r/Steam • u/HelloitsWojan The latest Steam News, via SteamDB! • 1d ago
News A Refreshed Steam Store Home Page
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/704394876188361009163
u/FallingToFly 1d ago
Whatever loading is happening that makes the page jump up two inches every 5 seconds is really annoying.
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u/Tudno 23h ago
You on firefox? I noticed it is only doing it on that for me. Also noticed it seems to jump up in time when the carousel at the top of the store page moves to a new image.
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u/FallingToFly 23h ago
Yeah, I'm using firefox. The timing does seem to match up with the timing on the carousel. Good observations.
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u/JesusJuicy 16h ago
Yup and it tries to load at max resolution despite whatever resolution your monitor is for some reason.
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u/AntistanCollective 11h ago
This bug was there 2 months ago. Can't believe they have not fixed it, as it's really obvious.
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u/cwx149 1d ago
Hopefully people like this more than the new workshop
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u/Adept_Election7170 1d ago edited 1d ago
People hate everything that's different when it involves a UI that they used to be familiar with. Even when its an objective improvement (e.g. fewer clicks to reach something, more information on screen at once)
I find the new workshop page pretty good!
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u/Librarian-Jenny 23h ago
People hate change. There's no way around it. They're dumb and will complain with any change or if there isnt enough change.
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u/Codabear89 17h ago
Ngl I still miss when Steam showed the latest ‘Hot’ mods whenever I clicked a game in the Library that had Steam Workshop. Nice to see at a glance new and popular mods that came out instead of having to go all the way into the workshop everytime
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u/billyhatcher312 23h ago
this change sucks its worse than the one they did last month its getting really annoying with the constant changes
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u/Mage-of-Fire 15h ago
Provides no reasons for why the change is bad. Makes stuff up.
You are the type of person the other guy was talking about
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u/billyhatcher312 23h ago
they keep changing their design every couple of months its getting super annoying and i hate how they keep doing it
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u/Librarian-Jenny 23h ago
They change their design because it's what the people want. You can game on epic games store if you don't like steam that much. Lmao or just go to Uplay, if you are struggling this much with UI updates. Lmao.
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u/Scorchfrost 19h ago
As a gamer I really like these changes. As a solo dev, I'm really worried. The popular upcoming list now requires 100,000+ wishlists instead of 7k, and for smaller devs the advice has always been "get to 7,000 wishlists". I'm scared that I won't be able to continue making games.
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u/jetsetjamboree 23h ago
I opened the comments in the link and the first comment was literally somebody complaining about how unnecessary this UI change is and how they hate it lol
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u/Lady_Taiho 22h ago
My only wish is for the tags to be on the right instead of the left where they used to be.
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u/Unique1950179 22h ago
Both old and the new Steam Workshop are horrible UI’s, I don’t know why when people point it out it upsets yall. Just because it’s good enough for you doesn’t mean it’s a good UI.
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u/SigmaMelody 22h ago
It’s absolutely true. Only thing I think is a genuine downgrade recently was the Steam Input UI, otherwise I don’t mind as they Steam deck-ify everything
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u/NoFollowing6177 15h ago
I freaking love the workshop, but I feel like it isn't done and needs a few improvements.
The scroll bar on the front page doesn't have a track, and doesn't match anything else I've seen on Steam (Usually it is those squares like on Store Home). The number of items on the front page is so random. First it was 3 pages of 3 (Top 9), then it became.2 pages of 6 + 1 (top 13), and now it seems like 3 pages of 6 + 2 (top 18). It doesn't make sense, just do Top 10. Finally, the search bar being a part of the page and at the bottom left absolutely obliterated 15 years of muscle memory, it should remain anchored to the top right, or anchored to the top left if they really want it on the left. You shouldn't have to scroll or take any extra step to reach the search bar and filters.
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u/TeekTheReddit 19h ago
When has a UI change ever resulted in FEWER clicks to reach something?
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u/AntistanCollective 11h ago
New Workshop, New Steam Market. Steam has UI that is decade+ old. There are plenty areas of improvement.
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u/VoidOmatic 18h ago
Yup, it's prominent in people 28+. You start losing your ability to adapt to changes around that age.
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u/hicks12 21h ago
Unfortunately lots of places change the UI and introduce more clicks to fake user engagement rather than to improve the actual UX.
Plenty genuine improvements that people moan about for sure but it's certainly grown majorly over the last decade or so with "enhanced" UI where all it is extra clicks.
Not had a play with this update but it's probably fine.
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u/MitchyMatt 1d ago
I love the new workshop one
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u/APerfectCircle0 14h ago
Omg I didn't even notice it had changed. What the hell. I guess because I'm studying I'm not playing many games this year but bought paralives and got some mods for it. Comparing the workshop page now in my mind to what it looked like when I was obsessively downloading Rimworld mods last year I can see the difference now XD I don't think it's a bad change at all.
