Quote Originally Posted by Clive Woofer View Post
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.
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.