Steam Introduces Steam Labs

AleksandarK · Jul 12, 2019

Valve is busy as ever in its quest to bring better experiences to gamers all over the world. However, we as gamers can't see what are they working on until it is released. But that is about to change. Valve is today introducing Steam Labs, a community hub for all the experimental features that are being worked on behind the scenes. Valve says that the reason for creating this is that "...we create many experimental features with codenames like The Peabody Recommender and Organize Your Steam Library Using Morse Code. For the first time, we're giving these works-in-progress a home called Steam Labs, where you can interact with them, tell us whether you think they're worth pursuing further, and if so, share your thoughts on how they should evolve."

For now they are releasing three experiments to showcase the purpose of Labs, called Micro Trailers, The Interactive Recommender and The Automated Show. All of these experiments are designed to help users find a game they love. The experiments can be tried out on the Labs website, and after using them you can share your opinions on the Steam Labs cumunity hub. To follow future news and announcements from Steam Labs, you can join the Steam Labs community group.

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Candor · Jul 12, 2019

I'd be much happier if they fixed the core functionality.

It would be nice to login and not discover some of my games have mysteriously become uninstalled.
It would be nice if I have to reinstall a game, it could at least find all the existing files properly.
It would be nice not to have steam insist it must download multi-gigabytes of data when they clearly exist in my library.

This crap happens much too often for my liking. Fix your shit Valve.

Wyverex · Jul 12, 2019

Meh, I already have way too many games on my Steam account.
I'd rather they make Steam chat better with fully functional chat history

But more power to them if it scores them more sales

EzioAs · Jul 12, 2019

Candor said:
It would be nice to login and not discover some of my games have mysteriously become uninstalled.

I have never seen this happen at all. Does this happen to you regularly?

ZoneDymo · Jul 12, 2019

Sorry im from the Epic Store, what is Steam? do they make games?

robal · Jul 12, 2019

Half-Life 3 is unfortunately missing from the list of 'features' Valve is working on.

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Jul 12, 2019

Candor said:
It would be nice to login and not discover some of my games have mysteriously become uninstalled.

Never heard of or have seen this happen.

Brusfantomet · Jul 12, 2019

Candor said:
I'd be much happier if they fixed the core functionality.

It would be nice to login and not discover some of my games have mysteriously become uninstalled.
It would be nice if I have to reinstall a game, it could at least find all the existing files properly.
It would be nice not to have steam insist it must download multi-gigabytes of data when they clearly exist in my library.

This crap happens much too often for my liking. Fix your shit Valve.

Not to mention the best (worst) bug of them all, if steam is not closed manually before windows is shut down the install of steam somehow damages a small file that subsequently steam need to download the next time steam is started.
So if you don’t have internet access and forget to close steam before shutting down your computer you MUST get internet access for steam to give access to the games on your computer.
Yeah, steam is a perfect program without bugs.

Wyverex · Jul 12, 2019

Brusfantomet said:
Yeah, steam is a perfect program without bugs.

Small indie company :roll:

Arumio · Jul 12, 2019

dont get me wrong guys, but all those bugs you mentioned were around longlonglong 100 years ago, newadays such thing wont happen unless your computer is broken in some way or another

Vayra86 · Jul 12, 2019

Seriously? A dev blog for Steam? Why the hell should we care so much?

This is exactly everything that is wrong in the whole recent storefront debate.

Do we read daily news feeds about new burgers at McDonalds? Thought so...

R-T-B · Jul 12, 2019

Vayra86 said:
Do we read daily news feeds about new burgers at McDonalds?

They do have media... I mean, they did have that creepy gang of media friendly dudes aimed at... children.

Grimmace... whoever thought that thing would appeal to children needs his head examined:

Vario · Jul 13, 2019

EzioAs said:
I have never seen this happen at all. Does this happen to you regularly?

wonder if its a mechanical HDD going to sleep?

Brusfantomet · Jul 16, 2019

Arumio said:
dont get me wrong guys, but all those bugs you mentioned were around longlonglong 100 years ago, newadays such thing wont happen unless your computer is broken in some way or another

Nope, tried it on 4 computers, all working fine, and all have the same problem with steam and windows reboot. This is steam being a bit shitty.

Gasaraki · Jul 16, 2019

Candor said:
I'd be much happier if they fixed the core functionality.

It would be nice to login and not discover some of my games have mysteriously become uninstalled.
It would be nice if I have to reinstall a game, it could at least find all the existing files properly.
It would be nice not to have steam insist it must download multi-gigabytes of data when they clearly exist in my library.

This crap happens much too often for my liking. Fix your shit Valve.

Never had any of those problems using Steam for 13+ years

Candor · Jul 17, 2019

I do restore Windows from backups if I'm chasing a hardware or software issue. That's when I've had these problems.

Now that I think about it, these problems have only happened with Ark Survival Evolved.

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Processor	Core i5 4460
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Mouse	Steelseries Rival 310
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Mouse	Steelseries Aerox 5
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Software	W11 IoT Enterprise LTSC
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Storage	Intel 905p Optane 960GB boot, +2x Crucial P5 Plus 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs
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Power Supply	FSP Hydro Ti Pro 850W
Mouse	Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless
Keyboard	WASD Code v3 with Cherry Green keyswitches + PBT DS keycaps
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Case	CoolerMaster P500M Mesh
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W
Keyboard	Corsair K75
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