Steam 2017 Winter Sale Gets Underway

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam 2017 Winter Sale Gets Underway

Valve has just started their annual Steam Winter Sale that runs through 4 January...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Winter-Sale-2017

[ElectricPrism]

Awww @#$%....

[caligula]

How about offering more games for us Linux users? Even Doom 3 isn't available via Steam. How come?

[SebastianP]

Bought Hitman and the Valve collection yesterday

[SebastianP]

If it will not work there's still a Windows to boot. Though my hope it'll run fine on 4.15 once it is released.

[ssorgatem]

That huge Steam Link reduction reeks of a Steam Link 2.0 (4K?) planned for release in the near future.

[SebastianP]

That huge Steam Link reduction reeks of a Steam Link 2.0 (4K?) planned for release in the near future.

Or no Steam Link in the future at all
That's what I guess.

[Brisse]

Hitman first episode is free, 9GB to download, buggy as hell and when the game starts it says that my distribution is not compatible.

Played it a lot a few months ago on Ubuntu-GNOME 17.04 and later Ubuntu 17.10 and it ran very well. I don't remember having any problems.

[ssorgatem]

Or no Steam Link in the future at all
That's what I guess.

It wouldn't make much sense then for them to get them onsuch a reduced sale for the second time in 3 months.

It looks like they are hurrying to sell all their stock, even at a loss. This would make sense only if they plan to release soon a better alternative for a similar price tag; that would reduce the potential sales of the original Steam link to almost 0.

Google did something similar with the original Chromecast just before anouncing the second, improved version

[SebastianP]

It wouldn't make much sense then for them to get them onsuch a reduced sale for the second time in 3 months.

It looks like they are hurrying to sell all their stock, even at a loss. This would make sense only if they plan to release soon a better alternative for a similar price tag; that would reduce the potential sales of the original Steam link to almost 0.

Google did something similar with the original Chromecast just before anouncing the second, improved version

I still hope they'll do. It's a decent device.