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Chicken Jockey {C²} Jul 6, 2017 @ 9:32am
Mobile games.
Do you think we will ever be able to play mobile games through steam on our phones?

P.S I won't be Impress with technology until I'm able to play mobile games on my phone through steam
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Tensei G Jul 6, 2017 @ 9:37am 
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HLCinSC Jul 7, 2017 @ 10:55am 
It's possible, but definitely a challenge. Apple, Google, and Microsoft get 30% of games sold on their app store just like Valve gets 30% of games sales on Steam. Apple, Google, and Microsoft obviously want games sold through their store and not Steam's so they would likely block a Steam app where you could buy mobile games. For Google's Android, Steam could make a store app that has to be manually installed like the Amazon App store when google banned it for selling apps/games. For iOS and Windows mobile, you would have to jailbreak the device.

Even just distributing mobile versions of games you already own like say The Walking Dead has issues. Developing mobile versions takes time, money, and resources. Game developers would be afraid that people would expect mobile versions for free like how Steam Play allows you to get the Windows, OSX, and Linux version of any game you buy.

Also games on Steam are not ARM compatible so they would not work by default
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Chicken Jockey {C²} Jul 7, 2017 @ 11:13am 
Originally posted by CharlestONE:
It's possible, but definitely a challenge. Apple, Google, and Microsoft get 30% of games sold on their app store just like Valve gets 30% of games sales on Steam. Apple, Google, and Microsoft obviously want games sold through their store and not Steam's so they would likely block a Steam app where you could buy mobile games. For Google's Android, Steam could make a store app that has to be manually installed like the Amazon App store when google banned it for selling apps/games. For iOS and Windows mobile, you would have to jailbreak the device.

Even just distributing mobile versions of games you already own like say The Walking Dead has issues. Developing mobile versions takes time, money, and resources. Game developers would be afraid that people would expect mobile versions for free like how Steam Play allows you to get the Windows, OSX, and Linux version of any game you buy.

Also games on Steam are not ARM compatible so they would not work by default
Hmmmm makes sense.
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ezakaria Jul 29, 2018 @ 10:56pm 
I think that is possible with some cloud gaming like Vortex.
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