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?
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 updated its stance on AI games on the Steam storefront, allowing creators to publish AI-created games.
Hell no. I want games that have been made by creative minds who have a passion for their craft, not a bot with a penchant for plagiarism.
So instead of paying for an engine and assets to create a game they are paying for an engine and assets to create a game.
Valve has officially warned against inhaling the Steam Deck vent fumes in an official response due to potential health hazards.
Wow people will huff anything nowadays some people just have way too much time on their hands.
Another reason to love the PlayStation Portal, no chance of breathing in noxious vapors.
Get a Steam Deck they said, to which I reply, what are you high?
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.