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what happened to that thing steam had where you could install a game onto another computer logged into the same account

it seems to have just disappeared a few weeks ago
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@curls no the thing where there'd be a drop-down next to the install button and you could say "install on computer x"
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@curls it was useful because we mostly use our laptop for things but the desktop for games, and being able to say "go ahead and start downloading this thing i want to play later" from the laptop is nice
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@Felthry maybe this menu? I don't have another machine with steam that is also on.

@Felthry oh weird! do you have another device registered to the account?

@curls we have two computers logged into steam right now
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@Felthry oh i just looked in other games, apparently it depends on the game itself. probably some games disabled it.

@curls okay some games show us "this machine" and "(i) mobile devices" or "(i) tablets" but none of them give our other computer as an option
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@Felthry i think they actually removed this feature completely, and this menu is just for remote play now

@Felthry no idea! might be a security issue with unattended downloads

@curls it's still possible to install on any computer from the purchase-complete page of the online version of steam specifically apparently
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@Felthry steam is so bizarre with how they treat their features

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