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Let us have the old library design back
At least as an option. If it aint broke, don't fix it.
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Автор сообщения: obliviondoll
I agree with the end position of "it should be optional". I disagree with the implication that people saying the "what's new?" page is advertising spam are wrong because it only provides information that's about or directly relevant to games you own. I disagree with the position that news about a sequel to a game you own isn't advrtising when you don't own the sequel. And I disagree that ALL sequels are directly relevant to the game they're a sequel for.
I'm going to do my best not to be long winded (I'm going to fail). I never said what's in "What's New" could never be considered an ad, but just because something could be viewed as an ad doesn't mean it's not also an announcement from a game you own and it doesn't mean it's not relevant news to players of that game (I don't think you said it wasn't). The quote you chose that started this back and forth was referencing a very specific example, and my position was simply that a game announcing a sequel in "What's New" is relevant to that game and I think you have to be trying very hard to say "See look, Valve is using what's new to advertise games I don't own" based on a technicality. There are actual good examples of it being used for pure ads like merch or displates.

I'm tempted to bring up ideas or solutions to some of the problems/issues you bring up regarding "What's New", But I get the feeling I might be wasting our time. It seems even if "What's New" only showed actual updates w/ changelogs, you would still want to be able to remove it (which is fine), because what's really bothering you isn't that certain things show up, it's that it exists and you can't remove it. If that's the case, then why waste time focusing on these other things (like news that's related too, but not specifically about), because what if Valve actually listened to you on these points and fixed them, and then you are left still upset. What good does that do any of us? If I'm wrong and that's not the case, I do have some ideas to improve the feature if Valve isn't willing to make it optional.

Outside of that, it doesn't really matter how each of us feel about the feature as a whole if we both agree you should have control over what you see. I just think the more honest people (everyone) are about things, the better chance they have of being listened too.
Отредактировано Gambit-3k; 30 ноя. 2019 г. в 4:55
My Steam has been crashing since library update, heres their response:

Hi there,

Thank you for the feedback on the new Steam Library. I'll make sure that your concerns regarding the performance and resource usage of this update is passed on to the development team.

You can also share any opinions, suggestions, or ideas in the official Steam Beta Discussions. Our development team is actively following these discussions.

We have provided all the available troubleshooting information in our previous messages. Since there's not much more that I can say or do to be of help with this particular issue, I am going to close this help request.

If you have questions on an unrelated issue, please create a new help request and we will be happy to help you.

Steam Support
Mitch


Their suggestions for a fix was to upload a dump file to them. I had to revert to a old steam installation so there are no dump files. I went from Win 7 to Win 10 to see if that helped..... ofc it didnt. Still using 10% of my 16BG RAM. Still spiking to 80+% CPU usage.

They also suggested I try low bandwidth and disable hardware acceleration..... MY PC is "beefy" enough to run anything, but I have to gimp Steam to run it. NO THAT IS NOT MY PROBLEM. That is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ update.

The last "fix" suggested was to follow the usual steam client fixes from their support page. OF course I tried that. Its like calling Tech support when my internet goes out. Dealing with idiots. . . Want me to unplug my router again?

Basically I've been told to ♥♥♥♥ off and deal with it. Awesome support.
It's likely a case of poorly-optimized code on their end.
Автор сообщения: Quint the Alligator Snapper
It's likely a case of poorly-optimized code on their end.
I agree, and I'll add to that poorly optimized media files as well, as we are talking about a form of web browsing functionality in the Steam client, and on websites it's typically the media files that slow things down the most and when I'm optimizing websites for speed, that's one of the first things I look at, are the media files optimized to be the smallest files size possible while still looking acceptable? Usually on a slow site they are not, they're huge, high res files that take a beast of bandwidth to send to the visitor's browser. Yeah, sure they look pretty, but nobody's gonna wait around for them to load in -- back button, next website.

Of course, with Steam we don't have that option, if it's slow, and you need to use it to access a feature (eg a game needs an update before you can play) then you're just stuck waiting for a slow system.
Автор сообщения: SterlingStar
My Steam has been crashing since library update, heres their response:

Hi there,

Thank you for the feedback on the new Steam Library. I'll make sure that your concerns regarding the performance and resource usage of this update is passed on to the development team.

You can also share any opinions, suggestions, or ideas in the official Steam Beta Discussions. Our development team is actively following these discussions.