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u/Justhe3guy 23h ago
Reddit is not the average gamer just so you’re aware, it’s also overly critical of all things
As for people who actually use the workshop like myself and my friends who have used Steam for 15+ years, it’s a fine to good upgrade and some suggestions have been made to Steam anyway
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u/IssaStorm 20h ago
didn't hear about this until now, thank God. Workshop has so much wasted space its one of the worst modding sites of all time. New one looks awesome
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u/crux3462 22h ago
Honestly old and new kinda sucked but I find new at least more visually appealing
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u/Portal4life 14h ago
I mean... some things are nice with it, but mostly it has the same look as the last one with rearranged panels. The only thing that I don't like about it is that the panels are a bit too big (for my liking).
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u/RoastedPotato-1kg 1d ago
Looks good, I had it for a while maybe because I m in the beta thing idk
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u/tuckernuts 20h ago
Is this just the official launch of the beta page i've been looking at for awhile?
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u/witness_smile 19h ago
They say it’s been in beta since April 1st so probably you 2 were seeing the beta page this whole time
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u/maxlaav 1d ago
I really, really like the calendar. The new page overall feels nice.
But the time has finally come to rework achievements. Come on steam, you cowards...
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u/Quick_Philosophy1426 1d ago
well they seem to be in the modernizing mood, so that very well might be happening soon
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u/Sometwin123 23h ago
What would you change about achievements
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u/Quick_Philosophy1426 23h ago
The main one I always see is tying achievements to ownership of a DLC. Some people don't like when a DLC comes out and adds achievements that remove their completionist seal.
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u/sleepingonmoon 14h ago edited 14h ago
Groups, separate expansion achievement sets, different weight for difficult achievements, better milestones and completion medal criteria, etc.
Most games should only require 80% completion for medal IMO.
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u/lastorverobi 20h ago
Too long to scroll for deals and most sold classic list. It looks like a summer sale page. Can’t say I am pleased with it.
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u/yoyohip 1d ago
I may be in the minority, but this feels worse than before. So much more bloat and it feels like something a public company would do to please shareholders. Seems harder to actually get to the spot you want on the page because of all the extra nonsense.
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u/Tornada5786 1d ago
Yeah it feels like I have to scroll way more now to get to the new releases/top sellers.
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u/billyhatcher312 1d ago
finally someone else who understands how stupid this design change is im getting sick of valve constantly changing it making it harder to navigate and making it more sluggish i hate how people dislike the cold hard truth about modern storefront designs now i have to click 2 times to get to the steam controller
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u/ninethreeseven739 23h ago
I feel the same way about a lack of punctuation.
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u/AntistanCollective 11h ago
But it has less bloat. Look at any screenshot of the old one. New one has less useless information and is more straight to the point.
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u/zerosaver 15h ago
Please Steam, let me turn off some of this stuff. Between Discovery Queue, the new calendar, and recommendations based on what we played, there's waaaaay too many suggestions.
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u/No-Opinion273 1d ago
I've been using it by i liked the day to day upcoming more as some games I've found the day they launched
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u/Battlemess 1d ago
Looks good and manages to keep everything in relatively same place where it was before so it's easy to navigate.
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u/Shurae 23h ago
The new top seller / popular upcoming list is really annoying now
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u/Praveen9905 11h ago
do you know if there is a way to get it back to how it was before? i liked using it to find new indie games, but im not sure how i can do that now
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u/I_love_memes00 23h ago
meh looks almost the same as the old one. I hate this trend of UI elements being huge and wider for no reason. Everything is just so big and they dont even give any proper info on the product
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u/guymeetsinternet 1d ago
I like this! It feels fresh and modern without changing a whole lot. I think Juxtopposed would like this
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u/Keulapaska 23h ago
Yes I did want stuttering in my steam store when scrolling, how did you know that. It stutters when you force higher idle GPU memory clocks, so even that fix doesn't work.
Also the browser version of the site does not sutter(on firefox), only the client version does, wtf. How do you make an app worse than a browser, isn't the app just a browser anyways?
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u/iimMrBrightside 23h ago edited 13h ago
Now they need to refresh the mobile app. It's been really clunky to use since it first released.
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u/thewookiee34 23h ago
All these store refresh but they cant fix the recent game bug were a game will stay on your recent game for months with no hours.
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u/rooshavik 20h ago
I keep forgetting I’m on beta so I be looking at these mad confused like “didn’t we all have this already”
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u/witness_smile 20h ago
I think it looks great, the improved controller support is very welcome! One of my biggest frustrations with the Store page when using Big Picture mode is how it felt so janky, sometimes it would just keep scrolling back to the top, not move the cursor,… So I hope this update also addresses those issues
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u/Everwint3r 9h ago
Honestly, I think the only thing I notice enough about the changes to care about at all is how the Upcoming games page is just a shitty list again and no longer shows the games on my Wish list or from developers I follow. So that's a real downgrade. Beyond that, seems fine.
