Valve Announces Major Update for Steam

Dr Sadako · June 23, 2007, 08:23:27 AM

QuoteValve Announces Major Update for Steam

June 20, 2007, 10:27 am - Eric Twelker

Free Update Offers New Community Features for Connecting Gamers

June 20, 2007 -- This summer Valve will ship a major update to its online gaming platform Steam, introducing an advanced set of community features to more than 13 million gamers around the world.

Beginning in July, Steam users can set up their own personal Steam pages and profiles, create and join groups, schedule games with friends, review who they've played with, see how well everyone played, chat with groups, chat via voice, and more. These new community services and features can be used with all Steam games, which include new releases and classic titles from leading publishers and independent developers.

Free of charge, the new community features will be accessible via the Steam desktop client and via the web.

"Our community has given us great direction on the ways they want to see Steam evolve," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "Adding these new community features to make it easier to connect with other gamers is something we've wanted to see on Steam for a long time and this latest update is just the start. We've got a long list of items that we're working on to make it easier for gamers to connect and play games on Steam."

This upgrade marks the largest extension to the Steam platform since its first commercial release in March 2004. In its three year history, Steam has defined the next generation online gaming platform delivering hundreds of games to millions of users with services such as Guest Passes, Automatic Updates, Free Weekends, and allowing gamers to access their games from any PC.

Be afraid ... be very afraid.:sideways:

Whitey · June 23, 2007, 09:07:38 AM

How about they just fix the bugs/issues they introduced in previous updates first :ranting2:

DuVeL · June 23, 2007, 10:29:07 AM

Steam; WOOHOO...
What will they mess up this time.:taz:

delanvital · June 23, 2007, 10:30:43 AM

Oh noes.

Bastet · June 23, 2007, 11:01:15 AM

Hehe, go figure, this is starting to sound more and more like a windows product, who cares about bugs, heres a dozen new things to play with :crying:

Penfold · June 23, 2007, 10:27:32 PM

It would be better if the chap was called Eric Tweaker :lmfao:

PEN

Lee · June 23, 2007, 11:29:32 PM

Quote from: Whitey;195008How about they just fix the bugs/issues they introduced in previous updates first :ranting2:

Exactly what i was going to say! Why are they making useless new products when there are still bugs galore?

T-Bag · June 24, 2007, 12:22:46 AM

They're turning it into Skype, a blog and adding random stats. They've been listening to the hardcore nerds and not to the other 12.9million users.

Bk · June 24, 2007, 12:25:02 AM

Quote from: Lee;195092Why are they making useless new products when there are still bugs galore?

Because it is easier to do. Also, it might keep some people distracted from the existing flaws. Either way, they should seriously fix them bugs, I want my favourites list back

Snusmumrikken · June 29, 2007, 09:49:03 PM

yay another one of them "myspace" or facebook like stuff:/

like we didnt have enought already?:ranting2:

Luminance · July 01, 2007, 02:16:16 PM

Quote from: Dr Sadako;195004Be afraid ... be very afraid.:sideways:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRGH

no serieus, what are they thinking? have they asked us if we wanted all that?
think over 80% doesn't want that bull...