When has Gabe openly expressed his distaste for linux and/or any platform thats not windows? I must have missed his remarks. Anyone got a link? I read the ones about the ps3, but not the ones about linux.
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Originally posted by Dragonlord View PostIt's rather obvious though. Whenever Linux comes into play it's total-blockage from the other side. Granted they allow server binaries for Linux but only because with this people can not "crack their systems" ( as they think all Linux users only use Linux for cracking U_U ).
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Originally posted by xav1r View PostI guess. Hehehe, and i find it rather pathetic that everyone going from games sites, game companies, and gamers in general hail them as the saviors of PC gaming, and the only alternative to DRM, when in reality, their entire steam platform is one big piece of DRM that installs on every pc like spyware, which needs a net connection for everything including offline SP games, AND holds your games hostage in a big GCF file. I hate steam. Was considering buying half life 1 for 98cents, but now im not so sure.
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Not really myth but true in fact. Playing off-line? Doesn't work here so it's definitely not a myth. And steam steals your accounts. We just had somebody a couple of days ago who got his account banned... and he didn't even play at that time! Now all his games are gone... because of an error on Valve's side. No chance to ever get it back since Valve does not unban anybody. Goes in my opinion a bit too far.
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Originally posted by Dragonlord View PostNot really myth but true in fact. Playing off-line? Doesn't work here so it's definitely not a myth. And steam steals your accounts. We just had somebody a couple of days ago who got his account banned... and he didn't even play at that time! Now all his games are gone... because of an error on Valve's side. No chance to ever get it back since Valve does not unban anybody. Goes in my opinion a bit too far.
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Originally posted by Dragonlord View PostI'm just against game companies having control to shut down your games at their own will. This just goes to far. I payed for this stuff and if somebody just can take away from you what you payed for then I label this plain and simple "theft".
Oh and before I forget (not directed to you DragonLord)
And I don't believe that Gabe Newell was referring to the PS3 for technical reasons, but rather because, just like its predecessor, it can be a pain in the behind to code for, seeing as how much has to be done "by hand" in order to attain decent performance on the console (i.e, you have to manually code many of the registers, etc).
I was aware that the PS2 had both an OGL ES and a native API to code for it, but in order to squeeze the most out of it, the only way was getting down and dirty with the Emotion Engine, i.e, the only way they could push games like GofW, Unreal Engine 2 based games (Splinter Cell, etc), etc. and get decent performance, was to directly manipulate the registers on it (and I know from good sources that the documentation was less than stellar, though Sony's developer support was great). I'm sure that the PS3 still has many problems like these currently, but apparently one of the reasons to support OpenGL ES right from the start was to actually promote its use more, and only having to tweak a small amount of code, but IIRC they also left open the possibility of fully programming the beast (which includes full documentation/support for the Cell/RSX/PhysX subsystems), I mean that's gotta be one of the reasons why the SDK costs $250K + a mile long NDA contract.
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That's true. Coding for the PS in general never had been considered easy especially due to the lack of documentation. But they can get away with it because the companies want to push a game on the console for more marketing options so they can demand a lot of shit from them until they really get fed up. If enough money is in play people do strange things to themselves :O
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