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Steam has little to worry about in regards to the Windows App Store. They just need to keep pushing platforms, keep securing great titles, and RELEASE ANOTHER DAMN HALF LIFE 2 EPISODE. Exclusively on Steam of course. Steam is pretty great and it's not easy to replicate. See "Google Play."
It's a catastrophe for Valve if third party markets like Steam don't fit seamlessly into the future of Windows.
And it's a catastrophe for users if third party markets like Steam don't fit seamlessly into the future of Windows.
Short-term, if they can still get their games through Microsoft's own market, they won't care.
The year of the Linux desktop?
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A business catastrophe, not a usability or market catastrophe. "I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people."
You're right, and I also wouldn't trust anything he says about Windows 8 since he has a vested interest in keeping easy distribution restricted to Steam. He will face no such competition on Linux.
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I got the same impression so far. Take the Metro Windows Update for example. It failed for for me repeatedly without giving any reason until I found the same functionality within the "classic" Control Center where I had to allow the system to reboot in order to install the updates. This is simply a horrible experience in every way.
>It failed for for me repeatedly without giving any reason until I found the same functionality within the "classic" Control Center where I had to allow the system to reboot in order to install the updates Wasn't this on the Beta product? Why is everyone talking as if it's on the RTM version?
Steam has little to worry about in regards to the Windows App Store. They just need to keep pushing platforms, keep securing great titles, and RELEASE ANOTHER DAMN HALF LIFE 2 EPISODE. Exclusively on Steam of course. Steam is pretty great and it's not easy to replicate. See "Google Play."
I could write Steam in Lisp in about 10 minutes
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…
"Microsoft is charging between 20 to 30%" - I think that's too much, it must be much less than that, but I don't know for sure.
I am rooting for Linux, WebGL, and other stuff. Whatever can help take down Windows is great. If Windows can actually take down Windows, even better.