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Valve joins the Linux Foundation

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Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation

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Post by deviltry »

FridayWithJohn wrote: post #2

The one thing that has forced me keep Windows on my PC is the fact that most games require it. Hearing that such a large player in the gaming industry wants to move to Linux is really fantastic news.

How is Valve a large player? This year Valve released Dota 2. Last year - some counter strike. 2011 - Portal 2 (at last a real game). 2010 - nothing.

Yeah that is huge compared to EA or Ubisoft....

Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation

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Post by daddykotex »

FridayWithJohn wrote: post #2

The one thing that has forced me keep Windows on my PC is the fact that most games require it. Hearing that such a large player in the gaming industry wants to move to Linux is really fantastic news.

I stopped playing games when I started using Linux. I've been part of the Steam Beta on Linux and things are going really fast. This is great news.

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Post by casca »

It will be interesting to see whether Valve can encourage the move to Linux gaming. Their biggest asset at this time is the distribution model of Steam, but that's not sufficient to get the big publishers to develop for OSX, never mind Linux.

Edit: Valve's game list: http://www.valvesoftware.com/games/

Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation

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Post by kayoone »

While this is great, its a bit sad that Valve is mostly doing all of this now, because they fear losing their dominance on windows to the native Store in Win 8.x

In the end its a win-win for everyone if it works out, just their motives are questionable.

Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation

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Post by terabytest »

casca wrote: post #6

It will be interesting to see whether Valve can encourage the move to Linux gaming. Their biggest asset at this time is the distribution model of Steam, but that's not sufficient to get the big publishers to develop for OSX, never mind Linux. Edit: Valve's game list: http://www.valvesoftware.com/games/

OS X is not a good platform for gaming. It has a significantly smaller user base of which only an even more significantly smaller are gamers. Playing on a MacBook (or at least on my MacBook) is impossible, and I wouldn't buy an iMac for gaming.

On the other hand, you can put Linux on anything (for free!), from your mom's 2002 pc to the latest generation hot stuff. This means there is indeed a potential, and somebody just has to set the foundation.

Re: Valve joins the Linux Foundation

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Post by Strom »

kayoone wrote: post #7

While this is great, its a bit sad that Valve is mostly doing all of this now, because they fear losing their dominance on windows to the native Store in Win 8.x In the end its a win-win for everyone if it works out, just their motives are questionable.

It won't be a win for Microsoft if this transition takes off. Also, of course profits and control are the biggest motivations here, not some inherent wish for linux to succeed.
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