Steam Chat mobile app released for iOS and Android

DANTENDO · May 23, 2019

The app should of been called the steamers unless an American football team is called tht already

orangy57 · May 23, 2019

so wait is this separate from the Steam app? Apple barred steam link from the app store for being too redundant yet this one slides right in lmaowut

x65943 · May 23, 2019

Orangy57 said:
so wait is this separate from the Steam app? Apple barred steam link from the app store for being too redundant yet this one slides right in lmaowut

It was clear from the beginning apple was not being forthright with their true motives

This is why we need a free and open app delivery platform

It's disheartening that people continue to buy locked down products from apple

Google's recent ban of Huawei is equally concerning - but at least you can easily install apks from elsewhere on Android

Deleted User · May 23, 2019

You can already chat in regular steam app.

Minox · May 23, 2019

Snugglevixen said:
You can already chat in regular steam app.

Yes, and it's a terrible experience. Very frequently do I get notifications about new messages but when clicking the notification I see no new messages. To actually see the new messages I need to back out of the current chat and re-open it.

raxadian · May 23, 2019

Well, is been years since I used the chat option of steam but I could give it a try.

gamecaptor · May 23, 2019

I wonder if Valve is feeling the pinch from Epic, even if just a little bit, and this is why they suddenly feel the need to step up their game.

raxadian · May 23, 2019

gamecaptor said:
I wonder if Valve is feeling the pinch from Epic, even if just a little bit, and this is why they suddenly feel the need to step up their game.

The mobile app been on work for at least two years so not really.

They may have just decided to release separate Apps to have it now due to Epic, however.

VinsCool · May 23, 2019

Why thanks, only 10 years too late.

diggeloid · May 23, 2019

gamecaptor said:
I wonder if Valve is feeling the pinch from Epic, even if just a little bit, and this is why they suddenly feel the need to step up their game.

I think their work on improving their chat features is more of a response to Discord than anything else.

Justinde75 · May 23, 2019

Snugglevixen said:
You can already chat in regular steam app.

You used to be able to do that on the facebook app as well, before they moved the whole thing to the messenger app

gohan123 · May 23, 2019

well I hope they combine both apps again in the future alongside steam link. really hate it if I have multiple apps for one service.

gamecaptor · May 23, 2019

diggeloid said:
I think their work on improving their chat features is more of a response to Discord than anything else.

Good point!

The Real Jdbye · May 23, 2019

Minox said:
Yes, and it's a terrible experience. Very frequently do I get notifications about new messages but when clicking the notification I see no new messages. To actually see the new messages I need to back out of the current chat and re-open it.

So fix the existing app. I don't see the point in having two official apps for the same thing. Besides chatting there's not much you can do with the existing app, it is essentially just a glorified chat client and 2FA app. This would make sense if it was meant as a lite version for chat only, but the existing app is already lite.

I think the Steam Link app should be merged with the Steam app as well. Granted, it's in beta, so that can maybe wait until it's considered stable.

jt_1258 · May 23, 2019

gamecaptor said:
I wonder if Valve is feeling the pinch from Epic, even if just a little bit, and this is why they suddenly feel the need to step up their game.

In all honesty though I don't really see it as epic is fighting by using money to be an exclusives whore instead of providing features to attract people and therefor devs. It's not like steam is missing any features that the epic games store has.

stitchxd · May 23, 2019

x65943 said:
Google's recent ban of Huawei is equally concerning - but at least you can easily install apks from elsewhere on Android

No, this is not concerning. Huawei is a shit company and anyone doing business with them after everything they have done should go out of business. If it was just a matter of "Ah simple mistake in how we handled user data" is one thing, but they actively stole data without knowledge among other things like fu-king corporate espionage.

BORTZ · May 23, 2019

I was just thinking "man I sure hope there is ANOTHER chap app that I haven't installed on my phone yet"

StrayGuitarist · May 24, 2019

If only they could actually fix the horrible functionality (at least in my experience) the Steam app has on iOS.

To me, it just sorta feels like they went "Eh, the Steam app is already built on such old, decrepit code, let's just start from scratch. But instead of actually starting from scratch and redoing the whole app, let's ONLY do the chat, fragment the experience, and hold a halfway-decent mobile steam chat experience hostage behind the cost of more storage space and another app to update!"

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