Steam - Update posts for minor content additions

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Steam - Update posts for minor content additions

Postby sakiji » Mon Aug 17, 2026 11:40 pm

Just a small suggestion for the steam version of the game. Just from my own gaming behaviour; ~75% of the games I actually end up playing are often prior informed from an update post in my steam library.
Updated games are the topmost header region seen first in any game library; And is a small "positive" reminder that a game still exists and is in active development (or active live service).
If the update sounds good, or in the case of MMOs, often temporary events and other such things may lead to spontanously playing the game again.

If players that once played the game get a bi-weekly or monthly refreshed reminder, that haven is being worked on, while maybe only minor, it still could lead to positive effect on player retention, or even just an impact on the nebulous steam algorithm.
To minimize workload if steam requires specific formatting/post preperation that could probably be done by a LLM, by feeding it the forum patch notes; creating a small agent template to be reused for every update.
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Re: Steam - Update posts for minor content additions

Postby ErdTod » Mon Aug 17, 2026 11:53 pm

They do these, I'd post a screenshot but you can't just ctrl+v them here so I cba to do the url stuff, but yeah, they do these
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Re: Steam - Update posts for minor content additions

Postby sakiji » Tue Aug 18, 2026 12:00 am

ErdTod wrote:They do these, I'd post a screenshot but you can't just ctrl+v them here so I cba to do the url stuff, but yeah, they do these

Oh yeah nevermind, you're actually right!
Should've scrolled further down.
I just checked the update posts on the store page, post 1 was World 16.2 announcement, and post 2 was directly World 16.1 announcement.
Which lead me to believe it was only major news posts being done.

But it's likely just pinned posts at the top, then followed after by smaller updates chronologically.

--thus thread can be deleted.
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