Quoting: edve98How does one acquire rights to football games anyway? Can I buy right to action games in Germany too?

They only own the rights to FIFA's "brand" and team/player names of course. Anything else would be absurd.

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Quoting: Glog78This list goes on. Let me ask a real question here , which market is the target for steam machines right of now?

Console gamers?

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Quoting: NyamiouAlso I would add that the guy who wrote this is not clean at all, he have been part of a scandal involving gaming journalists of big gaming sites colluding together on how to shape the opinion by choosing what to cover and how to cover it in a private mailing list : http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/09/17/exposed-the-secret-mailing-list-of-the-gaming-journalism-elite/ [External Link]

That's reading an awful lot into a journalist asking colleagues to show some compassion towards a developer who has recently been harassed by an Internet mob out to get her.

I appreciate this particular discussion is important and almost relevant enough to rehash once again, but could we please try to keep this extremely polarizing topic out of GOL? I know absolutely everybody and their pet dog has a well thought out and completely justified opinion on the GG debate, but let's keep this site a safe haven from all the hate if at all possible. Please.

(Not completely sure this bomb was ever going to explode, but thought I'd try to defuse it anyway.)

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Quoting: Crazy PenguinAnother thing with adding Non-Steam games & Apps to Steam, is that you will get kicked out of the game everytime Steam gets an update or looses contact to the Steam server :(.

Does it help if you set Steam to offline mode?

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleNewbies might also like to know how to install Kodi on their Steam Machine since SteamOS media centre functionality is a bit not-quite-there. :)

http://kodi.tv/ [External Link]

Sure and burn a lot of power ~200W/h (depening on model) for just watching movies :(. A Raspberry Pi needs max. 3-4 W/h and small machine with an ATOM CPU needs 10-15W/h.

Are you suggesting people have different devices for different uses, like one for media and one for gaming? Fine I guess, and you will most likely save on power bills, but that kinda defeats the purpose.

Kodi does support the common video acceleration APIs and allows you to tweak audio and video settings to your hearts content. Here running 1080p h.264 video content with a relatively high bit rate (at pretty much default settings, some tweaked to higher quality as opposed to lower resource usage) my GPU didn't even switch out of its lowest power mode and CPU load was negligible. So I doubt the power draw is anywhere near gaming levels. I have no way to measure it though.

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Quoting: leillo1975I don't understand why in my Ubuntu 14.04 64bits I can't use the steam controller normally with native support

Because the kernel in your Ubuntu version doesn't yet include a driver for the device. A driver has been accepted and integrated into version 4.3 of the Linux kernel, but unless you're willing to get your hands dirty, you most likely won't see 4.3 as the default in any Ubuntu release until 16.04/14.04.5 at the earliest. Steam OS on the other hand will most likely include the driver as soon as they can. Also, Valve isn't very likely to provide software for managing your gamepad profiles outside steam, so you'll still need to have steam running if you want access to any advanced functionality.

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Quoting: sonicI dont thik that GPU they use will have full Vulkan support, NVidia have some problems with asynchronous shaders.

For most use cases this won't matter.

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Quoting: ShabbyXWe know that OpenGL is too old for modern gaming and we have been having performance problems for it.

The latest OpenGL 4 versions are quite modern and have dropped much of the legacy baggage. So OpenGL itself isn't the reason why many ports are not quite up to snuff, at least not directly*. Also, as evidenced by the multitude of crappy console-to-Windows ports, shoehorning a new, different graphics API into a finished product is almost always detrimental to performance. Anyway, you're right in that Vulkan is soon the way to go for anything graphically intensive.

*While the API is fine, the infrastructure is severely lacking. And by that I mean documentation, debug/validation tools, proficient developers etc.

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Quoting: GuestAre you trying to say that this game has a branching story?

I'm not trying to say anything about this game really. All I know about it is what I've read here on GOL. But I don't see how choice could be a "central part of gameplay" if it didn't significantly affect the story.

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Quoting: GuestI don’t understand what you mean about choice. All games are about choices. If there is no choice then it’s just a story/screensaver.

There are many great games where there might be plenty of choice in the way you solve puzzles or advance the story, but the core of the story isn't affected to the point where you need multiple replays to experience it all. Whether you see this as a pro or a con is up to you.

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Quoting: flesk... but I also have a hard time getting into games where choice is a central part of the gameplay.

Glad I'm not the only one. But seeing as this is usually listed as a feature and a selling point, I guess we might be in the minority.

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