We have provided all the available troubleshooting information in our previous messages. Since there's not much more that I can say or do to be of help with this particular issue, I am going to close this help request.

If you have questions on an unrelated issue, please create a new help request and we will be happy to help you.

Steam Support
Mitch


Their suggestions for a fix was to upload a dump file to them. I had to revert to a old steam installation so there are no dump files. I went from Win 7 to Win 10 to see if that helped..... ofc it didnt. Still using 10% of my 16BG RAM. Still spiking to 80+% CPU usage.

They also suggested I try low bandwidth and disable hardware acceleration..... MY PC is "beefy" enough to run anything, but I have to gimp Steam to run it. NO THAT IS NOT MY PROBLEM. That is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ update.

The last "fix" suggested was to follow the usual steam client fixes from their support page. OF course I tried that. Its like calling Tech support when my internet goes out. Dealing with idiots. . . Want me to unplug my router again?

Basically I've been told to ♥♥♥♥ off and deal with it. Awesome support.

Did you have a controller plugged in?

If I have a controller plugged in, the entirety of steam will hang for 2 seconds or so every 30-60 seconds. If I unplug the controller, it stops.
"If I have a controller plugged in, the entirety of steam will hang for 2 seconds or so every 30-60 seconds. If I unplug the controller, it stops."

LOL ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awesome.
Автор сообщения: Falleax
At least as an option. If it aint broke, don't fix it.
Автор сообщения: maestro

Did you have a controller plugged in?

If I have a controller plugged in, the entirety of steam will hang for 2 seconds or so every 30-60 seconds. If I unplug the controller, it stops.

Yes and no. I remove all extra devices when testing like xbox wireless dongle, my headset, etc. I reinstalled another OS to test if that would work and nope. I am back on old steam and plan on staying here as long as possible.

I am thinking using no browser on steam and installing playnite is going to be my best option. Just completely remove all of steams ability run 10K webhelpere.exe processes. Just that idk what kind of usage playnite has. Old steam 249mb RAM, new steam = 1.6GB RAM.

I don't care chromium is used. i just want it not to be ugly, not use my RAM and CPU like crazy, and have all the same info in an easy to find place. No scrolling, no extra clicks. No asking for reviews, no spoilers through "community" content. Is that really asking too much?

Forget scrolling on the sidebar lol. I would have a birthday before I get to the bottom.
Отредактировано SterlingStar; 30 ноя. 2019 г. в 15:05
Автор сообщения: obliviondoll
Автор сообщения: Gambit-3
This doesn't go against what I said. The dev of the top three games is 100 percent abusing the feature. I disagree about Starpoint Gemeni as it's still the same franchise, I think anything in the same franchise is fine, even spin-offs. As for the bottom example, while I personally don't have a problem with indie studio's telling you about new games, I can totally understand people feeling otherwise.

The top three are the only ones I personally feel are being scummy, but like I said, I agree that people should have more control and be able to block games/devs. I also agreed with another post (not sure which thread) about a dev using the feature to advertise merch, I have seen this on two occasions myself, a displate one was really annoying.

I just don't see the problem with announcing a sequel. I felt that was a bad example, that's all.

I don't think ANY of them are being "scummy" at all.

I think they're using the news feature to share news that's relevant to fans of their games.

But that news is NOT necessarily relevant ONLY to a game you OWN, which is what people defending Steam's forced "what's new?" messaging are claiming.

No, a sequel to a game you own is not a game you own. Yes, news about it IS advertising about a game you don't own. But YES, that information DOES belong in a game's INDIVIDUAL news feed. And YES, it does also belong in the "What's new?" page WHEN SAID SECTION OF THE STEAM CLIENT IS OPTIONAL.
No, it emphatically does not belong in "What's New." There are rules for which type of content shows up where, and that breaks the rules for "What's New." All forms of advertising other than new DLC release are ineligible to show up there and whether the thing is optional or not doesn't change that.
Отредактировано [SK] Kaldaien; 30 ноя. 2019 г. в 20:10
Use the GOG Galaxy launcher and link your Steam account there. Enough with Steam ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! And problem solved of course! CDPR at least pays some respect to its customers...
Автор сообщения: SK Kaldaien
Автор сообщения: obliviondoll

I don't think ANY of them are being "scummy" at all.

I think they're using the news feature to share news that's relevant to fans of their games.

