Steam Adds Shopping Cart Support

October 29, 2008 by Raj
Filed under BETA, Corporate, Development, Digital Distribution, Downloads, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Steam

Steam’s latest BETA release has added the much-awaited Shopping Cart feature. Users can now purchase multiple items simultaneously. Furthermore, you can now buy games directly from your browser instead of using the Steam client.

Changes

- Added shopping cart, recommendations & purchasing directly on the web
- Added backend support for Left 4 Dead matchmaking
- Added backend support for Steam Cloud
- Fixed steam re-applying command line parameters (like -install) across ‘change user’ or ‘change language’ restarts
- Fixed steam refreshing the games list, refreshing the server browser if open, and reloading server brower filter settings
- Fixed the friends list placeholder for large clans disappearing when “view online friends only” was turned on
- Fixed games list not always refreshing after receiving license updates
- Fixed embedded IE control not scrolling or responding to key presses correctly
- Improved IE control perf

We’ve done a pretty big overhaul to the store and our purchasing process so that you can now purchase online over the web without even using the Steam client, and when you purchase in the client the entire payment/checkout path is in the web control, instead of in a client wizard dialog.

We’ve also added shopping carts, online account creation, account history, and recommendations to the store.

If you were planning to buy a game, please try it with the new system and give us feedback on how the purchase path works for you.