Valve may be preparing to introduce two new features to Steam, including one that gamers have been asking for for years.
Valve is quietly preparing more changes to Steam, which hasn’t escaped the notice of data miners. Findings in the platform’s database indicate that the company is working on introducing two new features for Steam users.
Pavel Djundik, the creator of SteamDB, found a track of additional improvements (via Blood). The first of them is ability to add notes to games in the library, that users have been asking for for a long time.
The option to add notes in Steam would be useful for saving important information or tips. Source: Croteam / Devolver Digital (The Talos principle).
The idea was that players could store useful information on the platform itself, rather than in a file in another application (or on a piece of paper). This can be information about puzzles to solve, strategies or places to discover. Or a list of cheats for Skyrim. Some netizens are hoping that the feature will add not only text, but also graphics or at least screenshots of the game in question.
The second novelty pointed out by Djundik is a separate page with notifications, similar to the functionality of the Steam mobile app. In general, this novelty does not arouse many expectations: on smartphones, its usefulness is reduced mainly to informing about sales and promotions of titles on the user’s wish list.
Both new should work both in the Steam client and from the web browser. We are awaiting official information.
Passionate about video games (and others) for years, he completed an MBA in linguistics, defending a thesis on games. He started his adventure with GlobeLiveMedia in 2015, writing in the editorial department, then also covering movies and oh, horror! – technology (also a contributor to the Games Encyclopedia). He started out with platform games, which he still loves (including metroidvania), but he also likes card games (including “analog” games), fighting games, soul games and practically any other kind of game. Don’t ask about the graphics: after a few hours of exposure, you can revel in pixelated game characters reminiscent of the days of the (if not older) Game Boy era.
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