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They’ve just started a game store. Encouraging integration of their social features into games will allow them to take a healthy bite out of Steam’s pie.
by vertex-four 8y ago
They’ve just started a game store. Encouraging integration of their social features into games will allow them to take a healthy bite out of Steam’s pie.
- Godel_unicode 8y agoRelated: steam has built in voice chat now. https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/12/steam-finally-adds-voice-chat-flexible-friend-lists-new-beta/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/12/steam-finally-adds-voice...
- maemilius 8y agoSteam has had voice chat (group and 1-on-1) for a much longer period of time than that. I've used it on a regular basis for the last 5 years or so, well before the current updates they've made. What they added was voice chat to static groups[0], whereas before you had to invite everyone to a custom group chat every time. Definitely a QoL improvement, but not exactly "new". 0: https://steamcommunity.com/search/groups https://steamcommunity.com/search/groups
- fro0116 8y agoThe new chat is a huge improvement over the old one in terms of UX, but lack of persistent history is pretty pathetic considering the amount of resources Valve has available compared to a startup like Discord.
- half-kh-hacker 8y agoSteam has had voice chat for a while. This article is actually wrong, it wasn't added in the redesign.