Quoting: MohandevirThey did the build but won't publish it... They paid for the Linux development anyway, but won't start to make it profitable by taking profit from Linux customers... Just... doesn't... make... sense. 1-2% of marketshare is still better than 0$... Must have failed my maths courses.

Could be they're wary of support costs outweighing the sales.

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Quoting: razing32I have to get to playing both 1 and 2
Damn my backlist is huge

I want to play Tyranny before I buy PoE 2. And I want to play the White March expansions from PoE first. Considering the length of those games, I'm not about to get to it!

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Quoting: EagleDelta

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: EagleDeltaNothing really PR about it (other than the careful wording). The day-to-day prioritization of tasks/issues is very much a normal thing in development. All Dev decisions are weigh against impact, business need, risk, and so many other factors and prioritized based on that.

They essentially confirmed that they had paused support by neither saying nor denying it but vaguely qualifying Garry's claim and saying there are no long-term plan changes, which was never the subject. If that's not PR talk...

They could have been transparent and said something like "Yes, Linux support is currently on hold while our teams have their hands full with X and Y, but once that's cleared things will be back to normal."

Qualifying Garry's claim, maybe, but that "short term pause" may be for a single 2-week sprint (assuming that use that kind of dev process). We do that in development all the time.... we have to do that or very little would ever get done as we'd always get peppered with ad-hoc work.

I'm not saying they shouldn't pause, just that there's no reason to dance around the issue and release such a non-statement. That just makes them look shady.

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Quoting: EagleDeltaNothing really PR about it (other than the careful wording). The day-to-day prioritization of tasks/issues is very much a normal thing in development. All Dev decisions are weigh against impact, business need, risk, and so many other factors and prioritized based on that.

They essentially confirmed that they had paused support by neither saying nor denying it but vaguely qualifying Garry's claim and saying there are no long-term plan changes, which was never the subject. If that's not PR talk...

They could have been transparent and said something like "Yes, Linux support is currently on hold while our teams have their hands full with X and Y, but once that's cleared things will be back to normal."

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Quoting: devnull

Quoting: SalvatosThat's not what I read:

Quote[...] you download or access via Steam [...]

Valve does NOT have rights over you for titles not purchased on Steam nor accessed outside Steam. They DO have control of their platform.

Yes, obviously?

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Quoting: devnullYour access through steam is a subscription based product that is correct, not all content you purchase is however.

That's not what I read:

QuoteThe Steam client software and any other software, content, and updates you download or access via Steam, including but not limited to Valve or third-party video games and in-game content, software associated with Hardware and any virtual items you trade, sell or purchase in a Steam Subscription Marketplace are referred to in this Agreement as "Content and Services;"

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm not sure that can be described as Steam stopping you from owning the software.

Their terms are pretty clear about it (emphasis mine):

QuoteAs a Subscriber you may obtain access to certain services, software and content available to Subscribers. The Steam client software and any other software, content, and updates you download or access via Steam, including but not limited to Valve or third-party video games and in-game content, software associated with Hardware and any virtual items you trade, sell or purchase in a Steam Subscription Marketplace are referred to in this Agreement as "Content and Services;" the rights to access and/or use any Content and Services accessible through Steam are referred to in this Agreement as "Subscriptions."

(...)

You become a subscriber of Steam ("Subscriber") by completing the registration of a Steam user account.

(...)

Steam and your Subscription(s) require the download and installation of Content and Services onto your computer. Valve hereby grants, and you accept, a non-exclusive license and right, to use the Content and Services for your personal, non-commercial use (except where commercial use is expressly allowed herein or in the applicable Subscription Terms). This license ends upon termination of (a) this Agreement or (b) a Subscription that includes the license. The Content and Services are licensed, not sold.

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Quoting: melkemindThis ultimately speaks to a larger problem with gaming. If Rocket League were DRM-free and allowed people to create their own servers, it wouldn't matter if it left Steam. People could create and host their own leagues. If the game stops selling on Steam and complete functionality (connection to the network) is not maintained, it raises the question: Did we ever actually fully own the game in the first place?

I don't think that has ever been in question. Steam sells licenses to access specific parts of its service. You don't own the software.

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Quoting: einherjarI really don't understand, why Valve doesn't fight back?

It might be that they initially felt like Epic wouldn't last and didn't warrant any action on their part, and by now they might be reconsidering.

Or maybe they have been working on something, but in Valve Time... Until that's revealed, they still have the best platform by far anyway from the gamers' perspective; they just need to stop losing publishers.

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Guess I won't be buying that DLC after all, then... More money for Aspyr when they finish patching Borderlands.

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