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Enhanced Steam 10.0 Released

jshackles — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:19:57 +0000

Enhanced Steam has been updated to it's final version 10.0. This is the "slimmed down" release that no longer uses the Enhanced Steam API server, and includes the following bug fixes:

Fixed an issue with custom steam wallet amounts not processing correctly
Fixed a bug with search filtering boxes not expanding properly
Fixed an issue that caused the Enhanced Steam menu not to function correctly
Removed all features that relied on the Enhanced Steam API server, RIP :(

This update is available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome users should see the extension update itself automatically within the next 60 minutes. Firefox users will update on their browser's regular update schedule.

My friends at IsThereAnyDeal.com are making a fork of Enhanced Steam and are continuing future development. I've looked over their fork's refactored code as well as their server APIs and everything looks good. I'm happy that a group I know to be passionate about Steam is taking over the reigns on this project. You can find their work at https://es.isthereanydeal.com.

The API servers will be shut down in the next few days as everyone's extensions finish updating to this version.

Finally, I want to say "Thank You" to everyone that's supported Enhanced Steam over the years - everything from contributing to the project financially, or by contributing code, submitting bug reports, or just by helping out with advertising by word of mouth - THANK YOU.

Enhanced Steam 9.9 Released

jshackles — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 22:39:25 +0000

Enhanced Steam has been updated to version 9.9. This release includes the following new features and bug fixes:

Added an option to toggle the display of the Enhanced Steam loading and status bar
Fixed a bug that caused custom wallet amounts not to process correctly
Fixed a bug where the about menu in the header wasn't being hidden properly
Fixed SteamSpy NaN errors from showing on store pages
Fixed numerous broken images that were the result of being served from domains with invalid SSL
Removed Enhanced Steam's "Account Total" feature replaced by a link to Valve's official stats

This update is available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome users should see the extension update itself automatically within the next 60 minutes. Firefox users will update on their browser's regular update schedule.

This will be the final "full" release of Enhanced Steam, you can read more about that here. Thank you again everyone for your support over the past nearly 6 years.

Announcing Enhanced Steam End of Life

jshackles — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:38:31 +0000

Background

The Enhanced Steam project started during the Winter Sale of 2012 as a way for me to help manage my own personal growing library of Steam games. Its first feature was to simply highlight games on the Steam store that I already owned, because at the time the only way to know this was to open the game’s store page and wait for it to load. It was designed to help save time when looking for deals, and it grew into a project that spanned thousands of lines of code, hundreds of features, and was translated into 26 languages.

One of my most proud accomplishments is that Enhanced Steam has had such a huge outpouring of support from fans – including those who were veterans of the gaming industry. The software has been downloaded by over six million people, all of which placed an unprecedented amount of trust in me to keep their Steam accounts safe and secure. In almost six years of administering Enhanced Steam, I have received countless offers from others to purchase distribution rights so that the new owners could sneak in advertising code or worse types of monetization and I have turned down every offer. Unfortunately, this means that Enhanced Steam has never turned a profit. The API servers have been able to stay online thanks to generous user donations and the monthly support from our Patreon pledges.

Recently, Valve has started paying attention to and has been updating the Steam storefront with regular new features and updates based on user feedback. Some of these features they’ve re-engineered based on popular Enhanced Steam features: highlighting games, displaying account totals, adding games to your cart from the wishlist, showing your wallet balance on every page, an empty cart button, and many more. In fact, Enhanced Steam 1.0’s original set of features from 2012 have been completely adopted by Valve and are now available for all Steam users to enjoy.

For the past year I’ve been working two jobs to support my family, and have still tried to devote time to updating Enhanced Steam and keeping the API servers operational. Unfortunately with Valve’s recent dedication to updating their store features, this means I would need to devote much more time to the project than I am able. There are features that need to be re-engineered and bugs introduced by Valve’s changes, and I simply don’t have the time I would like to dedicate to effectively fill the gap that continues to widen.

With all of these factors, I am today announcing Enhanced Steam’s End of Life.

What does this mean?

First of all, Enhanced Steam’s client code is open source, and can be forked by any interested party going forward. There are many features of Enhanced Steam that will simply continue working: things like calculating market totals, interface tweaks such as homepage customization, 3rd party DRM warnings, and more. Caveat being these things will continue to function normally assuming Valve doesn’t make significant changes to the pages these features are running on.

