Not to mention, many people have a Chromebook because they don’t own or choose not to own an expensive Windows device to begin with. Players were limited to their home’s wifi range which made it pointless to use the app instead of simply booting up their Windows PC. This provided many with the ability to play their Steam library of games from their PC on their Chromebook via a remote desktop type of feature, but it wasn’t a great solution for a few reasons.

Then, we saw the introduction of the Steam Link Beta app on the Google Play Store. This came as a surprise to pretty much everyone because even though Chrome OS could run the Linux version of Steam and even had access to the Chromebook’s graphics drivers at the time via a Chrome developer’s flag, it was far from capable of handling any graphically intensive games.

Back in January, we heard word from the Director and Product Manager of Chrome OS, Kan Liu, that the Chromebook team would be working with Valve to bring Steam to Chromebooks.

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