Valve has just brought a huge update to the Steam Community Market, with a new beta. It has made some major improvements to item pages, listings, search/filters, and more.

Users can now experience the new beta update of the Community Market, to which every user is automatically joined, but can opt out by clicking the top-right button, "Exit Market Beta." In a blog post, Valve stated, 

"More than 13,000 games now have Steam Community items available on the Market, and more than 700 have in-game items. These game economies have outgrown the Market’s existing browsing and discovery tools, so it's time for an upgrade."

Valve has used Counter-Strike items to experiment and build out this extensive item integration, with more games to be supported in the future.

First off is the upgrade to listings. The market now features "more images, item descriptions, and callouts for listing specific information such as wear/float, pattern template, applied accessories, etc."

Valve has also focused on Game-specific data, with better filtering, grouping, and visibility, making it easier to find the items. As part of this, games now feature unique item properties in their listings, such as Counter-Strike skins having a pattern template, wear/float, and a charm template.

Accessories like stickers and charms show better images and current values. Additionally, items based on a single characteristic are now grouped. So a gun's different skins will now be visible along with prices.

Let us look at some other improvements in filters, graphs, and item pages.

More Upgrades to Steam Community Market

Item pages have a new, wider layout to accommodate a "full-width grid of items for sale." Graphs have undergone many general usability and performance fixes, and now display volume data alongside price and can display multiple datasets for grouped items.

Talking about the dynamic filters, Valve stated, 

"You'll see price filtering and new sorting options like popularity, price, quantity, etc." 

Furthermore, users can now easily switch between in-game items and Steam Community items. Also, there are new filters for items such as emoticons, trading cards, booster packs, and profile backgrounds.

Valve has also added cross-linking between containers and contained items, along with other quality-of-life updates, such as automatic loading of listings while scrolling, broader access to advanced search from more page headers, breadcrumb navigation, and text entry support across long lists.

With these many changes to the Steam Community Market, users will have fun trying them out. They can also try out the update now and give written feedback in the "Steam Community Market discussions."

What are your thoughts about this update?

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Written by

Dhruv Singh

Edited by

Zaid Quraishi