Steam Announces Major Update to Steam Community

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Press Release - Valve 19:15

New features announced each day this week, beta access available soon.

August 13, 2012--Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced a major update coming to the Steam Community.

This update focuses on highlighting and enabling the best user-created screenshots, videos, and Workshop items for games across Steam while making it easier for the community to discuss their favorite games.

Every game on Steam will have a new Game Hub. The Hubs highlight the most popular user-created screenshots, videos, and Steam Workshop items as rated by the community and combine it with related news, discussions, and comments for the game all in one central location.

"The New Steam Community is all about showing off the best content that gamers have created," says Emily Kent at Valve. "With over 89 million screenshots, videos, Steam Workshop maps, levels, mods, and items, plus news articles and product updates, the community has created an unbelievable wealth of content around their favorite games."

Steam is a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC and Mac games and digital entertainment, with over 40 million accounts around the world and over 2000 titles offered.

Check back each day (August 13-16th) for a preview of a new set of features at www.steamcommunity.com/communitycontent.
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Day 1 - GameHubs
http://steamcommunity.com/communitycontent#day1
 
Sounds like what xfire does but a lot better with the workshop and mods etc.

When you go onto a game on xfire website it has user screenshots of said game and videos etc
 
Sounds good!

Just as long as they don't go achievement daft. I have slight OCD and achievement completion rates can stress me (madness I know), I have managed to break it on my 360 and ps3 by creating new accounts to reset everything allowing me to try and enjoy my gaming while ignoring them.

I like gaming on my PC as the achievements, while present on Steamwork games, aren't given such focus. Allowing me to be nice and relaxed:) So please do not change that Valve.
 
Please be a steam Stream.
Please be a steam Stream.
Please be a steam Stream.
Please be a steam Stream.
Please be a steam Stream.
Please be a steam Stream.
 
I'll be the first to dive in with a moan about other more fundamental features not being fixed/added first (better download management, category management etc).

I'm probably in the minority though because I just want Steam as a functional platform for acquiring, organising and launching games rather than any of the social aspects.
 
HangTime said:
I'll be the first to dive in with a moan about other more fundamental features not being fixed/added first (better download management, category management etc).

I'm probably in the minority though because I just want Steam as a functional platform for acquiring, organising and launching games rather than any of the social aspects.
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I'll give you an amen on that.

Download management needs a major overhaul.
 
I always wondered why steam didnt just edit a file with the additions of an update before, i am thankful that this is the case now after the new structure update awhile ago.

The only thing that still annoys me is, if i bloody well don't want a game to update, it should not.

But that option has been broken and ignored for a flat year, I mean is it so hard to check a configuration file with "If 0, do not update, If 1, Update."

...:mad::mad:
 
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