As Steam has grown over the years, so has the Steam Community Market, the online marketplace where Steam users buy and sell in-game items and other digital stuff to one another. To accommodate that growth, Valve has kicked off a beta test for a major update to the market, designed to make it easier to sell your stuff, and buy other people's stuff.
"Over the past few years, the number of games participating in the Market has grown significantly," Valve wrote. "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."
The upgrade in question is very Valve-like, featuring new and expanded tools that provide "a deeper understanding of item data from games," thereby making it easier to find what you want and understand what you're looking at.
Some of it is very basic stuff—bigger listing images, for instance—and other ...
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