Steam Friends Public Beta

[-smash-]

Remember those days when Steam gave us the ability to talk with friends with Valve’s own instant messenger program? Well, you can now relive those glorious days! Valve is letting everyone in on a little secret, you can try out the beta of their new Steam Friends Network by adding this line to your Steam.exe launch properties:[br]-clientbeta steam3friends -beta steam3friends[br]

[br]This isn’t the final version, hence the “beta” part. Varsity has had the chance to interview John Cook, the brains behind Friends 3.0, about what is different and what is to come of Friends. Also, as I’ve stated at least 50 times, please note this is a beta so Valve would appreciate all the help in ironing out the bugs in this build so that the official release is squeaky clean. You can submit some bugs over at Valve’s Developer Wiki if you find any.[br]Keep your friends close!

 

[JNightshade]

Yays!

Let's hope it finally works.

 

[MiccyNarc]

MiccyNarc = my name if you want to add me.

 

[Shamrock]

Someone give me their e-mail!

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

[email protected]

 

[63]

[email protected]

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

Yay, hopefully this will help VALVe get it out of beta quicker with everyone testing/stressing it out.

 

[Vegeta897]

[email protected]

I wonder if I'll use this as much as I did before I got Xfire.

 

[Shamrock]

Friends is boring. :| Its the same stupid thing as it was before.

 

[-smash-]

Friends is boring. :| Its the same stupid thing as it was before.

I guess someone didn't read my post.

 

[Shamrock]

I guess someone didn't read my post.

I guess someone is out of the SP Friends Club.

Just remember...

Eggiwegs!! I would like... To smash them!

 

[-smash-]

I guess someone is out of the SP Friends Club.

Just remember...

Eggiwegs!! I would like... To smash them!

Hey hey, like I said, I founded the Miaimi club. There's no kickin' me out!

 

[Shamrock]

Hey hey, like I said, I founded the Miaimi club. There's no kickin' me out!

Fine! You keep control of the 3 "friends" down in Miami. I control the rest of the world.

 

[Steven]

Yay! We can be Steam freinds. *shudder*

[email protected] if you want to be my Steam freind. *shudder*

Valve is letting everyone in on a little secret

What?

 

[-smash-]

What?

What, what?

 

[Steven]

Where exactly do I add the line -clientbeta steam3friends -beta steam3friends

 

[joule]

Just make a shortcut to Steam and add it to the command line in properties.

Can we be friends?

freegman

 

[smokeythebear]

But where are the minigames!!!

 

[-smash-]

Iono :(

 

[Mand0lesi]

been working great so far...

thanks valve!!

 

[Steven]

It's not working.

 

[joule]

It's not working.

Tell us what you do exactly. Are you copying the command line to the end of the Target field?

lol-smash-

 

[Steven]

I'm adding it after start in

 

[joule]

I'm adding it after start in

Nope. You must enter it in the Target field. Then restart Steam.

 

[Steven]

TY.

6char

edit:
I need some Steam friends *shudder* add StevenCBerry if anyone wants to be my Steam friend *shudder*

 

[JNightshade]

We need an official thread for a HL2.net Steam Friends List.

 

[=Coy0te=]

theSteven, the nick you provided doesnt work, dont you want to be my steam friend? ;(

lol

Any Aus players wanna add me? add: Pauley85

 

[TwwIX]

Xfire is the only messenger i need.

 

[WhiteZero]

Oh hellz yeah!!! Sweet

BTW: my user is WhiteZero
(hehe, one of the few with a Steam user that isnt their email)

 

[Betelgeuze]

Its about time

 

[DuB]

help! por favor

why is this not working for me?

This is what I do
and this is the error I get

I add the line after:
E:\-location\- Steam\steam.exe

but when I try and apply this, or 'OK' it, I get the error you see above.

 

[MATT]

You have to add the parameters OUTSIDE of the quotation mark.

 

[DuB]

I actually tried that too... but I just get a slightly moddified error message ;(
> error message <

K, nvm. I sorted it. I had to add a third (???) quotation mark at the end...

 

[Steven]

theSteven, the nick you provided doesnt work, dont you want to be my steam friend? ;(

lol

Any Aus players wanna add me? add: Pauley85

I'll just add you and we can be Steam friends *shudder*

It diden't work either.

edit: I deleated this because it f'ed up Gmod

 

[nutcrackr]

I have no friends.

btw John Cook is said to be working on TF2, why didn't they ask him about it

 

[Mr-Fusion]

This is an incredible revolution!! Instant messaging. Amazing!!

 

[Dekstar]

I'm not able to add anyone so if you can add me my user is Dekstar

 

[pizzahut]

I deleated this because it f'ed up Gmod

Maybe you should report this to Garry or in Valve's wiki.

 

[pizzahut]

btw John Cook is said to be working on TF2, why didn't they ask him about it

Because Valve employees are probably instructed to *not* talk about TF2 anyway. :S

 

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