What's important right now is converting people away from windows. I expect Steam OS 3 to be much more beginner friendly than any other distro. If an average PC gamers first impression of linux is constant troubleshooting, they're not going to try another kernel; they're just going to go back to windows.
Even if valve stops support later, they will have still introduced many people to linux in a beginner friendly way and wrestled the gaming ecosystem out of microsoft's grip that much more.
It's normal for old versions of an OS to stop receiving support after a new version replaces it. That's not unique to steam OS. if I install an old version of bazzite, or any deprecated Linux kernel, modern apps will not necessarily be made backwards compatible with it.
But steam OS will have more installs than any other Linux variant just because of Valve's brand recognition alone and the FOSS community will target it as their primary platform for software compatibility as a result.
I agree but steam OS is going to be a hell of a lot more popular and have more support as a result.
borderlands wasn't the first looter shooter. that was hellgate london.
Welcome to American corporate status quo. Short term profits are all that matters. Evidence of unsustainable patterns are ignored because the shareholders demand it.
Indie games and small publisher titles are my bread and butter. They keep the spirit and innovation that I grew up with alive.
Eventually even the cost savings this brings to them won't be enough to appease their shareholder overlords and they won't have the amount of users to sustain another major pivot so they'll go bankrupt.
Wall street are a bunch of piranhas that destroy everything they touch just to build new billionaires. It's a cult of sociopaths.
I miss firefall. It was very innovative and enormous. The devs were trying new ideas in the alpha all the time.
Not every game is an MMO requiring vast server farms. A game like the crew 1 that is past it's prime is not expensive to keep a few servers running for. It's a negligible cost.
They could also put in the time to give players the tools to host their own servers, or simply allow offline play. This used to be standard for all PC games. They chose to do neither of these things in an obvious effort to force players towards the sequel or their other games. They should not be permitted to do anti-consumer things like this.
Sure. Rich people don't want to live anywhere where poor people also live.
And from ex-ubisoft devs no less; the undisputed king of mediocrity. It's a testament to how utterly crushing the weight of shareholder influence and middle management bloat is on the people working there. Creativity cannot flourish within a publicly owned company that only seeks profit and nothing more.