Only problem with this, is the potentially for Linux to be ruined like the Mac within society. The amount of idiots I've known to go buy a Mac just because its a Mac and has a sudden surge of popularity is astounding, you could see Linux becoming the new Hipster plaything if it all goes the way it looks to. I'd hate to be a Linux user right now!
Hey, i don't care who uses it. More users only means better support.
On its own it's not a bad thing, but e whole direction and what they saying is a bad thing. If they carry on this stubborn path, they will do themselfs out of huge sales, they have to come up to date and realize computers both hardware and how we use them are changing.
For a start big companies Microsoft want, they negotiate a special price. 30% is a joe blogs rate. They could also make a complaint to the eu on anti competitor and get a ruling against apple, ms and android. Even android is slowly getting more locked down as they realize bad apps are not good publicity.
Consequences, MS will do fine, steam does not own most the games, they are still going to be available on windows. Again I can not see most users switching to Linux so what is steam going to do? Eventually ditch windows and as such half the developers ditch steam and they have far fewer users? That's the path they are starting to take and unless they change course I can't see it being good for steam, or for us.
What stubborn path, exactly? Supporting Linux is stubborn? No, letting Microsoft do whatever they want and having everybody just accept it is stubborn. Technology changes. Companies rise and fall. But the power of choice lies with the users, not with the companies. If they make changes that the users don't like then the users are going to stop using it, if there's a better alternative. And that's what Valve are doing here. They're helping to make the alternative better. For years the main thing holding many people back from Linux has been the gaming support.
Just because Windows 8 is the way it is doesn't mean that everybody has to use it or else. Gabe doesn't like it, so Valve are offering another alternative. At
no point have they said they'll stop supporting Windows.
And you don't think people would at least dual boot if that was the case? Please, i think you underestimate the gaming community's love affair with Gaben
Do you have a source for Android becoming more 'locked down'? The platform has always been open, some manufacturers do their very best to undo the good that does but that changes nothing about Android itself.
Inclusive is great, but taken with their other comments, it does not read that way, the longer they leave switching to the new era the harder it will be. What they going to do when metro becomes the standard? Either they embrace it or they pull windows support.
With their current plan, they have no way to distribute arm games, which is a massive growing market and they could have broken into that and by the sounds of it, they aren't even going to make a win8 app, which is a shame. Think what they could do with live tiles, tell you which friends are online and all the other stuff. Wouldn't cost them anything either, make the app free and x86 can't be sold through the market anyway.
No, they can support Windows without 'embracing' Windows 8. It's up to users what they want to do then.
No plan to distribute ARM games? Well, it's likely that the rumoured 'Steam Console' would use ARM. But what does that have to do with a decision to support Linux? Linux has ARM support. So does Windows, last i checked.
I have no idea what 'live tiles' are, but Steam already does that.
Might be an excuse then.
