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I guess the problem is the store. The app allows to access valve's store (which is far cheaper than games in the apple store). If they remove the ability to buy
by rafadc 8y ago
I guess the problem is the store. The app allows to access valve's store (which is far cheaper than games in the apple store). If they remove the ability to buy games I am sure the remote desktop app would be ok.
I am guessing anyway
- knolan 8y agoAnd yet the Steam Store app is available on the iOS App Store. This is a very strange decision.
- bantunes 8y agoIt's a fluff app for messaging and so on, no actual gaming.
- AlexandrB 8y agoYes, but it allows access to the store - directly contradicting rafadc's theory.
- Zircom 8y agoThe difference is in the steam store app doesn't actually enable you to play the games on the phone itself, while the steam link app will let you do exactly that.
- falsedan 8y ago> so TeamViewer, Remote Desktop etc. are all banned
- LiquidFlux 8y agoIf they were wrapped up in a single package that was marketed towards buying and playing those games, using the same logic they quite probably would be.
- tyfon 8y agoI don't have any apple products, however can you buy a RDC app and remote to windows and buy apps in the windows store?
- Ragnarork 8y agoI have a hard time with this explanation, as the Steam Store is already available through the iOS Steam app which is available on the Apple app store.
- JetSetWilly 8y agoYou can't buy games using the Steam Store app.
- falsedan 8y agoThe Steam app? You sure as heck can buy games through it.
- icecreammatt 8y agoYou can buy games with the existing Steam app. I do it all the time during the sales.
- JetSetWilly 8y agoMy bad, I remember trying to before and being unable to, I just assumed it would be the same situation as the kindle app.
- boterock 8y agoYou can't buy games that are in the iOS store from within the Steam app
- LiquidFlux 8y agoI'm assuming it could be relating to the inability to play a game you've just bought, if limited to just the Steam Store app. That alone isn't exactly competition against the first-party's store.
- Orphis 8y agoYou know what let's me access the Steam store (and many others)? Any VNC client to my other computer. Or just the regular Steam app. Check the screenshot page on the AppStore and you'll see the store with prices and all.
- izacus 8y agoWait so TeamViewer, Remote Desktop etc. are all banned in the Apple world because I can use them to buy things from other stores?
- AsyncAwait 8y agoValve has said that they disabled the store and got blocked anyway.
- kabdib 8y agoThe ability to buy games was removed from the Steam Link app.