Quoting: liamdaweHow would you install Java (or anything other outside lib) on SteamOS with a Steam Controller? You don't. It would require adding in a mouse and keyboard, going to desktop mode and generally not a good experience.

Maybe Valve should make a graphical frontend for installing such dependencies then? And probably include a way for us to know which games work 'out-of-the-box' and which need additional dependencies.

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Quoting: footy19Jim Keller has always been a whore for the highest bidder. And as for Phil Im sure they can hire someone
new just as talented. These changes may ever allow for some new blood and fresh ideas. I have used
AMD products for years and I haven't regretted any of my purchases. I for one will not support the closed
nature of nvidia and will not support the evil business practices of intel.

Dunno much about Keller and Rogers, but apart from that, +1.

Slightly related: Performance is increasing too fast anyway, 3-year-old hardware being considered old is a bad situation IMO.
So I would be happy to support a company that does better FOSS work. And I think AMD should get more credit for their APU work. If people (or atleast people that don't do alot of gaming) can buy a single chip to have decent CPU and GPU performance at once, all the better.

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While I have long thought Valve would need to do something like this (HL3 releasing early on Linux), I'm sure they won't. Although if they do things right, I'd not find it a big problem. You can get early access to HL3 if you download and install SteamOS(/another version of Linux). It's not as if you'd be forced to spend money on the OS. And SteamOS should, at launch, be real easy to install and then dual-boot.

Maybe they could include it in steamboxes, pre-installed.

Honestly though, why are we even talking about this. It's just a few names of a few files.

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Hmm, interested to see how this is gonna pan out. I will have some more free time that week, so I'll probably follow things fairly close, and hopefully be inspired to try my hand at that Unity editor or some other tools. Although I suppose actually participating is a bit ambitious for me.

5. You may not use a full game as a template for your game, the game should be designed by you

This might be hard to decide, when is another game used as a template, when as inspiration? Will probably come down to submitters and voters discretion?

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Quoting: overlawledAt least one of us every time we test is playing on a SteamOS machine just to ensure that the game plays smoothly on a Linux based operating system

This is gold, shows you're dead-serious about taking Linux serious. The game doesn't really seem to be my thing, though...

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Quoting: EikeJim Sterling has covered it:

Seems like all the info you need about it. Oh and all the fun you're gonna get from it.

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It's a good thing to have this on Linux, I could see myself spending quite some time at this. Especially if there's more options to make a complete theme park about a single theme, and peeps actually respond to that.

Also, the video gives a nice impression of the game, I suppose, but most of the features are kinda what you'd expect from a modern incarnation of RTC. And they do make it sound like it's kinda special that they included those features.

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Quoting: gojulI'm fine with that as long as they do keep us informed, contrary to what they did with Mordor.

And I think this press release is not really very good at that, mainly because it's such short notice.

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Quoting: NyamiouThis is so true, people in Europe, don't have a better purchasing power than people in the U.S. but still we are expected to pay 5$ to 10$ more for every game (examples : GTA [External Link], MSG [External Link], PoE [External Link]. Already it's downright stupid but then look at this [External Link] and tell me how it make sense that all this countries with huge differences of average wage have to pay the exact same price of 60€ for GTA V [External Link] (which is 7$ more than the U.S. price).

And even within countries, there will be differences. But I suppose you have to draw a line somewhere.

(and, to nitpick, in some countries in Europe, US prices would be cheap indeed)

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Quoting: kozecExcept this is exact reason why key resellers are so popular, especially in Europe. Since introduction of Euro on Steam, EU buyers are expected to pay 20-50% more for exact same value as USA buyers gets. And no, it's not because of tax, Steam was using tax scheme that allowed it to charge 3% VAT all around EU. And most of other shops started to do same thing shortly after...

This is a huge discussion in its own right: the global economy is highly imbalanced, yet digitally distributed goods can be acquired across most of these imbalances.

On another note: I am interested in seeing numbers, even though they are going to be rough estimates. How much income (percentage) would Feral/Aspyr miss due to these buying habits? And, even more difficult to assess, how many games do we miss out on? Could they have ported, like, twice as many games? How big an impact are we talking about here?

In all honesty though, the points made should suffice to make the arguments against pre-orders and 'buying early'.

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