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I think Steam's a great experience. It seems leaps and bounds ahead of competition. The coolest thing about it to me is how it keeps expanding in innovative way

by nilkn 10y ago

I think Steam's a great experience. It seems leaps and bounds ahead of competition. The coolest thing about it to me is how it keeps expanding in innovative ways. I picked up a Steam Link and Steam Controller last year, and it's really nice to be able to play a PC game in the living room whenever I feel like it. SteamVR is also great. I guess the mobile app is kind of crappy. I've never really cared as I don't see any reason to use it.

maccard 10y ago
It's pretty a Awful. I set it up as o was getting nagged about setting up the app as an authenticator, and the next update wouldn't boot. Not a great first experience, considering it's a webview app.
- ycombinatorMan 10y ago
  Maybe the app isnt great, but the platform is.
- Freak_NL 10y ago
  Steam's approach to authentication is annoying. You either get their authenticator app for two-factor authentication, or get demoted to a second-class Steam citizen. Without the authenticator you get nagged frequently to get it, and you cannot buy and sell things on the marketplace normally (every action has to be confirmed via email, and any item you want to sell is placed in escrow for two weeks). I appreciate Valve pushing for better security, but with the authenticator app the only option this really sucks if you don't have a smartphone, or do have a smartphone, just not with Android, IOS, or Windows Phone on it. Now I understand this for the interim (people were losing their digital items due to poor security), but it is damn near impossible to contact Steam with suggestions or comments (on the Steam forums your voice is drowned in a sea of despair, and I can't seem to get a hold of anyone with a technical background at Steam's help-desk). Perhaps if someone at Valve is reading HN: please consider using Fido U2F as an alternative to a smartphone app!
  - touristtam 10y ago
    Funny I get this nagging experience (regarding the 2 factor authentication) from facebook, google, and a few others that I don't have in mind.
  - Omniusaspirer 10y ago
    You'll never get Valve to change a thing, so just use 3rd party libraries like steam-totp to generate the Auth and market confirmation codes. Alternatively code your own program to do so (as I did in Rust) then run it on any device you'd like.
CaptSpify 10y ago
Steam is OK. I agree it's leaps and bounds ahead of competition, but that doesn't make it a "great experience". They can do a lot better, but the lack of real competition isn't pushing them at all.
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by nilkn 10y ago

maccard 10y ago

It's pretty a Awful. I set it up as o was getting nagged about setting up the app as an authenticator, and the next update wouldn't boot. Not a great first experience, considering it's a webview app.

ycombinatorMan 10y ago
Maybe the app isnt great, but the platform is.
Freak_NL 10y ago
Steam's approach to authentication is annoying. You either get their authenticator app for two-factor authentication, or get demoted to a second-class Steam citizen. Without the authenticator you get nagged frequently to get it, and you cannot buy and sell things on the marketplace normally (every action has to be confirmed via email, and any item you want to sell is placed in escrow for two weeks). I appreciate Valve pushing for better security, but with the authenticator app the only option this really sucks if you don't have a smartphone, or do have a smartphone, just not with Android, IOS, or Windows Phone on it. Now I understand this for the interim (people were losing their digital items due to poor security), but it is damn near impossible to contact Steam with suggestions or comments (on the Steam forums your voice is drowned in a sea of despair, and I can't seem to get a hold of anyone with a technical background at Steam's help-desk). Perhaps if someone at Valve is reading HN: please consider using Fido U2F as an alternative to a smartphone app!
- touristtam 10y ago
  Funny I get this nagging experience (regarding the 2 factor authentication) from facebook, google, and a few others that I don't have in mind.
- Omniusaspirer 10y ago
  You'll never get Valve to change a thing, so just use 3rd party libraries like steam-totp to generate the Auth and market confirmation codes. Alternatively code your own program to do so (as I did in Rust) then run it on any device you'd like.

CaptSpify 10y ago

Steam is OK. I agree it's leaps and bounds ahead of competition, but that doesn't make it a "great experience". They can do a lot better, but the lack of real competition isn't pushing them at all.

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