The All New Gabriel Newell's Digital Wonder Emporium, aka, The Steam Update Thread

Hyetal wrote:

With this new activity feed, I just realized how annoyingly ambiguous that "New" indicator above Friends and Community is. That's going to be a constant presence for those with a certain number of friends.

I assumed it was just part of the beta to say "hey this was updated" and not "you have new notifications awaiting".

Hyetal wrote:

That was the Summer Sale badge, tuffalo.

Ah that's right. What were the tasks for that one, out of curiosity? I've forgotten.

shoptroll wrote:
Hyetal wrote:

With this new activity feed, I just realized how annoyingly ambiguous that "New" indicator above Friends and Community is. That's going to be a constant presence for those with a certain number of friends.

I assumed it was just part of the beta to say "hey this was updated" and not "you have new notifications awaiting".

That would make sense.

Edit: I say would because Steam often doesn't.

Hyetal wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Hyetal wrote:

That was the Summer Sale badge, tuffalo.

Ah that's right. What were the tasks for that one, out of curiosity? I've forgotten.

Just a bunch of community-related stuff. Screenshot, comment on profile, recommend game, etc.

Ah yes, I remember that. That one required actually using the client for me so I didn't get it until the evening.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Hyetal wrote:

That was the Summer Sale badge, tuffalo.

Ah that's right. What were the tasks for that one, out of curiosity? I've forgotten.

Just a bunch of community-related stuff. Screenshot, comment on profile, recommend game, etc.

Edit: Because I'm not sure what you've asked about:

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Hyetal wrote:
shoptroll wrote:
Hyetal wrote:

With this new activity feed, I just realized how annoyingly ambiguous that "New" indicator above Friends and Community is. That's going to be a constant presence for those with a certain number of friends.

I assumed it was just part of the beta to say "hey this was updated" and not "you have new notifications awaiting".

That would make sense.

Edit: I say would because Steam often doesn't.

On the other hand, that green envelope notification in the top right is awfully full in every screenshot. I hope they haven't put too much into it. If I recall, it currently lights up on friend requests, gifts, new items in your inventory, and anytime someone posts to your profile page, the profile page of anyone you've posted to, any discussion you've posted to in the workshop, or on any workshop item you've posted.

I can only imagine the chaos that envelope might have with all the new activity they can now push to it.

Mantid wrote:

On the other hand, that green envelope notification in the top right is awfully full in every screenshot. I hope they haven't put too much into it. If I recall, it currently lights up on friend requests, gifts, new items in your inventory, and anytime someone posts to your profile page, the profile page of anyone you've posted to, any discussion you've posted to in the workshop, or on any workshop item you've posted.

I can only imagine the chaos that envelope might have with all the new activity they can now push to it. :?

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/New...

If you look on the right (I assume you need to be logged in), there's a subscribe button. So I'm assuming all the other extraneous updates will be opt-in, as well.

Hyetal wrote:

That was the Summer Sale badge, tuffalo.

Aye. I'm glad it's not that one. Since the vote went live at 10am eastern but the voting "day" didn't count until after 1pm eastern, despite being the same vote, I'd have been really annoyed.

I have a beta invite for the first non-coffee grinder who wants it

BNice wrote:

I have a beta invite for the first non-coffee grinder who wants it :D

There's not shortage. Someone already asked for one. I'd love one too.

In other digital download news, it appears U-Play is now a store too. Ubisoft getting in on the action.

I'd like an invite if there are any available.

Thanks!

Mantid wrote:
BNice wrote:

I have a beta invite for the first non-coffee grinder who wants it :D

There's not shortage. Someone already asked for one. I'd love one too.

Sent

Oh, hey, look at that, I have beta access to. I have an extra invite.

Yeah I got one as well. I was trying to give it to Hyetal since he asked first, but he's afk on Steam. If someone else gave it to him already then this one will be up for grabs...

I'm curious enough to want an invite, if more people have them.

I'd love an invite if anyone ends up having a spare.

Some screenshots.

TF2 GWJ is best GWJ.

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As someone who takes a ton of screenshots I really like the new interface.

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I would love an invite if somebody has one sitting around

If anyone has a spare invite going I'll happily take it off your hands.

shoptroll wrote:
Hyetal wrote:

Status updates sound great... if people could see them without needing to visit a stupid webpage.

But does Steambook do a "toast" pop-up every time to let you know that AzzK1CK3R1337 has posted a status update?

Thankfully, they're also adding the option of applying custom nicknames to the people on your friends list that will stay consistent even if they change their username every 12 hours.

psoplayer wrote:
shoptroll wrote:
Hyetal wrote:

Status updates sound great... if people could see them without needing to visit a stupid webpage.

But does Steambook do a "toast" pop-up every time to let you know that AzzK1CK3R1337 has posted a status update?

Thankfully, they're also adding the option of applying custom nicknames to the people on your friends list that will stay consistent even if they change their username every 12 hours.

Oh, that's awesome. lesbiankittens can always be just lesbiankittens to me, instead of a wide variety of lesbian-prefaced monikers

Well, gee. I have a beta invite to give away, but everyone who's asked on this thread is either offline (and hence unable to respond to my trading request), or somehow not on my friends list. So... if you'd like a beta invite, friend me up and/or send me a Steam message.

Did someone send me a beta invite? I finally got on my PC and find that I had 2 in my inventory. At any rate, I sent one to SixteenBlue, so we are now covered.

If you had two in your inventory, that means Valve sent them to you.

And Stele just sent me one, so thanks go to him.

Hyetal wrote:

If you had two in your inventory, that means Valve sent them to you.

And Stele just sent me one, so thanks go to him.

I thought you Goodjers might just really like me. Yeah, you're right. I guess they would have shown up as gifts otherwise.

Oh, I like you alright. I like you real good.

On topic: There are still quite a few pages that haven't seen a lick of change. I really hope they're planning on coating every page with this new paint. I like symmetry.

Hyetal wrote:

Oh, I like you alright. I like you real good.

On topic: There are still quite a few pages that haven't seen a lick of change. I really hope they're planning on coating every page with this new paint. I like symmetry.

Yeah, it's kinda disappointing to see the profile pages untouched. They touted the screenshots and videos as a way to show off your best, but didn't really integrate them into our personal pages. Seems like it would have been great for profile pages to get a treatment like a game hub only full of our own screenshots, videos, workshop items, achievements, comments, and favorites.

Well, this is gonna get really old really quick. NSFW. Le sigh. Sorry for saying so many dumb things in the thread today, Hyetal. I believe my brain has been elsewhere.

So far I don't like the look at all, plus I had to disable PixelVision just to be able to see the Friends tab.