Shortly I’ll be releasing Enhanced Steam version 9.9 which will include changes that have been worked on over the past few months. It will contain bugs that will go unpatched, and will also include a link to this announcement. This will be the last official full release of Enhanced Steam.

The Enhanced Steam API servers will be discontinued on January 31st, 2019. Shortly before that happens, the server-side code (minus sensitive information such as API keys) will be released as open-source on Github. At that time, the Patreon campaign that supports Enhanced Steam will be taken down.

Also shortly before the January 31st deadline, a “stripped down” version of the client that performs only local (non-server) functions will be pushed out to Google Chrome and Firefox users that have installed the extension from those official repositories so that they can continue to function without getting server-related errors. Unfortunately this means they will also loose a substantial amount of functionality. Over the next six months, I will be reaching out to our 3rd party data providers to help ease this transition.

This will allow everyone to continue to enjoy Enhanced Steam through the end of this year’s Winter Sale and will also mark six years that the project has been active.

Final Thoughts

Again – I’ve been completely blown away by the support of Enhanced Steam’s users over the years. This isn’t a plea for people to donate more money or a push to get more Patreon subscribers, I simply don’t have the time to properly devote to the project any longer. I would prefer to do things this way rather than to sell out to a corporation who would try to exploit its users for a profit.

In the future, I would suggest users be overly-cautious of Enhanced Steam alternatives that will inevitably pop up – other similar extensions already have code that could hugely compromise it’s users Steam account security or general browser privacy. Be careful of which extensions you run, and make sure they’re from sources you trust to safeguard your information.

Finally, a special thanks to Valve and the wonderful people I’ve met there over the years thanks to Enhanced Steam. Thank you again to Enhanced Steam’s users for the trust you have placed in me and your notes of encouragement and donations over these past almost 6 years.

Enhanced Steam 9.8.1 Released

jshackles — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:26:06 +0000

Enhanced Steam has been updated to version 9.8.1. This maintenance release includes the following new features and bug fixes:

Updated jQuery library to v3.3.1
Added the ability to toggle video player fullscreen with double clicks
Fixed several bugs introduced by jQuery library update
Fixed multiple bugs caused by Valve retiring their BindTooltips functions
Fixed a bug that caused some options page elements not to localize correctly
Fixed a bug where the HD control wasn't added to videos in the store under some circumstances

Enhanced Steam 9.8 Released

jshackles — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:40:48 +0000

Enhanced Steam has been updated to version 9.8. This release includes the following new features and bug fixes:

Improved performance of inventory market total calculations
Fixed a bug that caused quick sell and instant sell functions to not work correctly in Firefox
Fixed a bug that caused wishlist price sorting not to work correctly for some currencies
Fixed a bug that caused "Activate a product" link to show up in language menu incorrectly
Fixed a bug that caused multiple product activations dialog to sometimes display incorrectly
Updated several wishlist-related functions to work with Steam's new page layout
Removed several wishlist-related functions that were added by Valve

Enhanced Steam 9.7 Released

jshackles — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:54:40 +0000

Enhanced Steam has been updated to version 9.7. This release includes the following new features and bug fixes:

Added the ability to purchase custom gift cards for any amount over the minimum
Added support for additional currencies introduced by Valve
Fixed a bug that caused platform icons not to show correctly in Firefox
Fixed a bug with multiple key activiations that resulted in an occasional error
Fixed a bug in the options page formatting validation in Firefox
Fixed a bug that caused wishlist sorts not to work correctly in some currencies
Removed option to show wallet balance in header as this was added to Steam by Valve

This update is available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome users should see the extension update itself automatically within the next 60 minutes. Firefox users will update on their browser's regular update schedule, or by selecting "Check for updates" on their addons screen.

Additionally, this version is available directly from the Mozilla Addons site at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhanced-steam/.

As always, please let me know if you encounter any issues with this release.

