The Week on Steam: Fanfest Signals, Camera Mods, and the Quiet Work of Patches

Three days of Final Fantasy XIV's Fanfest Berlin set the week's loudest tone. Naoki Yoshida unveiled Evercold's first new job — Bastion, a tank class — alongside a second limited job, Beastmaster, and its associated mode, The Crucible of the Unbroken. Yoshida also addressed the expansion's broader competitive pressures, naming WoW's housing system as a specific target to match or surpass, and confirmed an FF7 crossover raid series. It was a rare week where a single game's roadmap commanded genuine sustained attention.

Baldur's Gate 3 and the Modder's Eye

The other recurring story involved no patch from Larian at all. A modder named Relysia published an over-the-shoulder third-person camera for Baldur's Gate 3 on Nexus Mods, drawing coverage from multiple outlets and reopening the perennial debate about what camera a CRPG demands. Separately, Larian itself issued a statement reiterating it has no involvement in any BG3-related projects — prompted by a Dark Horse Comics announcement about a Karlach comic that some read as implying studio participation. The studio is done; the community is not.

Live Games: Fixes, Waves, and Milestones

Below the headlines, the week's workload fell on operations teams. Wonderia pushed three separate patches — a balance update, a multiplayer fix, and a hotfix adding a craftable Bandage recipe to bridge a gap players hit before reaching the pharmacist. SAND: Raiders of Sophie shipped Update #5 addressing terrain rendering and artifact balance, then followed it with a ban wave overview after BattlEye flagged a significant number of accounts. BitCraft Online reworked its fishing profession wholesale, introducing tiered activities across passive and active playstyles. War Thunder delivered both a vehicle bug-fix patch and a work-in-progress preview of the American M7 medium tank. The Steam Beta client received a notable quality-of-life addition: the ability to change accounts while a game is running, with cloud sync now waiting for exited games to finish before shutdown.

New Arrivals

Two small launches landed without much ceremony. Catio Simulator and Boba Cafe Simulator both reached Steam this week — the former with a brief note of thanks from solo developer Luke, the latter with a launch livestream on its store page. Neither carries the weight of a major release, but they mark the week's only new additions to the catalog. EMPULSE announced its largest Early Access update yet — including Aim Down Sights graduating from experimental to permanent — scheduled for July 31. Albion Online set August 31 as the date for Dragonfire, its next major content update built around the game's dragons.