latest Steam client patch notes, there is this little note:

- Increased font size in chat to improve readability

And holy moly, it's true! It only took them well over five years to fix it, but it's finally here! Now your eyes will hurt ever-so-slightly less while squinting at the text. To celebrate this milestone, I've decided to do a giveaway. It is a much requested game, one that I am sure the fine folks of SteamGifts will enjoy. You will find it here!

Maybe in another five years, Valve will let us just CHOOSE the font size for ourselves. A man can dream...

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Bobdamek

Rip Macho Man.

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DackXYZ

Hijacking the first post so people can see how to change it back. The old size is 14.

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GreigaBeast

Freak out !

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Mew2

Never noticed a problem but yay I guess.

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intoxeus

+1, even when using Skype etc. I always decrease the font size a little.

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NB264

I liked it how it was :(

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TempR

This. Every single one of my friends had a mild panic attack along with me before we all realized it was in the update... And we all ranted about how we preferred the old font for a bit.

Only one person on my whole friend's list has complained about the font size being too small.... And that was a friend who just got Steam today. ._.'

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Zoipas

The same.. hate this new font. It doesn't fit.

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Bassnium

I noticed this when it updated. I'm not used to it at all Dx

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AtzeMD

it too big, can't read anything at all anymore! :|

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Sklurm

THE LETTERS ARE TOO FAT

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Lowis

You're too big.

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Senator

she also said it's still too small :#

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Lowis

That's not how you do "that's what she said".

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Shanti

How do you turn them back? :<<

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a100Axolotls

You people need glasses.

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ACorpse

Fucking wonderful. Not. I had no problems with the fonts, this will probably just piss me off. Are they taking whole chapters from Microsoft's book of "Deal with it, we've decided this and customers can fuck off if they don't like it."?

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LSD

Valve basically wrote that book. Take a look at the past 4 years of Valve history.

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yupignome

Maybe it's just me, but when I put a feature in a program, the only way I'll expand upon it or improve it is by adding more options, not adjusting it and leaving only one. That's just lazy, clumsy, and not an improvement at all.

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Optimaximal

So you do understand the relative development/testing time of changing values wholesale vs. developing an interface to allow users to do it themselves?

Seeing as we don't know how Steam is intrinsically coded, it's probably a larger task than you think.

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MattyMatt

Uhm, the old font was more than legible...

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Ayce

the download limit is more useful...

now I can play while downloading without affecting my latency.

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CyberKiller

This! I've been waiting for bandwidth limit on Steam since forever! ("forever" == ~5 years that I have been using Steam)

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godprobe

+1

font size is a matter of preference.
the real revolution here was finally adding rate limiting to the downloads.

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MADNESSSsss

The new fonts were there for sometime? O_o maybe it was just in the beta then...
Oh and I like the older font size better, Resistance to change I guess :P

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Zomby
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Yeah, it was in the beta. I saw people complaining about it all along. Personally I never even noticed the change. LOL!

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UnusualBadger

I didn't notice a difference, probably because I'm using the Pixelvision skin, but I'm glad you're happy with the change!

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nagleator

The old font size had no affect on me and didnt irritate me whatsoever but i guess i will learn to live with the new size

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ceildric

I never had a problem with the old font or font size (It appears to be a change in style as well as size to me), while I find the new one to be kind of garish.

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Finaldeath

I also had no problem with the steam chat font.

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DeltaBladeX
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Damn it, now I can't fit as much text on my screen. D:

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Jonex

It was never a problem for me, hopefully it won't look like Steam chat for 3 year olds.

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Raiden

Something I thought I should share in this thread

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bukiyounahito

My thoughts exactly on the font thing! Good god, Steam, took you long enough!

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Swafman

no changes with skins :)

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Vapourizer

This is my highlight of the day..Reaching 1.2k of comments lol THIS VERY ONE. okay nice I liked the update too

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Denariand

Never had any problem with that. But hey changes are good (sometimes) :D

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cadiremar

Huh. I actually find the new font too big. It was nothing wrong with the old one :/

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Grizzlywolf

I tried to turn off font smoothing once. That's just terrible.

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Closed 11 years ago by ErrEff.