Quoting: Mal

Quoting: subHaha.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/b15k8g/epic_games_launcher_appears_to_collect_your_steam/ [External Link]

No.

But not really surprising if this SteamSpy guy is now in charge at Epic.

Well. Look at the bright side. It could be worse. They could be scanning you hard drive looking for words like China, Xi Jinping or Winnie the Pooh.

Who said they don't? :wink:

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Quoting: MalSteam stream service over the Internet. It might be that my next rig is actually an aws instance or something of the likes.

Why not an android TV box with an optimized version of Steam Link? Oh! It could be called Nvidia Shield! Lol!

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Quoting: subHaha.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/b15k8g/epic_games_launcher_appears_to_collect_your_steam/ [External Link]

No.

But not really surprising if this SteamSpy guy is now in charge at Epic.

#Facepalm

This, the exclusives stuff and all the legal issues surronding Fortnite as proven to me that Epic Games doesn't deserve any kind of trust. Not gonna buy anything from that store, even if it comes to Linux. It reminds me too much of the bad days of Microsoft.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: MohandevirDo you smell it? Could this be the scent of a Steam streaming service? :)

You mean like the one I said Valve would do :P

Never said it was a new idea! I'm just highlighting it. :wink:

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: LeopardTell that to GOG before bashing Steam fam ?

Never saw such kind of issue with GOG, so leave your irrelevant comments out of the thread please.

I get your point... So, to compete with Epic, instead of lowering the 30% cut they take, Valve is betting on better infrastructure and services for developpers... Could it be that?

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Do you smell it? Could this be the scent of a Steam streaming service? :)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy...Linux in general is healthy as a horse; whether it's servers, cloud (which I still don't quite get the difference between "the cloud" and "a server somewhere I don't happen to know where it is"...

Like they say: "There is no cloud... It's just someone else's computer." ;)

Quoting: Alm888... Look up to the CDPR: they screwed Linux gamers over with "The Withcher III" and got away with it.

The situation was much more complexe than that. Personally I think that a really vocal part of Linux gamers screwed CDPR big time too. I takes two to tango. VP too was responsible for a part of the backlash. Putting the blame solely on CDPR is quite simplistic. I beg to differ.

This said, yeah, I'm a Witcher fanboy, but I'm not going to tell you to buy it. You are entitled to your own decisions. Still, I have the feeling that Linux lost an early supporter that would probably still be on our platform had it not been for the Witcher 2 fiasco and all parties involved are in part to be blamed, imo.

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Quoting: qptain Nemo

Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: scaineI suspect this is a (or another) reason that Steam devices didn't really take off. Playstation and Xbox both allow Netflix, Spotify and others on their consoles. Why would you buy a SteamPC that doesn't support any of that. Pretty ridiculous.

Quoting: dubigrasuGood thing I guess.
I feared at one point that Valve deliberately ignored having Netflix/Amazon/etc apps available on their SteamOS/Steam Machines because they tried to push their own movie store.

Can't people just use the web clients on SteamOS?

Last time I checked, Netflix through web browsers was limited to 720p. There are workarounds, but for the masses, it's a no-go. You need an officially supported Netflix client (or Microsoft Edge) to get the 1080p+ resolution.

Can you link the workarounds, for posterity?

https://www.addictivetips.com/web/watch-netflix-in-1080p-chrome-firefox/ [External Link]

And there is Kodi 18 with Netflix too. It works great:

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=329767 [External Link]
https://github.com/asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix [External Link]

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: scaineI suspect this is a (or another) reason that Steam devices didn't really take off. Playstation and Xbox both allow Netflix, Spotify and others on their consoles. Why would you buy a SteamPC that doesn't support any of that. Pretty ridiculous.

Quoting: dubigrasuGood thing I guess.
I feared at one point that Valve deliberately ignored having Netflix/Amazon/etc apps available on their SteamOS/Steam Machines because they tried to push their own movie store.

Can't people just use the web clients on SteamOS?

Last time I checked, Netflix through web browsers was limited to 720p. There are workarounds, but for the masses, it's a no-go. You need an officially supported Netflix client (or Microsoft Edge) to get the 1080p+ resolution.

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Quoting: sub"Valve is getting back to focusing on gaming, with Linux support being retired"

The day will come. :sick:

Mark my words. They'll try some more attempts to push Linux that will fail like the attempts before.
Not least because big part of the game-related media is inherently anti Linux.
And you need those guys!

At some point Valve will give up.

Yes, I hope I'm totally wrong.

The day Valve drops Linux support is the day Microsoft will start pushing it's UWP intiative again. Linux is what prevents Microsoft from doing anything foolish (and/or) radical.

Edit: Valve wants to hire a new SteamOS engineer... Valve gets back to focus on gaming and AMD wants to hire ten new engineers for open source linux driver developments... Could it be all linked, somehow?

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Hiring-10-More-Open-Source [External Link]

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