Since my birthday is past already, I'll look into getting myself a Steam Machine as Christmas present this year :D.

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Ha, I was thinking already which mini-box I'd buy to uplink my gaming rig to my TV (I still prefer a lot of games in front of my PC).
Steam Link seems to be what I really wanted, and 50USD sounds ... acceptable. 100mbit seemed "fast enough" last time I tried.

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Quoting: jamesc359I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if they really did support hardware back that far.

To be fair, that's just the requirements for Vulkan. I don't think anyone expects the hardware manufacturers to actually go back very far in their hardware lineup with actual driver support.
Mesa might, but they're not a hardware manufacturer.

NVidia very likely will. They're internally doing a similar thing in their drivers anyway.

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What the heck... now I really have to take a closer look at UE4 again. Hopefully the Editor Port is really coming too.

And with that, UE4 will be a bet by a lot of indie developers. 5% in the end, and not having to come up with financing for engine licenses during the development is a huge pro.

It's still 5 % on gross revenue, so 30 % Steam (or any distributor) will take, 5 % for the engine, so you'll only see 65 % of the revenue.

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Nice survey, this one is actually very interesting. Loads of KDE and Debian-Based users around.

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Oh good - next game I want. Expensive month coming :/.

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Going to pre-order Mar 01.

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For a game that seemed so promising, I was left severely underwhelmed by the experience.

Sad, was really hoping this could be the first nice RTS title :(.

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Not a very big fan of LotR, but I guess from a RPG-Aspect I could like that game, so if it hits Linux, it'll be a buy for me.

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Steam Machines may fail "for now", I wouldn't be surprised about that. But on the long-run, with the engines supporting it etc, we'll definitely see a even increased number of games supporting it. And if it's not too much effort anymore like porting whole engines, why would a developer miss out even one percent of sales (which can be a pretty huge number and hard cash too). Then there will be a market for steam machines running SteamOS too, before that I don't have much hope for it. And yes, not being able to play older titles may have a huge impact as well, but we'll see what and if Valve thinks to do something about it.

But what is there is be SteamOS as reference platform for developing and testing. Seriously, they may be able to test and support a handful of distros, but it is simply impossible to do for [all]. Having SteamOS as reference platform is definitely a benefit, and I certainly hope Valve keeps up that effort for the sake of the developers.

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