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Well I think instruction set is a pretty easy bar to start with. Heck you could do it automatically. Is the executable compliant x86? is the User's machine x86?

Well I think instruction set is a pretty easy bar to start with. Heck you could do it automatically. Is the executable compliant x86? is the User's machine x86? I could program a prototype for that in a few minutes if I had the info valve does already.

sunahe 10y ago
Stram games that you buy are not restricted to a single machine. I often buy games from a phone client and later (not) play them on one of my two PCs. Seeing any compatibility warnings when I buy would be quite weird.
- x0x0 10y ago
  Valve would obviously keep every hardware you've ever logged into the steam client on. So if you've played a steam game on the Sunahe account on a windows box, aha, Sunahe has windows! No warning. But a red box for graphics intensive games that says "We've never seen you on a device that can play this" is, again, a low bar. Or a windows only game for an account that is mac only.
  - spdionis 10y ago
    Not very useful. If you have at least once played on an old computer that you don't use anymore but which had windows installed this would break. And before you say that steam could detect that i don't use that computer anymore, they would have to ask for confirmation and that would be unexpected and annoying in my opinion. Generally the necessary UX would be too complex to be useful.
    - izacus 10y ago
      All that effort just to avoid something PC gamers did for a long time - check hardware requirements to see if it'll run on their device.
    - untoreh 10y ago
      Steam already records the pcs you login from and even let you make them (steam guard)
- kalleboo 10y ago
  The Google Play store already does this for Android phones. It remembers all the devices you have used, and warns you, but lets you purchase anyway if you really want to. It's a solved problem.
- izacus 10y ago
  Yeah, I regularly buy games on my Mac and then install them on my Windows PC. At the beginning Steam tried to be "smart" and made it really hard to buy a non-Mac game on a Mac which was extremely annoying.
erik 10y ago
Right, but is this a useful metric? I'm pretty sure 100% of Steam games are x86, and that users know that. Are there even any Mac PowerPC binaries on the store?

sunahe 10y ago

Stram games that you buy are not restricted to a single machine. I often buy games from a phone client and later (not) play them on one of my two PCs. Seeing any compatibility warnings when I buy would be quite weird.

x0x0 10y ago
Valve would obviously keep every hardware you've ever logged into the steam client on. So if you've played a steam game on the Sunahe account on a windows box, aha, Sunahe has windows! No warning. But a red box for graphics intensive games that says "We've never seen you on a device that can play this" is, again, a low bar. Or a windows only game for an account that is mac only.
- spdionis 10y ago
  Not very useful. If you have at least once played on an old computer that you don't use anymore but which had windows installed this would break. And before you say that steam could detect that i don't use that computer anymore, they would have to ask for confirmation and that would be unexpected and annoying in my opinion. Generally the necessary UX would be too complex to be useful.
  - izacus 10y ago
    All that effort just to avoid something PC gamers did for a long time - check hardware requirements to see if it'll run on their device.
  - untoreh 10y ago
    Steam already records the pcs you login from and even let you make them (steam guard)
kalleboo 10y ago
The Google Play store already does this for Android phones. It remembers all the devices you have used, and warns you, but lets you purchase anyway if you really want to. It's a solved problem.
izacus 10y ago
Yeah, I regularly buy games on my Mac and then install them on my Windows PC. At the beginning Steam tried to be "smart" and made it really hard to buy a non-Mac game on a Mac which was extremely annoying.

erik 10y ago

Right, but is this a useful metric? I'm pretty sure 100% of Steam games are x86, and that users know that. Are there even any Mac PowerPC binaries on the store?