Valve Responds To Apparent Discontinuation Of Steam Machines

[Guest]

Valve stated that Steam Machines have not been officially discontinued and that it is still committed to developing SteamOS and Linux as a gaming platform.

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[alextheblue]

Gabe "I want a monopoly on PC gaming platforms" Newell only started pushing stuff like this after he found out MS would be selling games in the Store.

 

[Jeff Fx]

Gabe "I want a monopoly on PC gaming platforms" Newell only started pushing stuff like this after he found out MS would be selling games in the Store.

I want them to have a monopoly on PC gaming platforms, as long as they don't abuse it. It's annoying to have to install Origin and UPlay for a couple of games when my collection is in Steam.

 

[salgado18]

Gabe "I want a monopoly on PC gaming platforms" Newell only started pushing stuff like this after he found out MS would be selling games in the Store.

I want them to have a monopoly on PC gaming platforms, as long as they don't abuse it. It's annoying to have to install Origin and UPlay for a couple of games when my collection is in Steam.

We all want them to not abuse, but they always do, right? There's no way any monopoly should be allowed or encouraged. Just think: if there was only Steam, would there be those huge Steam sales?

 

[Jeff Fx]

Gabe "I want a monopoly on PC gaming platforms" Newell only started pushing stuff like this after he found out MS would be selling games in the Store.

I want them to have a monopoly on PC gaming platforms, as long as they don't abuse it. It's annoying to have to install Origin and UPlay for a couple of games when my collection is in Steam.

We all want them to not abuse, but they always do, right? There's no way any monopoly should be allowed or encouraged. Just think: if there was only Steam, would there be those huge Steam sales?

Probably. They sell a lot of games to people who are not interested at full price, and with distribution costs so low thanks to the Internet, that's profitable. I'd think the danger is in them abusing developers who sell via Steam. They may be doing so, but I haven't read anything about that.

Ideally games wouldn't have DRM, and we could choose any 3rd party game launcher to manage our games, but I don't think that's going to catch on. Steam's DRM has only caused me problems a couple of times over many years, so I accept it.