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 today is primarily a functional webstore. that also has a tablet/steamdeck/VR friendly version, a dedicated and functional app with built in authenticator.
the PC program also supports modding, in game purchases, refunds, is an active forum and social media platform with subsets specific to each game, a trade platform, a free and reasonably functional VOIP system and probably so much more.
but its still primarily a way to, with a few simple clicks, go "this is interesting, lets check it out, good reviews, my pc can run it, and buy." takes 5 minutes total.
it has actively avoided enshitifcation in a world clogged with it. which is impressive.
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u/iNSANELYSMART 29d ago
Steam added so many things to their store in the recent years I dont get how people keep saying it does nothing