Steam performs client update

Posted Jan 8, 2007 at 10:21PM by QJ Staff Listed in: News, Patches Tags: PayPal, Steam

As promised, Steam has just updated their client which now makes several new features available. Some of the latest additions include:

Added Guest Passes functionality - allows owners of certain Steam games to let their friends play games for free, for a limited time trial
Changed Steam client auto-update mechanism to first acquire updates in the background and then ask user whether to restart & apply
Added Favorites area and collapsable status categories to 'My Games' list
Added 5 new colored skins (Default, Ice, Sand, Obsidian, and Grey), selectable in "Settings"
Added 'next' button to Steam news window, allowing multiple messages to be viewed in a single session
Fixed client attempting to update some games which user does not own; was occuring when user had played game during a Free Weekend
Fixed games purchased via PayPal not working in offline mode

Some of the features which we are looking forward to try out would be the guest passes and the Favorites area, because a) the more the merrier, and b) no more hunting down the games that we want to play. And the new skins don't hurt either.

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