Back in September Valve notified devs it was expecting to change up how the Steam storefront works; this week it offered up a taste of those changes by posting guidelines on how devs can bring their Steam store pages closer in line with the upcoming update, referred to for now as "Discovery Update 2.0."

That's a big deal given that the inaugural Discovery update back in 2014 significantly changed the way games get discovered on Steam, adding in features like the Discovery Queue and Steam Curator fuctionality.

Many developers (though certainly not all) saw their fortunes rise thanks to the Discovery update, and now its successor seems focused on affording Steam users more control over what they see when they open the client -- and ensuring that assets uploaded by developers actually depict their game in a manner that's clear and suitable for anyone who might be browsing Steam.

"The cornerstone of Discovery Update 2.0 is a new set of user preferences, allowing users to see more of what they like and less of what they are not interested in or find offensive," reads a note sent to devs on Valve's Steamworks group advising them of Valve's newer, stricter guidelines on Steam store page screenshots. "Discovery Update 2.0 will introduce ways of showing off games in interesting new ways to customers prominently on the home page."

A full copy of the note was provided to Gamasutra by Valve, so for developers who haven't already seen it we've taken the liberty of reprinting it in full below: