Valve hates Win 8 - Ready to make Steam games work on Linux instead

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Valve thinks Windows 8 will be a big flop for gaming. They hate Windows 8 so much, they are readying all Steam games to work on Linux.

Valve not sold on Windows 8, working on Linux support for Steam as a backup - News - play.tm


Newell believes that Windows 8 could be a catastrophe for PC gaming and by expanding onto Linux-based operating systems they can help keep their prospects as broad as possible.
He said, "I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think well lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If thats true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality."
"The big problem that is holding back Linux is games," the Valve founder explained. "People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well. It's a hedging strategy."

This is Huge for Linux fans. And it's about time. Windows is awesome but lets face it, many people stick with Windows just because of gaming and that's not right.. Microsoft really does have a monopoly on PC gaming. This may the the catalyst that brings Linux kicking and screaming into the 21'st century.

If Valve works diligently to make a compatible system to direct x work well in Linux (even if it is based in Wine) this could signal other developers making games for Linux. Linux already has great OpenGL support but not many games are coded for OpenGL these days. This could sway devs heads and send Microsoft's gaming monopoly packing.

Valve isn't alone in these views. Blizzard Entertainment expressed similar views also. Blizzard joins Valve in voicing concerns over Windows 8 - News - play.tm

As did MineCraft and Mojang dev Markus "Notch" Persson Notch: Windows 8 could be "very, very bad for indie developers" | GamesIndustry International

as did I'd Software's, John Carmack, Carmack: Nothing exciting about Windows 8 - Video Game News, Videos and File Downloads for PC and Console Games at Shacknews.com
 
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Microsoft responds to the above criticism. Microsoft Responds to Windows 8 Hate From Game Devs

Even Microsoft's own Silverlight dev team rallys against Windows 8. Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8 - Slashdot

Windows 8 on ARM won't even play x86 apps or games. Sorry devs, Microsoft says Windows 8 on ARM won’t run x86 apps | VentureBeat another bad sign for gaming.

What I find interesting in the above reply from Microsoft is the fact that X-Box Live and support for all Windows Live games are built into Windows 8. In this they claim the Windows 8 is a "Gaming Platform". To me it looks like more of Microsoft trying to maintain a monopoly on PC gaming.

Don't get me wrong, I love Windows and PC gaming. I have been a PC gamer for over 20 years and don't even own any console systems. PC gaming is best in my opinion. However when Microsoft takes steps to forward their own gaming division with their operating system, and shut out other gaming devs, there is a problem. The above reply from Microsoft reads more like a defense of their own agenda rather than agreeing to be compliant with other gaming technologies. This could mean more badly optimized console clones for PC and less true PC games.
 

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LOL

Stardock's Wardell used words like "schizophrenic," "obnoxious," and "nightmare" when describing the OS earlier this year.

Do you think he being was kind.
 

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On the flip side of this argument, critics of Valves view think that this is less about Windows 8 being congenial to other gaming technologies as it is more about Windows 8 App Store bundled with Windows 8, competing with the Steam service.

New Statesman - Valve panics as Windows 8 prepares to drink Steam's milkshake

But it's not just the "locked down" nature of the platform that scares Newell. His real concern is what Microsoft is doing with Xbox Live integration. If you download a game from the Windows 8 app store – and only from the Windows 8 app store – you get achievements, access to your friend list, and other perks that come with Microsoft's online gaming service. Steam, Valve's own app store and a tidy little earner, may find it difficult to compete. A similar squeeze is happening on the Mac, where Apple's App Store has, from yesterday, integration with their Game Centre service.

To this end Valve has now introduced a new app store which serves applications as well as games. Valve opens Steam store to non-gaming software ? The Register

Anyone remember the browser wars of Internet Explorer and Netscape? This reminds me of the that controversy. ( I still use Netscape, I Love it)

And yes, SIW2 I think Wardell was being a little harsh. LOL We'll just have to see what the future brings.
 

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Sounds like talk to me....