But that news is NOT necessarily relevant ONLY to a game you OWN, which is what people defending Steam's forced "what's new?" messaging are claiming.

No, a sequel to a game you own is not a game you own. Yes, news about it IS advertising about a game you don't own. But YES, that information DOES belong in a game's INDIVIDUAL news feed. And YES, it does also belong in the "What's new?" page WHEN SAID SECTION OF THE STEAM CLIENT IS OPTIONAL.
No, it emphatically does not belong in "What's New." There are rules for which type of content shows up where, and that breaks the rules for "What's New." All forms of advertising other than new DLC release are ineligible to show up there and whether the thing is optional or not doesn't change that.

I've seen ads for sequels and unrelated games from the same company in What's New pages. I've seen people explicitly DEFEND the What's New page saying the only games it shows are sequels (even when that isn't true) and claim that proves it's not advertising (when advertising a sequel to a game you own is still advertising). I'd be perfectly happy to say that advertising for DLC for a game you own is advertising, because it's still a paid product that you don't own which is having its information shoved into the user's face WITHOUT the option for said user to opt out of having said information forced on them.

Not even using GOG Galaxy 2.0 and the current version of their client does a better job than new Steam is doing. I have the option to have it open on a store homepage that's laid out a lot like Steam's new library homepage. I have the option of it opening on my library AND IT'S ACTUALLY A LIBRARY PAGE. And I have the option to do what Steam USED TO let me do, and OPEN BACK UP WHERE I LEFT OFF so I'm looking at the last game I was playing. It also runs consistently smoother and faster than Steam does post-update, doesn't lag when scrolling through my game list, has a cleaner game list with less clutter and less wasted space even though it has icons next to the game titles. And it never blackscreens or locks up for even a single second, let alone more than a minute at a time when I've been looking at something else on my PC for a while before alt+tabbing back to it. Nothing I've heard about 2.0 involves going backwards like Steam's new interface is doing.
Автор сообщения: obliviondoll
Автор сообщения: SK Kaldaien
No, it emphatically does not belong in "What's New." There are rules for which type of content shows up where, and that breaks the rules for "What's New." All forms of advertising other than new DLC release are ineligible to show up there and whether the thing is optional or not doesn't change that.

I've seen ads for sequels and unrelated games from the same company in What's New pages. I've seen people explicitly DEFEND the What's New page saying the only games it shows are sequels (even when that isn't true) and claim that proves it's not advertising (when advertising a sequel to a game you own is still advertising). I'd be perfectly happy to say that advertising for DLC for a game you own is advertising, because it's still a paid product that you don't own which is having its information shoved into the user's face WITHOUT the option for said user to opt out of having said information forced on them.
I suspect what's happening here is the "What's New" feed draws recent posts attached to a game you have in your library, but does use any algorithm based on the contents of the post, so a developer can post an article in the news feed of one of their games but the contents are not about the game it's posted under.

Scenario #1: I have a game called They Are Billions in my Steam library. The devs are pretty good about posting only news about They Are Billions, so no problem, I only learn about updates to that game from What's New.

Scenario #2: Let's say another developer I bought a game from, say another game in my Library, The Forest, and I see news about "The Forest" in my What's New feed, but when I look at the actual contents of the post, the devs are really announcing a new game that's unrelated to "The Forest". Let's say that game is called Into The Deep (fictional game I made up for this example). (Note that the devs of The Forest have done no such thing in real life, though it is a real game in my Library).

From what I gather scenario 2 is what you're talking about and most upset by. If What's New is supposed to be only about games you own, then the fictional game "Into The Deep" should not appear there, as I would not own it. The reason it would be showing up however is because it would have been posted as news about "The Forest" and not in its own new news section for a new launch, greenlight or early access title. That would actually be the developer abusing the news/What's New section.

By adding that section to the Library, Valve has made that sort of abuse of the news section of their platform open to abuse for sure, and they should have thought of that and have a system in place to address such abuses of the system BEFORE forcing it upon us.