Enhanced Steam 9.6 Released

jshackles — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 21:00:42 +0000

Enhanced Steam has been updated to version 9.6. This release includes the following new features and bug fixes:

Added the ability to activate multiple product codes at once to product activation page
Improved compatibility with HTTPS Everywhere extension
Fixed formatting of wishlist numbers on profile pages to match Valve's visual style
Updated visual style of wishlist pages and made item names on wishlists clickable
Fixed a bug where badge links on market listings weren't linking to the correct page
Fixed a bug that caused wishlist reviews to be incorrect for games with no review data
Removed market game list collapsing as this feature was added to Steam by Valve
Removed ACRTAG app warning messages as this feature now applies universally to all apps

This update is available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome users should see the extension update itself automatically within the next 60 minutes. Firefox users will update on their browser's regular update schedule, or by selecting "Check for updates" on their addons screen.

As always, please let me know if you encounter any issues with this release.

Enhanced Steam 9.5 Released

jshackles — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:25:30 +0000

Enhanced Steam has been updated to version 9.5. This release includes the following new features and bug fixes:

Added a link to logged-in users account dropdown to redeem keys from the Steam website
Added the amount of items sold in the last 24 hours to the market listing pages
Added a store page link to badge progress pages
Added price history support for Chrono.gg, Dreamgame, and Savemi stores
Fixed a bug which caused some users "Sell" buttons to disappear when selecting items in inventory
Fixed a bug that caused video resolution selection feature to be hidden
Fixed a bug where package info buttons were malformed
Fixed a bug that caused the "Get Help" buttons not to direct users to the correct support website
Fixed a bug that caused "Not Interested" highlighting not to work correctly on activity pages
Fixed a bug that caused Twitch streaming info not to display on profiles without a showcase activated
Removed market relisting function, as this is no longer supported by Valve
Removed support for Coinplay.io in price comparisons

This update is available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome users should see the extension update itself automatically within the next 60 minutes. Firefox users will update on their browser's regular update schedule, or by selecting "Check for updates" on their addons screen.

As always, please let me know if you encounter any issues with this release.

Enhanced Steam 9.4 Released

jshackles — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:33:16 +0000

Enhanced Steam has been updated to version 9.4. This release includes the following new features and bug fixes:

Added the ability to create custom user-configurable profile links
Updated the visual style of app page elements to more closely match Valve's new style
Fixed a bug that caused some market items not to display features correctly in user's inventories
Fixed a bug that caused market sorting options to disappear when paginating
Updated wishlist emptying feature to work with larger wishlists and be more robust in general
Fixed a timing issue when leaving multiple groups at once
Fixed a bug that caused downloadable content details not to display properly on store pages
Removed Empty Cart feature as this feature is now part of Steam and is therefore redundant
Removed functions related to Steam Greenlight

This update is available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome users should see the extension update itself automatically within the next 60 minutes. Firefox users will update on their browser's regular update schedule, or by selecting "Check for updates" on their addons screen.

As always, please let me know if you encounter any issues with this release.

Enhanced Steam 9.3 Released

jshackles — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:54:07 +0000

Enhanced Steam has been updated to version 9.3. This release includes the following new features and bug fixes:

Added the ability to sort wishlists by review scores, which will display the highest rated items first
Added some behind the scenes updates to OpenCritic reviews, should now display correctly on all pages
Added DRM warnings, price history information, and SteamDB links to bundle pages
Updated SteamRep section on profile pages to use updated API and safer code
Updated market code so that an items lowest price is shown on subsequent pages
Updated stores used in price comparisons (removed 6 legacy stores, added 4 new stores)
Fixed a bug where Steam Card Exchange links would not display properly on store pages
Fixed a bug where the Ukraine region had an incorrect ISO code
Fixed a bug where SteamDB links were not correctly formed on some pages
Removed market section totals as they conflicted with new market page updates

This update is available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome users should see the extension update itself automatically within the next 60 minutes. Firefox users will update on their browser's regular update schedule, or by selecting "Check for updates" on their addons screen.

Firefox users can enjoy full functionality now with the exception of "quick sell" and "instant sell" buttons in your inventory, which appears to be a complex browser-specific bug revolving around the way Enhanced Steam handles market data.

An updated beta version of Enhanced Steam for Microsoft Edge is currently in the works.

As always, please let me know if you encounter any issues with this release.