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I know of a few peoplewho are thinking of switching to the PC and one of their reasons is so they can play PC minecraft with mods and things like that and if it was on there, they would see it as a viable option. I know it is Linux compatible, but has never even touched steam.

Wanted to hear your thoughts.

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It's a shame Notch turned down the opportunity to put Minecraft on Steam honestly, it would be amazing with Steam Workshop.

I agree.

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Alright, I have not delved too deep into steamOS, but since it apparently is some sort of debian derivative, It should be possible to install java and then minecraft on steam OS.

Thats what I was thinking.

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OpenJDK is a good place to start. 

 

http://askubuntu.com/questions/5558/how-can-i-install-minecraft Instructions for Ubuntu, which is applicable for SteamOS.

 

 

It's a shame Notch turned down the opportunity to put Minecraft on Steam honestly, it would be amazing with Steam Workshop.

It's actually ironic considering Notch is now raving about SteamOS being amazing, and praising Valve for pushing forward. 

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I know of a few peoplewho are thinking of switching to the PC and one of their reasons is so they can play PC minecraft with mods and things like that and if it was on there, they would see it as a viable option. I know it is Linux compatible, but has never even touched steam.

Wanted to hear your thoughts.

 

Alright, I have not delved too deep into steamOS, but since it apparently is some sort of debian derivative, It should be possible to install java and then minecraft on steam OS.

basically this, steam OS also has a desktop mode so you can load most linux compatible programs on it, so they could just load minecraft that way I guess.

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I could definitely be a selling point for the pc master race!

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I wish they put Minecraft on steam because i think they would most likely make more money or at least the same amount they do now, and also steam would record how many hours you have played on it which is always a plus, and Steam OS is just another way for Mojang to make more money i don't know what they will do now since jeb is mainly running things so he may change his mind

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I wish they put Minecraft on steam because i think they would most likely make more money or at least the same amount they do now, and also steam would record how many hours you have played on it which is always a plus, and Steam OS is just another way for Mojang to make more money i don't know what they will do now since jeb is mainly running things so he may change his mind

There would have been big issues with the server system. They would have had many account name clashes and would have to move the entire name database over to the steam system, and this is just not feasible. Minecraft is fine where it is. They are still getting over 10000 purchases per day on minecraft. The steam platform is fine as long as you plan to support it from the start.

You can however add minecraft to your steam library manually.

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There would have been big issues with the server system. They would have had many account name clashes and would have to move the entire name database over to the steam system, and this is just not feasible. Minecraft is fine where it is. They are still getting over 10000 purchases per day on minecraft. The steam platform is fine as long as you plan to support it from the start.

You can however add minecraft to your steam library manually.

You can but with the recent update i can not get it to work it just thinks that the Minecraft Launcher is the Game so It doesn't register

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Would Java really work well with the steam client though.

I've ran minecraft on an atom netbook, so yes, it would work fine on a current hardware steambox.

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The steam client doesn't really care too much about what the game files look like. GuildWars is an example - the steamapps/guildwars folder only contains gw.exe and gw.dat (which contains all the game files). Steam simply launches gw.exe and lets it do the rest. With Minecraft on Steam (assuming server issues don't exist), all it'll do is launch minecraft.exe and trust that the user has Java installed for it to run properly. The minecraft.exe client can also take care of updating game files, so it won't be updated through Steam. 

 

Valve doesn't make it mandatory that all game files be converted to their new Steam pipeline format, iirc. Developers do have that option though. 

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Did you even read my post

Yes, you asked if java would run with the steam client, the steam client runs programs, java is a program (in its most basic form) so yes it would work. Though, I did think you meant specifically on steamOS, as that is the topic of this thread. Which made me jump to the conclusion that it was also performance related. I guess I should have been a bit clearer.

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