This thread is fun too. Like valve is giving a wink and a nod when saying Windows is fine. Valve sells games. They don’t care if you play on steamOS, Windows, or a steam powered adding machine.
They don’t care if you play on steamOS, Windows, or a steam powered adding machine.
i think yes and no: they make their money from selling games, so they want more people to buy more games from them
… but, SteamOS achieves that in a multi-faceted way:
it provides a fit-for-purpose platform for handhelds and consoles which previously steam didn’t have any market share over, and if that’s in SteamOS they have a massive advantage
it gives valve some leverage over microsoft (if MS controls the platform that you depend on, they can do some pretty wild things and you have no recourse). in this case, they definitely care about bumping their numbers - more on SteamOS means less power microsoft has over them
it creates competition, which forces microsoft to invest in making their own experience better, and better experience anywhere means probably more people game more often
i think that last point in particular is critical: every $ valve spends on steamos is multiplied, because microsoft has to spend their own money to keep up, and it propels the whole ecosystem forward
Of course Windows is fine. Its the largest and most used gaming PC operating system. It couldn’t ever reach that status if it was as bad as Lemmy users make it seem. Valve could care less what you play on as long as they can sell you games to play on it. Which is great, I think more game publishers/distributors should be this way.
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This thread is fun too. Like valve is giving a wink and a nod when saying Windows is fine. Valve sells games. They don’t care if you play on steamOS, Windows, or a steam powered adding machine.
i think yes and no: they make their money from selling games, so they want more people to buy more games from them
… but, SteamOS achieves that in a multi-faceted way:
i think that last point in particular is critical: every $ valve spends on steamos is multiplied, because microsoft has to spend their own money to keep up, and it propels the whole ecosystem forward
Of course Windows is fine. Its the largest and most used gaming PC operating system. It couldn’t ever reach that status if it was as bad as Lemmy users make it seem. Valve could care less what you play on as long as they can sell you games to play on it. Which is great, I think more game publishers/distributors should be this way.