• spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    i know im silly for this but this is part of steam’s charm for me. i like that it just feels genuine like steam isn’t trying to lull you with all the tried and true marketing and UI best practices. it feels very practical, like using old windows 9X UIs.

  • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    7 days ago

    Counterpoint: I can identify which part of the UI most of those come from. This level of variety between various UI functions is actually good. I don’t want the interface tabs or the settings tabs to be confused with tabs in the store, even though they are all tabs. I don’t want buttons to all look the same, especially not the huge purchase button. But even accepting that as an outlier I want some buttons to be clearly part of the steam UI and some as part of the site page I am on, so I don’t get confused.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      probably boosts user performance for users who have more experience like you but slightly hinders new users who haven’t got the hang of it yet

      if steam prioritizing retention of growing userbase is one of its goals, it’s not a bad strategy in my opinion

  • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    Wait till you discover windows ui. Fucking backup tool having advanced options that display 2 of the 3 options and you have to click more to see the third option. and then you realize the advanced options are the basic options. Absolute clown os.

  • the_radness@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Wow. This comments section reads like 50 various versions of Colin Robinson, all swarming on this very post. Every single one of them finding a way to be more pedantic or curmudgeonly than the other.

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    1·
    5 days ago

    fairly sure this is outdated. the UI was updated in june 2023, and many of the skeumorph-esque widgets here no longer exist.

  • BorgDrone@lemmy.oneEnglish
    51·
    7 days ago

    There’s also some stupid UX choices that show they simply don’t give a fuck. On the Steam Deck when you want to update something and you don’t have enough space it simply says “not enough free space”. What use is that to me? Tell me how much you need!

  • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    As someone with crazy UI old, steam is not at the top of my list of problematic programs (Looking at everything epic has made. Seriously opening unreal engine is like a flashbang of what does this button even do?)

    But honestly, steam is easy to understand, the worst page is scrolling though games with its weird scrolling mechanic in the categories section.

  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    The only thing it lacks to me, is a menu to navigate to the game’s wine prefix. They already have one for the installation files, now they just need to add one for the prefix too

  • SoftTeeth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    7 days ago

    Really insane that companies will pay for memes like this to be posted but refuse to develop viable competition

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      81·
      7 days ago

      Are you genuinely insinuating that something like Epic Game Store paid for this as guerilla marketing?

      • SoftTeeth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        6 days ago

        There’s a current effort being made by games companies who see themselves as a competitor to valve to sow criticisms of Valve in online spaces.

        A ton of it is inorganic.