Over the last few days the gaming internet has been abuzz with rumours and leaks supposedly that have come out of Valve. Whether or not the leaked images are legitimate it begs a question that needs an answer. What if Half Life 3 is under development, but exclusive to Steam OS? And could this be why Valve have been so tight lipped about it's development?
In case you were curious, a Steam account transfer via will is not permitted according to an official response from Valve.
Would be nice if the article's writer looked into and reported whether other digital game libraries could be transferred over via will (Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, EGS, EA app, GOG, Ubisoft Connect, Rockstar Launcher etc) instead of this half-baked piece but it's probably the same for all of them anyway
This seems like a way bigger issue than mandatory PSN account linking for PlayStation games.
So where is the outcry?
ESTNN writes: "A leak for Valve's 6v6 3rd-person shooter MOBA has supposedly been released ahead of time. And if the reports are true, fans of the genre have much to be excited for."
Nice bend at the knee there Gabe. Seriously? A quirky character arena shooter? This late into the me-too-shooter market? I thought you guys were so much better than that crap. Gabe must need a bigger yacht.
Fan projects Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64 have shut down after Valve intervened in their development.
First they open Steam up to more AI, now they are shutting down fan projects when at one time they used to support or even give the fans jobs.
Wonder what's going on with Valve at the minute.
There's potential that Valve had already planned to bring Source 2 to TF2 officially after Counter Strike 2. It's been getting some renewed attention lately.
You got Nintendo to thank for Portal64 being taken down. As for TF2, most likely it's due to the probability of Valve working on a source 2 port themselves. It's sucks but Nintendo are the biggest pricks in the business and not letting this drag out into a huge court drama is the best decision.
Valve has said they will not be releasing exclusives for SteamOS. I understand what the article is proposing, but keep their statement in mind.
Ultimately they would piss A LOT of people off, including people with PCs, if you could only get their games from now on, by running them through Steam OS. Huge gamble on their part.
It will probably be released on PC/Linux first like Valve always do. But it won't be a times exclusive in an official capacity, just porting time.
Timing the release of a surprise HL3 with Steam OS is just great marketing. But it would almost certainly appear on regular Steam. They would want it to be as successful and available for the fans. Forcing a steam OS only version would be very anti-consumer and I just don't see that happening.
If any company ever released a SteamOS exclusive they would really be shooting themselves in the foot because Linux use as it stands now on Steam is around 3% and yes, SteamOS may raise that a few million more, however they would be excluding the other 70M Steam users who don't use Linux
Not Steam OS, just make it only for Steam/PC and no consoles if they want to boost sales.