Steam's 2016 Winter Sale Has Begun: Good Deals On Linux / SteamOS Games

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam's 2016 Winter Sale Has Begun: Good Deals On Linux / SteamOS Games

Valve just lit up the Steam Winter Sale that's going on until 2 January for getting great deals on a variety of games, including many Steam OS / Linux games...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...16-Winter-Sale

[gutigone]

You know it's a matter of courtesy to mention your links are affiliate links for Amazon right?

[Niarbeht]

Death to Steam! Death to Valve! They have betrayed us! They are an evil monopoly now that isn't interested in making games any more and only leech developers to publish their games. They are the new EA! Fuck them! Don't buy anything from them. The only way they will stop making hats and other shit and get back to making games is if they stop making money from their monopoly.

HL1 - 1998
CS:S - 2004
HL2 - 2004
HL2:EP1 - 2006
TF2 - 2007
Portal - 2007
HL2:EP2 - 2007
L4D - 2008
L4D2 - 2009
Portal 2 - 2011
CS:GO - 2013
DOTA2 - 2013
DOD:S - 2013
The Lab - 2016 (VR demo/game)

So, I mean, there's a few multi-year gaps in there where I guess Valve was totally not developing any games or doing anything good for the industry as a whole. I mean, it's not like they aren't maintaining a Linux distro right now or updating the Steam client or supporting Linux or working to advance VR or anything like that. I mean, Valve totally just sits around and rakes in money. It's all they do. Right?

[ResponseWriter]

So, I mean, there's a few multi-year gaps in there where I guess Valve was totally not developing any games or doing anything good for the industry as a whole. I mean, it's not like they aren't maintaining a Linux distro right now or updating the Steam client or supporting Linux or working to advance VR or anything like that. I mean, Valve totally just sits around and rakes in money. It's all they do. Right?

You forgot to mention they totally haven't just ported one of their games to Vulkan and been contributing to its development for some time now. I mean, why would they want to contribute to an API that's going to help improve the performance of their games on their own Linux distro and Linux-based hardware platforms?

[pmorph]

Damn, time to get even more stuff I'll have no time to play!
And I'm already at the point where 50% of my purchases wait to be installed...

[dungeon]

Death to Steam! Death to Valve! They have betrayed us!

No death needed, just do not use it if you don't like it - it is simple as that

[labyrinth153]

Just bought l4d2 for a few bucks for a friend. Works on Macs and Linux good for me.

[Nille]

damn, again 55€ gone .....

[Chewi]

75% off GRID Autosport and 80% off Portal 2? Hell yeah! I'd been waiting for the latter to go on sale, knew it would happen sooner or later.

[Imroy]

Winter sale?
Winter?!?
Some of us are in the southern hemisphere, mate. A steam sale is always appreciated though, no matter what it's called.