This sounds and looks excellent, exactly what I was hoping they were going to put their time into. Give users the tools to find or avoid the media they donât want to consume rather than trying to enforce a top down control of whatâs on the platform, great work valve. Now lets hope their good example rubs off on some other platforms out there ~cough~twitter, discord~cough~.
Though the whole âstraight up trollingâ bit is still a little worrysome, itâs probably not going to ever be possible to get away from a subjective judgement at some point. Reading through the Q&A section on it didnât fill me with great confidence that they wonât at some point use it to silence someone they donât like or a message someone at valve doesnât want heard. One can make worthwhile art even if your goal is merely to rile a target demo up to the enjoyment of another demo, is that still âjust plain trollingâ?
Edit: PSA! The âVIOLENT & SEXUAL CONTENTâ filter is on by default, so go have a look at that so you donât risk missing out on any high impact sexual violence!
The straight up trolling is more aimed towards Asset flip Developers and not real games.
Yes that is clearly what itâs being used for right now, but thereâs nothing inherent in their ruling process that prevents the reach to grow.
I never noticed the changes because i never use the store. The only recent changes i have noticed are to the friend list for the client. I hate it. There is no point in grouping my in-game friends by the game they are playing. Honestly i donât even care what game theyâre playing since we all have different tastes, iâm really only interested in if they are online or not and most of them are never in-game anyway.
Whatâs the point of this?
I read most of that this morning and was alsoâŚrather impressed? The openness was quite refreshing rather than the âwe changed a bunch of shit, see ya!â that theyâve been in the past.
I think they need to be a little vague on the trolling developers, those guys are crafty assholes, Valve will always be a step behind if they stipulate exactly what is permitted and what is not.
Thanks @Fraggles for the heads up on the filter, I want all the high impact sexual violence!
What was that Konami thing again, erotic violence? gimme!
Itâs fucking awful! Youâd think a company of that magnitude would have great UI designers at hand if they wanted to rework their client but what they did is absolute trash. Especially 'cause it should be intuitive to use, but the whole drag and drop bullshit makes no sense at all.
The only good thing that came out of this is that the âshow as offlineâ mode works properly now.
tbh they should add a setting that lets you change to the old ui but same features
Best new thing: We can block devs! Will save me a lot of time.
Yeah, itâs always nice seeing one of these big media companies actually listening to consumers and being open about policy changes. Other media companies should take note on this, as I think Steam handled this recent controversy rather well.
@kovec Then we have this, yet another example of websites changing their layout for no reason whatsoever, to the dismay many of itâs users (lookinâ at you, Reddit).
This doesnât really belong here but I didnât want to create a new topic just for it but, Now you can Clear your old aliases on steam.
