The All New Gabriel Newell's Digital Wonder Emporium, aka, The Steam Update Thread

Coldstream wrote:

In all fairness, is there anyone amongst us who hasn't considered trying to move to that glorious land? :D

Maybe I have a tab open in my browser right now about IT jobs in New Zealand...

With XCOM2 being so cheap this weekend, I thought I'd get a copy for my dad who put ~200 hours into Enemy Unknown/Within. But when I go to make the purchase, I get the message that the game isn't available in his region (we're both in the US). Anyone seen this before?

Steam Summer Sale is now open, June 24 - July 8.

Who cares about the deals, there's a CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE metagame!

Steam Deck announced.

Biggest question I have is does it run Windows and can I play games from other stores?

The dock is really compelling to me.

Kurrelgyre wrote:

Steam Deck announced.

And thread

PaladinTom wrote:

Biggest question I have is does it run Windows and can I play games from other stores?

The dock is really compelling to me.

It runs off SteamOS, so it'll be Linux based. They are stressing that it is a specialized Linux PC however, and that they aren't limiting third party apps, so any Linux based application is likely to work, including Linux versions of other storefronts (like the Linux version of EGS, for example).

Mantid wrote:
PaladinTom wrote:

Biggest question I have is does it run Windows and can I play games from other stores?

The dock is really compelling to me.

It runs off SteamOS, so it'll be Linux based. They are stressing that it is a specialized Linux PC however, and that they aren't limiting third party apps, so any Linux based application is likely to work, including Linux versions of other storefronts (like the Linux version of EGS, for example).

They also won't stop you from reformatting the Deck and loading up a full-blown Windows install instead.

Mantid wrote:
PaladinTom wrote:

Biggest question I have is does it run Windows and can I play games from other stores?

The dock is really compelling to me.

It runs off SteamOS, so it'll be Linux based. They are stressing that it is a specialized Linux PC however, and that they aren't limiting third party apps, so any Linux based application is likely to work, including Linux versions of other storefronts (like the Linux version of EGS, for example).

And.... hard pass.

That was fast. Why don't they just sell the damn thing with Windows? I don't care how easy it is to install myself, it should just come on the thing.

Price. Windows would add another $50 to the cost or something along those lines. Plus they want to optimize the out of the box experience to just launch right into Steam I assume.

Yeah, also Windows comes with a lot more OS bloat than Linux does - there would be less memory available for games to use.

My point is that there are now a ton of other Windows-based stores that I own games on. Sure Steam is still dominant, but this device is too little too late for me now.