Newell: EA on steam machines would be fine

[MzCatieB]

Quote: 

"We're trying to make it as open as possible," Newell said. "If EA wants to put Origin on it, that would be fine"

 

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Article:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-01-16-newell-ea-origin-on-steam-machines-would-be-fine

 

I like this :3

also checked, couldn't see any other posts on this so....

 

[ForsakenLive]

All hail our lord!

[Bloodyvalley]

Very good. Now gaming will be possible on Linux and M$ is fucked over

[Kamina]

Good Guy GabeN.

[SAV1OUR]

so i can play battlefield on my steam box now...

[Kevinkt]

that's pretty cool.

[Eddyall]

He kind of already promise this last year, UPlay was mention too IIRC.

It a full OS not a OS version of Steam.

 

Anyway it's Linux so it's not like no one would mod it.

[Vindola]

Personally, I wish that Origin and Steam and any other DRM clients would just die. Or at the very least, give me the option to download and run my games without that crap.

[Vindola]

Very good. Now gaming will be possible on Linux and M$ is fucked over

 

MS won't be fucked over in this decade, or even the next.

[420istoday]

Personally, I wish that Origin and Steam and any other DRM clients would just die. Or at the very least, give me the option to download and run my games without that crap.

I actually quite like the Steam client, I'm not a fan of Origin or Uplay however, and I don't understand why they needed to create their own, it doesn't spur competition or anything. That and I hate cluttering my PC with 3 different game clients, I own multiple games through each.

[loganryan99]

Personally, I wish that Origin and Steam and any other DRM clients would just die. Or at the very least, give me the option to download and run my games without that crap.

 

The way Valve does DRM is actually not very detrimental to the user at all. When you buy a game on Steam, it generates a custom executable tied to your account that you download. Assuming you're logged into your account the first time you log into the game, Steam will fetch the keys and store them somewhere on your computer. After this point you never have to be connected to the internet to play your game, but it also insures you can't just copy the game to a flash drive and hand it to your friend. Because Steam is the only program that knows how to decode the game using the key, and the key is specific to your account, even sending the key file wouldn't be any good. (When that window pops up and says "Starting xxx... when you try to play a game it's actually decoding it)

[Hargreaves]

Very good. Now gaming will be possible on Linux and M$ is fucked over

yeah okay. 

[Artorias]

Any news for Blizzard on SteamOS?

[Eroda]

now only if EA Ubisoft and Blizzard ditched their content manangers for steam, the world would be a glorious place

[martinrox1568]

I actually quite like the Steam client, I'm not a fan of Origin or Uplay however, and I don't understand why they needed to create their own, it doesn't spur competition or anything. That and I hate cluttering my PC with 3 different game clients, I own multiple games through each.

part of me feels like origin is actually more polished than steam. Don't get me wrong, I love steam and big picture, but I see a bunch of little bugs that annoy me. I also like the lighter theme of origin.

[Vindola]

I actually quite like the Steam client, I'm not a fan of Origin or Uplay however, and I don't understand why they needed to create their own, it doesn't spur competition or anything. That and I hate cluttering my PC with 3 different game clients, I own multiple games through each.

 

 

The way Valve does DRM is actually not very detrimental to the user at all. When you buy a game on Steam, it generates a custom executable tied to your account that you download. Assuming you're logged into your account the first time you log into the game, Steam will fetch the keys and store them somewhere on your computer. After this point you never have to be connected to the internet to play your game, but it also insures you can't just copy the game to a flash drive and hand it to your friend. Because Steam is the only program that knows how to decode the game using the key, and the key is specific to your account, even sending the key file wouldn't be any good. (When that window pops up and says "Starting xxx... when you try to play a game it's actually decoding it)

 

You guys explined to me that you are fanboys of Steam and how DRM clients work (something that I already know) However, none of that changes how I feel about them. I still wish I can run all of my games by their own, and I still think that UPlay, Origin, Steam and whatever else needs to just die in The Great Pit of Carkoon and get eaten by a sarlacc.

