Steam has 15 Linux-compatible games so far - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Onii-Chan;37981610]can't wait till the linux community removes the drm and releases the games fuck valve[/QUOTE] What would be the point of this again? A central platform for games, just like there's been central platforms for software on linux for AGES (package managers), is not going to go away just like that. And why should it? Remind me.

It'll be good having something other to play than popcap games (only things I ever got working on wine) and Tremulous (only open source game I found worth playing) when I'm stuck with only my linux laptop for company.

[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;37981678]What would be the point of this again? A central platform for games, just like there's been central platforms for software on linux for AGES (package managers), is not going to go away just like that. And why should it? Remind me.[/QUOTE] You run GNU/Linux and you have no knowledge of free software and the 4 essential freedoms? Holy shit, fuck off poser.

[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;37981678]What would be the point of this again? A central platform for games, just like there's been central platforms for software on linux for AGES (package managers), is not going to go away just like that. And why should it? Remind me.[/QUOTE] I have 2 OSes, but I gotta clean the shit off my SSD first before running Ubuntu (I find it a pleasure to use)

[QUOTE=Onii-Chan;37981709]You run GNU/Linux and you have no knowledge of free software and the 4 essential freedoms? Holy shit, fuck off poser.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;EJ_wXOFQV3M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ_wXOFQV3M[/video] You're just as retarded & antisocial as RMS.

[QUOTE=The Baconator;37977725]it seems like OpenGL might be coming to Source games, even on Windows. Again, [I]might[/I][/QUOTE] What do you mean might? There's already an OpenGL renderer for the PS3 and Mac. My best guess is that source games are going to be ported from the Mac versions, being a system far more similar to Linux in general.

[QUOTE=Onii-Chan;37981610]can't wait till the linux community removes the drm and releases the games fuck valve[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Onii-Chan;37981709]You run GNU/Linux and you have no knowledge of free software and the 4 essential freedoms? Holy shit, fuck off poser.[/QUOTE] Several of these games have already had a linux release without DRM. That did not make them free software.

[QUOTE=Onii-Chan;37981709]You run GNU/Linux and you have no knowledge of free software and the 4 essential freedoms? Holy shit, fuck off poser.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure why you're assuming that my knowledge of free software and all that jizz would make me want everything to be that way. In the perfect world, maybe it would be cool to have it as such. But get a grip, really, it's not the most important thing in the world. If you really so do believe in it, then work towards it. Promote it with good things, great software, not hatred against non-open non-free software. That's just silly.

so let me get this straight, garry was wrong, just like i said? what a fucking shock

Serious Sam 3 hopefully won't run bad like it does on Windows.

[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;37982091]I'm not sure why you're assuming that my knowledge of free software and all that jizz would make me want everything to be that way. In the perfect world, maybe it would be cool to have it as such. But get a grip, really, it's not the most important thing in the world. If you really so do believe in it, then work towards it. Promote it with good things, great software, not hatred against non-open non-free software. That's just silly.[/QUOTE] I applaud you, good sir, for not giving in to such bullshit and posting a polite and well formulated answer. We need more of that.

wtf it cant play halo 3 not fair

Of course the rest of the Linux-compatible games are going to be on Steam as well, "Steam Play" or not. What kind of game developer / company would say no to a possible profit that doesn't break these kind of morals? Also I've been wondering, does VALVe not allow open source games on their service? Because I honestly do not see anything wrong with a free and open source game. Free as in free speech of course, the game itself could still be charged for and have a free codebase. [QUOTE=rosthouse;37982412]I applaud you, good sir, for not giving in to such bullshit and posting a polite and well formulated answer. We need more of that.[/QUOTE] Honestly the only way forward is through constructive, productive, positive and logical thinking. Failing that, one should at least avoid being destructive against others. [quote] The Oracle: We're all here to do what we're all here to do. I'm interested in one thing, Neo, the future. And believe me, I know: the only way to get there is together. [/quote]

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;37982031]What do you mean might? There's already an OpenGL renderer for the PS3 and Mac. My best guess is that source games are going to be ported from the Mac versions, being a system far more similar to Linux in general.[/QUOTE] No sane developer uses the OpenGL API on the PS3, because it is much inferior to performance of the platform specific API.

