Why is the mobile app worse than before

[Lord Motav]

At least before the mobile app was fast, light on battery power, and the social features were at least convenient to use. Now the thing is 90% dedicated to making sure you get to look at the store, making it as animated and flashy as possible, while hiding everything else in a little corner and straight up removing your ability to message your friends. It doesn't even tell me if they're away or idle either, so now if I want to check who's around without actually turning on my computer and hit them up to game I can't anymore, which was half the reason I used the dang thing in the first place! I didn't even get a choice on "upgrading" either, no Google Play download just BAM here's the new app, you're stuck with it.

I couldn't even post this discussion thread on it, so I can't use a major function of the community tab either. Why even have a button for "Give feedback about this app" if I can't do that on the app? If it wasn't for the Steam Guard function I'd just get rid of the thing altogether, and now that's got QR codes for some reason? Was the code generator not good enough on it's own somehow, now the app needs to turn on my camera every time I navigate towards the code function that is much faster and easier to use than trying to scan a stupid code?

Who thought this was a good idea? You'd figure the mobile app of a program like Steam would try and preserve as many of the functions of the main thing as possible while allowing you to do it on the go, not force me to have to log into my computer to do anything except for of course, using the stupid store. Plus I get email notifications about my wish list having things go on sale and etc so viewing the store on the go isn't even that convenient at all at least my email apps load fast and don't use much power.

[lightwo]

Doesn't sound like you need it at all, so go ahead and downgrade. Reading your post I realised it's an even bigger waste of time than I observed, good points.

[zaphodikus]

A load of the menus are broken. ETA on an update?

[R A Z E R]

It's not that i dislike the new layout of the app, it's just really wonky.. Tabs don't really work half the time and when going to the menu on the right, the entire app just freezes.

[schafaaaa]

That layout is terrible ... looks generic and borring like stuf from EA or UBI ... bad design

[☎need4naiim☎]

It is not just worse, it doesn't work most of the time, and when it does seem to work, it is very laggy, as if i am using a Pentium machine from 90s. The design route they took is extremely bad. Not just simple bad. It doesn't even let me to log off without completely removing Steam Guard (required me to remove authenticator to be able to log off). It also doesn't have Chat, nor let us see notifications clearly by making fonts ridiculously big. It works like someone from Ubisoft designed it. Even the latest Blizzard Mobile App is massively better than Steam Mobile versions 3.X.

Quoted below post from another thread:

Postat inițial de ☎need4naiim☎:

After version 2.3.13, Mobile App turned into such shape that it looks and works like version 0.2.XY.

It was so bad that i could only withstand 1 hour before returning back to 2.3.13.

It was the worst type of upgrade i have ever seen for an App. THAT BAD.

I will never use 3.X versions until they scrap it altogether. Because it is so laggy, so mismatched, so clustered, so narrowed (it has two EXTRA bars on top and bottom of screen that eats up your overall view as if fonts were not already big enough) that i have no hope of that latest version to be on par with the version i use now with later "bug fixes". Current Steam Mobile App should be COMPLETELY scrapped.

Damn, it did not even let me log off!!!!

yeah, it wanted me to dispatch Steam Guard to be able to log off. Just to log off.


Terrible design.

[R A Z E R]

The app also keeps closing itself now while saying i have new messages in my inbox when i've already seen those..

[August]

Someone in another thread has pointed out that the app is 10 times bigger and uses much more battery to achieve even less. Why did they decide to break something that didn't need fixing?? Just because it's a bit old???

[Mr. Nice Guy]

There is not a single positive change in this new app. The interface is clunky, options that were easily accessible are now buried 2-3 sub menus deep, it’s slower, can’t turn my phone sideways. At least give me a classic view options so I can revert back. This app is trash

[Machine Gunn Eddie]

Postat inițial de Mr. Nice Guy:

There is not a single positive change in this new app. The interface is clunky, options that were easily accessible are now buried 2-3 sub menus deep, it’s slower, can’t turn my phone sideways. At least give me a classic view options so I can revert back. This app is trash

Future UX designers

[Guard1an_]

Amazing points by the way, but this app is so broken and trashed that I CAN'T EVEN LIST ITEMS ON THE STEAM MARKET TO SELL!!

[Mr. Nice Guy]

Where is the friends list?

[StormTehSinner]

Postat inițial de August:

Someone in another thread has pointed out that the app is 10 times bigger and uses much more battery to achieve even less. Why did they decide to break something that didn't need fixing?? Just because it's a bit old???

Not only because it's old, but also because they want to make more money. That's why an app doesn't need to be functional anymore. It has to follow the teenage trend of "insert random new and flashy design" and also everything important has to center around the store to just tell the user which games are played by your friends, people like you and "everyone else".

Valve is pretty much like: "Please buy those trending games and better ignore all your already bought games. That's why we don't show you anything about your games that easily, because you better should buy all those other games, which everyone else likes at the moment."

They've done the same BS with the Library of the PC-Client before, now it's simply the apps turn to get good for business and really bad when it comes to UX.

[zaphodikus]

Postat inițial de Mr. Nice Guy:

Where is the friends list?

In the separate chat app. I'm waitign for the issues to be resolved, there is a lot of work to do, but there no announcement yet on how it's going, so we can only wait.

[Varinger]

Today I learned: that my steam mobile app updated itself into non-functionality AND tossed chat in the trash can. That was all I used it for apart from 2FA.

Are there some Bright Idea Guys responsible we can toss in the bin too? I'm sure they'll see it as a good outcome if they thought this was somehow helpful.

[zaphodikus]

The steam mobile client is doing the time travel thing again to top it all. Hurrah for cache consistency bugs everywhere.