Indeed, more bloat. I prefer steam the way it was back in the day - nice and simple.
Personally, from all those features steam has now, I use 20% tops.
But then again, if they keep an option to disable stuff that you don't need then I'm fine with additional stuff. If people want something, let them use it, just don't make it mandatory. Give people Choice.
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?
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
Although my main use of steam is to fire up a game and occasionally throw my money at it during sales, i doubt anything here will have any major impact on what i do with it already.....although if it helps improve steamVR with third party HDMs then that would be nice.
Can they add an option to get rid of all the crap that get released? don't want to see 10 million B**B anime simulator dating games, Rather see the good games. Kinda makes me sad i could be missing another great indie game like Bastion because the indie section is just full of tat 😏
The GUI looked fine before, they keep adding too much that you have to scroll down now to see the useful stuff. Just want something clean and simple that i can customize to my liking, if i don't wanna see a certain type of genre then let me do that
Can they add an option to get rid of all the crap that get released? don't want to see 10 million B**B anime simulator dating games, Rather see the good games. Kinda makes me sad i could be missing another great indie game like Bastion because the indie section is just full of tat :/
The GUI looked fine before, they keep adding too much that you have to scroll down now to see the useful stuff. Just want something clean and simple that i can customize to my liking, if i don't wanna see a certain type of genre then let me do that
Can't you already filter out genres or types of games that don't interest you? I distinctively remember getting rid of visual novels this way.
Yeah, you can. I don't even see that stuff at all.
I mean, there's the "not interested" checkmark that (after a few of these on a certain genre) already modifies the recommendation algorithm, and I am fairly positive that you can manually get rid of entire genres from the get-go (I'm at work now, so I can't check).
What I would like is the ability to filter out the "gaming news" bar that appears in the library under selected games. Or at least to set preferred sites. I can't stand RPS, but I would like to have more of Eurogamer, for example.
https://i.imgur.com/vRoswte.jpg
@Ricepudding i know it's painful, but you can just "ignore" all of those games manually (which is what I've done), took me little over an hour (more than 100 pages), just click on the "anime" tag and then block everything. However I wish the process had been much simpler (not that I want to censor, or tell people what they can't buy), but I'm definitely not their targets audience; hence why I blocked it all.
I know you can activate some kind of "warning" message on the community pages and block mature content, violence and blood with a few clicks in your settings (which would effectively turn your Steam client into EGS and Chinese territory of censorship), but I think that's taking it too far and I'm not easily offended; just easily triggered by low-effort anime jigsaw puzzles.
https://i.imgur.com/ZsJq1sB.jpg
Apparently I had overlooked my settings and forgot about the "exclude" tag feature...
However I wish the process had been much simpler(not that I want to censor, or tell people what they can't buy), but I'm definitely not their targets audience; hence why I blocked it all. I know you can activate some kind of "warning" message on the community pages and block mature content, violence and blood with a few clicks in your settings (which would effectively turn your Steam client into EGS and Chinese territory of censorship), but I think that's taking it too far and I'm not easily offended; just easily triggered by low-effort anime jigsaw puzzles. https://i.imgur.com/ZsJq1sB.jpg Apparently I had overlooked my settings and forgot about the "exclude" tag feature...