I think the interface is too bloated. I wonder if there's a way to change it back..
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I like it's bulkyness. I hate crowded interfaces. It's much better to have excess pixels.
So far it's more dial-up friendly. It used to be, if there was an update, I would have to wait a good ten minutes before I could do anything with steam. Now it's a lot more responsive. I like the new bandwidth graph, though I wish they'd make a better way to access it.Comment
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Everything loads so much faster, even on slow connections. I also enjoy the fact that there isn't a one in five chance of the program to stop responding when switching between parts of the interface.
Best of all, Steam now measures download speed in Bytes rather than bits. It really annoyed me how people would get so defensive when I told them they were only getting 30KB/s, not 240KB/s on their road runner connection. Steam really isn't all that fast when it comes to downloading when you think about it; you get faster speeds (usually twice as fast) when downloading from sites like filefront (and those don't even require you to make an account).
Crowded? I don't really see how it's crowded or bloated. If anything, steam was too simple as it was (and this is coming from a person who thinks the CS-Nation website is too crowded). The original was utterly boring, and it was annoying to have to access a separate part of the interface just to see how much of something you had downloaded, or how fast it was downloading. Now this information is advantageously placed all on one screen, and pausing/resuming downloads can be done by simply right clicking on the selected game.
It's what steam should have been when it was released.
You can also very simply switch to the mini-games list too, which is basically identical to the original steam interface--only with the convenient File, View, Games, and Help options. If you consider that bulky, then I dont know what to tell you...
I still prefer the old WON interface, though, but I congradulate Valve on a drastic improvement to the interface.Comment
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Wow, out of all the posts in here there are only a few bitchy posts. Something isn't right here.Comment
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AHHH! what happened? Im still confusedd. It took me a while to figure out where the servers were. I dont like change, but it does look nice.Comment
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woah wrote..
WON interface???
I still prefer the old WON interface, though, but I congradulate Valve on a drastic improvement to the interface.Comment
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[CyW]-=BigBear=- wrote..
The old interface used with Half-Life and its counterpart interfaces (The interfaces used to connect to WON).
WON interface???Comment
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Anyone know if they made any new skins for Steam 3 yet?
For the first time in my life google didn't help me
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Is it just me or does it say $9.95 next to TFC,DOD, and ricochet which were free when release mistake me if im wrong?Comment
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They're free if you own Half-Life. Otherwise, apparently you can buy them for a small fee. Just enter a Half-Life key (or a HL2 Silver/Gold key) however, and all of those will immediately be added.Comment
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woah wrote..
Well excuse me, but afaik WON was just an CD-key authentication system when you joined a HL internet game, it didn't have an interface or something like that..
The old interface used with Half-Life and its counterpart interfaces (The interfaces used to connect to WON).
And the ingame interface of joining games and serverbrowser etc hasn't changed at all from HL1 to HL2.. Only difference is that you can use Steam out of the game on your desktop, it delivers auto-updates, and has something called Friends..
So that why I really don't understand when people like you say you preffered the old WON interface?? There simply never was a WON interface!Comment
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I'm pretty sure he means the original HL interface that used WON. Y'know, the GUI that was built right into the HL app, before they were all standardized and thrown onto the Steam launcher.
Sure, that's not the WON interface per se, but... it's just semantics.Comment
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The HL1 ingame GUI is pretty much the same as the HL2 one, so??Comment
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Helkite wrote..
Thanks Helkite. I really thought it was obvious.
I'm pretty sure he means the original HL interface that used WON. Y'know, the GUI that was built right into the HL app, before they were all standardized and thrown onto the Steam launcher.
Sure, that's not the WON interface per se, but... it's just semantics.Comment
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[CyW]-=BigBear=- wrote..
Go back and reinstall the classic, pre-Steam version of HL1 from the CD, and don't update it. Look at the interface and try to come back and say with a straight face that it's the same as the current interface. It has a similar style in some regards, but the differences between the two are far too big to ignore.
The HL1 ingame GUI is pretty much the same as the HL2 one, so??
That said, I far prefer Steam's interface. I also really like not losing my audio when I bump my windows key or something knocks me to the desktop (like a chat window), and having a server browser that doesn't take 15 minutes to refresh on a T3 line... but let's try to not focus on all the many good things that came from the Steam interface shall we?Comment
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