Quoting: FredOIs there a reason why Total War Attila is also listed under the SteamOS Sale list? :-)

Well, it's because it's planned for SteamOS. ;)

All the games in the sale are ones that are available or will be on Linux/SteamOS. Note that some of them are coming near the end of the year, so there's no need to rush to buy them.

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Quoting: AsavarTzethRome II Total War was announced November 2013. promised for early 2014. I bought into it and feels it is kind of an insult that they announce it again like this, as if nothing was ever promised. Even so, I do like to see they have not forgotten about us.

Maybe it was their plan all along to release it with the Steam Machines & SteamOS. They were too announced in 2013, planned for 2014...

Quoting: r2rXThe skepticism is justified and understandable....however, AMD cannot afford to fuck around anymore. :) They'll have to get their act together. I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they'll sort their drivers out....at the very least, proper Vulkan support. :p

Well, the main problem IMO is that I'm pretty sure they think their current driver is good... It's been one year and a half since Valve announced the Steam Machines and said that they were working with nVidia & AMD on the drivers and though Catalyst has progressed since that time, it's still a piece of crap. On Windows too. ATI/AMD have never been able to provide correct drivers for their cards, I don't expect it to change anytime soon. :(

QuoteIIRC, both Street Fighter 5 and Tekken 7 are based of Unreal Engine 4....so it's not such a stretch of the imagination to see them on Linux.....same for Mortal Kombat X (Unreal Engine 3). The respective companies may not have an interest in Linux per se.....but they'll be very interested in SteamOS as a brand/platform. :D

It's not that they don't have interest in Linux, more that they don't really know it exists. Japanese companies know about consoles. Even Windows is pretty much inexistent in Japan. They have started to open up to it, with mixed results, and it would be very surprising if they decided to develop on an OS that is 20-50 times smaller than Windows. If Valve manages to sell tons of Steam Machines, maybe they'll start looking into this new american console but it will probably take years. Besides, Capcom has huge financial issues and I don't think the benefits of having games on Linux would cover the costs of porting them.
Square Enix is a bit more of a possibility as they own companies such as Eidos and are more aware of the European & US markets.

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Quoting: r2rXDrivers will also, most likely, be sorted out by November (if not before)....well, at least AMD and NVIDIA's proprietary drivers.

Honestly (and sadly), I wouldn't expect real drivers from AMD by november. Or ever, in fact.

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Quoting: scotsman9999Just as I feared would happen eventually, on the sale page the icon for Linux is no longer Tux but the generic circled Steam logo. Does "Linux" still scare devs that Valve has to cover it up with 'SteamOS' now? I do worry that eventually this will turn into another Android situation where we don't get much of a benefit.

It's much like games will be officially supported on SteamOS and if they don't run for you on another Linux distro, well, bad luck for you. Of course, there will always be support on the Steam forums from the community and some devs are always willing to help so I don't think it will be a big problem to fix issues in most cases when a game doesn't work for someone but for official support, don't expect too much. The fact is that developers have always been scared of Linux because of the multiple distros and versions of the OS "in the wild" so Valve had to offer a common plaform so that they have a reference OS. It's like GOG supporting officially only Ubuntu and Mint.
Unlike Android, there is a real benefit: even if we don't run SteamOS, we'll have a big number of new games available for Linux that will run just as well. It's not really that important that the icon displayed is a penguin or a Steam Logo.

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Quoting: ShmerlI'm reserved about Witcher 3 and wouldn't take it as a confirmation just yet. Let CDPR comment on it. So I don't recommend buying it until it's officially confirmed.

As far as I remember, it has already been confirmed quite some time ago. It might even be in an article on this very same website (would have to check).

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My main point is that they don't want to replace Windows with Linux/SteamOS; they want to offer as much diversity as they can. Having an exclusivity on a game like Half-Life 3 (or any game) would be pretty stupid when they can sell it to their other customers as well, no matter the OS.

When Valve decided to go with Linux with SteamOS, it was for two reasons: 1) the Windows store that would give Microsoft a big advantage on what can be bought on Windows (as a direct concurrent of Steam for games) and 2) the fact that Microsoft didn't allow modifications of Windows to release a custom OS (e.g. no alternate desktop).

No. 1 has never taken off and will probably never be a thing, so it's not a danger for Valve anymore unless things change at Microsoft. As for no. 2, Microsoft has changed its policies. The funny thing being that it's because of the announce of SteamOS. Remember the Windows Steam Machine from... I don't remember who (Alienware I think?).

Without these two obstacles at the time, you can be sure that Valve would have released Steam Machines based on Windows and would never have ported Steam & games to Linux.

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Well, Steam Big Picture has been out way before SteamOS so I'm not sure the games in the screenshots are really chosen in relation to the OS.

But I don't see which screenshot you're talking about with Payday 2 so I'm not really sure what to think. ;)

EDIT: oh, never mind, Privacy Badger was hiding the picture in the post, now I see it. Anyway, I'm not really much convinced as Overkill hasn't been very Linux-friendly. Would love to see Payday 2 on Linux, of course.

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Quoting: MayeulCJust speculating... Couldn't this just be a "Welcome gift" for the GDC, or something like that; just a bunch of seemingly-random games they'll give away during one of their presentations ?

Yeah: maybe they'll demo the Steam Machines with them and give some machines with this bundle of games to selected journalists.

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Note that Shadow of Mordor has no RPG elements, it's more like an action game with infiltration elements. A bit of an Assassin's Creed with more action.

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Last time I checked, the developers of Guacamelee had no plans for a Linux version of the STCE update. I don't think they would be against it if ported by a third party (like the first version) but it looked like they didn't want to port it themselves.

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