Steam coming to Linux
- Thread starter BahBah
- Start date
Soldato
- Joined
- 7 Jan 2007
- Posts
- 10,607
- Location
- Sussex, UK
If it's true it would be ace, but I hope they don't tie your OS down for your games. i.e. I would want my Portal 2 to work on linux, windows and OSX, not just one of them.
It is good news indeed 
Source is also confirmed as being ported. Hopefully it will do good things for Linux gaming, having a decent content delivery system *might* make developers consider it more as a platform.
Postal 3 is due this year for Linux, should be good I think IDs next game Rage is also confirmed to have Linux support. And Serious Sam 3 somewhere down the line.
Source is also confirmed as being ported. Hopefully it will do good things for Linux gaming, having a decent content delivery system *might* make developers consider it more as a platform.Postal 3 is due this year for Linux, should be good
I think IDs next game Rage is also confirmed to have Linux support. And Serious Sam 3 somewhere down the line.
Soldato
- Joined
- 7 Jan 2007
- Posts
- 10,607
- Location
- Sussex, UK
It is good news indeed
Postal 3 is due this year for Linux, should be good
Do you know if you buy a linux/OSX steam game you can still play it on windows steam should you wish?
i too hope that u only need 1 copy of a game to play on all supported platforms.
some games already do allow that, but others require you to buy for each platform which is annoying, especially when the linux version also seems to cost considerably more
if steam starts pushing linux games, then it could be good for linux, and hopefully more supported games will come out.
would also be good if windows only games could be run under wine/cedega via the linux steam platform as well
some games already do allow that, but others require you to buy for each platform which is annoying, especially when the linux version also seems to cost considerably more
if steam starts pushing linux games, then it could be good for linux, and hopefully more supported games will come out.
would also be good if windows only games could be run under wine/cedega via the linux steam platform as well
Soldato
- Joined
- 7 Jul 2009
- Posts
- 16,234
- Location
- Newcastle/Aberdeen
I saw this before, it's pretty much confirmed. Of course the games won't suddenly work with Linux but the Source engine will apparently be ported properly straight away.
Soldato
- Joined
- 8 Mar 2006
- Posts
- 13,300
- Location
- Near Winchester
This is a bad thing. Well, no, but it's not a good thing.
Steam is about shafting users with a shoddy service and bad business practice. If the steam servers are down; "go outside and do something, we own your games for now."
If you buy a game and cannot get it to work (can you see that occurring on Linux?), you're stuffed, steam has a no refund policy. I bought Grid not so long back, no matter what I try it will not work, I got the the point where Codemasters support were just going round in circles with me, literally 10s of emails back and fourth over a few weeks. Can I return it? No.
Steam is about shafting users with a shoddy service and bad business practice. If the steam servers are down; "go outside and do something, we own your games for now."
If you buy a game and cannot get it to work (can you see that occurring on Linux?), you're stuffed, steam has a no refund policy. I bought Grid not so long back, no matter what I try it will not work, I got the the point where Codemasters support were just going round in circles with me, literally 10s of emails back and fourth over a few weeks. Can I return it? No.
I can't say I've ever had a bad experience with steam. I've had a few games that took a bit of coaxing to work, but then they are all old stuff that I'm trying to run on Windows 7 (like GTA1 or GLQuake), but not once have I ever had a problem that I couldn't resolve.
Also, calling the steam platform/service bad is just quite frankly uneducated. The platform is stable, well presented, and with a back-catalogue of muchos gamage. If in the unlikely event you can't get steam to connect, you can always start the client in offline mode and play whatever single player game you want.
No, you can't return software, but then, even the high-street stores have the same no returns policy on PC software, it is buyer beware, and quite frankly you should know if your hardware is up to the job.
Also, calling the steam platform/service bad is just quite frankly uneducated. The platform is stable, well presented, and with a back-catalogue of muchos gamage. If in the unlikely event you can't get steam to connect, you can always start the client in offline mode and play whatever single player game you want.
No, you can't return software, but then, even the high-street stores have the same no returns policy on PC software, it is buyer beware, and quite frankly you should know if your hardware is up to the job.
Hopefully this does turn out to be true. Games are the one thing you miss on Linux. If it's one company who I'd want to do it, it is valve. I've not had any bad experiences with them. Valve has always been an innovator, and steam is a brilliant platform that was a way ahead of it's competition when it came out, and still brilliant today. It's all about conveince; let me buy and download games instantly that just work and I'm sold. I don't really care how they do it.
Every day more and more things are coming to Linux. I dream of a day when I can ditch that virtual machine I use for Photoshop.
Every day more and more things are coming to Linux. I dream of a day when I can ditch that virtual machine I use for Photoshop.
Soldato
- Joined
- 8 Mar 2006
- Posts
- 13,300
- Location
- Near Winchester
Weekly event. I suspect the slower connections out here in the sticks loose a race somewhere in the system. When it does connect it takes a few minutes, same again to start a game. Yet I can stream HD on SkyPlayer...
Just says this game can't be played offline.
It absolutely, thoroughly exceeds every published requirement.
I love the ease of buying games and the large back catalogue, but the service puts me off buying a game I can get elsewhere.
Soldato
- Joined
- 7 Jul 2009
- Posts
- 16,234
- Location
- Newcastle/Aberdeen
I've had my fair share of problems with steam, but the concept is sound.
Hopefully all this will also lead to more development on OpenGL as a standard too. If its the same as the Mac; if you own the game you can play across Windows and Mac (providing its got a port) without having to buy another copy afaik.
I have had problems with Steam before but no show stoppers. As much as I love having an actual retail disc (just because it's nice to have a physical copy, and the faster install factor is nice) Steam is great because it offers quick gaming and some AMAZING offers. Got GTA IV over xmas for a fiver! Much better than the PS3 version 
Depends entirely on the game. A lot of games I can download on steam quicker than I could install off physical media, even moreso if you include the time it would take to get hold of physical media.
