TAKE THE PLEDGE: I WILL NOT BUY A STEAM GAME UNTIL THE LIBRARY INTERFACE IS CHANGED BACK

[True Rock]

I will not buy another game from Steam until the library interface is changed back to the previous design.

[Kateye]

I just switched to the open-source Playnite launcher that interfaces with Steam, Origin, GOG, and others. Now that I have everything in one place, I'm in the mood to buy some Good Ol' Games...

[-=GHS=-Kewlpersin]

People like you make me laugh.

[Frosty]

Originally posted by Kateye:

I just switched to the open-source Playnite launcher that interfaces with Steam, Origin, GOG, and others. Now that I have everything in one place, I'm in the mood to buy some Good Ol' Games...

I think this might be the way forward. I've got nearly 1000 games on steam but boycotting anymore purchases until they undo this mess.

I might try this new playnite client and if that works well then that gives me the option to simply start buying from a new platform in future without fragmenting my library.

[True Rock]

Originally posted by -=GHS=-Kewlpersin HNIC:

People like you make me laugh.

People like you worked on the Windows 8 GUI design team.

I detest incompetence. I detest people who are incompetent but do not know they are incompetent even more.

The people who designed the new abomination of a GUI for the Steam library should absolutely be fired and never be allowed to work in the software industry again.

[Detrian]

Oh nooooo. Steam will lose the support of this person with... 100 games. Yeah, have fun with that.

[697830]

I just came out of Windows standby and all html / css in Steam was black screen, requiring the client to be shut down and restarted. But a sale is a good time to force the upgrade, whether its really compatible with simplest of Windows basic power management functions or not.

[honx]

this forced new ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ui crys out for boycotting valve!

[DG | Tom Da Bomb [S] [D]]

i dont think they should Change it back, they should just make use of the View options like they had before and make this a new option, then giving us back List and others so ppl can use what they want

theres a chance that with the new UI using a Chromium base that they couldnt make it a toggle button to change back, but i cant imagine the old UI was so ridiculously large they couldnt pack it with this whole library setup, that way ppl can choose an option for the old UI and restart steam so they get the old library

[Big9istfish]

sure
and im looking for alternative libraries now too

[DG | Tom Da Bomb [S] [D]]

1 - allow an option to remove / disable the Whats New section from loading

2 - an option for the old library so ppl can choose an option to use it, and they can keep this new one for everyone else

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ive got plenty of old games i have no problem playing back through, and i have a lot of games that are more than a couple years old i havent even gotten to yet, so i think now is a good time to take a game buying break, they all suck right now anyway lol just over bloated corporations that have no business producing a game, so they release half assed and partially broken, let alone you never know if they will fix the game up over a year or 2 after release then change it to a Free to Play

so basically you paid to help them test the game and be the most loyal customer for it to go free? if anything games should come out for Free and be crappy buggy unfinished messes, then after 1 or 2 years they change it so a paid game, that would make sense at least to reward the most loyal players

i was going to do this anyway and support more legit Indies or just smaller time dev teams that self publish through Steam and other digital platforms, but i can also exclude Steam till we get some fixes, the biggest problem is finding another legit digital store besides Steam or GOG that has games and doesnt try to lock your games to their platform, so i would need to be able to launch the game from its .exe file in the folders outside of the platform, like you can with Steam although the regular multiplayer stuff doesnt work, but you still have / "own" your games at least

[True Rock]

Originally posted by DG | Tom Da Bomb S D:

i dont think they should Change it back, they should just make use of the View options like they had before and make this a new option, then giving us back List and others so ppl can use what they want

theres a chance that with the new UI using a Chromium base that they couldnt make it a toggle button to change back, but i cant imagine the old UI was so ridiculously large they couldnt pack it with this whole library setup, that way ppl can choose an option for the old UI and restart steam so they get the old library

Sure, that would be a very reasonable thing to do.

[Tharon]

Hah, way ahead of all of you, I couldn't afford the games anyways!

[JHarlequin]

I don't think changing it back is necessary, but this was not a step forward, this was just a step towards selling more junk.

"What's new" is displaying irrelevant crap and I can't get rid of it. The events tabs are basically loaded down with "Hey buy this". And it is loading for crap, already had it fail to load textures quite a few times so far, and it is constantly switching focus while I am trying to type this response.

This was not a well designed update and is just flooding marketing to people rather than helping us find things we like.

[Pegarex]

steam skins are still a thing... Everyone always seems to forget they exist, just wait a few days until someone makes a skin that looks like the old steam.

[Languor]

I can't see myself using Steam anymore if my library is no longer a safe space from overstimulation.