The best way to survive is not to charge less money but to make people NEED you, and know that you are the only one they can get what they want from.

Bill Gates knows this well.

Their cut adjustment strategy seems fair but they should really push hard on developing their console that way they can own their own mountain of gamers giving their store even more value than it currently has as the major PC platform.

STEAM MACHINES 2.0 - LET IT COME.

Edit: The 5% of 10 Million is $500,000. So 10% of 50 Million is $5,000,000 on some single AAA games. I am not sure how much money would be necessary to deploy Steam Machines 2.0 but I imagine that a 20 million - 100 million dollar investment should be able to setup a Linux Platform that serves as a "Walled Garden" for consumers who really just want to go down to best buy and buy a thing to play games with 0-extra-effort or intellectual admin skills.

Until Valve fortifies its own platform they will not be a real estate owner of the gaming space, they will only be a player battling with other stores over a shared market.

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Got 2 AMD Threadripper 1950X in the mail and 2x VEGA 64s.

Unboxed the CPU cooler today and good lord does it look beast.

Time to update.

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Quoting: GustyGhostMeanwhile on ARK:SE's upcoming features (since 2016) "Linux - Vulkan support". Here's their chance. But we all know that Wildcard will fail to take advantage of it.

AFAIK Ark engine has sufficiently deviated from Unreal 4 Engine so they are basically both 2 different things.

The absolute clusterf _ _ k that has been Ark Engine over the years has showed how development is a un-unified uncordinated rush-fest to graft features on to a unstable core increasing technical debt.

I wonder what my game dev friends who code in unreal will think of this.

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I guess I'd buy it for MGSV since it has a price history of going only to 9.99

https://www.steamprices.com/us/app/287700/metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain

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Pretty cool hype-train website. Though, the specs and data are going to be what is a big deal to me.

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This post seems like it should also be an email

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The journey of a thousand miles is broken up into each single step.

I am glad to see lots of small incremental fixes and improvements which will over time mean much bigger things.

Anyone remember when Valve started in 2013 and there were only a handful of games on Linux. Look at where we are now. 5k Games and 2.5k proton games.

Keep it up everyone, our combined contributions to enrich and grow the community and make Linux more awesome snowball. Keep asking devs for natives, keep buying Linux games and hardware, and keep patching, bug reporting and improving our software stack and drivers.

Gabe Newell wasn't kidding when he said the entire goal for Valve with Linux is to remove barriers and friction which slow down content delivery from developers to consumers. Valve has been doing exactly that. They have been an excellent steward enriching Linux.

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What is the most ruthless and financially strategic angle here? Of course they will peruse their Gaming grip, their objective is to make as much profit as possible.

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Okay everyone, predictions, you dont just throw 60k patents into enemy territory without something brewing.

What is the probability that we will see "Linux as a Slave", "Microsoft Linux Desktop 2020", "Microsoft Office for Linux" and others?

Has maintenance of the Windows Kernel become tiresome. Is Windows 10 "The last windows" because they're getting ready to rebase? Is there a cost and technology benefit. Have they accepted that it is too much work to be King of the Software Stack so they are looking to be King of various profitable sectors -- Gaming, Server, Business Office Apps, etc...

Will there be 0 downsides (from Microsoft's perspective) to having a completely open platform below but completely closed proprietary Desktop Shell, Apps, etc...

I really enjoy projections based on probability, and right now probability suggests that they didn't add those 60k patents for no reason.

What I see is Microsoft has entered our territory and is attempting to fundamentally change the way that we exist. They may very well be extenguishing our culture, our close knit community, and changing our views on things.

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Liam, am I to understand that Microsoft has added their 60,000 patent portfolio in some way that will benefit the OIN and Linux?

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