[QUOTE=st0rmforce;37981708]It'll be good having something other to play than popcap games (only things I ever got working on wine) and Tremulous (only open source game I found worth playing) when I'm stuck with only my linux laptop for company.[/QUOTE] you don't play BZflag fucking heretic right here.

This is going to be great, I'm sure they'll have a lot more games in due time.

Just curious but wouldn't it be relatively easy to put old games that run on DOSBOX on linux?

[QUOTE=DinoJesus;37977931]15 games!? I didn't even know Linux had 1![/QUOTE] [IMG]http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/images/screenshots/ice.jpg[/IMG]

[img]http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/images/wiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Bzfi0001.png/250px-Bzfi0001.png[/img] man I loved that game

[QUOTE=Genericenemy;37983690]Just curious but wouldn't it be relatively easy to put old games that run on DOSBOX on linux?[/QUOTE] Yeah, they'd only have to change the DOSBox shipped binaries and libraries, the rest would work just fine as configured.

[QUOTE=Wormy;37982564]I hope Valve switches to OpenGL. It offers better performance most of the time, and you know how much Valve tries to make their games as optimized as possible.[/QUOTE] Worth noting that this is only true for DX9. On my system DX11 and OpenGL perform roughly the same (using unigine's Tropics demo) Source performs faster on OpenGL because Valve never adopted the newer DirectX versions.

[QUOTE=trotskygrad;37983600]you don't play BZflag fucking heretic right here.[/QUOTE] Oh shit, I forgot BZflag, I haven't played that in years. That was some fun shit. I know what I'm downloading when I get home. I remember that I first found it when I was introducing my mum to Ubuntu: "Let's install something. Go to synaptic. This gives you a nice big list of software that you can just download and install. Let's see... games...um... BZflag? That sounds good." "And this is all free?" "Yes mum. Yes it is."

[QUOTE=st0rmforce;37983818]Oh shit, I forgot BZflag, I haven't played that in years. That was some fun shit. I know what I'm downloading when I get home.[/QUOTE] genocide flag ftw watching your k/d jump... priceless that and sniping cloaked users with guided missiles... and lasering stealth users.

[QUOTE=The Baconator;37977725]it seems like OpenGL might be coming to Source games, even on Windows. Again, [I]might[/I][/QUOTE] Not an expert on this. But some source games run on Mac OSX, and I'm pretty sure Mac OSX games run on OpenGL.

[QUOTE=Van-man;37981300]Allright sonny, either you better smarten up, or you're not gonna last long 'round these parts of the 'net[/QUOTE] I've been here since 2007, people shit on you if you go against the Valve bandwagon. What else is new.

[QUOTE=Overv;37982601]No sane developer uses the OpenGL API on the PS3, because it is much inferior to performance of the platform specific API.[/QUOTE] Hence all of the framerate issues the PS3 Orange Box had? I just saw this on wikipedia though and it wasn't cited.

[QUOTE=BrainDeath;37984088]Hence all of the framerate issues the PS3 Orange Box had? I just saw this on wikipedia though and it wasn't cited.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure that's just because Valve outsourced the PS3 port, I can't remember what company they outsourced it to, but I remember they knew fuck all about the PS3 hardware, and they're a generally bad company.

[QUOTE=laserguided;37977062]Quake 3 or something, casual games aren't exactly fun imo.[/QUOTE] That's a pretty old game, why would the dev come and give a Linux version to Steam now?

[QUOTE=nikomo;37984323]Pretty sure that's just because Valve outsourced the PS3 port, I can't remember what company they outsourced it to, but I remember they knew fuck all about the PS3 hardware, and they're a generally bad company.[/QUOTE] EA

[QUOTE=laserguided;37983992]I've been here since 2007, people shit on you if you go against the Valve bandwagon. What else is new.[/QUOTE] Well you're not putting anything on the table to back your claims regarding Valve being shit, so by default you're already an idiot.