AFAIK the latest official Greenworks plugin is working OK. Is it just a case of missing features, or bugs, or what? For example the existing Greenworks plugin can already activate achievements, so how come you mentioned that? And if you just say "it's a mess", there's not a lot I can do about that, but if you make a list of five bugs for example, I can work my way through fixing them. Vague posts like this just leave me wondering if you've actually tried it lately?

No I haven't, and this is why I wrote that I haven't published anything on Steam yet. My post was based on the posts I read in the Greenworks plugin's topic in the past few years. There were issues, and a lot of the developers were complaining. As far as I know the plugin was broken for a long time with the newer NW.js versions so that's why I called it a mess. If it works today, than please accept my apologies, and I meant no offence. Having a Steam plugin included in the editor is vital and it leaves a better feeling in the users than having to download it separately from the forums in my opinion. If I do manage to get a game on Steam and if I run into any problems, you can be sure that I'll post bug reports. After all, I also want C2/C3 to be one of the best engines that support Steam.

It is updated just as the standalone version. I think it's Steam what causes some problems there.

That's promising indeed. I think Ashley is aware of Instant Games, and I hope we can expect support for those as well.

Since you own a C2 license, you'll get 50% discount of your first year of C3.

I don't think that making multiplayer games will ever be easy. Unless you use a cookie-cutter engine and severely limiting your possibilities at the same time.

I don't think Scirra could afford to miss supporting Steam. In C2 it was a mess. While I haven't published anything on Steam yet, I read enough comments on the topic to get the picture. MadSpy's plugins were a godsend to many. But supporting a platform that big and vital officially is a must have functionality in my opinion.

It's good to know that there isn't any legal issues with the current method. However, I agree with skymen . An encryption would be useful, even if it's that simple as XOR.

It depends on how well you can optimize your game. If you have 100 minigames on 100 different layouts then I don't think there will be any problems. Just make sure you test often (even with APKs).

I don't think that we should ignore a market that big (even if we compare it to Android).

Buy C2 from the Scirra store directly. I usually read complaints about the Steam version, while the one you download from the official site works just fine.

— That's good news. However I think you should fire a bug report about this issue.

— When you uninstalled the Steam version of C2, did you clean up any possible folders it left behind before reinstalling?

A good question to ask is - will construct3 editor be able to export to html5 without using any network service, and allow the user to wrap the game with xdk/cacoon the same way construct2 does?

Yes, they confirmed it in the blog posts that they'll keep the export options for using 3rd party wrappers.