[Imaginaerum]

The way Valve does DRM is actually not very detrimental to the user at all. When you buy a game on Steam, it generates a custom executable tied to your account that you download. Assuming you're logged into your account the first time you log into the game, Steam will fetch the keys and store them somewhere on your computer. After this point you never have to be connected to the internet to play your game, but it also insures you can't just copy the game to a flash drive and hand it to your friend. Because Steam is the only program that knows how to decode the game using the key, and the key is specific to your account, even sending the key file wouldn't be any good. (When that window pops up and says "Starting xxx... when you try to play a game it's actually decoding it)

It doesn't change it's still DRM. If I have to have DRM, I'll take Steam, but I would rather no DRM.

[TheProfosist]

Yea all of the games just have to be recoded to run on linux whoo (dont see that happenning any time soon)

[dmegatool]

part of me feels like origin is actually more polished than steam. Don't get me wrong, I love steam and big picture, but I see a bunch of little bugs that annoy me. I also like the lighter theme of origin.

You're right about the lighter theme. Steam needs a serious redesign to fix the mess... Big picture is a good start but there's flaws than could have been avoided.

[martinrox1568]

You're right about the lighter theme. Steam needs a serious redesign to fix the mess... Big picture is a good start but there's flaws than could have been avoided.

Yeah, i like big picture, but the steam store is just a freaking website. And if i try to maximize on my 2nd screen, it still uses the resolution of my first screen and there are no close buttons visible. Bugs like that ruin the experience. But I have to admit, there's no better feeling that looking at your library in tiles mode when you have 50+ games.

[TheProfosist]

part of me feels like origin is actually more polished than steam. Don't get me wrong, I love steam and big picture, but I see a bunch of little bugs that annoy me. I also like the lighter theme of origin.

Well when I cant backup the 2 games I have on there somethings wrong in my opinion especially when they say you can backup your games.

[DLM_012]

Very good. Now gaming will be possible on Linux and M$ is fucked over

Microsoft makes a large portion of their money on the OS from enterprise and other consumer grade machines, not custom built PCs running OEM versions of Windows. I doubt this will impact much. Especially since they have other ventures like MS Office, the Xbox, and Windows Phone

[Scionyde]

You guys explined to me that you are fanboys of Steam and how DRM clients work (something that I already know) However, none of that changes how I feel about them. I still wish I can run all of my games by their own, and I still think that UPlay, Origin, Steam and whatever else needs to just die in The Great Pit of Carkoon and get eaten by a sarlacc.

 

You can be a fan of what Steam does without being a fanboy. And it's perfectly okay that you hate Steam, Origin, etc. Personally, I'm fine with Steam, I think the features it provides (automatically patching/updating games, having an easy-to-access digitial backup of my games, etc.) offsets the fact that a fraction of my games require internet connectivity to start up. (Crysis 1 does, but Crysis 2 doesn't. Weird). I suppose in a perfect world we could have those benefits without the disadvantages, but there's quite a few people who think the good outweigh the bad.

[WiiManic]

You can be a fan of what Steam does without being a fanboy. And it's perfectly okay that you hate Steam, Origin, etc. Personally, I'm fine with Steam, I think the features it provides (automatically patching/updating games, having an easy-to-access digitial backup of my games, etc.) offsets the fact that a fraction of my games require internet connectivity to start up. (Crysis 1 does, but Crysis 2 doesn't. Weird). I suppose in a perfect world we could have those benefits without the disadvantages, but there's quite a few people who think the good outweigh the bad.

I'd agree with you on that, I also love how it keeps all my games in one area, brings all my mates into one list and eases joining games and such. Not to mention the sales.

I "deal" with the DRM as its never an issue for me, I'm pretty much always online and if I wasn't I went into offline mode and all the games I wanted to worked.

 

I do think the stock theme is pretty crap, but you can find different themes to make it look a bit nicer. I'm using PixelVision, but there are quite a lot of them.

 

 

 

 

It's good to see that it will be really open, its just another feature that is to show that whilst the steam machines are going to a more "console" experience, they are still fully fledged PCs too.

[rashdanml]

Any news for Blizzard on SteamOS?

Blizzard announced a while back that at least one of their games will have a native linux version. Can't remember which one though. 

Blizzard's games run almost flawlessly on PlayonLinux/Wine already.