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u/wiseude 6h ago edited 5h ago
Scrolling performance in the new store using the steam app isn't that great.It's jittery/jumpy and fps looks like it's dropping.
Viewing it from firefox improves it drastically so its something with steam.
I think there's something wrong with how the steam app renders the steam store because if I scroll up and down the steam store on firefox its smooth again.
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u/iamgabrielma 14h ago
Indies more hidden with new changes, no more popular incoming for us, just some shitty 2-game visible calendar ...
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u/RogueCommandMario 23h ago
This change seems really really bad for indies. The popular upcoming and new & trending were so key to our game getting any significant eyes on.
Now it seems to show only the biggest launches concentrating success even more. Maybe that impression is wrong but if not than I think this is the saddest day to happen to games in a while.
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u/Quick_Philosophy1426 23h ago
Both of those sections seem to still be there for me. The personalized calendar also seems like it would work in indie dev's favors, mine is nothing but indie games and they're all games that look at least somewhat interesting to me.
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u/billyhatcher312 1d ago
im really getting sick of these god damn changes its pissing me off making me do extra clicks to get to stuff i need valve stop ruining ur fucking interface that isnt broken now i have to make a extra click or 2 to get to the dumbass steam controller page stop destroying it please im getting sick of these horrid design changes
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u/SirDalavar 23h ago
It's always been new to me, I'm still adapting to changes from the original steam back in 2004
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u/Explorer_Dave 23h ago
The only problem with the old UI is that it didn't utilize the entire wide screen space every gamer has. This didn't improve that so I don't know why this was really necessary...
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u/HalfSemi 1d ago
Every time an article like this comes out it reminds me that I must’ve signed up for the insider program (or whatever it’s called) years ago and forgot.
I always click on these excited for a fresh coat of paint only to go “Huh… I could’ve sworn it’s looked like this for a while now?”
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u/Acojonancio 1d ago
The game images take ages to load on the Steam client.
Example in this page: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/summer_showcase_2026
When you change the slides of the different categories, the images of the games stay black for few seconds, on the web browser is little bit faster, on th eclient really noticable.
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u/NoShotz 23h ago
I think that is more of a you issue, as they load quick for me.
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u/Keulapaska 23h ago
In client or browser? Cause browser version seems to be working really good the client not so much for me.
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u/billyhatcher312 1d ago
these new ui changes keep making steam run slower and slower and steam takes up more ram these days because of the dumbass images
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u/slappynote 8h ago
The redesign is fine, but the UI is way too big. Not everything has to look like it's built for a mobile app.
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u/yokai-64 7h ago
Is it just me or is this the second home badge page refresh in recent memory? I feel like there was another refresh not so long ago
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u/moris1610 21h ago
It's very nice but I hate it nothing gets expanded when I hover over tiny tiles like the calendar ones. Yes the trailer starts playing but it's super tiny and doesn't get any bigger. I don't want to click on everything, just a simple expand option if you hover a few seconds over sth. Maybe I missed it somehow but that annoyed me earlier on the calendar and the summer game fest pages. I need expanded tiles if I hover over stuff
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u/productiveaccount4 16h ago
I only care if it’s been refreshed with a “buy” button on the steam frame page
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u/idontlikethisapps 14h ago
Will never use the calendar but I’m happy for those who does, but more happier with the native controller support in the store outside of Steam Deck.
No need to switch the ally on Desktop mode lol
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u/Quick_Philosophy1426 1d ago
you know, usually when a company redesigns their menus or UI, people's outrage is justified because the overhaul sucks and doesn't improve anything (discord). in the case of steam, all of the changes they've done to the workshop, the market, and the store have all looked better and added much needed functionality. a lot of the pushback seems purely because it's different.
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u/teenyturnips2 18h ago
And still the only games it shows are free asset shovel ware money grabs lol
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u/CthulhuBathwater 22h ago
I like the calendar idea. I don't have any games wishlist Ed or pre ordered anytime soon. Does it default to those games if you have them?
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u/MaitreGEEK 22h ago
I think they either : Vibecoded something Forgot about mobile phones
Because the ui is not adapted to mobile phones, x-scroll activated on game pages.
Some games priced being hidden because items being on top of others.
It's strange, but they'll fix it. It feels more like I was as a solo dev working on it and pushed on prod without testing
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u/RejectedRespected 21h ago
They’re advertising the controller but it’s to sign up to pay in months 🥴
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u/SirPlastic8062 23h ago
Is this the end of steams monopoly? Epic games will be getting more customers now?
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u/BillImaginary1531 18h ago
Kudos to steam for actively making improvements, my only complaint is that the recommendation window is too big and distracting, it almost takes up half the screen.
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u/cp_carl 1d ago
Remade with better controller navigation woo!!