![]() ![]() ![]() Today, you'll need to download third-party plugins to impose your will on Steam's library and friends list. "However, I think if Valve changed their position on skinning, there would be a lot more interest in the future." "When the friends list beta came out and people saw that Valve's existing skin support didn't apply to the friends list, it really hurt the motivation of skin developers," says PhantomGamers, a software developer in the space. Considering that your game library and social features are what most people use Steam for in the first place, this caused Steam skinners to lose interest in the platform. The same thing happened when Valve released the fancy new Steam library later in 2019-it left existing skin support for the "old library" in the dust in favor of a new web-based design. Skinners were horrified to see their custom friends list and chat windows reduced to the default black of the Steam client, and with no easy way to replace them. Though these changes brought a raft of new features, such as a favorites section and better groupchat support, it also broke the existing skin support for social features. The days of easily modding your Steam to look the way you want are, sadly, over.Īccording to skinners, these problems all began when Valve overhauled the Steam client's friends list back in 2018. ![]() Specifically, they only overhaul the outer edge of the Steam client itself-though many of these skins originally replaced the entire Steam client, that functionality was removed by Valve piece-by-piece. Then drop the skin's files into it, select it under Steam's "interface" menu, restart, and presto: You've got a new look.Īlthough this may seem simple enough, the truth is that many of the popular skins for Steam, such as Metro and Air, have been mostly broken for several years now. All you have to do is download the skin and create a new folder titled "skins" in your main Steam directory. Ostensibly, Steam has supported custom themes (or "skins") for more than a decade now. "It makes you wonder what Valve thinks about all of it." "There's just no support for it anymore," says Jonius7, the developer of Old Glory, a popular Steam skinning tool. Now Playing: Steam Deck Take A Look at the Inside Trailer By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's ![]()
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