• Valve wants music, TV and films on SteamOS before release
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[QUOTE=Creeper;43553346] And every time you play a new song for the first time it has to install DirectX.[/QUOTE] We're sorry, but the steam servers are busy. Try again later!
tbh if SteamOS only lets users play games and browse the internet it'd be pretty shit. nothing wrong with extra functionality. still not considering getting it as I need an OS with practical applications.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;43553478]tbh if SteamOS only lets users play games and browse the internet it'd be pretty shit. nothing wrong with extra functionality. still not considering getting it as I need an OS with practical applications.[/QUOTE] You can get to a regular desktop if you want to; probably not great on a television but what are you gonna do? If you're talking about a desktop then you're better off with a different Linux distro, since SteamOS just runs Linux applications anyway there isn't a huge difference.
I would like to have an iTunes like account where I can access and stream all my movies and TV shows. Music is a bit trickier cause Spotify is just too cool.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;43552036]It worries me that Valve is detouring too much from a production company to a management company[/QUOTE] Valve is a huge corporation with hundreds of talented people and billions of dollars. They can afford to be both
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;43554564]Valve is a huge corporation with hundreds of talented people and billions of dollars. They can afford to be both[/QUOTE] Have you noticed how little those hundreds of people seem to actually accomplish on a regular basis? Even simple shit goes unattended to for months all the time.
I wonder if it'll have Netflix or something similar to Netflix for movies. I like Netflix.
They need to separate this completely from Steam. Steam should be solely for software and games. I think adding this peripheral stuff will only clutter and distract the experience for gamers. Have the two services integrate with each other sure but don't pull a google and force everything to be linked. Sometimes I just want to use gmail.
I think this is good, I'd love to have a Music Libary and a Video Libary along with the Games Libary and the Software Libary in my steam. But I can imagine if you might be worried about this.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;43554803]Have you noticed how little those hundreds of people seem to actually accomplish on a regular basis? Even simple shit goes unattended to for months all the time.[/QUOTE] They are spread too thin sometimes, maybe, but they still can be a developer and a management company
[QUOTE=Angua;43551720]If this happens i hope that version of netflix won't be region restricted.[/QUOTE]That I think is out of the hands of Netflix and Valve; depends on licensing agreements with content providers: where they want their stuff to be shown, when and at what price.
Music implementation in Big Picture seems to be getting closer to beta testing, so we might see that sooner rather than later. Nothing on movies yet.
Would make sense to improve the overall capabilities. Smart move and all, but they should rely on third party software.
[QUOTE=Neddy;43551786]Steam Movie Winter Sales. Yes.[/QUOTE] trading fast & furious 7 for unusual
The region restrictions for TV shows and films will probably be horrible unless you live in the US. Seeing as that's the case with almost every legal online TV and Movie Service. (The reason being licensing issues or copyrights or shit of that nature)
Movies and TV are fine if they aren't going to be region-locked and will contain subtitles for languages other than English, at least for the movies.
merge with XBMC perfect home media system
[QUOTE=uzikus;43555918]Movies and TV are fine if they aren't going to be region-locked and will contain subtitles for languages other than English, at least for the movies.[/QUOTE] Region locking worries me the most. Nothing is available over here and if steam changes that then yay.
Now instead of gifting Bad Rats we can gift Batman & Robin to each other.
I'd be happy with just integration for previous streaming services ala Netflix and Spotify
I'm 97% sure that Spotify is coming as there's references to the spotify library in the Steam client.
[QUOTE=Neddy;43551824]Its still there :v: [url]http://store.steampowered.com/video/900[/url][/QUOTE] Where is the full stuff and where do i buy it?
[QUOTE=Alice3173;43554803]Have you noticed how little those hundreds of people seem to actually accomplish on a regular basis? Even simple shit goes unattended to for months all the time.[/QUOTE] You don't know that. With the nature of how Valve does its management and resource distribution, for all we know 95% of the employees could be working on some new and secret project (Which could be anything really, not necessarily something like HL3 or whatever) they haven't announced yet.
[QUOTE=Lord Fear;43556531]You don't know that. With the nature of how Valve does its management and resource distribution, for all we know 95% of the employees could be working on some new and secret project (Which could be anything really, not necessarily something like HL3 or whatever) they haven't announced yet.[/QUOTE] abandoning or otherwise neglecting products in their infancy isn't any less dumb when you're doing it to work on something else. if 95% of valve's workforce is working on a "secret project" then that's an extremely obtuse error in resource management.
Paying spotify or netflix subscriptions with steambucks. Everything will be better.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;43555638]They are spread too thin sometimes, maybe, but they still can be a developer and a management company[/QUOTE] I think it's more an issue with their management style. It might have worked for a small company but a huge company like Valve needs more structure. I'd be willing to bet a lot of the employees at Valve right now slack off quite a bit and get away with it due to the way things are structured. [QUOTE=Medevila;43556205]Just because they're not accomplishing what you'd like them to doesn't mean they're not getting shit done[/QUOTE] They only do what they want to do regardless of what their userbase is asking for. And what they want to do nine times out of ten is to add something new to get more people to give them money. This is why it took three years for something as simple as a volume slider on the store videos when that's something simple enough that even I could probably do it in a few hours when I don't even know how to do a flash player.
[QUOTE=Over-Run;43556265]I'd be happy with just integration for previous streaming services ala Netflix and Spotify[/QUOTE] Who said they were doing their own streaming service?
if they have summer movie sales with actual good movies for like 5-10 dollars a movie, i would be on that shit like white on rice
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;43555638]They are spread too thin sometimes, maybe, but they still can be a developer and a management company[/QUOTE] [B]Somtimes?[/B] Try any time they try something.
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