In case you've been living under a rock recently, Bethesda have announced Fallout 4 with the release date on 10 November. Some observant people out there may have noticed that this is also the release date for Steam Machines.
Now while this is most likely a coincidence (a lot of stuff comes out at that time of year for the holiday season), I'm sure every Fallout fan out there has a small part of them that wishes this is due to it being a Steam Machines "launch title" and these rumours have been appearing on the Steam forums and elsewhere.
This wishful thinking is understandable since not only would this be awesome for those of us who want to play the game on Linux, but also since having a developer like Bethesda on board would be a massive breakthrough for Linux gaming.
I for one will remain cautiously sceptical, but it is a very tantalising prospect and, considering we're getting some huge AAA games which many of us never expected to come to Linux, it also makes sense not to rule anything out.
It could be a secret project from Aspyr Media, Feral Interactive or other well known game porters. We haven't heard anything on it though.
Let's keep our fingers crossed but not get our hopes up too much! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Now while this is most likely a coincidence (a lot of stuff comes out at that time of year for the holiday season), I'm sure every Fallout fan out there has a small part of them that wishes this is due to it being a Steam Machines "launch title" and these rumours have been appearing on the Steam forums and elsewhere.
This wishful thinking is understandable since not only would this be awesome for those of us who want to play the game on Linux, but also since having a developer like Bethesda on board would be a massive breakthrough for Linux gaming.
I for one will remain cautiously sceptical, but it is a very tantalising prospect and, considering we're getting some huge AAA games which many of us never expected to come to Linux, it also makes sense not to rule anything out.
It could be a secret project from Aspyr Media, Feral Interactive or other well known game porters. We haven't heard anything on it though.
Let's keep our fingers crossed but not get our hopes up too much! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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(Dont be a coincidence, don't be a coincidence, please don't be a coincidence)
my thoughts exactly!
I'd really like to play Dishonoured again, but ah well.
So it might be totally the opposite.
It sincerely never crossed my mind that this could be due to the fact that they are launching for steamos as well... it seems rather wishful thinking to me...
But now that you mention it... and I start to accept it as a possibility... it maybe make sense... hear me out...
I dont believe in coincidences. Would bethesda want to sabotage steamOS machines on launch day? Well, they were in bed pretty close when the announcement of paid mods for skyrim. That makes me think that they get along... and that the picking of the date was no coincidence...
Yeah, maybe it is... on the other side... why hide it?
maybe to fuel the hype for steamOS? Yes, to fuel the hype
As a very skeptic linux user whose heart has been broken lots of times before... I believe i am not going to be disappointed here :)
But feel free not to put your heart on the line with this one till the very end ;)
Sure, that's why they got good spot on Xbox One show...wait a minute...is XBO really Steam Machine in disguise? :)
Actually, the more I think about it, it probably isn't coming to Linux. Remember the failure of the paid mods? When Gabe publicly stated on a reddit post (you can Google it), he stated that the drama and uproar around it costed them a butt load a cash (millions). Many were sceptical and assumed he meant customer service, but I believe the possibility of Valve losing Bethesda's confidence may have costed them some relations damage because Bethesda got a lot of shit from their customers as well.
However, I could be wrong. He could have meant anything, really.
At least there is Wasteland 2.
This is actually a very good point, but like the dates thing it's also probably also a coincidence (I hope, because it would make me very, very sad if it were the case), but yeah I really like the logic :)
But Fallout 4 is already on steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/377160/
10.11. - I found a three one's, so HF 3 is confirmed!
What is HF? Half-Fallout?
Could you link it to me? All I found was the improvised Saturday PR stunt he had to make but im not able to read what you say anywhere...
I still dont believe in these kind of coincidences. Either they get along with steam or they dont. I refuse to believe that bethesda is playing the 'im too dumb and self involved to check the calendar before i pick up my release date' card.
For me, playing in the same field (videogames) and both playing in the first league and out of a holiday date, is a very hostile movement to release on the same day if you are not going to release for my platform. Bethesda might be in a strong enough position not to give a fuck about steam... but why create yourself a powerful enemy like that unnecessarily? Even if they fucked up the launch, they still know better than the rest...
if you release a week before or later, nobody is going to think that you are being hostile and you still do about the same damage to the launch of the other product stealing its thunder.
The only reason i can think of is that a third player like microsoft + the competence have put a shit-ton of money on bethesda's table in order to damage the competence. Old habits die hard and i think ms still pull off these kind of movements to get deals daily. Some people even think they are legit movements for an enterprise...