Steam, The Ultimate Online Game Platform

[Spazosaurus]

I'd be stoked when I see an option to sell over my games. Till then, nothing to see here.

[Arcmanov]

I'd be stoked when I see an option to sell over my games. Till then, nothing to see here.

Tell im again nah...in bigger letters.




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[phoenix31tt]

the option exists...whereas it didn't before.

That is still absolutely fantastic news. I only see 12 games excluded on that site and steam has thousands of games. small thing.

Valve has been great to us gamers with those ridiculous prices on top titles over the years. Now they are going to allow us to share that library with family members.

What's not to like??

agree 100%... no other company has come even close to offering what valve offers and now they adding more to it...

[Berzerk]

the option exists...whereas it didn't before.

That is still absolutely fantastic news. I only see 12 games excluded on that site and steam has thousands of games. small thing.

Valve has been great to us gamers with those ridiculous prices on top titles over the years. Now they are going to allow us to share that library with family members.

What's not to like??

still stoked!

Fully Agree with Wyatt here. At least the option is there. Just hope it works as it supposed to tho.

[woodyear99]

I could see quite a few people from GATT being interested in this....

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

Steam is coming to a new operating system
As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the
environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself.
SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.
It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.

In-home Streaming
You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!

Music, TV, Movies
We’re working with many of the media services you know and love. Soon we will begin bringing them online, allowing you to access your favorite music and video with Steam and SteamOS.

Family Sharing
In the past, sharing Steam games with your family members was hard. Now you can share the games you love with the people you love. Family Sharing allows you to take turns playing one another’s games while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your individual game progress to the Steam cloud.

Family Options
The living-room is family territory. That’s great, but you don’t want to see your parents’ games in your library. Soon, families will have more control over what titles get seen by whom, and more features to allow everyone in the house to get the most out of their Steam libraries.

[TriniXaeno]

Not so happy about this tbh.

I think Ubuntu was the perfect vehicle for Steam.

Now they are bringing YALD (Yet Another Linux Distribution) to the fray.

Further fragmenting an eco system that was already epicly fragmented.

Was really hoping for news on a hardware offering for SteamBox.

[Berzerk]

still two more reveals later this week. Can't judge this alone in isolation.

[TriniXaeno]

I can and I will, lol

If the 25th brings news of SteamBox, then the rejoicing shall begin.

Been holding back my htpc plans for this for too long...come valve, show your hand.

[Arcmanov]

HTPC with Windows 8...running Steam client.

#uninterested.

[Spazosaurus]

^^ this

A Linux distro with just a fraction of the steam library available is counter productive in my book. I much much much rather run windows and continue how we've been going for the past... Well.... Ever.

Can't believe it took them this long and so much drama to bring a forking fork. Nonsense.


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[TriniXaeno]

Totally agreed.

Hence why I would have preferred a hardware announcement than a forked distro. Lame.

Granted, SteamOS maybe a far more marketable name and brand than Ubuntu.

As zerk says....two more announcement to come....so we will see.

Also, I was very happy with my Ubuntu HTPC setup. It was perfect.

Best of all,  the OS was free. Didn't have to pay a cent.

Don't mind running Windows 8 on my primary gaming rig...but the living room doesn't see enough man hours to deserve that US$120 spend.

You know how much games that could buy on Steam self? A whole years worth...easily.

That said, if the living room HTPC was a primary gaming location for me....I would love the option to run Windows on it if need be.

Battlefield on the 52" would be glorious.

[MessiaaH]

Ok, ah coming looking for this thread fully expecting the gatt men on here to be happy with it, and was fully ready for an all out brawl, to my surprise, I agree with alyuh 100%, SteamOS makes no sense, et all!

In addition to what was already stated,
My Reasons are:

1. Who in they right mind going to dual boot they OS to run this thing, I going to boot into steam just to play a limited section of the game library available?

2. Gaming on SteamOS you effectively cut yuhself off from all EA games, and EA pushing strong exclusivity these days, i.e., Battlefield 4 / Dead Space 3, etc. Gaming on windows u have access to all games all clients, not just steam.

3. I don't want to be locked into an OS when I gaming, many times I be gaming and alt/tab to do loads of other stuff, then alt/tab back in and continue on, this would be impossible ins teamos unless yUh find alternatives to d things u doing in Linux.

4. Seriously valve, you going to compete with Microsoft/Apple/Google/Sony/Nintendo? Because that's effectively what u doing with steam OS. It may be free, but so was Linux for donkey years, and it's still less than .1 % marketshare. In contrast, windows 8 that ppl cuss, in a short 2 months, has more marketshare than every version of Mac OSX ...COMBINED! Apple has been fighting MS for years in the OS space, it took them going to mobile to stand a chance.

5.  Steambox, this is d only hope I see for steamos, if they made an extremely cheap product that can play limited games, some mite buy it, but it will in no way be competition to PS4/Xbox One.

6. What would steamos be able to do that I cant already do in windows, and if it come out with 1 or 2 unique feautres, is it worth the hassle just for that?

7. This whole thing started because d CEO of valve bullish against windows 8 because Microsoft integrate xbox live into windows 8. Since then he started speaking out and putting things in place to not be reliant on MS. This is a big mistake. a mistake Blackberry is paying for now. Instead valve work with MS they decide to pickup d witch torch. And I fear for PC gaming. I fear steam dig theyself into a hole they cant climb out of and then steam as platform suffers because of it. I don't want to end up using Xbox Live / Origin / Amazon because valve do shit.

And like wyatt, I am judging them in isolation, and so far, I am very disappointed. If they get a few triple a titles, they would be directly competition against d big boys and that's a bad idea, and if they keep it simple, it wont be worth my time. Steambox or no steambox.

Waiting to see what they other 2 announcements holds, but I already write off steam os, (just like NVidia shield, I sure nobody on gatt buy that crap, maybe save shiv cause he in the industry, hell he mustbe get one free).

[TriniXaeno]

[Arcmanov]

PC Gamer looks at the 'pros and cons'  http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/09/24/steamos-the-pros-and-cons/

The BIGGEST con they didn't mention?  The generally tepid uptake of Linux...worldwide.
SteamOS not doing anybody with a Windows-based gaming PC any favours right now.

[Arcmanov]

Get that 'Steam Box' name out of your head... http://kotaku.com/valve-announces-steam-machines-1386046176

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/

'Steam Machines' it is then.

[MessiaaH]

Valve unveils Steam Machines, a hardware beta for its living room game console

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/25/valve-steambox-annnouncement-2/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget&ncid=rss_semi


Well, console seems to be there play, I really don't know what to make of this.

[MessiaaH]

Arc yUh beat meh to it by 2 minutes boy lolol.

[Berzerk]

steam sharing invites went out. Anyone got?

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/09/25/ken-levine-steamos-is-a-brave-and-powerful-idea/

[MessiaaH]

Microsofts sees steamos streaming to steam machines, and raises them streaming Xbox Games to any windows phone:

Microsoft cloud-based gaming could bring full-on Halo to your Windows Phone handset


http://pocketnow.com/2013/09/26/windows-phone-cloud-gaming

Also:

[MessiaaH]

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/27/valve-steambox-announcement-3/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget&ncid=rss_semi