11 days

Well, “Retyping” my product key didn’t work. Not that I expected it to.

Activate?

This little gem popped up tonight. I’m not quite sure how activating the Release Candidate is going to work though.

Oddly, typing in the product key actually worked. (Forgot to take a screenshot though.) Who knows what it achieved though…

Steam vs Steam

VALVe release a visual update to their content distribution client Steam. I felt like comparing the update and the old version.

	Old Steam	2010 Visual Refresh
Games Screen
Tools Screen (as you can see, it has no view options, just a list, which is fine actually).
The Store. Sorry, I don’t have the old store – I got the new store in the old client, since it’s really just a web page.
The old Mini Mode and the new Small Mode.
In the old version, when you right clicked on a game and chose Update News (release history), it would open in a new window. Now it opens in the News tab, but unfortunately switching back to Full Mode in the process.
The Chat window. Hasn’t changed much, but it’s neater.

Not much to say about the update really, if Valve played their part well, it was only a UI update (overhaul) and no platform functionality was lost.  Overall, it’s certainly a lot neater, a few issues usability which I should probably report, but, platform aside, it’s a game launcher.