I welcome that, as long as there will be an open driver. Otherwise - not interested.

Quoting: EhvisIt seems odd that Valve would be actively helping with competition for the Vive. Maybe this is something different. Maybe a Hololens type thing to complement the VR set?

Valve aren't making Vive, HTC do. So why can't Valve welcome more partners to make VR headsets?

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I'd be interested in some game in Silmarillion settings. And DRM-free of course.

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A suggestion: in the monthly stats it would be interesting to show how they changed from the previous month. I.e. you can put some arrow (up / down) and value of the change. I know one can figure it out from the trends page, but it would be neat to have just that delta in the monthly report too.

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Look at the bottom of https://valvesoftware.github.io/steam-audio/ [External Link]



PC = Windows... Really, Valve?

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About firmware, did anyone try to reverse engineer it for AMD GPUs? They don't lock it like Nvidia.

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No, I'm talking about libraries which are tied to Steam. I already referenced them above. Controller API, SteamVR, Steamworks and so on. Using them prevents developers from releasing their games outside of Steam.

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Well, if this won't be tied to Steam - good. I'd prefer it to be FOSS nevertheless. But I wasn't talking about this particular case, rather about other examples of already existing lock-in.

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Quoting: LeopardThen tell your beloved GOG to make some improvements.

Improvements to what? We are talking about development libraries, not about stores. But Valve happen to provide libraries which are tied to their store. That's a problem, and it's problem that Valve cause. Pioneer or not, lock-in is a crooked practice.

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Being a leader makes concerns of lock-in only stronger. Leaders which lock out competition become monopolists.

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Yeah, I don't trust Valve not to turn it into another lock-in. So far they failed on that front with various stuff already (Steamworks, SteamVR, controller API and so on).

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