Valve To Overhaul for Steam GUI

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/22/2019 09:49 AM | source: | 59 comment(s)

We've all been accustomed to Valve's Steam layout (GUI) for many years now and little has changed. Well, that is about to change as over at GDC Valve has announced with is going to overhaul the GUI.

Not just the GUI (graphics user interface) though, also you are going to notice something called Steam Events. The game library is set to prioritize games that you play often, giving a featured slot to the game you most recently played. With new competition in the likes from EPIC store, and names like Uplay, Origin, GoG, Humble steam is losing market share and needs to step thing up.

Valve mentions that players can run their games quickly and efficiently. The library home page will also retrieve news and thus that events carousel dedicated to updates and events. Events will be of interest towards esports aficionados as there is an option for developers to enable live streams of events (like esports tournaments). Have a peek below and click the thumbnails to check and preview the new layout.

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WhiteLightning
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#5652996 Posted on: 03/22/2019 11:58 AM

Could you elaborate.

Features i will not ever use. More useless memory usage. They should be start using modules to save some.

Richard Nutman
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#5653004 Posted on: 03/22/2019 12:26 PM

Vast majority of the time I never even open Steam app. All my games have desktop shortcuts that I use.

RealNC
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#5653010 Posted on: 03/22/2019 12:39 PM

Let me guess, it's going to be yet another desktop application that looks like a mobile app. What happened to desktop computing? What the heck is going on?

Embra
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#5653011 Posted on: 03/22/2019 12:43 PM

UGH! ... Is steam becoming the huge ugly monster so many companies strife to be??

Alessio1989
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#5653017 Posted on: 03/22/2019 12:52 PM

Could you elaborate.

Software bloat is a process whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower, use more memory, disk space or processing power, or have higher hardware requirements than the previous version—whilst making only dubious user-perceptible improvements or suffering from feature creep.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-bloat

Let's find something that is not bloatware in that screenshot. Hint: all the "library" should do in Steam is just a collection of games symbolic links

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