AT - "Right after I wrote up today's news regarding Valve's announcement of a Linux-based SteamOS as central to its living room PC gaming efforts, I tweeted the following instant analysis: "If anyone has the clout to drag the gaming industry towards Linux, it's Valve."
Save the quarters and blast everything to oblivion at home!
Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected
Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.
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Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
I think if valve can get gaming pc's to ship with their os installed instead of windows then it will be a success
For me personaly it would need to be compatible with everything i have on my pc now, plus the driver installations and stuff like that need to be on par with Windows. I wont switch to steamos before that.
Valve has a tough battle ahead though. Microsoft is big and doesnt mind playing every dirty trick in the book, thats how they got where they are.
If they actually plan to try to compete with Windows i'd say it's extremely unlikely.
If SteamOS is basically an app type thing compatible with existing devices that allows you to stream games from your pc to your TV people might go for that.
It isn't the os that decides the player base. Opengl has been better than direct x for ages but based on what developers code(C++) for and how graphics cards are pretty much made for dx it's based on developers coding in python and th gfx companies offering better support for opengl!
I Hope so!
I can finally stop using that POS windows...