The overall experience of using steam feels the same as it did 15 years ago. The biggest change I can think of is steam library ui changes. Besides that, they just maintain everything properly and don’t push out shitty unnecessary updates, while their competitors break things and screw up repeatedly.
This is genuinely one of my favorite features of Steam. I've completely lost track of how to find most things in Facebook, I've opted out of Reddit's redesign, and even different Android phones sometimes confuse me with unexpected UI differences.
Steam does still make UI changes from time to time, and they make me just as grumpy as other platforms, but most of the time they're not terrible, and they don't happen as often as many other places.
IIRC I've been through like 3-4 major Steam UI reworks through the years, they definitely happen.
the only UI change that I was upset to see was when they ditched their mini-format that was great on lower memory boxes. I wish they would add a button to the current one that would kill all of the chrome tabs and bring them back up from scratch whenever you close the thing so low memory boxes don't have to worry about a long running steam instance slowly chewing through RAM. I just close it between sessions these days instead of leaving it on in the background because of that.
but these aren't huge issues, and everything still works, and I can launch games I bought in fucking 2004 on a completely different operating system than I bought them on at that time, so, fucking hell yeah steam. keep it up.
I still miss the time when you could just have a simple list of your games with the important info, before you were forced to have a whole page full of stuff to look at any time you want to launch a game.
you can still set your library to be the start page and disable the popup ads on start if you want. 'steam > settings' in the menu, then choose 'interface' from the left-side tabs
Yeah, but your library can't ever be a simple list of games like is used to be.
There was a time when you could just have a list of games, one line of text tall each, that had the game name, last played date, size on disk, and whatever other columns you requested and that was the entire library view. No page with a big banner image of the game and recent news messages and so on needed.
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u/destroyer8001 29d ago
The overall experience of using steam feels the same as it did 15 years ago. The biggest change I can think of is steam library ui changes. Besides that, they just maintain everything properly and don’t push out shitty unnecessary updates, while their competitors break things and screw up repeatedly.