Seems they brought Small Mode back at least which I imagine will be the least resource intensive since it reduces the client to merely a list of your games.

Merging topics is pretty common. I don't think anyone even notices a thread is 'answered' apart from a highlighted topic at the top. It's not like it stops a discussion from being held in that thread.

u might aswell buy a console then,

You can go to settings -> library and tick the low performance check boxes. Not perfect but better.
I dont like the new library because I hate auto play videos and dont care about who da frak is streaming or who posted a new screenshot, I just want to select a game!
Valve did a good job with touch controls wich I appreciate though...

steam is bloatware theres so much junk that isnt needed like there in built web browser in big picture mode, launchers should be minimalistic not hog your pc

I had bad performance with the new Steam UI change but after the last Steam update it's running much better. Now back to Horizon Zero Dawn on PS4.

Steam has been festering for quite some time now and it was only the amount of games steam held for me that kept me from leaving. Thankfully this new bloatware UI that they pushed on everyone gave me the shove that I needed.
I will not be buying from steam anymore. If it's not on GOG or not coming to GOG I will go elsewhere but never steam.
I am done with them for good.

In my case I wouldn't say boycott, but I do try to stay away from Steam and purchase elsewhere. Sometimes that means purchasing on console but moreso now with GOG on PC.

This is exactly it why i despise it nowadays. I would have been totally ok with the old green layout when it uses less resources. I started STEAM when my all time favorite game lost PUNKBUSTER support since it closed. It was a free to play game so it always had an big cheating problem and was the most cheated game by punkbuster statistics untill COD4 released and overtook the position. Then i simply went to shop to buy an new shooter for my self and ended up with Counter Strike Source. To my suprise when i put the disc in it required an account. So i made one. And was quite suprised when i saw the sales with -75% to -90% discounts while people randomly adding me to play and for the most part it was an awesome experience. Though i still preferred games as physical copies when there was a chance. I own many games on Steam that i own as actual physical disks. The reason was when traveling you could simply log in and still play them practically anywhere with your laptop without needing to have some knowledge or watch some guide how to get them work since for the most part Steam at that time did an great job with supporting them. Honestly i had much more trouble getting games to work from discs than i did with steam. Sure in the end it was DRM but even many discs had some sort of DRM inside the worst ones SecuRom which were quite a b!"ch to get to run with newer win OS.

And since the years went on and the PC gaming industry basically accepted Steam as the ultimate platform i tagged along. Rather then finding patches from Gamershell or other websites with the danger of getting some unwanted software along Steam seemed tottally fine. Most of their updates i could never complain. Although it did try to pull some shady stuff like trying to monetize modding with the excuse of supporting modders while taking an cut. (Which is pretty ironic cause free mods are actually the only reason i am an PC gamer) But thank god the Skyrim community was big enough to call them out and they pretty much apologized and dropped it allthough in 2015 all the CSGO server owners were forbidden to use any sort of plugins and skins in their servers when they introduced their own skins in CSGO and monetized it heavily. So Valve is actually one of the first companies who created this nonsense to begin with starting with TF2 hats while other companies jumped on into the lootbox wagon. Thus making both games free since gaming is an addiction aswell as is gambling. And they pretty much knowingly abused it. Then they introduced the Steam market. Again first i didnt care much but then started to get cards by playing games which i could later fuse to get cool backgrounds or even sell them. Good concept but with its own problems. Suddenly getting numerous invites and spamm from random users which were bots. So when they started their own banking system, leeches & scammers rised. To combat them they added an level system on accounts. Which was again annoying friends who used to be online were prioritized to show instead now higher levels were an priority who were shown at your friends list even when they were offline on your personal page.

But despite all this the levels actually helped when encountering cheaters in online games many were infact low level since cheaters rarely bought more than one game to cheat cause it minimized their losses when they were actually caught and vaced. But even that Valve managed to f*ck up in the end with the famous Summer Race where exploiters without throwing an dime could easily reach hundreds of levels. Thus again making it harder now for the legit players.
And now the library for me personally was the last straw instead of updating and improving VAC they start to dig on the only thing i found was good because it was simple and fast. Now its almost like an store page. While im pretty sure it was developed when Epic came into the picture. I didnt care that Epic bought exclusives in the long run in wouldnt pay off. But the competiton itself was good cause Valve was getting too comfortable anyway. Not making games and taking 30% of cuts while only developing cosmetics and even majority of them was created from the community itself.

