Android game downloading client

[Ebizzle]

Yup, saying it again. Steam needs to be able to download games onto a phone while at work etc(android, iOs).
Then transfer the files to your gaming rig at home(pc, mac, what have you). Some people/areas do not have high speed internet or their plans may have data caps.
It's not like Valve doesn't make $4blln a year, they can afford to make an app...

[Gwarsbane]

Or you could invest in a portable hard drive plug it in and download the game on a PC and move it to the portable hard drive, or just have it install to the portable drive.

Just make sure you have the proper appmanifest file for the games and you should be fine.

[Ebizzle]

Gwarsbane...think man, think!
There is no "pc" in the scenario.
The included tool in this scenario is...phone.
Imagine a game that starts in an empty room with a...phone.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Knuckles McGee:

Yup, saying it again. Steam needs to be able to download games onto a phone while at work etc(android, iOs).
Then transfer the files to your gaming rig at home(pc, mac, what have you). Some people/areas do not have high speed internet or their plans may have data caps.
It's not like Valve doesn't make $4blln a year, they can afford to make an app...

Originally posted by Knuckles McGee:

Gwarsbane...think man, think!
There is no "pc" in the scenario.
The included tool in this scenario is...phone.
Imagine a game that starts in an empty room with a...phone.

No where did you mention that you didn't have access to a PC at work.

In that case... invest in a laptop and download the game that way. There is no reason why Valve would invest lots of money for something very few people will use.

But there is an update to the Steam app in the works, who knows maybe it might have this feature that maybe a few hundred people at best might use.

Yes there are lots of people without high speed internet, but they also more then likely don't have a phone that has very large storage to hold some of these games today or they have access to computers at their work, or use a laptop.

[Ebizzle]

I also didn't say that I did have access to a pc at work: )

The room, it has a phone and wifi access...how to download steam games to the phone which has a copiously large memory chip(my second memory chip is 250gb, cost $25 or so).

[Ebizzle]

Valve made over $4blln last year.

The only investment would be a download.Zip link.

Cost for me to program the web link = $2.47 tax included.

[Ebizzle]

Also, data is data.
If the game is paid for and in my account, I should be able download an .exe file or such... pretty simple actually.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Knuckles McGee:

Also, data is data.
If the game is paid for and in my account, I should be able download an .exe file or such... pretty simple actually.

Which you can on a laptop and portable drive. Once at home transfer it. These things are already in place, no need for valve to reinvent the wheel that won't be used.

[InDeed23]

Also, data is data.
If the game is paid for and in my account, I should be able download an .exe file or such... pretty simple actually.

[Bavuett]

You can just buy a portable Hard-Disk, download your games, and then transfer them to your PC.

But Steam will have to check if the files are installed correctly anyway, so this post doesn't really make any sense.

I have a friend of mine which has a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ internet but he doesn't complain, he just waits before playing a game.

[Washell]

Originally posted by Knuckles McGee:

Cost for me to program the web link = $2.47 tax included.

That's funny! That's the same cost for the IT admin to block steam downloads on the corp network!

[Brian9824]

The feature doesn't really make sense with the size of games nor how steam stores the files. Steam has the data in depots that you download from, not zip files that can just be transfered over.

Not to mention games are so big that storing them on phones isn't even feasible for the most part, and if the game is small enough to fit on most phones then its usually not an issue to d/l it on even a slow connection.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Knuckles McGee:

So you guys are saying to torrent the files?
I guess I could try that?
Thanks.

There are literally 1000s of web threads asking for the phone download option. They date back to before electricity was invented.

Despite nobody mentioned it and you got triggered into troll posting, sure knock yourself out, just more entertainment you'll provide us.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Knuckles McGee:

So you guys are saying to torrent the files?
I guess I could try that?
Thanks.

None of us said any such thing, now you're just trolling. Pretty sure when you do stuff like this, Valve takes your request far less seriously or just our right ignores you and your threads.

Originally posted by Knuckles McGee:

There are literally 1000s of web threads asking for the phone download option. They date back to before electricity was invented.

If there are so many of these threads, why did you go and make a new one? Why didn't you post in the latest/biggest one to keep it going, to keep it noticed by admins? Oh right, because there are not thousands of threads on steam asking for this.

[Ebizzle]

The game is = you're stuck in a room with a phone (has a large 250gb hard drive), the room provides fast, free internet. How do you download a steam game? This game will not be stored on the phone. The game will be moved onto the home pc as soon as possible and then the phone hard drive(memory chip) will be wiped clean.

Notice there are a very limited amount of actual game materials involved.
Part one of the game:
1. Phone
2. Wifi
3. Room

In part one, the entire planet that the room is located, does not contain a single pc or an external hard drive. It is a strange planet that only seems to provide one thing, fast, free wifi. Well, of course it also has rooms(rooms are shaped like coffee shops, libraries or Walmart if that helps).

The challenge:
Download a game from the billionaire Valve companies' Steam website (legally), onto the phone.

[Bavuett]

Originally posted by Knuckles McGee:

The game is = you're stuck in a room with a phone (has a large 250gb hard drive), the room provides fast, free internet. How do you download a steam game? This game will not be stored on the phone. The game will be moved onto the home pc as soon as possible and then the phone hard drive(memory chip) will be wiped clean.

Notice there are a very limited amount of actual game materials involved.
Part one of the game:
1. Phone
2. Wifi
3. Room

In part one, the entire planet that the room is located, does not contain a single pc or an external hard drive. It is a strange planet that only seems to provide one thing, fast, free wifi. Well, of course it also has rooms(rooms are shaped like coffee shops, libraries or Walmart if that helps).

The challenge:
Download a game from the billionaire Valve companies Steam website (legally), onto the phone.

You don't understand that Valve has no reason to let users download games into their phones. It's a feature that, except you and a few others, people won't use.

As said before, just buy an HDD, download the game from a PC, move it into the HDD (or your phone if you really want to) and transfer it into your PC.

The Steam Client has a backup feature that makes this very, very easy.