Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe'

Post by MattSayar » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 1:55 PM UTC

shock3naw wrote: post #171

james4k wrote: post #97

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Steam's cut is 30%. However, for that 30% you get to update your game whenever you want, and virtually as often as you want. By that I mean they don't impose any direct limits on how often you update, but the general rule is no more than once a week aside from hotfixes and the like. I'm not aware of any digital marketplace that gives you this much control, especially as video game updates will often be hundreds of me…

Wow. $40,000 to push an update. Microsoft should put this into practice themselves and refund customers whenever Windows needs a patch.

Post by Fargren » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 2:15 PM UTC

MattSayar wrote: post #181

shock3naw wrote: post #171

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Wow. $40,000 to push an update. Microsoft should put this into practice themselves and refund customers whenever Windows needs a patch.

I believe this approach raises the overall quality of games in the Marketplace. A developer on Xbox Live Marketplace will be less inclined to rush out a broken game and release updates every day until it works. If they have to pay $40k/update, they have an incentive to do it right the first time, with some leeway to fix unforeseen bugs (the free first update).

Post by mikeash » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 2:52 PM UTC

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Valve is not a public company so there is no shareholders nor investors who can pressure Gabe to sell. There is also absolutely no insensitive to sell for him. Even if he gets tired of Valve he can simply start a new venture by using the insane cash-flow raining directly in his bank account.

The fact that it is a private company is a very interesting aspect of Valve. I wonder why there are not more companies going that route. It seems to be sort of expected nowadays that every large company must incorporate.

Post by jlgreco » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 3:06 PM UTC

ilaksh wrote: post #146

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The radeon driver is open source. It should just work, assuming it can work. (Maybe it doesn't support your card currently?) If you are talking about fglrx then I forsee nothing but pain for you. I doubt even Valve's encouragement can improve that situation.

Its working now! I finally figured out what the issue was, thanks! Problem was that awhile back I think that Chrome wouldn't run WebGL and I thought it was a driver issue, so I installed the fglrx crap, which not only didn't make Chrome run WebGL but it completely screwed me, and I never properly removed it until now.

Post by fsaintjacques » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 3:48 PM UTC

mtgx wrote: post #159

recoiledsnake wrote: post #12

I think the headline of the article is pretty misleading as he means that Windows 8 is a catastrophe for Steam because of the Windows 8 app store. Looks like everyone's upvoting the article because they seem to think that Gabe meant that Windows 8 will be a failure. Instead of having to go through Steam's distribution, games will have the option of going directly to the Windows 8 app store and get featured there, not…

I'm pretty sure Microsoft will end up doing to Steam what Apple tried to do with Amazon, and not allow them to sell games anywhere but in their store in the future.