Now it did the worst thing it could do, adding more unnecessary features while using more resources than ever before. And that is really an turn off since we know we are basically hostages on DRM. But putting machines into coma so they can flash their games and Twitch like videos was something i really despised. Ive defended them numerous times but this was the last line to cross. Sure it had created some of the greatest games like HL, TF2, CS, L4D and not one of them i cant say i havent enjoyed. Heck they even gifted me Portal 1 for nothing. But companies change overtime thats an reality. Just like Blizzard and yes even Electronic Arts were once companies who were highly regarded changed after years. And i simply am afraid Valve will take the same path... And i rather take my chances with GOG in the future.

Certainly glad it was possible to take out the community content. All that's needed now is a way to remove the 'what's new' section. Or maybe an easy way to set which games it shows it for, like only followed games or something.

Never liked it. Tried it back in the day for Fallout: New Vegas. Interesting to note that in the last six years I completed a single Steam game, namely Fallout 4. All-round a massive disappointment. But then again, I never expected anything good from Bethesda.
According to my profile I have 14 games on Steam, 8 of them from giveaways. Will not purchase there in the future. Also, I am not willing to install that client (or any other) on my main rig.
To put it briefly, it's GOG and Playstation for me.

After I ended up getting better hardware and AAA games became my primary goal, I started buying more games on steam (I made this post a LONG time ago).

I did buy prey on gog, and I'll probably buy SS1 on here when it comes out. Looks like this digital distributor might be going to way of Inpulse (I do believe it was spelled with an n) when they started selling steam games on their site. I mean imagine if you went to best buy and they were selling stuff that you had to pick up at radio shack.

I don't know a whole lot about the Epic partnership but hopefully gog retains their sovereignty. Also, that's sad to hear the legal clause added mentioned on the last page (post at the top).

I buy everything on a price-point basis and/or what I see as the "best version" basis (at that time) basically.

Games are rentals anyways these days w/ their DRM schemes and I normally do not replay them anyways - so I buy them often very dirt-cheap, as if they were rentals. I look for sales, bundles and/or things of that sort. Games often have loads of DLC's, some expansions, etc etc - so, why should I buy games ASAP when they're Incomplete at say $60 and/or likely loaded w/ some sort of DRM?

So, no; I don't boycott Steam, Epic, or anyone else. I'm not fond of DRM practices and other non-sense of that sort, but I ain't gonna live forever either.

I'm going to check PC Gaming Wiki's, DRM schemes, or whatever - and I'll decide for each game which version at the right time is the right version for me to buy.

I'm not fond of basically Epic Store's offline mode basically not supported by most games - but I will check if a game's cheap if I can deal w/ its DRM schenanigans. And some games, like Control: Ultimate, do work without Epic Store; so I normally try to find out for games that I really want if there are work-arounds on its DRM.

And also, there are games on Steam which you can run outside of Steam that don't have DRM wrapped around the actual game EXE's. Gone Home works fine, DRM-FREE style. So does a lot of Larian's games. So do many DOSBOX Titles. Some games that have Source Ports and/or DOSBOX - you can use those to run the games w/out any DRM nonsense. So, it's often up to the pub's if they want to utilize DRM like Steamworks/CEG; Denuvo; and/or junk like that.

Other games, like Shenmue 3 - ugh, black screen if you boot the game w/out Epic Launcher going. Annoying, but...I only paid $7 or so in a sale, so not the end of the world.

I'm just gonna play what I can, while I can - while I'm here & actually alive here on this planet Earth.

Still in the same mindset, still no purchase there anymore. Intrusive piece of software, with nothing of interest, at least for me.

I haven't bought a single game outside of GOG and brick-and-mortar stores.

I dont like steam , but some games only available there especially multiplayer ones.