Universe Expanding

[Xant]

I'm fairly sure that games like HL3, TF3, L4D3 and Portal 3 will be timed SteamOS exclusives.

I highly doubt that. They're not going to massively limit the amount of people who can buy those games.

[Leshma]

They don't care how many people will buy HL3 at launch, their new platform is much more important for them. Steam was requirement for Half Life 2 and back in the days, Steam was godawful. Ugly, buggy, slow piece of shit client. But players were forced to use it to be able to play Half Life 2.

I also believe there's at least 5 million GabeN worshipers who will buy everything Valve makes. The likes of cmp aren't their loyal customers.

[zagibu]

I think it's impressive how Valve managed to convince people that a PC in a box and a rebranded Linux are the future of gaming and can challenge consoles. I knew they were good at marketing, but I never imagined they were this good.

No, the impressive thing is that it will work.

[Kafein]

"loyal customer" is a much beautiful way of saying "stupid".

[Xant]

They don't care how many people will buy HL3 at launch, their new platform is much more important for them. Steam was requirement for Half Life 2 and back in the days, Steam was godawful. Ugly, buggy, slow piece of shit client. But players were forced to use it to be able to play Half Life 2.

I also believe there's at least 5 million GabeN worshipers who will buy everything Valve makes. The likes of cmp aren't their loyal customers.

Of course they care about how many people will buy HL3. It's a business. Requiring a program like Steam is also very different from requiring a new OS. More likely than it being a SteamOS exclusive is that SteamOS gets some bonuses, like the whole DX9/DX11 thing back with Vista/Windows 7.

[Leshma]

They could release Half Life 3 any time they wanted during past 6 years. They haven't. Digital distribution business comes first.

"loyal customer" is a much beautiful way of saying "stupid".

Call it the way you like, that won't change anything. You can't argue with those kind of people.

[Xant]

They could release Half Life 3 any time they wanted during past 6 years. They haven't. Digital distribution business comes first.

Except it's not made yet..?

[cmp]

No, the impressive thing is that it will work.

What will work? x% of all games? And for the rest you need to install Windows or to stream them from a Windows PC.

[zagibu]

We'll see.

[Rumblood]

A different game pool?

That isn't a feature, that's a pox on the gaming world where a game isn't available to all and even when it is, one population of gamer has their game gimped by the horrendous control scheme of the other.

[Kafein]

Could someone list me all the technical problems that would arise if you wanted to port all Windows games to a new OS ?

[Rumblood]

Could someone list me all the technical problems that would arise if you wanted to port all Windows games to a new OS ?

Could you tell me how many angels would fit on the head of a pin?

[Casimir]

7

[Leshma]

Could someone list me all the technical problems that would arise if you wanted to port all Windows games to a new OS ?

Biggest issue is lack of good OpenGL programmers. Actually, money is the problem. You can expect recent games like Rome II to be ported but forget about older games.

[cmp]

That isn't a feature, that's a pox on the gaming world where a game isn't available to all and even when it is, one population of gamer has their game gimped by the horrendous control scheme of the other.

I agree entirely, but unfortunately the average console gamer doesn't.

Could someone list me all the technical problems that would arise if you wanted to port all Windows games to a new OS ?

The technical problems are insignificant compared to the real problem: big expense for no gain.