If you're on the Steam Client Beta (Desktops), you might have noticed the Steam store looking a bit different with the latest update. Valve announced a refresh of the Steam store menu noting it's designed to "provide easier access to the places Steam users most frequently visit".
What's changed? A lot actually. The whole left sidebar of links is entirely gone, combined into the new store bar at the top. It also puts the bar on more pages across on Steam, to give you access to the search and links easily. It will also disappear when you scroll down, just scroll up a bit for it to reappear.
Valve have also enhanced the search bar too. It now offers more options when searching including:
- Popular Searches: See what others are searching for right now
- Recently Viewed: An easy way to jump back to games you've previously looked at
- More than just games: Search for categories/tags, publishers, and more
- Advanced Search link: For those who want to refine their game search even further, we’ve made it easier than ever to access the advanced search page with a variety of filters.
There's more including recommendations, categories and tags personalised to you and various smaller changes.
If you've tried it out in the Steam Client Beta, drop a comment to let us know what you think.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Xpander 18 hours ago
Categories are now kinda stupid big blobs, but luckily theres show more that gives better list
Theres also lots of wasted empty space on the both sides now.
Search box now shows the price also which i dont think it previously showed, thats nice but again it has big banners on the search list and fits less titles into it..
overall pretty bad, but its been going worse for last few years already...so yeah
im old a grumpy with the "modern" designs.
Vortex_Acherontic 13 hours ago
Phlebiac 6 hours ago
Search box now shows the price also which i dont think it previously showed, thats nice but again it has big banners on the search list and fits less titles into it..
Comparing the search in the client versus on the web, using "blood" since "Bloody Spell" is in the screenshot (on sale cheap right now; picked it up and found it well worth the bargain price):
a) both old and new show the prices, but only the new makes it obvious when it's a sale price (useful improvement)
b) old shows 5 search results, new only shows 4 (making space for other stuff and keeping it short overall?)
c) both show a tag match and a developer match; the old shows a game count for them, so seems better to me
d) as far as I can tell, the "advanced search" button just duplicates clicking on the magnifying glass or hitting enter
e) old shows when things are in your library or wishlist, new does not
So comparing using those: new wins for a, old wins for b, c, and e, and I'd say old kind of wins for d, but since that's counted as b, we could call it a draw on that point. If they fix c and e, new search would be better.
TheRiddick 5 hours ago
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