Valve broke your Steam Skin

Posted by Sebastian · 10/12/05 @10:38 pm · community · 12 comments

As we mentioned earlier today, the new changes to Steam have caused all Steam skins to become useless, they will not work under the new Steam UI. This means any skins you've created must be rewritten. This is the official statement we've received from Valve after we asked about providing some sort of legacy compatibility:

The new UI uses a radically different VGUI2 engine, there is no reasonable way to be backwards compatible. The skins will need to be re-written (and re-tooled) to work with the new (much more flexible and powerful) format.

Personally, I do not like this new interface - too much bloat for my taste, and on top of all that when you sign-in you get this big window with some Ragdoll Kung Fu thing in your face,. Call me old fashion, but simplicity works for me. Usually, I am not the one to complain, but since we have close to 800 Steam skins this means that we'll have to move many things around so new Steam skins aren't mixed with the Steam skins Valve has turned into garbage.

Sorry to those that put countless hours into their skin. You can either contact Valve and ask for legacy Steam skin support (asking probably won't work anyway), sit down and deal with it, or start creating new Steam Skins. You decide.

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