verysoft

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[–] verysoft@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They have some good quality of life suggestions in the video, but also a lot of horrible design decisions.

I do like the idea of displaying the review ratios on games instead of "Mostly positive" etc. and the expanding info when you hover which moves the add to cart button is a problem Valve could fix. But that's like the only takeaways, everything else was a downgrade, while I can see where they are coming from with their ideas... they are just not good UX. Their design is a case of wasting space and minimising the amount of stuff shown, they just outright remove useful information because 'it exists elsewhere'. Just because it exists elsewhere doesn't mean it can't be somewhere else to be seen at a glance.

They mostly looked at it from a design perspective and not a functionality perspective, they are new to Steam it seems from their profile shown in the video, so it makes sense they don't really know what people want/expect from the application.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That new generation design mentality, every webpage should have a max of 3 buttons, take up 50% of the page and the other half of the page can have 100 words maximum. Function over form please, every website is slowly devolving into this form over function bs the last 5-10 years. I think the UX designers all retired.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

No, that redesign is horrendous. It follows modern 'design' principles of putting as little information on the page as you can and that's just a no go.

Steam's current UI isn't bad at all, everything functions and is similar to previous versions allowing anyone to find their way around comfortably. There are some issues, like in the older workshop pages and there is absolutely a lot of QoL that could be made, but the main store, discovery and library are all totally functional and nice imo. Steam having a slightly different style on different pages isn't actually a bad thing, at a glance you can easily tell what page you are on and makes it easier to find what you are looking for, whereas if it all looks the same, it's not as simple as they all become too similar.

Just because there isn't a shit ton of padding, doesn't mean it needs a redesign. Steam should definitely add skin support back though, for people who want to play around with it. I did personally use metro for the longest time.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

Like CDPR changing Cyberpunk from RPG to Action-adventure. At least the game didn't release at that point though, but still. I mean Destiny even gets called an MMO when it isn't. Genre is kind of misused a lot, people just need to stop buying or getting invested in games that haven't even released.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Okay why do these random packages keep popping up with this? For attention?
It's irrelevant, they are barely used by anyone and if a site blocks legitimate e-mail providers, then it is not a site worth registering with in the first place.

Is this the new interaction bait post?

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

It's just paycheck justification. "Look we did something, we are useful"

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I dont understand American politics, but how can this cunt even be allowed to run for president after all the illegal shit he has been found guilty for?

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Perfect, yeah gimme that

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Kinda bullshit, if you have made the patches anyway, just release them you bums. It's your own fault for repeatedly making shittier OS's that nobody wants to swap to.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

It's going the complete wrong way if so.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's what all trailers are, but Rockstar ones are never that great. Compare them to, for example, Bethesda trailers. It's a night and day difference, even if the Rockstar games are usually better, the Bethesda trailers just instill more awe and hype imo. It's the way trailers usually tell a mini story, the music having impact with what's on screen and the Rockstar trailers usually miss the mark on this.

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