The new discovery queue is utterly unusable, and it's even worse on Steam Deck

[CitricBase]

New queue:

• Forces you to click away from the page with EVERY GAME to find any information relevant to wishlisting. Screenshots, description, reviews, NONE of those vital elements are present in the new queue.
  
• God help you when you click back to find that Steam has randomly decided to erase the rest of the games you were looking at. What was that other cool looking game in the queue? ♥♥♥♥ IF I'LL EVER KNOW, because there is no history function.
  
• Whose genius idea was it to make the new queue fit into that tiny little box? My screen is already miniscule on this thing, why are you only using a quarter of it? What is this, a discovery queue for ants?
  
• On Steam Deck in game mode, after clicking through to view a game's page (which, again, you need to do for EVERY GAME in order to see what it is), when you click back... the JavaScript queue has disappeared and all the controls bug out and don't work, only touching the screen works.

So, to use this new queue and get the badges on Steam Deck, you have to back out to desktop mode, load the Steam Store in a web browser, click through the queue, right click and open in a new tab every game, then sort through the tabs and figure out what to wishlist. All with finicky Deck controls. Then you have to repeat, for every level of the badge.

To reiterate, this is the absolute worst Discovery Queue experience I have ever had, and I will never again do this voluntarily. This is in contrast to the regular queue, through which I have been happily adding and purchasing hundreds of new games over the years.

[flamedance58]

Agreed on every point plus it's laggy and still no keyboard hotkeys for it! We finally get Left and Right but no shortcuts for Wishlisting, Ignoring, etc.

[PinkPony]

+1

[Koganku]

pshel nah

[Mr Lou]

Same for me. New discovery queue is very big crap !
Display no useful information (just à Title, the first picture of the store page video, and a brief summary).
With the actual queue you have all information you want, in short: a store page like a store page must be.

[Saturn]

just making viewing the store page not lose your place in the queue would be a massive improvement

[PotatOS]

Originally posted by Mr Lou:

Same for me. New discovery queue is very big crap !
Display no useful information (just à Title, the first picture of the store page video, and a brief summary).
With the actual queue you have all information you want, in short: a store page like a store page must be.

Exactly what I came here to say. The new queue is both sluggish and useless. At the bare minimum I should be able to see the screenshots for a given game and not just one trailer.

[Procedural Texture]

Agreed. This is such a truly awful user experience, I thought I was on Facebook for a second. Unusable trash. And for f███'s sake, SHOW ME THE DAMN VIDEO AND VOLUME CONTROLS WITHOUT MOUSING OVER AND OFF AGAIN A DOZEN TIMES. Making us watch half the video muted is not a selling point. It's just infuriating.

Bring back the old Discovery Queue. It was fine, even if I didn't use it often.

You know what would actual be a useful change? Something like the Discovery Queue, but of the games we already own, since you already broke all the categories we might've spent time organizing our collections. Give us a way to browse our own games. But I guess that might not bring in more money, so you'll never do it.

[Inco]

Originally posted by CitricBase:

New queue:
clicking through to view a game's page (which, again, you need to do for EVERY GAME in order to see what it is)

Yes, exactly. I want to see the screenshots instead of cinematic trailer.

[davidjberes]

+1
Impossible to use on the Deck!

[GODLIKE | RAINBOW | UNICORN]

Although I don't agree with the way the points were formulated, I agree with most of them.
The main pain point is that if I click on a game to open the store page, when I go back the queue isn't open anymore and even after opening it back up I've lost my position in the queue.
Also, all games that came before the most recent Badge "Checkpoint" are gone, which means I can only check out a single game from before that checkpoint (because after loading the game's store page, the queue is gone).

[DeweyEyed]

Originally posted by Mr Lou:

Same for me. New discovery queue is very big crap !
Display no useful information (just à Title, the first picture of the store page video, and a brief summary).
With the actual queue you have all information you want, in short: a store page like a store page must be.

Agreed. I am on a macbook; if there was a plan to let me know whether any of these games being advertised are not gonna be macOS compatible, it didn't succeed. I have no clue what system requirements are likely to be; I'd rather wait for them to hit the regular store and find out day zero that I have no chance at playing it. Shouldn't have to risk downloading an incompatible game to find out that I wasted energy getting excited for it.

[Neko_Baron]

Yeah this is utter crap, showing only a video and zero game information is a terrible system. I get they think this is more streamlined but I don't decided a game on a video only because more often than not they aren't a good representation of game play compared to screenshots, page info and reviews.

Edit: Yeah this is the stupidest system change ever, the point of the queue is to discover games. All this new system did was let me speed run a queue of 100 games in 60 seconds, the only feature of this new method is just letting people complete queues in seconds without actually looking at games, I guess some people complained the queue took too long and changed it to help them but said people are NOT meant to even be the target user of the queue system, this hurts developers hard.

[theeromancer]

Originally posted by Saturn:

just making viewing the store page not lose your place in the queue would be a massive improvement

I agree that this is the main difficulty. In fact, I'd say "losing your place" is an understatement - an entirely new queue is generated every time you come back from anywhere (including, on the Deck, momentarily adjusting settings).

So not only do you lose any of the other items in the queue you were looking at, there is no actual progress through your queue because it never ends. On the Deck, this makes it utterly unusable.

[Dragonfly' 💜]

+1

[Bomjahed]

Got here after I have lost the game I was looking at, so mad