Mobile games

[Scrawl]

Anyone else think it would be nice if there was an icon or some indicator for where a game is derived from? (is there one? am I missing it?)

For example if a game is originally created for a console but then is ported you've a quick indicator in the store. The same should go with the garbage mobile games!!! Lets have a filter for this while we're at it.

[Chilled Nomi]

Cool. Now deal with the logistics of simultaneous releases on all platforms at the same time, ports made with exclusive PC qol stuff in mind to make them different from mobile counterparts, games that started on pc then got a remake on console then said remake was ported back to PC, schedules slipping so a PC version ends up out before a console version that was supposed to be first or vice versa, etc.

[MoonC A T]

You should research a game before buying it anyway. Something as simple as that would come to light quite quickly.

[nullable]

Opprinnelig skrevet av BonerKiller:

Anyone else think it would be nice if there was an icon or some indicator for where a game is derived from? (is there one? am I missing it?)

For example if a game is originally created for a console but then is ported you've a quick indicator in the store. The same should go with the garbage mobile games!!! Lets have a filter for this while we're at it.

It's not a terrible idea. But it's questionable whether it's a good idea, or a worthwhile feature. Namely, does a large enough group of users have a need for this? One out of ten? Or one out of ten thousand?

And it's kinda of arbitrary or ambiguous.

Is the Witcher 3 a console game or a PC game? It was launched on PC, PS4 and Xbox at the same time... you can quibble about intent and whatever a bunch of different ways.

Or how about the SNES Final Fantasy games? Console games? As far as I know the versions on Stean weren't ported from the SNES versions, but updated mobile versions.

It sounds like a novelty more than a useful feature. Nothing wrong with novelties, but I'm not sure they always have a place. And in this case it ends up being a lot of work to add the feature, update thousands of games (accurately) and it's probably not going to be a required feature. And then on top of that the publishers/developers fill that information out and if publishers put one thing but your opinion is it should be something else, what then? Whose opinions matter? And will people believe Valve needs to police that information?

So we end up with an optional feature that will never cover the entire Steam library and has limited accuracy, and what do we get out of it?

[Oria]

I think you're looking for something a little different, which is not specific to mobile, but specific to the game style/genre/features.

Some games are developed for both, but release on mobile first to do targeted soft launch. So it may appear as a port from a user's point of view, but it will have been made for PC from day one.
In fact, even strictly mobile games are generally done within engines that also support PC and are developed, tested and iterated on PC environments.

I think your issue (which is also my issue) might be more with the game style itself, and the reason I say this, is that some PC games that are only on PC, are also free-to-play gacha microtransaction hell holes. A filter for mobile would not remove these games, however a new user tag e.g: mobilelike could work.

[Satoru]

No because 'mobile game' has no actual meaning.

Well I know what you 'want' it to mean and that's excactly the reason why it wont be implemented

[crunchyfrog]

This would be impossible to implement as there's absolutely no way to give any consistency.

Many mobile games are developed on PC, in fact a lot of games natively are. It doesn't mean anything, because even then you can still have the ACTUAL PC port run worse. It just depends on how it works out.

Even if it were as simple as that, it's absolutely of no guidance.