What they're more against is the fact that a company like Microsoft that has a gaming platform with the PC and a console that's been kicking Sony and Nintendo up and down the block for years with their distribution power and channels are stepping into Valve and Steam's territory. They call Windows 8 disastrous and "hard to learn." Which coming from hard core gamers, I find silly. Really? You can complete the most difficult and immersive games of all time in a matter of weeks but call Windows 8 hard to learn? Posh.

But, if you take a look a the PC gaming hardware makers like NVIDIA and AMD, they're jubilant about 8. NVIDIA already has ARM based chips for WinRT tablets and both NVIDIA and AMD already have updated drivers already near official release for their graphics card for 8, so they're obviously not bashing or abandoning the platform.

This might be a case of fear more than anything that Microsoft might effectively take their business ground away.
 

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I have been using Windows 8 RTM quite happily to play games on Steam, and pretty much everywhere else, as usual pre-release its just a massive storm in a teacup over nothing. People WILL use Windows 8, and people WILL game on it. If those whiney indies and Valve want to miss out on that revenue thats up to them, but right now nothing changes from a gamers perspective aside how they CHOOSE to load their games.
 

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:) Battles going on everywhere!
 

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Their statements should read more like this, people forced to use Windows 8 can still play our games via the desktop or modern start menu or they can use the new Microsoft games apps to buy things, OR people who choose to stay on Windows 7 can continue as they were, but we don't like this modern UI so we will paint it as evil and anti-competitive.... Never let the truth get in the way of a sensationalist story I suppose
 

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There are so many people that are going to eat their own words over Windows 8 it is not even funny.
Because IF Windows 8 is any kind of success, they will develop for it to make money.

They can develop for Linux, that is fine and probably necessary and long over due. But if people don't switch to linux in droves (as I assume they expect) they will be right back at dev'ing for windows without any hoopla (or more importantly) "Hey, we are back to dev'ing for Windows, isn't that fantastic, we are awesome aren't we?"
 

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Maybe it's much ado about nothing - in fact, it probably is. From what I have heard from someone who develops material independently for a gam that Steam markets, they're not the easiest folks to deal with. He has since opted to stop marketing anything else via Steam. Of course he may end up going back to them if that's his primary source of revenue.

So, bottom line, it could be that Valve is getting a taste of their own medicine in some ways. I doubt that in the long run the Windwos 8 app store is going to make a big difference unless they're worried now that MS will market games that compete with some popular Steam apps.

A little competition can't hurt the consumers in the end, though, can it?
 

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In a free market where people do not pirate or pirating has less of an effect developers would produce games all day long for the pc.

PC gaming needs to become standardized with software and hardware for us to not become lost in the perfect storm that pc gaming has become.
Its clear that we have witnessed a steady decline of quality titles on the pc. The market seems fixated on content control with Steam positioned extremely well on a pc, like it matters.Linux can operate at hardware reaction speeds that are 1/10th that of Windows. Network lag is commonly 20-30% lower on Linux. FPS is commonly 10-18% better on Linux at least w/ nVidia cards, I don't know about ATi .
The only point I was attempting to make is that from a gaming perspective good support from the developer community is a pipe dream especially on Linux. If Windows isn't worth considering Linux will be that much worse without a dedicated and skillful mod community that the developers are distancing themselves from for financial gain.
I am all for PC gaming, Linux included.

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I think Steam (and lots of other people really) underestimate their customers, their market, and what WE believe that market should be... they say they are trying to preserve the PC platform when they themselves don't understand it (as evidenced by the multitude of horror stories from modders, indie devs and others)

The community or market (whichever term you use) changes and evolves around what is available to them... since Windows 8 doesn't take anything away that was existing, it only adds another avenue to purchase and design games, then it really can only open possibilities not close them.
Personally I think Steam should have been available on Linux a LONG time ago, but not because the PC "platform" is breaking, just because its a PART of that "platform"

On an interesting side note, I love that the industry response to piracy is "add achievements that require using our service" rather than the much more proven method of "don't charge exorbitant bullshit prices for things"
Given the choice between pirating a game, and paying $20 for a version that you can always patch and use online, most people would pay the $20 just for the convenience. When that amount is between $60-100 the hassle factor is more appealing.
 