As I've said before, Valve, by pushing this ill-conceived update out so fast like this, before even fixing up the issues the beta testers reported, has essentially turned all their customers into unwilling beta testers. I never signed up to be a beta tester, nor did you, I'm assuming, so naturally we're all rather upset about it.
Автор сообщения: Seriously Unserious
Автор сообщения: obliviondoll

I've seen ads for sequels and unrelated games from the same company in What's New pages. I've seen people explicitly DEFEND the What's New page saying the only games it shows are sequels (even when that isn't true) and claim that proves it's not advertising (when advertising a sequel to a game you own is still advertising). I'd be perfectly happy to say that advertising for DLC for a game you own is advertising, because it's still a paid product that you don't own which is having its information shoved into the user's face WITHOUT the option for said user to opt out of having said information forced on them.
I suspect what's happening here is the "What's New" feed draws recent posts attached to a game you have in your library, but does use any algorithm based on the contents of the post, so a developer can post an article in the news feed of one of their games but the contents are not about the game it's posted under.

Scenario #1: I have a game called They Are Billions in my Steam library. The devs are pretty good about posting only news about They Are Billions, so no problem, I only learn about updates to that game from What's New.

Scenario #2: Let's say another developer I bought a game from, say another game in my Library, The Forest, and I see news about "The Forest" in my What's New feed, but when I look at the actual contents of the post, the devs are really announcing a new game that's unrelated to "The Forest". Let's say that game is called Into The Deep (fictional game I made up for this example). (Note that the devs of The Forest have done no such thing in real life, though it is a real game in my Library).

From what I gather scenario 2 is what you're talking about and most upset by. If What's New is supposed to be only about games you own, then the fictional game "Into The Deep" should not appear there, as I would not own it. The reason it would be showing up however is because it would have been posted as news about "The Forest" and not in its own new news section for a new launch, greenlight or early access title. That would actually be the developer abusing the news/What's New section.

By adding that section to the Library, Valve has made that sort of abuse of the news section of their platform open to abuse for sure, and they should have thought of that and have a system in place to address such abuses of the system BEFORE forcing it upon us.

As I've said before, Valve, by pushing this ill-conceived update out so fast like this, before even fixing up the issues the beta testers reported, has essentially turned all their customers into unwilling beta testers. I never signed up to be a beta tester, nor did you, I'm assuming, so naturally we're all rather upset about it.

What I'm "most upset by" in this situation is that the What's New section is FORCED on users without an officially-supported method of removing it.

What I'm commenting on here isn't that, however. It's Kaldaien claiming that scenario #2 doesn't happen when it absolutely does. If it really isn't supposed to happen, the frequency with which I've seen it happen indicates that page isn't working as intended and, much like the new library itself, needs to go back into beta until it can have the massive failures in its operation resolved.
Автор сообщения: obliviondoll
Автор сообщения: SK Kaldaien
No, it emphatically does not belong in "What's New." There are rules for which type of content shows up where, and that breaks the rules for "What's New." All forms of advertising other than new DLC release are ineligible to show up there and whether the thing is optional or not doesn't change that.

I've seen ads for sequels and unrelated games from the same company in What's New pages. I've seen people explicitly DEFEND the What's New page saying the only games it shows are sequels (even when that isn't true) and claim that proves it's not advertising (when advertising a sequel to a game you own is still advertising). I'd be perfectly happy to say that advertising for DLC for a game you own is advertising, because it's still a paid product that you don't own which is having its information shoved into the user's face WITHOUT the option for said user to opt out of having said information forced on them.
I hope you are not talking about me as those people since:

1. I didn't say you couldn't consider dlc or sequels ads (I just said they are also announcements and relevant to games you own)

2. I said devs can and are abusing the system when they show ads for merch and posting other content not related to the actual games.

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You seem to be missing [SK] Kaldaien's point. He is saying devs are abusing the system when you see things that aren't talking about content for the game you own. You have said in prior posts the devs that do this are using the feature as intended, in order to say it's Valve's fault and the devs are doing nothing wrong.

I don't know what Kadaien is citing, but if it's accurate then it is the devs who are abusing the system and not using it as Intended. I still don't personally have a problem with announcing sequels as I do care about those posts, but if It's actually against Valve's rules then that is very interesting and an important distinction.

If your problem is the feature itself and not the content it contains, then you should be clear about that because Valve could work to stop devs from abusing the system if they are in fact breaking the rules. If Valve does create mechanisms to stop "What's New" from showing content not related to game updates and you will still be bothered by the fact you can't hide it, it's better to say it now rather than use the abuse as a strawman because you think it makes the case for hiding it stronger.

Edit: To be less combative, but left in for consistency since a response was being written before I committed the changes.
Отредактировано Gambit-3k; 30 ноя. 2019 г. в 22:58
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