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hombre_fatallast Friday at 9:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

Does it make sense?

The PS5 ecosystem lets you buy games from your phone and your console will autodownload it for you.

Maybe the Steam store is just too big of a legacy clusterfuck to make mobile friendly. It never worked all that well even on desktop, especially on macOS. It's probably the most sluggish web app I've ever used.


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Rohansilast Friday at 9:54 PM

You can buy Steam games and download them to your PC from your phone, too. Only problem is the website isn't designed specifically for mobile. Most pages work well but use a lot of data to pull media.

essephlast Friday at 9:46 PM

I'm looking at the steam store via the mobile app on my android device. If I load up my Linux desktop and the steam app, it seems fine between the two.

Honestly I've been a steam user for.. idk how long, 15 years?

I can't say I've ever had a major issue with it, maybe I've been lucky.

Edit: Seems to be the chat app that causes this for the author in question.