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Well, as long as allmost every game is depending on directX, how should it transform to Linux?
I am one of the guys that uses Windows just because of directX, I would love to be "forced" to change to Linux (I have never tried Linux) by Valve, but what about all the games and DirectX?
 

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I would love to be "forced" to change to Linux (I have never tried Linux) by Valve

Ok. I am really trying to understand this statement, but it truly boggles me.
You would love to be forced to an OS you have never used by a game company? Really?
Please, seriously take several moments to think about that statement and then tell us what is, undoubtedly, the most insane, ridiculous notion about it.

thank you.
 

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#14 Easy, Linux is free, windows is not, Linux does not have directX which is the ONLY reason my gamerPC has Windows on it. On my laptop (for surf, emails, homebanking, aso) I will still use windows 7.
 

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So even though gamers can figure out where to go in a complex game, a new Windows OS can't be figured out?

Valve gives crap about Windows 8 and they're going to Linux, but they fail to see logic in that. Every Windows gamer uses and know how to use Windows. Now they'd be forced into learning Linux, a totally different beast.
 

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Why do you think he (and plenty of others ) are coming out against win8?

That is a lot of work for him and some risk, too. He is not doing it on a whim. He is not stupid.

The problem is win8 signals a big step by MS to take away choice and control form others - including the end user.

It is not about the lack of start menu, or the little squares - it is about MS moving in a very unwelcome direction.

I am disappointed so many forum regulars do not see what is going on.

I am sorry to to say, I hope win8 bombs - because if it does ok , that will encourage MS to keep going down this very nasty path and leading the unsuspecting users somewhere they will regret in the future.
 

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SIW2, I respect your opinion, and if you are correct, trust me, MS will lose.
Ubuntu is not all that bad, and if we find that we are locked down and out as you say of Windows. Linux will go full on Main Stream. Trust me on that.
I will lead that charge if need be. So will many others.

If Desktop goes away or becomes a full on premium to get it and then you can't do much with it, trust me, the tides for Linux will change, and if Steam does well with Deving for Linux, you will see that happen extreme;y quickly, especially since ubuntu Linux is free (along with 150+ other flavors).
The biggest problem that Linux has, is the community, that is it's largest and most formidable weakness.

But that can and will most likely change.
 

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Tell that to the casual Steam gamer on Windows. Instead of learning a few new things of a new UI, you'd be telling them, "Nope, go to a totally foreign operating system you've probably never heard of with program support that doesn't exist without difficulty all just to play a few games."

Yep, sound logic right there.
 

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You have to understand that Gabe Newell, Valve's CEO, has a vested interest against Windows 8. The Windows store directly competes with Steam. If publisher's decide to release their software via the Windows store and not through Steam, that's a loss of the 30% cut that Steam gets.

But for the end user, does it really matter who gets the 30% cut? Valve, Microsoft, Apple, Google are all fighting for that 30% cut. They don't care about us. All we should care about is whether or not we want to buy so-and-so app, in so-and-so marketplace. Let the rich people fight over who gets 30%. They don't actually care about us. They're in it to make a living and make a profit so that their employees have a job and get rich.

Of course, all current and future games will work in Windows 8. It's still Windows. The only difference is whether or not the game publisher wants to sell through Windows store or Steam or any other marketplace. Remember, EA/Origin is pushing their marketplace because they don't want to give anybody a cut. Same for Ubisoft. Why would EA want to sell their title through Steam and have to share the revenue? The reason they have to is Steam has the most visible marketplace on the PC. But if Microsoft's store is front and center, then both Microsoft and Valve now have to fight to get EA to sell through their store.

The Windows store is easy to use. You just click on the tile and then select install. Easy like Google Play and the iOS store. To say that the casual gamer will get lost is saying that everyone is stupid.
 

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