Steam Games Update Log - Patch notes/description in download queue

[Random]

It would be nice to have for at least some if not all games some description on download (1 of 1 compleated ) and not always searching forums or even opening internet browser to find out what is new in updated games.

Games that update externaly via client or other can at least leave one post on News page.

I dont think that is much to ask, i know a lot of people want to know what they are downloading/updating.

[Black Blade]

Well its up to each Dev to do it.. many do not seem to do it.. for these or that reason

[Scutterman]

I think that, if Valve introduces this system, developers would be more likely to add a brief description of each update. It would be useful to see the update notes in the download queue, and adding it to the notes afterward ensures that you can't miss it.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Scutterman:

I think that, if Valve introduces this system, developers would be more likely to add a brief description of each update. It would be useful to see the update notes in the download queue, and adding it to the notes afterward ensures that you can't miss it.

They already have this system

http://store.steampowered.com/updated/

That's why they put the "Recently UPdated" section on the front store

If showing up on the front store doesn't entice devs to make updates, nothing is going to.

[Scutterman]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by Scutterman:

I think that, if Valve introduces this system, developers would be more likely to add a brief description of each update. It would be useful to see the update notes in the download queue, and adding it to the notes afterward ensures that you can't miss it.

They already have this system

http://store.steampowered.com/updated/

That's why they put the "Recently UPdated" section on the front store

If showing up on the front store doesn't entice devs to make updates, nothing is going to.

This isn't about making updates, it's about adding update notes to the updates. At the moment the game's news feed is the best way to see this, except that the developers don't always add a news item when the game updates.

[Random]

Originally posted by Scutterman:

Originally posted by Satoru:

They already have this system

http://store.steampowered.com/updated/

That's why they put the "Recently UPdated" section on the front store

If showing up on the front store doesn't entice devs to make updates, nothing is going to.

This isn't about making updates, it's about adding update notes to the updates. At the moment the game's news feed is the best way to see this, except that the developers don't always add a news item when the game updates.

Yes.

And even when they do post something on news feed its more like blog post with a lot of nonsense. That is why i am proposing clean post of only update log :

* { -Added this
-Removed this
-Fixed this
Etc. }

Short and clean and shows when it is downloading to be seen.

Reading any competative game patch while waiting download is priceless for any player. (Keeping in mind there are people with slow internet and wait 10 min for 100-200mb update) >random example^

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Scutterman:

This isn't about making updates, it's about adding update notes to the updates. At the moment the game's news feed is the best way to see this, except that the developers don't always add a news item when the game updates.

But that's the point, right now if you add ntoes to an update you get front page views. Which is a big incentive to add patch notes and advertise it.

If that isn't enough incentive to do that, a dev isn't going to do it

And even when they do post something on news feed its more like blog post with a lot of nonsense. That is why i am proposing clean post of only update log :

Steam can't force devs to put the information you want in an updtae post. If you want that information talk to the devs. Steam already gives devs gobs of toosl to communicate to users via updates, announcements, etc. If they don't want to use that to convey information to you, Steam can't force them.

[Scutterman]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by Scutterman:

This isn't about making updates, it's about adding update notes to the updates. At the moment the game's news feed is the best way to see this, except that the developers don't always add a news item when the game updates.

But that's the point, right now if you add ntoes to an update you get front page views. Which is a big incentive to add patch notes and advertise it.

If that isn't enough incentive to do that, a dev isn't going to do it

Okay, that makes sense. It would be good if a link to those posts was added to the queue though, even if it's not for every game. Hopefully that wouldn't cause too much inconsistency between the devs that add notes, and the ones that don't.

[Caldor]

Bump... would like to see this as well. I do not even care if it has any logs, I would just like to see when the different games got updated and some sort of name for the update like a number or whatever. Just to know that something happened. Relying on the devs to let people know is... optimistic.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Caldor:

Bump... would like to see this as well. I do not even care if it has any logs, I would just like to see when the different games got updated and some sort of name for the update like a number or whatever. Just to know that something happened. Relying on the devs to let people know is... optimistic.

It is 100% up to the game devs to do this themselves. Even CS:GO posts their updates and version #s on their own blog site.

[Caldor]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Caldor:

Bump... would like to see this as well. I do not even care if it has any logs, I would just like to see when the different games got updated and some sort of name for the update like a number or whatever. Just to know that something happened. Relying on the devs to let people know is... optimistic.

It is 100% up to the game devs to do this themselves. Even CS:GO posts their updates and version #s on their own blog site.

:qr:

Which is why I am asking for Steam to keep a log of when they push an update... rather than depend on the devs to tell you about it. Steam does give you the update after all. Its not like its a secret to Steam.

[Caldor]

Then its not something that secretly sneaks onto your computer, and people might ask the devs about why the game got updated...

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Caldor:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

It is 100% up to the game devs to do this themselves. Even CS:GO posts their updates and version #s on their own blog site.

Which is why I am asking for Steam to keep a log of when they push an update... rather than depend on the devs to tell you about it. Steam does give you the update after all. Its not like its a secret to Steam.

Valve has none of that info. Only that an update was made to be delivered.

Game devs are responsible for posting the info.

[Caldor]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Caldor:

Which is why I am asking for Steam to keep a log of when they push an update... rather than depend on the devs to tell you about it. Steam does give you the update after all. Its not like its a secret to Steam.

Valve has none of that info. Only that an update was made to be delivered.

Game devs are responsible for posting the info.

:qr:

You must not be listening. Of course Valve have that information... its their servers supplying the updates. All the data is going through Steam. You think devs are hosting their own game themselves?

Every time there is an update, its uploaded to Steam. Then the game gets a new version number, one that can even be found in Steam, and all the people who have the game installed will get this update pushed to them.

That is how the update system works. The developers are the only ones who know what is in the updates, what changes they made and such. Whether it was just to replace some text or a texture, or whether it actually added several more levels, missions and whatever is in the game. But when there was an update for the game and how many there have been... Steam knows this. Steam also knows the size of each update.