Recently Displeased with Steams Mobile Port Android games

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76561199540158642 25 Aug @ 8:22pm

Today i was installing some new games / mostly free to play mobile ports/ however they are so bad on Steam.

Things like less then 1gig install. only to require additional 40 gigs of download after you start the game and it begins to run.

another thing i noticed was half of them seem shady, want to force location grabs, force software installations that go beyond the scope of the game, such as unknown "anti cheat" ext. and clear violation of steam customers rights.

sure its ok if people want that sorta stuff, it shouldn't be mandated for any game, and any game forcing people to install something that is not the game directly should be banned from selling Games on Steam.

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d3str0y3r 25 Aug @ 8:43pm

Originally posted by Golden Unicorn:
Today i was installing some new games / mostly free to play mobile ports/ however they are so bad on Steam.

Things like less then 1gig install. only to require additional 40 gigs of download after you start the game and it begins to run.

another thing i noticed was half of them seem shady, want to force location grabs, force software installations that go beyond the scope of the game, such as unknown "anti cheat" ext. and clear violation of steam customers rights

sure its ok if people want that sorta stuff, it shouldn't be mandated for any game, and any game forcing people to install something that is not the game directly should be banned from selling Games on Steam.

Valve themselves use ant-cheats in their games. They are not going to ban devs from using them. Cheating is a MAJOR problem in online games and devs have the right to combat cheaters.

Games that have anti-cheats have it listed on the store page and or within their EULA. So by downloading the game you agree to the installation of it.

Example https://steamhost.cn/app/553850/HELLDIVERS_2/

Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat
nProtect GameGuard

Last edited by d3str0y3r; 25 Aug @ 8:45pm