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Valve releases Steam Chat App

 

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The new Steam Chat mobile app is a modernized Steam chat experience available for free on iOS and Android platforms.

 

The app includes many key features of the Steam Client desktop chat, including:

Friends List - See who’s in game or online at a glance. Never miss an opportunity to play.

Rich Chat - Your chats get even better with higher fidelity links, videos, tweets, GIFs, Giphy, Steam emoticons, and more.

Invite Links - Add new friends on Steam with a link. Generate an invite link you can text or email.

Customizable Notifications - Mobile notifications mean you'll never miss a message or game invite. You can customize your notifications per friend, group chat, and chat channel.

Group Chats - Get everyone on the same page. Groups make it easier to do things like stay in touch with your communities and organize game night with your best friends.

I don't really care that much as I barely use Steam chat, but it's probably for the better considering the main Steam app is pretty bad.

 

Sauce: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1621770561065348220

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Cool. Just a couple years late at this point.

Steam chat used to be my main form of communication with many people, but that has switched over to Discord mainly now. Steam just didn't really add much to the experience, on top of deleting some links to some websites.

15 minutes ago, SlimyPython said:

Nice... Too bad I don't even have a phone

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One sec.. Did Valve just pull a 'Facebook'? Splitting the messaging part of their app into a separate app, just like what Facebook did with Messenger?

One cool thing though - which may have something to do with recent.. Chinese news - is this:

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Android users without access to Google Play can download the latest version here [link embedded in the text]

 

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Looks technically good but why not just roll this into the existing steam phone app? Seems dumb.

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34 minutes ago, Humbug said:

Looks technically good but why not just roll this into the existing steam phone app? Seems dumb.

exactly and this app doesnt even have the authenticator, whats the fucking point.

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Well cool extra, wanting to rival Discord and all. But yeah good to see them working on more things now. 

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2 hours ago, Humbug said:

Looks technically good but why not just roll this into the existing steam phone app? Seems dumb.

 

1 hour ago, TrigrH said:

exactly and this app doesnt even have the authenticator, whats the fucking point.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamchatapp/discussions/1/1653297026026607207/

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So now I have the Steam app, which includes chat, and the Steam Chat app which is only chat. Why

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2 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

How about Valve updates the base Steam app to, I dunno, make it so that you don't fucking get logged off after not using the app for more than 1 minute?

Can't say I've ever had or heard of that issue.

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Just now, trag1c said:

Can't say I've ever had or heard of that issue.

It's been an issue on both the devices I've used the authenticator for, even when just a single account is linked to that phone.

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1 hour ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

It's been an issue on both the devices I've used the authenticator for, even when just a single account is linked to that phone.

I'm using a modified 2015 version of the steam app since v1 is the only version that supports "stay connected to steam in the background" sadly all the features outside the friends list and chat (including the authentication) no longer function.

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Yeah I wish they would fix the original apps. I get no pop-up notifications on android with it. So frustrating. 

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2 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

It's been an issue on both the devices I've used the authenticator for, even when just a single account is linked to that phone.

That's pretty bad. 

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So what's the point of the Steam app now?  It isn't as heavy as Facebook, so separating Steam chat from the app is pointless.

 

There's also Discord, so I guess it's even more pointless.

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