New library - steam family from who ???

[Aga]

I want know with game belong to where person who give me steam family
now new steam i don't have this option ;[

[Noa.]

Same

[KillahInstinct]

I saw someone post this on reddit. I wonder why? If you're sharing, does it matter who own it?

[Aga]

but i want know ;[

[NickH]

My son also is annoyed by this, now he got his sims mixed with mom's clicker and hidden object games... so he must categorize them, well, I must categorize his steam now... thx.

[liinniejj]

Originally posted by KillahInstinct:

I saw someone post this on reddit. I wonder why? If you're sharing, does it matter who own it?

It matters because I cant play my partners games if he is using his steam so I like to know what games from the list I can bother installing to play because they are mine

[KillahInstinct]

Originally posted by liinniejj:

Originally posted by KillahInstinct:

I saw someone post this on reddit. I wonder why? If you're sharing, does it matter who own it?

It matters because I cant play my partners games if he is using his steam so I like to know what games from the list I can bother installing to play because they are mine

I've passed it on and if I gathered they want to add this back eventually, but other things took priority.

[Aga]

Thank you a lot !

[liinniejj]

Originally posted by KillahInstinct:

Originally posted by liinniejj:

It matters because I cant play my partners games if he is using his steam so I like to know what games from the list I can bother installing to play because they are mine

I've passed it on and if I gathered they want to add this back eventually, but other things took priority.

It does indeed appear that turning a library of games I have paid for into a social media platform and advertisement billboard took higher priority. It would be nice not to have to put up with adds or what yous ca "what's new" when I am not in the store looking to spend money. I should not have to put up with adds for something I paid for. Didnt realise steam was looking to turn into steambook/instasteam


The ui Is still in beta yet forced on everyone. The sharing thing was being mentioned by beta users from the start. Meaning this version is not ready for release.

[KillahInstinct]

There are no ads on Steam, nor did anything change in terms of social media, chat was always an option - so I'm not sure what you're on about.

[Waldemard]

Yeah we really need this option back !

[NickH]

Originally posted by KillahInstinct:

There are no ads on Steam, nor did anything change in terms of social media, chat was always an option - so I'm not sure what you're on about.

Then those boxes on facebook and instagram who tell me what items, cars and other stuff people in my area are using are not ads as well? No, really, advertising belongs to the shop, community things to the community tab. People criticising that made a valid point.

Turning the lib and the games-pages into a social media platform does not make sense for the users...

[KillahInstinct]

Originally posted by NickH:

Then those boxes on facebook and instagram who tell me what items, cars and other stuff people in my area are using are not ads as well? No, really, advertising belongs to the shop, community things to the community tab. People criticising that made a valid point.

Turning the lib and the games-pages into a social media platform does not make sense for the users...

Those are indeed ads, but I'm not entirely sure what ads you're talking about - I don't see this on Steam. I don't see any cars, items and other stuff being advertised to me. Care to clarify with a screenshot?

[NickH]

Ofcourse steam does not advertise anything else than games. But the "Shelfs" with News and the games that my friends are playing make sense for what reason in my lib and not beeing in the news, community/friends or shop area.... exactly, steam is forcing me to take notice of things I didn't actively chose to view... that's advertising...

[KillahInstinct]

Originally posted by NickH:

Ofcourse steam does not advertise anything else than games. But the "Shelfs" with News and the games that my friends are playing make sense for what reason in my lib and not beeing in the news, community/friends or shop area.... exactly, steam is forcing me to take notice of things I didn't actively chose to view... that's advertising...

But in the old client you also saw "Friend X is playing X", was that an advertisement too? Heck, if you visit the Store page you see all sorts of games, are those ads too?

I'm just curious where the line is drawn. Rest assured Valve has no advertisements, and never will. It's purely informative and everyone gets the same exposure.

[NickH]

There was "Friend X is playing X" when I selected the lib-tab? Even if it was, It wasn't that prominent that I ever noticed it. I remember seeing it on the store, just like the news.

The line is: Presenting shop content in an area, which is not a shop, is advertising. If I want to buy something, I visit the shop. If I want to launch or sort my games I visit the library. If I wanted News I visited Shop/News (Here you can see that Valve sorts it that way,too). Same applies to all other themes. What I've got now is a lot of information where I either don't need it nor want it to appear.

See, I always thought that the client needed some improvements and I am not one of the persons who wants back the old system. But this is social media tablet design garbage. And in addition usability and performance is reduced, network, cpu and memory load is increased...

Therefore most of the users just want to get rid of the unwanted information or the Library starting page by OPTION and get back the killed usability. That's quite fair.