Valve Will Not Make Exclusive Games for SteamOS

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Speaking to IGN, Valve’s Greg Comer said, “you won’t see an exclusive killer app for SteamOS from us. We’re not going to be doing that kind of thing.”

This will also apply to third-party titles, Valve’s Anna Sweet told us. “Whenever we talk to third-party partners, we encourage them to put their games in as many places as possible, including not on our platforms," she said. "Because we think that customers are everywhere, and they want to put their games wherever customers are. That would go against our whole philosophy, to launch something that’s exclusive to SteamOS or Steam machines.”

“Or to drive customers there artificially,” Coomer continued. “Because if it can run in both places, we don’t like to create those artificial barriers to accessing content. We believe that, in maybe five years from now, folks will find it a quite antiquated notion that you should assume that when you change devices or platforms, that you lose all of your other games and friends. We’re hoping to unify, to get Steam to be as platform- and context-agnostic as possible. You shouldn’t have to shed that every generation, or even slightly shed it.”

Coomer added that “it would be pretty silly” if a third-party developer wanted “to limit their game to a certain platform.” He did note that small, independent studios who only have the resources to focus on one platform may inevitably make games that only run on SteamOS, “but that’s a very different thing.”

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Typical Gabe... placing the gamers 1st, but I guess he is rolling in the dough because of this mindset.

Also been watching Steam closely and I see more and more Linux games popping up, so they really committed to making this SteamOS thing work. I hope they succeed and not just become another Loki Software.
 
Just as I said a few weeks ago when people were saying they're going to make SteamOS exclusives. Valve isn't stupid.
 
Personally I think a timed SteamOS exclusive would have been a good idea. The OS is free so anybody could try it etc etc etc
 
But not everyone would want to install an OS for a single game. It's too much of a nuisance.

Valve is doing a good thing here. While everyone else is trying to close everything down and limit your options, Valve is trying to keep everything open.
 
Clive Woofer said:
But not everyone would want to install an OS for a single game. It's too much of a nuisance.

Valve is doing a good thing here. While everyone else is trying to close everything down and limit your options, Valve is trying to keep everything open.
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Dual boot the thing. Really no effort these days to install from USB.
 
But why should Valve restrict people like that? Valve doesn't gain anything from people using SteamOS, it's distributed completely free of charge, so they have absolutely no reason to force people to use their OS. They're trying to give people a free alternative to paid OSes. Forcing people to use that OS goes against what Valve is trying to accomplish here.

Now I have to install another OS in dual-boot for a single game instead of Valve allowing me to simply play the game on my OS of choice. That would be a nuisance and I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to see why it's better for Valve to let people choose to use their OS of their own free will rather than to force them into using it. The latter can only breed ill will among customers.
 
I'm excited to see what they will be doing in the future. This is a grounded way of looking at gaming as it is difficult for gamers to now have to choose between platforms and "delivery systems" when it comes to the games they want to play. More developers and publishers must go this route and give us a wider choice rather than trying to punt their specific system or software on us. Good on you Valve. Good on you.
 
Uberutang said:
That is why I said 'timed exclusive'

Use it as a trojan horse to get people to try steamos.
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I still wouldn't do it, to much effort for me to load a 2nd OS just to play a single game. Even if the game gets 12/10 I'm still not going for it.
 
Yeah, even timed exclusives work against what Valve is trying to accomplish here, which is open systems that leave the user the option to use the hardware/software he wishes to use.

Exclusives are a bad idea, no matter which form they take. Valve noticed what a bad thing they are for consoles and they're not likely to bring that bad business model to PC gaming.
 
Clive Woofer said:
Yeah, even timed exclusives work against what Valve is trying to accomplish here, which is open systems that leave the user the option to use the hardware/software he wishes to use.

Exclusives are a bad idea, no matter which form they take. Valve noticed what a bad thing they are for consoles and they're not likely to bring that bad business model to PC gaming.
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Well Valve can only promise this when it comes to their own games (HL3, Portal 3 and so on). When it comes to other publishers and developers they don't have much say other than "We think its a bad idea" so we can still see SteamOS exclusives.

All you need to do is release the game for Linux only. I highly doubt Ubi or EA would pull such a trick, but can see a Indie doing it easy.
 
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